Oct
06
2011
Upon waking this morning, I opened up my iPad. The familiar ding sounded and a push notification from MacWorld popped up on my homepage with the nightmarish news that Steve Jobs had died. The brilliant, creative genius of Apple products that kept blowing us all away was gone. He was only 56. Many will remember …
Oct
06
2011
The very first time I laid my eyes on an Apple product was in the 80s. Back then I was a graduate student in the U.S. working on my Masters degree. One of the Filipinos in my batch purchased an Apple IIe. He had it in his dorm room and I remember several of us …
Jul
14
2009
Today, July 14, Apple’s App Store celebrates its 1st anniversary. I am the happy owner of an iPod Touch and before I had this gadget, life was pretty fragmented. I kept some contacts on my phone, calendars & music on a PDA, notes stuck here and there on post-it notes and paper notebooks as well. …
Nov
18
2008
Yes, so now you’ve met my new love. But I never did get to tell you his name, right? Well, his name is MAX. I have my own private pet name for him but for the world, this shiny, new hunk of metal is MAX – short for My Apple Xtreme! I guess having the …
Nov
16
2008
It took me a while to take the plunge. Over a year to be exact. So much time was spent thinking about it. My kids were on both sides of the fence. Two of them were fierce lovers of M; the other 2 went for W. Choosing either way was agony. I was torn! My …
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