A great writeup on the history of tablet computing at Apple, from 1983’s ‘bashful’ experiment: to the current iPad we know and love.
Cleaning/Replacing a MacBook Key
If, for some reason, you decide to pull a key off your MacBook (or in my case, BlackBook) keyboard and can’t figure out how to put it back on, there’s a great little walk-thru on flickr. Here’s a link to the set or you can watch the slideshow below. By the way, there’s plenty of […]

Is the iPhone / iPod touch 3.0 Software Update Worth It?
Chances are you’ve seen the news about the iPhone 3.0 Software Update that Apple recently released. For iPhone users, it’s a free upgrade so it isn’t really a question of whether it would be worth it — free is free! For iPod touch users though, due to the way Apple does their books on the iPod […]
Happy 25th Birthday Mac
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Backing Up
Vanessa asks: I really need to get some back up Hard Drive. I’ve heard I need at least 3 HDDs. is that what I use? Also what brand or memory space do you think is required? On a mac the best back up is a external firewire HD and then setting up time machine. Time […]

Speeding Up a Slow Mac
Kevin writes: I have a iBook G4 — 1.33 GHz — 512 MB RAM. It’s running really slow. Do you have any “quick fixes”? I was looking on the internet and saw that “anacron” was suggested. Do you guys have any suggestions. I don’t really want to buy a new mac (yet) so any suggestions […]
Macworld 2009 Keynote
Update: Speech is over. New versions of iLife and iWork (sites not updated currently), updated 17″ MacBook Pro and the news that the iTunes music store is going completely DRM free by the end of this quarter, as well as variable pricing on songs (no more $0.99 only, now the song price will range from […]
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Create a folder containing your current selection by choosing File > New Folder with Selection or by pressing Control-Command-N (⌃⌘N).
Handy as hell.
Six Unexpected Uses for the Application Switcher
I didn’t know about half of these.
Tip: save a copy of your Mac’s Apple System Profiler report to your Dropbox folder. If your Mac dies you’ll have exactly what you lost.
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