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Some spiffy cases for your Square credit card reader {TUAW.com}
Apr 23rd 2011 10:38PM Sure, it's a little unnerving having someone with a picture of your card, but once you hand it to them to swipe, you're giving them all the information they need to rack up whatever charges they want anyway. Solution: don't give your card to people you don't trust. You give your card information to online retailers all the time, but only to ones you trust. If some homeless dude walks up with one of these "Squares" and an iPhone, you don't let him swipe your card. Plus, credit card companies have this feature where you can dispute fraudulent charges. I've had to do it a number of times now, and it's no big deal. If you were worried about it, you could make the app erase the image of the credit card as soon as it was done with it. Presumably, that's what the Square app does with the credit card info now, anyway.
Some spiffy cases for your Square credit card reader {TUAW.com}
Apr 23rd 2011 5:22PM Okay, maybe I'm missing something, but why not just have an app that scrapes the CC info from an image of the card. The only thing you'd be missing would be the code on the back. No device needed.
Survey reveals Mac and PC people think differently {TUAW.com}
Apr 23rd 2011 8:20AM I must break the mold. I eat meat, shoot guns, and drive a lifted 4x4, and grew up playing in the outdoors. Lucky for me, I was introduced to Mac at a young age. I think it's not a matter of which OS fits your personality, but if you have the technical bravery to learn something new. I (personally) have never met anyone who was using Windows who was a former Mac OSX user. I have seen many of the converse.
World Backup Day: giveways, tips and more {TUAW.com}
Mar 31st 2011 12:23PM Time Machine.
Flow now available, keeps your tasks beautifully in sync {TUAW.com}
Mar 22nd 2011 3:55PM The only real advantage I can see to cloud sync is to sync with multiple people on projects. I don't currently do that other than at work, which I have to use stinking Outlook for. I'm not saying it's cool, but I have an extreme aversion to subscription plans. Especially ones where I know that the variable cost of my additional server traffic isn't nearly what I'm paying. I'm not saying it's not a valid business model, I just think it's lame to be on the receiving end of it. Charge me $5 a year? Maybe I'll go for it. Let's say I get ambitious and produce and entire megabyte of to-do's in a year. $120 to transfer/store that? Come on.
Flow now available, keeps your tasks beautifully in sync {TUAW.com}
Mar 22nd 2011 3:18PM I've been using Things (both the iOS and the OSX version together) for more than a year now. They're great, and don't require a subscription, which I think is a bad deal. I have a hard time thinking that it's a good idea to develop habits and my routines around something that's going to cost me for the rest of my existence. Things was a one time purchase, and I sync via wi-fi, which has never been an issue. Sure, syncing over 3g would be cool, but not for $120 per year.
Why my next Mac won't be a notebook {TUAW.com}
Mar 17th 2011 8:46AM Sorry to hear about your laptop woes! My MBP has had a few issues, but the thing is now four years old! I'd suggest if you are at all handy that you just start fixing it yourself. Get a set of screwdrivers off of eBay ($7) and just buy replacement parts (you can get good used ones for cheap) and install them yourself. I wouldn't trade my MBP for ANY other brand. Not in 100 years. I know you're sticking with an iMac, which is an awesome choice, but I wanted to speak out in defense of the mac line of laptops. They seriously rock. You'll get issues with them sometimes, but they are head and shoulders above anything else out there. I've seen and worked with many different brands and configurations with my job, and there really is no comparison. Just my two cents.
Mac 101: Quick navigation of browser tabs {TUAW.com}
Feb 21st 2011 10:10PM Wow. I guess I should've researched this sooner. I've always wanted to do this, and now I can.
MacBook Pro rumors: SSD boot drive standard, bigger trackpad, lighter weight {TUAW.com}
Feb 21st 2011 10:08PM I think this is great news, if it's true. I've been holding out for a year or two, opting to upgrade RAM and HD, but this new model might be worth saving up for! Not sure about ditching the optical drive just yet, but I think in the three years I've owned this MBP, I've used the optical drive maybe 10 times, so I might not miss it too much. The boot SSD would be just one more selling point in my casual quest to convert all friends to Mac.
Apple offers free case as iPhone 4 fix {TUAW.com}
Jul 16th 2010 1:51PM As much as I hate the defect, this still is the only smartphone I'm planning on getting. I've seen many others that friends have had, and they don't even come close in terms of interface. Not even close. I honestly feel sorry for them. That's just my personal opinion, but I've never had someone look at my iPhone compared to their other brand phone and not seem disappointed. Again, just my experience, but I don't think I'm alone.
