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From Bashful to iPad

A great writeup on the his­tory of tablet com­put­ing at Apple, from 1983’s ‘bash­ful’ exper­i­ment: to the cur­rent iPad we know and love.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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