iPads, Regent Newest Mac Duo

You may have noticed that Apple closed at $381.32 a share on Friday on the NASDAQ. Like all stocks, it’s down these days (from a high of $419). It’s hardly a revelation to say that the Mac world isn’t going away, which our eldest son has been telling us for two decades. It’s taken a… Continue reading iPads, Regent Newest Mac Duo

Millennium, Macs, Wine & More

This was a tough one to pass up for us. A cruise from Vancouver to San Diego. It’s a wine cruise. Also a Mac cruise. If there are two things that have long been a part of our lives, they are wine and Macs. It gets better. The ship is the Celebrity Millennium, a ship… Continue reading Millennium, Macs, Wine & More

Celebrity makes a Queen 'Appy'

The iPhone Queen is at it again. She used to be the Travel Queen, but now she has a dual identity. Plus, another app. I used to think “app” was an incorrectly abbreviated word. Now it’s in the dictionary (or most dictionaries) because it doesn’t need a second name. It’s like Oprah. And Tiger. And… Continue reading Celebrity makes a Queen 'Appy'

For Cruisers, the App of All Apps

Both good news and bad often come in the box with a new computer. My new MacBook Pro arrived a few weeks ago, so I’m still dealing with the “bad-news”…software updates, lost photos, transferring files, and so on. However, the good news is better than good. It’s great! When I bought the computer, it came… Continue reading For Cruisers, the App of All Apps

Costa the Apple of One Cruiser's i

There’s gotta be a connection here. We just spent the weekend with our three grown children (and families) and one of the topics of conversation was some in-house trading of cel phones so that their mother, O Travel Queen, would wind up with an iPhone instead of a Blackberry. Yesterday, we read that Costa Cruises… Continue reading Costa the Apple of One Cruiser's i