Posts Tagged ‘Mac’

Search History Everywhere – Never Forget a URL Again

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

Years ago (not that many), there were only 1 or 2 places that you might find yourself searching the web, home or work.  Now, thanks to laptops, iPhones, iPads, portable game systems and a myriad of high-speed internet connections (Wi-Fi, WiMax, 3G, 4G, etc.) you can surf the web from just about anywhere you can imagine.

The freedom to surf on-the-go is still fairly new and so are the challenges associated with doing so.  One problem that crops up occasionally is finding a site that you have already visited.  Maybe you were out gymnastics practice with the kids, surfing the web with your CLEAR USB modem, or sitting in a movie theater playing on your iPhone (before the show started of course),  when you went to Google and searched for something that caught your eye.  Three days later, you realize that you want to revisit that site, but you can’t remember the URL or enough information to locate it again via a Google search.  You also find yourself lost in the “where was I and which device was I using when I looked at….” struggle.

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New Mac Commercials are Dead On

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

“Windows 7 is here and it’s not going to have any of the problems that Vista had.”  That’s the quote from “PC” in the newest series of Apple commercials aimed at cutting Microsoft and Windows off at the knees.  Starting yesterday, at least 3 new commercials started running regularly over the airwaves.  These new spots are witty, clever and dead on when it comes to calling out the issues that consumers have (or will have) had with upgrading their PC to the latest version of Windows.  I am a PC fan, but I still love these commercials and laugh every time they nail another Windows issue.

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