From the monthly archives:

August 2008

Like the “I’m a Mac” commercials?

August 31, 2008

I do, and here’s where you can see all of them!
Apple’s Get a Mac page

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Apple quadruples enterprise share

August 31, 2008

Computerworld published an article by Greg Keizer outlining the advances Apple has made, even though its marketing is entirely to consumers, with no enterprise strategy whatsoever.
Mac OS X has a 4.5% share of the enterprise OS market,according to anaylyst Ben Gray (Forrester Research). 18 months ago the share was 1.2% (data collected from Forrester clients [...]

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Comcast caps downloads at 250 GB/month

August 31, 2008

October 1 marks the start of Comcast’s implementation of a 250 GB monthly cap. Sources indicate that Comcast was thinking of charging $15/10GB overage. A press release should be released shortly confirming if this is true.
Comcast also was considering a system that would potentially suspend customers who received more than 4 DMCA letters in a [...]

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Special Character Shortcuts

August 25, 2008

Where’s the Ơ? or the Ű??
John Brandt’s Special Character Shortcuts
John Brandt’s Special Character Shortcuts is a great tool, a comprehensive PDF showing how to find nearly any special character in any font on either Mac or Windows. The 16-page PDF includes cheatsheets for accented characters, ligatures, punctuation, currency, legal symbols, math, and greek symbols. Print [...]

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Do we like our Macs? Oh yes…

August 21, 2008

Love (or hate) your computer company?
2008s American Customer Satisfaction index, released by the University of Michigan for the PC industry show Apple taking the top honor for the 5th year in a row. Apple and Dell were the only companies to increase their customer satisfaction rating this year over last.
The ACSI scores are measuring consumer’s [...]

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MacBook/Pro AC Adaptor… wrap it right!

August 21, 2008

Prevent AC Adapter failure!
Apple’s MagSafe AC Adapter for MacBook/Pro has a handy feature for wrapping the cable to help keep it organized. Two “hooks” hinge out of the corners of the unit, providing a great place to wrap the cable around.
Thing is, if you casually wrap the cable, you may destroy your adaptor (otherwise known [...]

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FireWire the best choice for ext. hard drives

August 21, 2008

Firewire Vs. USB: A Simplified Approach
From Directron.org Web site, dated 2005 comes a very cogent explanation of why we see so many USB 2.0 external drives out there, when FireWire is a much better choice for data transfer…
As jealousy is the main downfall for humans, as greed was for Apple’s dominance of the serial [...]

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Malicious Flash ads attack, spread via clipboard

August 21, 2008

This just in from Elinor Mills, on C/Net News.com:
A new type of Internet-based attack is spreading in which Flash-based ads seize control of a Web surfer’s clipboard and paste in a link to a malicious site in the hopes that it will be spread from there into e-mails, blogs, and instant messages.
The ads have been [...]

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iPhone tips and tricks

August 12, 2008

12 iPhone Tricks You Might Not Have Known
Speaking of iPhones, iSmashPhone.com has a great article with some great stuff for iPhone users.
My favorite is the first one. In any app, including Safari, you can tap the top bar (time, service and battery icons on it) and it will scroll to the top of the page [...]

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I got a 3G… 2G for sale!

August 12, 2008

OK, I wasn’t going to buy a 3G iPhone. I mean, I just bought my original iPhone maybe 6 months or so ago. But…
My wife wanted an iPhone. She purposefully waited to get a 3G.
I happened to be in an Apple Store (Santa Rosa, CA… great people there) to take care of a small problem [...]

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