Have you ever wanted to jazz up that family website or business presentation with unique headings or textual graphics? What about creating memorable logos or icons for those brochures or flyers that announce your personal special event or professional meeting? Dare to stand out in the crowd with Art Text 2. You can project an impressive and expensive look for a reasonable price without the need for specialized graphic design skills!

From your average iPhone, iPod and Mac user to Wall Street investors alike, Apple continues to impress everyone by reporting the “best non-holiday quarter revenue and earnings” in Apple’s history and the billionth App download for the iPhone/iPod Touch in just nine months. In what can only be described as “phenomenal,” this weeks recent disclosures and announcements from the Cupertino company have solidified its public persona as wildly successful and recession-proof with plenty of room to grow. So why should you get excited about it?

With iPhoto ‘09 out for a few months now, I thought I’d write a post with Tips and Tricks for it that I have discovered while playing with this great piece of software. This will be the first installment of the iPhoto ‘09 Tips and Tricks posts, and focuses on the new Faces feature. 

The shift in the global economy and climate is both alarming and frightening. Day after day, the news reports are filled with repetitive themes of calamity that seem to be strengthening in scope and scale. Banks, automobile and insurance companies have been brought to their knees in just a short time period. Mass layoffs and a deteriorating global economy have sparked fears of political and social instability. As if that wasn’t enough, it seems that climate change due to global warming is the fault of man and it will literally remake our world as we know it today and bring dire consequences upon its inhabitants! So, will Apple somehow save the day?

On Tuesday, Apple gave a preview of the iPhone OS 3.0 Software. Let me say this: It was impressive! The iPhone 3.0 update brings with it greatly increased functionality including Cut, Copy and Paste as well as many more innovative and exciting features! Slated for release sometime “this summer,” the new update will be free for all iPhones and $9.95 for the iPod Touch.

Late last week Apple invited the media to a special event to be held on March 17th in its Town Hall building in Cupertino. The purpose of the meeting is to give “an advanced preview of what we’re building” regarding iPhone 3.0. What could be in store for the OS X iPhone?

Nearly two weeks ago, Apple refreshed their desktop line of computers. The Mac Mini, iMac and Mac Pro were all outfitted with more advanced technology at a a lower price point when compared to their respective previous models. Also, last week, the iPod Shuffle received a complete makeover with more innovative features stuffed into a smaller form that can now “talk” to you!

Are you using the United States Postal Service regularly for mailing out important documents for your home or business? Do you find yourself or your employees routinely at the post office waiting in line to buy stamps or send mail? There is a solution that is available for your Mac to save you those headaches and let you print and customize postage from the comforts of your home or office! It’s called Endicia for Mac.

In my practice, I am expected to be accessible to my patients at all times—day or night—in case of an emergency. In order to remain accessible, there are a number of different solutions that can be implemented and used during office-hour breaks and for after-hour communications. These options range from direct access to you via your personal phone number to indirect access to you via live answering services that can act as intermediaries between you and your patients or clients to filter out non-emergent calls. For many offices, neither choice is optimal. Thankfully, there are other alternatives that are available to you through your Mac and iPhone that can give your office a polished and professional feel, give you a sense of security, allow you to tackle emergency calls with confidence and save you money.

Tired of carrying around multiple medical reference books and then trying to discern the pertinent from the irrelevant information? Fed up with constantly looking at the index or table of contents and thumbing through hundreds of pages to find what you’re looking for? Finding it difficult to juggle inputting medical formulas and fumbling between your calculator and the patient’s lab values? What about researching drug interactions by reading through each drug entry in the PDR and then piecing it all together in your head to ensure your patient’s safety? Aside from being a great communications tool, which is extremely important to all healthcare professionals, the iPhone can spare you from significant amounts of tedious work. All this and more can be easily accessed via Epocrates Essentials for the iPhone!

Valentine’s day creeping up on you quickly? Out of ideas for taking your loved one out “for that special night?” Or any other night for that matter? Don’t have time to look up and call several different restaurants to find out if they have the cuisine or reservations available for the times you are interested in? Well fortunately, there is a service that can make this task easy, even on the go, with just a few clicks on your iPhone or iPod Touch, and it is called OpenTable!

If you love music and use it to help achieve relaxation and a sense of tranquility at home, in your car or at your workplace, then providing musical content that is both inexpensive and with limited or, better still, nonexistent irritating advertisements is a priority. This would eliminate traditional AM/ FM and satellite radio options and positions your Mac, iPhone or iPod Touch in the forefront of this challenge. There are numerous choices at your disposal via exciting, even a few free, digital services!

Apple blew away Wall Street expectations, again, when it announced its quarterly earnings last week. The financial results posted by the company revealed record breaking quarterly revenue and net profit. For more details and analysis of what was reported, read on….

Twenty five years ago the Mac made its debut on January 24, 1984. This machine was responsible for fundamentally redefining how we interact with computers today. The experience each of us enjoy when using our computers could have been mostly painful and agonizing, not to mention require formal schooling to perform the most menial of tasks. But thanks to Apple, the world changed and became a better place.

Here are a few thoughts on Steve Jobs and the ensuing medical analysis that followed his recent notification to Apple employees regarding his medical leave of absence. As a fellow doctor monitoring the situation surrounding Mr. Jobs, I find it disturbing that the current media barrage of medical assessments are based solely on his history of cancer and his current physical appearance. It is somewhat disconcerting that not one of the opinions has been based on sound medical findings.

On Friday Apple announced that over 15,000 applications are available on the App Store and over 500 million apps were downloaded since its launch on July 11 2008!