Macbook Pro Battery Exchange Program

30Jul06

Urgent:
“If you bought a 15 inch MacBook Pro between February 2006 through May 2006 you want to read this Apple KB article now. It tells you how to identify whether or not your battery is eligible for the ‘battery exchange program,’ (doesn’t that sound much better than ‘World Wide Recall?’). To quote Apple, ‘We recently [...]

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What’s wrong with a Tail?

30Jul06

I can’t really get used to wireless mice…
All of the ones I have tried are jumpy, and with some of OS X’s buttons not being so gigantic, I get frustrated (yeah, I get frustrated over that–but I like precision ). Bluetooth wireless mice are definitely the best of the wireless bunch, but [...]

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Alert! Betas can crash things!

30Jul06

Yeah.
There is that thing about Betas where they’re sometimes not all that stable… yeah.
So… my Macbook Pro crashed pretty much stopped working yesterday (yeah it was Shapeshifter). All the programs and functions in OS X (Safari, System Prefs, and simple stuff like mounting a .dmg) stopped working. Sure, Firefox and Flock still [...]

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Finally.

27Jul06

Jeez that was a long wait.
TUAW’s David Chartier:
“In a post aptly titled ‘At Long Last!’, Unsanity announced a beta of a Universal version of ShapeShifter, their UI haxie for skinning Mac OS X. As the post states, your Intel Mac can finally “get its spank on” (what on Earth are those guys at Unsanity selling??). [...]

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TUAW Poll… Does anyone really use their phone as an mp3 player?

22Jul06

From these results, it doesnt look like the ipod will have any serious competition from phones for awhile…  now about those Zune rumors…

Selection

Votes

You bet, all the time.
 5%
184

Nope, iPod (or another MP3 player) all the way.
 83%
3,298

I use both, but my phone more.
 2%
79

I use both, but my iPod more.
 10%
398

3,959 votes total

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Not doing Nothing…

20Jul06

“As regards cell phones, we don’t think that the phones that are available today make the best music players. We think the iPod is. But over time, that is likely to change. And we’re not sitting around doing nothing.”
Thats the most we’re gonna get out of Apple.

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Buy or Wait? Advice…

14Jul06

I recently saw a question in the comments section of a post at TUAW…
“I am deciding whether or not to buy a macbook or a macbook pro.
I’ll be using it for writing my PhD…thinking about screen size etc………and whether I’ll get over the glossy screen…..I need some help deciding…..then reading all the stories about heat [...]

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(What should be) the next step for .Mac

14Jul06

“.Mac is the online services suite from Apple Computer.
It began as a free web services suite called iTools and then Steve Jobs changed the name to .Mac and started charging 99 bucks a year for it. But hey, it had email and web storage and syncing between Macs and virus software, as well as [...]

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Oh. My. Gawd. (OmniWeb)

13Jul06

Yeah. I saw this OS X Browser test on TUAW the other day and was very impressed with OmniWeb (but I’m too cheap to buy it). Well, today I had some spare time, so I decided to see if OmniWeb was really “All That” (I apologize for actually using that phrase). [...]

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Could brushed metal be on the way out… completely?

13Jul06

I was just thinking about the new leopard interface… and the lack of brushed metal. With new Mac Pro cases and a new Macbook Pro case coming this year, I’m beginning to wonder if the Apple Pro hardware will also drop the metal look. Hopefully not, as I am very fond of it. [...]

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