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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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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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Paper bills, online bills… bane of my life

May 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Tech journo Danny Gorog has written a good piece about new sheet-fed scanners that can scan in your bills (even double-sided ones) and save them as PDFs on your computer, eliminating the stacks of unsorted paper we all build up on…

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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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Text rendering problem on Firefox for Mac

March 31st, 2007 · 19 Comments

Anyone else have this problem with text rendering on Firefox for Mac? As you can see, the antialiasing is seriously screwed up on the right side of this text. Highlighting the text removes the problem, but when unhighlighted the uneven…

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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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Why I'm not happy with my Hitachi Travelstar 160GB notebook drive

November 18th, 2006 · 5 Comments

TS5K160_150x175 Why Im not happy with my Hitachi Travelstar 160GB notebook driveI am a sucker for more of everything when it comes to computers, so I had to upgrade my MacBook Pro's hard drive to 160GB — the biggest hard drive available at retail. (Of course, soon after I ordered it,…

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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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The problem with Podcasts

July 9th, 2006 · 6 Comments

podcasts The problem with Podcasts

I've really been getting into podcasts in the last few weeks.

This epiphany has come about for two reasons:

- I got my iPod's battery replaced ($US46.99 including return shipping from USA which equated to $A70… a $30 saving on the Apple service)…

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MacBook Pro envy

April 27th, 2006 · 3 Comments

macbookpro MacBook Pro envyMy friend and colleague Tim Gaden has just bought himself a MacBook Pro for work. I am, of course, not the slightest bit envious.

He writes in his post about it, "Repairing permissions on the old one took 118 seconds for…

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