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The wrong way to use a Smart Cover
One of the coolest aspects of the iPad 2, believe it or not, is the Smart Cover. I like the idea of having a built in stand and have used it a number of times. However, it seemed a bit unstable to me and I thought it was very un-Apple to do that. So I watched the Smart Cover video on Apple's site again and realized my mistake. I thought that when the cover was "rolled up" the micro fiber side was on the inside of the triangle so that the plastic side of the cover was towards the surface. Well, that isn't the case; the proper way to fold up the Smart Cover is to have the micro fiber towards the surface where the iPad is resting.
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Bye, Bye ReceiptWallet
Today brings to an end my active involvement in ReceiptWallet. As readers of my blog know, Mariner Software bought ReceiptWallet. Today was the official passing of the baton. We initiated the domain transfer that could have taken up to 6 days, but within an hour, receiptwallet.com was in the hands of Mariner Software. All email, support, sales, etc. is now handled by Mariner. I'm not going away and will be available to Mariner as needed and I hope that they tap into my wealth of knowledge every now and again (I have learned something in the last 2 1/2 years of doing receipt/document management).
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The other side of daily deals
In the last few years, "daily deals" have started popping up everywhere from Groupon to my local paper's deal. From a consumer point of view, some of these are pretty good where a consumer can get a product or service for maybe 50% off. This, of course, isn't done out of altruism, but for marketing purposes in order to attract new customers.
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Review: iMovie for iPad
For many reasons, I've been interested in video editing and making movies for years; nothing professional, I just thought it was kind of neat to be able to put together movies. Over 20 years ago, I put together footage that I had taken at the 1989 National Scout Jamboree and put together a little video that I edited using our camcorder and a VCR. I may have even put in some titling using a computer, but I can't recall. That was quite rudimentary compared to what can be done today.