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Tag: apple

  • Cheap Wireless For Mac

    I recently moved a Mac Tower running 10.4 to another room to make room for an upgrade machine with a monster sized screen. Unfortunately I smacked right into a problem: my Ethernet cables aren’t located anywhere in that room. I wound up having to look at Wireless Adapters but I had a case of Apple…

  • Apple WWDC 2009

    No, I’m not there but I’m following the live feed on The Apple Blog and Gizmodo: 15″ Macbook Pro, 7 hour battery life with an SD card slot ($1699). 13″ MacBook now MacBookPro, with unibody, SD Card, 8GB of memory, up to 500GB or 256GB SSD drive with backlet keyboard and FW800. $1199 Uber model…

  • Mouse Arrow Moves Screen (Apple Mac)

    For some mysterious reason your screen looks bigger and when you move your mouse the pointer/cursor moves the entire screen instead of going to a specific area. It does also move to specific areas but if it’s past the boundary of the screen it moves the screen. This is part of Apple’s Universal Access panel…

  • Advertising + Design > Cost + Learning Curve

    In recent years, Apple’s done a fair share of designing pretty products (if not hardware wise the best products) and have substantially increased their exposure to the public with product placement (they’re in Best Buy and Apple Stores) and advertising (no more pretentious posters: now we have the PC Guy vs. the Mac). In all…

  • Apple’s File Name Extensions: A Rant

    Extensions, for all you Mac users, is the three to four letter attachment to the end of a file name which flags it underneath the header of a specific program or application type. It tells the computer what encoding is in the file so that the computer knows what to do with it. Coming in…

  • Apple Stuff 2008

    Steve unveils the new airbook (absurdly sexy, ridiculously thin and absurdly stupid without an optical drive and without the ability to change your battery); iPhone gets some features it should’ve had anyway; Apple decides to make us pay for stuff that should’ve been on the iPod Touch anyway (and which was put on it for…