Articles in the Apple Mac Category

The Apple CGI I’m a Mac Santa Holiday Ad
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Posted in Advertising, Apple, Apple Mac, Computing, Design, Internet, Media, TV on 26 December 2007
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In case you missed it – cute, funny, nicely done! (click on screen shot – Apple.com)

How to Fix Your Mac DVD & Other DVD Players for $7
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Posted in Apple, Apple Mac, Computing, Gadgets on 27 November 2007
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While not exactly the most exciting bit of technology, before you rip out a wonky DVD player from your Mac (or throw your AV DVD player away), spend $7 to run this cleaning DVD with brushes over the laser eye – in many cases, the ONLY reason your DVD player is working spotty and wonky […]

iPhone “Free” Custom Ringtones Are Back – How To Make Your Own
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Posted in Apple, Apple Mac, Computing, Design, Gadgets, Internet, iPhone, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Music, Retail, Toys on 14 November 2007
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UPGRADE SOME COMPONENTS FIRST You will need to make sure your iPhone is updated to 1.1.2 and iTunes 7.5 & maybe even Quicktime 7.3. Of course, your iPhone upgrade is best handled by clicking on UPDATE after you dock your iPhone and turn on iTunes 7.5. This is a pretty big upgrade including a firmware […]

Guide to Installing Mac Leopard OSX 10.5 On Day One
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Posted in Apple, Apple Mac, Computing on 23 October 2007
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For PC users, they don’t understand or even believe that on the Mac, you can randomly just upgrade your Mac and that for 99% of people, they can come back after 30-minutes when all is installed and ready, hit RESTART and while it might take a few ticks longer to reboot the first time, they […]

Apple Will Open iPhone To Outside Applications
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Posted in Apple, Apple Mac, Gadgets, iPhone on 18 October 2007
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Steve Jobs stumbled a bit around the quick price drop of the new iphone so maybe he is learning because the Apple web site confirms that Apple will be opening up the iPhone and iPod Touch to third party developers. While the recent iphone update (ver 1.1.1) bricked hacked iPhones, it also bricked iPhones running […]

Pixelmator: The NOT READY FOR PRIMETIME Review
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Posted in Apple Mac, Computing, Design, Marketing on 10 October 2007
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The Pixelmator creators have gotten a lot of press in their attempt to knock a few pegs from the Adobe Photoshop Regime and yes, the app looks fine and has lots of cool looking Apple Quartz effects and transparencies but while they may have spent hundreds of hours writing code and prettifying Pixelmator, they either […]

Amazon launches music download killer to challenge iTunes
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Posted in Apple, Apple Mac, Computing, Internet, Marketing, Media, Music on 26 September 2007
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But will it actually take much of a bite out of the Apple? More than 2 million songs – including those by Amy Winehouse, U2 and 50 Cent – will be made available for download from Amazon’s US site, with tracks costing either .89 cents or .99 cents, and albums between $5.99 and $9.99. The […]

UK iPhone Launch To Cost Serious Poundage
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Posted in Apple, Apple Mac, Gadgets, iPhone on 19 September 2007
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Nov. 9 in Britain will be a retailer’s day to remember. Apple has announced that will be the day they offer their iPhone to the public. The price set for the retail sale is GBP 269 (USD 537). Ouch! Plus, users will have to sign an 18-month contract (no 12 month option I guess) at […]

Review: Elgato Turbo.264 USB Stick for Mac Video
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Posted in Apple Mac, Computing, Gadgets, iPhone, Toys, TV on 31 August 2007
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Elgato Turbo H.264 USB Stick is a gorgeous looking device – sleek, small, elegant and all black – simply plug into a USB port and you’ve offloaded H.264 converting and compression off of your graphics card and processor and onto the device. It will speed up video conversion and encoding by a factor of 2 […]

The Mac Enterprise: Why It’s Not at Warp Speed
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Posted in Apple, Apple Mac, Computing, Financial, Internet, Marketing, Retail on 30 August 2007
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Many people are puzzled by Apple’s seeming reticence to jump full speed into the enterprise market … well, here are the reasons why it’s not on top of Apple’s to-do list: (NOTE – GENERALIZATIONS ABOUND!) Enterprise Market is now a Commodity Market From 1986 to 1998, it was THE market to be in. It WAS […]