Reviews
Review: Apple HQ Cafeteria
Maclife reviewed the Apple Cafeteria, perhaps under the guidance of the director of food they poached from Google. The verdict is that the sushi and tomatoes are great, and the automatic tray carousel is pretty snazzy. [Maclife]
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Back to School: collecting and organizing information
Apple’s going Back to School! We’ll be bringing you tips and reviews for students, parents and teachers right up until the bell rings in September. Read on for high school & college-level help.
I covered a few good research tools for students in my last post. Before I dive into some of the excellent writing tools and packages available, we’re going to take a look at some methods and applications for putting thoughts, notes and references together in a format that makes the actual writing part much easier.
Whether you’re taking notes as you research, collecting documents or actually mapping out the first draft, these tools can be vital for organizing research, overcoming writer’s block and making sure that things flow smoothly once writing begins.
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Lightning Review: Logitech DiNovo Keyboard Mac Edition
The Gadget: The Mac edition of Logitech’s Bluetooth wireless DiNovo keyboard, which has been around in its Windows state since 2006. The Mac version has Mac-customized keys like Expose and Spotlight, as well as media playback keys and an on-board trackpad.
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Back To School: Mac research tools
Apple’s going Back to School! We’ll be bringing you tips and reviews for students, parents and teachers right up until the bell rings in September. Read on for high school & college-level help.
At any level of schooling, you eventually have to do a little research. There are probably those who caution against doing any of that research on the web, but if you’re aware that faulty (and downright false) information exists and take the extra steps to ensure that what you’re citing is verifiable, the net can be a treasure trove of information.
Hyperlinks and full-text search of a massive amount of information make the electronic frontier an ideal research tool. But you’ve heard all of that before, so read on as we look at some research tools specifically for Mac users (and we’ll try to stay within a typical student’s budget).
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Lightning Review: Mint 220 Wireless Speakers With iPod Dock
The Gadget: The Mint 220 Digital Music Station, which acts both as an iPod dock, but also as a wireless speaker system that syncs via USB dongle to your Mac or PC. Comes with wireless remote and uses the 2.4GHz spectrum to beam music up to 45 feet/15 meters.
The Price: $159 with $20 promo code (DS220)
The Verdict: Not too bad. The speakers themselves are adequate, though not as good as their previous wireless iPod dock effort. The 220 functions decently well as an iPod dock, but what you really want this for is its wireless speaker functions.
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