(Apple.com chat, November 12, 2012)
You are chatting with Stephanie, an Apple Expert.
Stephanie: Welcome to Apple! How’s it going?
You: The Mac App Store tells me I need OSX 10.7 to run iBooks Author. I have 10.6.8. How do I upgrade?
Stephanie: I am happy to grab a link to help you with [...]
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“I’m sorry, Jake,” his phone replied. “That’s not a good idea right now.”
“What, are you kidding me? I can’t believe she wants to blow off our weekend in the mountains for some damn work event. All she cares about is work. Get her on the [...]
keep reading →Your mission, Jim, should you choose to accept it.
Jim, you know the drill. Press the button above, and listen to your message, then read the top secret information below.
Our operatives have been unable to get [...]
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Ralph looked down at his 3rd grade son, Dan. They were waiting on a subway platform and had 103 seconds before the F train pulled in. They were perfectly positioned to board the third car, where the temperature was a perfect 70 degrees and plenty of seats [...]
keep reading →There are some days when I sit on my back porch and yearn for the days when good old-fashioned human construction crews would invade our neighborhood for nine months, and build another McMansion.
Sure, I’d complain about the crews that started pounding at 6:30 a.m., violating the “no construction before 8 a.m.” town rule. [...]
keep reading →Arthur Mulkuns looked up at the sky and frowned. As usual, it was a cloudy London day and the dog park was filled with an assortment of pets. But Arthur couldn’t take his eyes off the birds above.
“That seagull looks suspicious to me.”
His Mom cocked her head. She hadn’t been aware that her [...]
keep reading →Shortly after NASA’s Kepler mission confirmed today the first planet ever identified in the “habitable zone” – the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface – business executives convened in secret sessions to ask: will we soon face competitors from other planets?
The newly confirmed planet – imaginatively named Kepler [...]
keep reading →Connecticut investors meet Manhattan startups
