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Apple releases the Magic Trackpad

Apple quietly released the Magic Trackpad – a Multi-Touch trackpad for your desktop today. This is an interesting product, a trackpad for your desktop. It has the similar form factor of the new keyboards and is bluetooth wireless to reduce any more wire clutter on the desktop. It is compatible with all the gestures built [...]

Adding space to my Drobo

I have finally started to transfer years of home video from MiniDV tapes to my hard drive. I have attempted to do some in the past, but often storage and computing power was too restrictive to move all my raw home video to the hard drive. I was left with just adding a few videos [...]

iPhone OS4; a smooth upgrade

In case you have not heard, Apple released the much talked about iPhone OS4 (now officially called iOS4) at about noon EST today. I did not get a chance to install it till I got home at 4:45p. Getting to my desktop at home I proceeded to back up my iPhone 3G S, iTunes immediately [...]

Total Mac recovery using Superduper

Came home today to see my first Mac, my G4 iMac in a state of trying to reboot. It just hung there trying to get started. I turned it off unplugged it to reset the power controller and tried to turn it back on. Still no luck– looks like the drive is corrupted. Disk drives [...]

What was missing from Apple WWDC 2010?

We all agree that the iPhone 4 is really nice (nice may be an understatement given the 600,000 preorders on the first day). Both the fresh look and the specs are attractive. But at the very iPhone focussed WWDC keynote there were glaring ommisions of whole product lines. Apple has become so much more than [...]

Apple, AT&T Cite Record iPhone Sales – WSJ.com

Apple is going to sell a ton on new iPhones Apple, AT&T Cite Record iPhone Sales – WSJ.com.

Apple quietly updates macmini

After noticably leaving out all non iPhone announcements from last weeks WWDC, Apple came out today and quietly updated the macmini. Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! The macmini, my favorite in the mac desktop line, is often treated like an adopted child. These tiny machines make great desktop computers. Last years model was a significant ugrade [...]

Finally an Apple store app

Ever wonder why there is an app for everything but the Apple store itself? Well they finally listened and today released an <a href="Apple Store App. This is different from the app store where you buy apps. In this store you can browse and purchase hardware like the iPhone 4, the new macmini and accessories [...]

My biggest iphone upgrade: the microcell

Mention iPhone and anyone will immediately recognize an excellent phone. But they will also be quick to point out that it despite being a very good phone it has AT&T as a providor. For some people this has been a deal breaker. I have been using my iPhone more as a data device anyways. Sometimes [...]

Hidden dictionary in OS X

Did you ever want to quickly look up the definition of a word while on your mac? Well in OS X you can do just that by highlighting the word and pressing command-control and D. This gives a small pop up of the dictionary. This works in almost all OS X applications including safari. Very [...]