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It has been quite a holiday - I have been all over the place and ended up getting back into WoW after the glow of my PS3s latest Blu-Ray disc faded. Funny enough, I have been renting more HD-DVDs than Blu-Ray, but I digress…
I had taken about a 6 month hiatus from WoW and finally […]
It appears that in a settlement with Apple, Think Secret has agreed to shut down indefinitely. This is bad news for Apple fanboys and for tech journalism in general, for a few reasons.
Think Secret was one of the more objective and sensible “rumor” type of sites in the first place.
There will be sites that […]
Well, I had all but given up on my Airport Extreme Base Station (AEBS) when I stumbled upon this fix deep within the apple forums. Apparently if you change an advance setting for IPv6 and set it to “Local-link only” and it will get back to regular speeds and stability… for about 5 minutes.
You can read through the […]
I had heard of MacHeist a while back and never looked into it but recently saw a post about MacUpdate adding an 11th application to their promo and decided to take a look. They hooked me right away - some of these apps are pretty nice and for $50 bucks it is hard not to go […]
I recently picked up a new Santa Rosa MacBook and was surprised to find that the BootCamp Assistant was not in the Utilities folder. The MacBook came with Leopard pre-installed and I was expecting to jump right in and install Windows. Turns out Apple simply forgot to include BootCamp on the latest image they were […]
David Morganstern of ZDNet’s The Apple Core writes about his distaste for the Cover Flow view option when browsing files in Mac OSX Leopard:
However, why flip through the images sequentially in Cover Flow? Isn’t it faster to present users with many documents at once, letting viewers scan the field of vision on their screen?
I wholeheartedly […]
Playing Half-Life 2 on my MacBook Pro works great in Vista via BootCamp, but after seeing the worst promotional video of all time I had to check it out for myself using CrossOver Mac 6.2 on Leopard. CrossOver lets you run some Windows apps/games using WINE technology without having a copy of Windows or rebooting. […]
