Hardware
Newly released hardware items of interest.
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Get a Grip on Your iPhone with eBooks from Take Control
by Adam Engst, Publisher of TidBITS and the ‘Take Control’ series of eBooks.
Once the novelty of your new iPhone wears off, you may have serious questions about how to get the most out of this snazzy new device from Apple. The folks from Take Control are here to help with two new titles:
- ”The Macworld iPhone Superguide,” created by the folks at Macworld, examines every facet of the iPhone, from setup and activation all the way to choosing the best accessories. Macworld’s writers look in depth at the iPhone’s email and text message capabilities, using Safari and other iPhone applications, converting and watching video, and syncing photos. It’s 93 pages and costs $12.95.
- “Take Control of Troubleshooting Your iPhone,” written by well-known Mac troubleshooting guru Ted Landau, teaches you to deal with activation problems, sync failures and conflicts, keyboard and gesture quirks, application crashes, iPhone freezes, and handset security. This book is currently in draft-release form, so you can read and comment on the first 71 pages. It costs $10.
Click the links above to save 10% off the list price on any one ebook, or look on either title’s Web page (in the left margin) to find a 20% discount for buying both.
Friday, November 11, 2005
PoGo! Radio Your Way LX - not just another iPod clone
We’ve got our first, second and third iPods already, so rather than buy a fourth…
I bought a PoGo! Radio Your Way LX from CCrane communications.
Why?
+ It records: Voice, AM/FM, Line in
+ The recordings can be triggered by timer
+ It has variable speed playback: .5x, .7x, 1.3x, 1.5x. This makes transcriptions much more tolerable.
+ It accepts removable media, SD cards
(I’d looked for recorders using Compact Flash, but they were quite a bit more expensive.)
