One of the benifits of working here is meeting other long-standing members of the Macintosh community. Today I had a great phone conversation with Tim Robertson, publisher of MyMac.com. You can read about Tim here. MyMac.com features Apple news, unbiased reviews, Mac tips and tricks, and an excellent weekly Podcast (which can be downloaded directly […]
From Apple’s Knowledge Base article #86284 PowerBook G4 (15-inch Double-Layer SD), MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Pro (17-inch) With these computers, follow these steps to calibrate your battery: 1. Plug in the power adapter and fully charge your PowerBook’s battery until the light ring or LED on the power adapter plug changes to green and […]
IOSPIRIT GmbH announced the availability of a preview of version Remote Buddy 1.0 for Apple’s Remote. Remote Buddy provides you with a one-stop interface that allows you to control almost anything on your Mac just with the remote control. Besides tools that allow you to emulate keyboard and mouse, eject CDs, terminate applications and much […]
Today is the one-year anniversary of the Apple-Intel alliance. It was June 6, 2005, when Steve Jobs made the official announcement at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference. Rumors swirled about Apple switching from PowerPC to Intel in the days just prior to the conference, but the official announcement was still shocking. After all, Apple had spend […]
The U2 iPod has returned and now offers the ability to watch videos on it. This edition comes in 30GBs which means you can have up to 7500 songs, up to 25,000 photos, and up to 75 hours of video. It also comes with a music video and 30 minutes of music and interviews with […]
Google has a new cool product out, and it looks like they may have a full office suite soon! With Writely.com and now an online spreadsheet application dubbed ‘Google Spreadsheets’, users will be able to create full-blown spreadsheets! Users can share spreadsheets they’ve created between their friends and family, they can collaborate and edit them […]
GEEKY WARNING! This article is not for the faint of heart. I’ll be using terminal and the “dreaded” command line. I just thought I would share it for those people who do use Terminal, those would probably be systems administrators or those savvy OS X/Unix users. This little article is going to let you display […]
OK, it’s summer and perhaps you have a vacation planned. I was inspired to write this article after reading a National Geographic article about traveling with an iPod but wanted to tie in some ideas and products that would make traveling with an iPod even better. The most obvious use of an iPod is to […]
Last weekend I read an article that combined two of my favorite things – the Red Sox and the iPod. The article details how ball players use the iPod to relax and visualize their game. Some players are beginning to use the iPod video to watch their highlight reels, but most seem to feel the […]
Ed recently informed me of this program called Chax. After a quick Google, I was downloading the latest version of this piece of software. Simply put, Chax beefs up iChat and adds in a ton of really needed and useful features that Apple left out. One of the best features is tabbed chatting. Now when […]
