Summer is icumen in, as the poet of olde once wrote, and maybe you spent a lot of time this week out doors and weren't at your computer, glued to the latest in Mac and Apple news. Maybe you were off camping or exercising or gardening or sunbathing or who-knows-what-ing. Well, if you were, and if the rain drove you back inside, have a seat right here, that's it, pull up a chair, sit down, and take a look at the news we have for you.
- How To Plan the Nerdiest Camping Trip Ever - Ah, the great outdoors, the smell of the woods, the crisp feel of diving into a cold clear lake, the chirping of crickets to sing you to sleep, the unbroken 3G signal connecting your iOS device to the world back home...Wait, what? Yes, even camping, roughing it, whatever you want to call it has been apped for that, as the nerds come marking along, trailing their solar powered battery chargers and their Angry Birds.
- The Ultimate Guide to Mac RAM - If you think that last link was just for the nerds, believe me, you ain't seen nothing yet. How about a soup to nuts tutorial in the magical art of RAM. Oh yeah, we're talking DDR3, SO-DIMM, and even how to go about replacing your RAM for your machine. This one's for the pros, all right.
- GPS SportWatch Review - We have yet to find the device, gadget, or partner that would keep us to our workout routines. No matter what we do or how we do it, we always seem to burn out. The Nike+ SportWatch GPS aims to change all that with a wristband that's as beautifully designed as it is filled to the brim with sweet tech goodness. Will it keep us running better than being chased by a bear would? Guess we'll have to wait and see. Meanwhile, about that nerdy camping trip...
- Air Display for Mac Review - How'd you like a little extra monitor space, but the convenience of your laptop? How'd you like to turn your iPad into a secondary monitor? Just say the magic word and your wish is our command. Well, ours and the good makers of Air Display for Mac that puts the power in your hands, just like that.
- How to Host Your Website on Dropbox - This works for any site whatsoever, but it's even more important with the upcoming disappearance of MobileMe. You need to be backing up your website somewhere and we can't think of any place safer or better suited to it than Dropbox, our go-to cloud storage site. But did you know you could use the famous storage site as a hosting site as well? Too good to be true, but we swear it.
- How To Downgrade From iOS 5 to iOS 4.3.3 - This may not have been one of our hottest How-Tos of the week, but we think some of you might be needing to bookmark this one and get back to us in a few months. Surely, iPhone 3G users recall iOS4 and how it killed their phones with slow, slow, sssssllllooooowwwww speeds. Well, whether or not Apple learned from that or whether your beloved iPhone 3G S shares a similar fate, here's how to take a step back if things go awry and return to the OS that works best for you.
