Matt Tinsley

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Review: RHA MA150 low cost, high quality earphones

by Matt Tinsley (Feb 15th 2013 3:00PM)

I use my iPhone a lot to listen to music when I'm out and about. And I have a really great pair of earphones to use for this purpose. However, they are high-end in-ear monitors. And while they sound amazing, they are not always practical for day to day tasks like going for a run or shoving them ...

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BBC's Blue Peter honours Jony Ive with gold Blue Peter badge

by Matt Tinsley (Feb 15th 2013 10:00AM)

The BBC's long-standing children's program, Blue Peter, has honoured Jony Ive with a gold Blue Peter badge, the show's highest accolade. The show has a tradition of inspiring and encouraging young children to design, create and make things. As reported by the BBC, a special gadget edition of ...

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Practice Timer keeps track of how long you practice your instrument

by Matt Tinsley (Feb 14th 2013 4:30PM)

Continuing in the theme of iOS apps that help you practice with your instrument to become a better musician, Practice Timer keeps a log of how many seconds, minutes and hours you've spent practicing. It is said that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become a master of something. Practice ...

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Skype update adds 'e-gifting' to Mac app

by Matt Tinsley (Feb 13th 2013 7:00PM)

There's a new update for Mac users of Skype today. The new update brings two key features: eGifting, allowing you to send a gift of Skype credit to any of your Skype or Facebook friends on their birthday, and one-way SMS without the hassle of verifying your mobile number first. The update also ...

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Highnote for iOS gives musicians tempo and key control over their music

by Matt Tinsley (Feb 13th 2013 4:30PM)

Highnote allows you to slow down or speed up the tempo of songs in your iOS music library, without affecting the pitch or key. It also allows you to change the key without affecting the tempo. Any aspiring musician will need to spend hours practicing and honing their skills in order to master ...

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Opera hits 300M users, will transition to WebKit this year

by Matt Tinsley (Feb 13th 2013 12:45PM)

Opera, the web browser available for Mac, iOS, PC and Andriod, has reached 300 million monthly users, the company has announced in a press release. Opera Software ASA also notes that the Opera web browser will be transitioning to the WebKit engine in future versions, taking advantage of the ...

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Putting Apple's retail traffic into perspective

by Matt Tinsley (Feb 13th 2013 12:30PM)

Two days ago, during an interview with Bill Shope at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook mentioned some 120 million people walked through the doors of Apple's 394 (approximately) stores open in 2012. To put the magnitude of those 120 million visitors into ...

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Mac 101: Schedule event details in the event title with Calendar

by Matt Tinsley (Feb 12th 2013 8:00AM)

More Mac 101, tips and tricks for novice Mac users. Let's say you've just got off the phone with a friend. You've arranged to meet later for coffee, but you don't want to forget, so you go to Calendar on your Mac to schedule the event. You double click the date you're going to meet, enter a ...

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Mac 101: Use Automator to extract text from PDFs

by Matt Tinsley (Feb 11th 2013 11:00AM)

More Mac 101, tips and tricks for novice (and expert) Mac users. Have you every tried to copy and paste text from a PDF into a word processor document like Pages or Microsoft Word? Most of the time the text loses all its formatting from the PDF, which can be a real pain. Too often I've spent ...

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Apple sees huge growth in India, but trails behind competitors

by Matt Tinsley (Feb 8th 2013 11:00AM)

TechCrunch reports that Apple has seen a huge gain in sales in India -- up to 400 percent -- in July through September 2012, but still has a long way to go compared to its competitors in the region. According to the research firm IDC (based on figures collated from that time period), Apple ...

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