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Hilarious Apple video from 1987 predicting future of 1997

July 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Money quote: "Introducing the Vista Mac…"

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Tags: Apple · Funny-haha

Make Safari use CMD+K for Google Search

April 8th, 2008 · No Comments

picture-2 Make Safari use CMD+K for Google Search

One of the things that really annoys me about Apple Safari is that it doesn't use the CTRL+K / CMD+K keyboard shortcut for activating the Google Search dialogue box, which is standard across most browsers — particularly Safari.

Instead, Safari makes…

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Fantastic collection of contextual menu items for Mac

March 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Ever wanted to change the desktop picture in Mac OS X by selecting the file in the Finder, right clicking and selecting "set as Desktop Picture" from a context menu?Or perhaps select some files, then "move files to a new…

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How to turn off slow sleep / hibernate mode on a MacBook Pro

March 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Putting a Mac notebook to sleep is taking progressively longer and longer as time goes by. The reason? We're all ordering notebooks with 2 to 4GB of RAM now, and by default, OS X writes the entire contents of memory…

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Puppet claims Steve Jobs stole MacBook Air

January 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

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Tags: Apple · Funny-haha

Oh dear god, [wipe tear]

August 14th, 2007 · 1 Comment

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Tags: Apple · Funny-haha

My god, Albert Einstein WAS a genius

June 5th, 2007 · 2 Comments

albert-einstein-1.jpgI've always doubted Albert Einstein's brilliance… I mean, e=mc²… wtf? I don't even know what that means.

But I saw a quote from him today that totally rang my bells…

"Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler."

That absolutely explains why…

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My Little Pony Sun tribute

May 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Oh my gosh, I have no idea what this is all about, but as Fake Steve says, it's pure evil.

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Tags: Apple · Funny-haha

The campaign to convince Apple to fix its annoying Apple Mail URL breakage bug

April 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Apple Mail has an excruciatingly annoying bug related to URLs pasted in emails: in every other mail client, they're broken and unclickable.

picture-2 The campaign to convince Apple to fix its annoying Apple Mail URL breakage bug

Apparently this is because Apple Mail uses a relatively new email standard, the "delsp" parameter, which supposedly instructs other mail…

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Very useful Apple tips

March 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

MacOSXtips.co.uk has published some very handy command line tips for customising OS X.

My favourites:

5. defaults write -g NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode -bool TRUE
Sets expanded save dialogs as default (showing column/list view of folders rather than a drop down menu). Replace TRUE with FALSE to…

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Is Apple Mail running slow? Speed it up

March 3rd, 2007 · 11 Comments

Tim Gaden of Hawk Wings fame (and formerly of APC X-Factor fame, sniffle) has documented an excellent tip to speed up Apple Mail.

It involves optimising the SQLite database Apple Mail uses to store indexes and subject lines of emails.

You can check your…

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Video of a guy blending an iPod

January 13th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Amazing… this company sells blenders and to demonstrate the power of its machines it blends things on camera… like iPods.

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Tags: Apple · Funny-haha

Flaccid with rage over the Apple iPhone

January 13th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Well, my post on "top 10 things to hate about the Apple iPhone" generated a fair bit of controversy. I can't say I didn't write it with this in mind :-) The traffic on apcmag.com has been nothing short of…

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Lexmark e120n: 20ppm mono laser printer with networking for $163.94 NEW

September 8th, 2006 · 20 Comments

LexmarkE120n Lexmark e120n: 20ppm mono laser printer with networking for $163.94 NEW

Is it normal to get this excited about a laser printer?

I've had my eye on the Lexmark e120n for some time now, and I ordered it on a whim a couple of days ago. (I got mine through EnByte…

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John C. Dvorak explains how he trolls Mac users

August 31st, 2006 · 3 Comments

Ah, you gotta love this guy. He's been trolling the tech community since tech journalism was invented, and people still fall hook, line and sinker for him every time.

Here's him explaining how he earns tidal-waves of page impressions every…

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