Guide to Apple Gift Cards

by macguy on December 29, 2011

If you were gifted the present of Apple this holiday season, specifically via an Apple Gift Card, there are a wide variety of different things that you can purchase, depending on which gift card you have. Apple has a few different types of gift cards that they offer, so what you can buy is somewhat [...]

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Apple’s iTunes Store which offers music, television shows, movies, and other media has always had a quite diverse pricing scheme. Of course, this all deals with Apple’s contracts with music companies, television companies, etc… If you’re a person who purchases a lot of your media from iTunes, a new “Complete My Season” feature might be [...]

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Flipboard Now Available for iPhone Owners

by macguy on December 27, 2011

Flipboard is a magazine style app that pulls in news from some of the nation’s top publications and websites, and presents it in a creative, awesome, and very unique way; so much so, that Flipboard was actually awarded Apple’s highly coveted App of The Year award in 2010. Previously though, Flipboard has been exclusive to [...]

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Steve Jobs Wins Highly Coveted Grammy Award

by macguy on December 26, 2011

It’s not often that someone from the technology industry, or at least the computer manufacturing industry, wins a Grammy award; but if you’re someone like Steve Jobs, who didn’t only contribute to the music industry, but also help to define it, a Grammy Award is a good fit. The 54th Annual Grammy Awards have not [...]

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Remember Where You Parked Using an iPhone App

by macguy on December 25, 2011

At some point, everyone has probably forgot where they parked their car. Usually when this happens, you either go on an unexpected walk and maze through the parking lot until you find your vehicle, or if you have a remote keyless entry, you consistently push the lock/unlock button to sound the horn, and follow the [...]

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5 Best Apple News and Rumor Blogs

by macguy on December 19, 2011

Here at Switching To Mac, we try to focus on providing tips for new Mac, iPhone, iPod, and iPad owners. Occasionally, we also post more advanced tips and notable news about Apple. Some blogs, however, focus primarily on Apple news and rumors. In today’s post, we will review 5 of the best Apple news websites [...]

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Apple iAds Overview

by macguy on December 18, 2011

The same Keynote address that introduced the iPhone 4 also introduced some other new concepts that were to be introduced by Apple, one of them being an advertising platform dubbed “iAds.” However, the iPhone 4 quickly took most of the attention away from all of the other, more minor technologies that were introduced. There has [...]

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In an earlier post, we provided a few tips for deleting individual Photo Stream pics in iOS. In that post, we described an alternative method, which revolved around using the reset Photo Stream option to delete individual pics. While Photo Stream is an excellent service, the lack of small options like being able to delete [...]

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Mac OS X, by default, doesn’t come with any advanced image editors or apps, with the exception of iPhoto. iPhoto is more of a photo organizer and basic editor, however. If you’re looking for a high quality, flexible image editor, you might want to check out the Skitch app. Due to the tremendous success of [...]

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How to Use the iBooks App + Free iBook

by macguy on December 10, 2011

Apple’s iBooks app that is available on the iPad, iPod Touch, and iPhone serves as an app, but also as the main source for allowing devices like the iPad to be eBook readers as well as all in one devices. With iBooks, many of the quality materials must be purchased or subscribed to, although there [...]

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