Michael Rose

Editor

blog http://geekparent.com
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Mike's first Mac (a 128K original) served him well through high school and its successors (a 512KE, SE, SE/30 and IIsi) were loyal stalwarts during editorial jobs at the Carnegie Mellon college newspaper, followed by a 10-year career in editorial technology at Time Inc. titles Entertainment Weekly & LIFE. Since leaving the print publishing world, Mike has helped manage IT and now works as a creative director for MJM Creative Services, an NYC events and face-to-face marketing agency. He has written for TUAW since November 2006. Mike & his family live in Brooklyn, NY .

Michael Rose's Latest Posts

Apple Store is down, minus yellow sticky (Update: back up, nothing new)

by Michael Rose (Apr 11th 2012 12:11AM)

That's a nice graphic. US and Australian Apple Stores are down, and most likely the rest of them around the world as well. We'll keep an eye out for when it returns. Thanks to Peter for the tip. Update: The store's back up, but we don't see anything new... not that we really expected to. If ...

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Apple responds to Flashback trojan, promises removal tool

by Michael Rose (Apr 10th 2012 9:30PM)

In a tech note published today, Apple discussed the Flashback trojan (past coverage here) and reminded users of OS X 10.6 and 10.7 that they should install the April 3 Java update to remove the vulnerability that the malware uses to infect Macs. For users of OS X 10.5 Leopard or earlier, Apple ...

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Apple updates Final Cut Pro X, Compressor and Motion ahead of NAB

by Michael Rose (Apr 10th 2012 9:15PM)

Next week is the big show: the National Association of Broadcasters' annual exhibition and conference in Las Vegas kicks off April 14, and every video software and hardware company will be on hand, eager to meet customers new and old. Just in time to land on laptops before everyone packs up for ...

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iPad workspace app CloudOn goes 2.0, adds Adobe Reader, Box storage support

by Michael Rose (Apr 10th 2012 12:30PM)

There are several perspectives on the iPad as a productivity tool. Some knowledge workers thrive on a suite of native apps; others can't really get comfortable within a text or code-based workflow without a legitimate keyboard and mouse. The "third way" of iPad productivity provides a hybrid ...

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Talkcast tonight, 10pm ET: Fighting Flashback

by Michael Rose (Apr 8th 2012 5:00PM)

As this holiday weekend draws to a close, the unfortunate fact is that we may be dealing with the largest Mac-centric botnet ever documented in the wild. While the Flashback trojan is easy to find and simple to prevent -- in fact, a stock Lion installation includes neither Java nor the Flash ...

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NYC gets live iPad IPTV of broadcast channels with Aereo

by Michael Rose (Apr 4th 2012 3:45PM)

Want to watch TV on your iPad? It's natural, healthy and it sure does seem like everyone is doing it. There are hearty hardware-supported options from companies like Elgato, and most pay TV subscription services (Time Warner Cable, Comcast, DirecTV, RCN, Dish Network etc.) have figured out a ...

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MacTech NYC Boot Camp to include TUAW/TidBITS panel

by Michael Rose (Apr 4th 2012 10:20AM)

On April 18 and 19, the MacTech live event series will be coming to the Big Apple. The Park Central Hotel in New York will be hosting MacTech Boot Camp and MacTech In Depth: OS X Server Administration over those two days, giving IT professionals and consultants covering the range from home user ...

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iTunes Match book delivers useful guidance in minutes

by Michael Rose (Apr 4th 2012 7:00AM)

Writer Lex Friedman has covered Apple's iTunes Match cloud music service for Macworld, his home base, but if you want all your Match instruction in one convenient ebook, you're in luck. Friedman has written Sams Teach Yourself iTunes Match in 10 Minutes, a full guide that provides all the ...

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iPhone video helps rescue trapped Chinese toddler

by Michael Rose (Apr 2nd 2012 5:05PM)

If this story had hit yesterday, we might have cried "April Fools!" As it is, though, it's a remarkable tale of a rescue -- helped by an iPhone. A Chinese two-year-old was trapped in a 40-foot-deep well, and the crews working to extract him could not get their hoist harness properly ...

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iTextEditors provides quick app reference for plain text fans

by Michael Rose (Apr 2nd 2012 2:45PM)

The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who love to edit text files on the iPad, and those who really, really don't. For everyone in the first group, our resident mad scientist Brett Terpstra (ably assisted by a crew of volunteers including TUAW contributor Michael Jones) has ...

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