Its fun to see the commencement speech. Click here to watch.
Steve Jobs Standford Commencement Speech
November 26, 2009
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Interview: The Man Who Named the iMac and Wrote Think Different
November 26, 2009Its always nice to read about the people behind the scenes. Click here to read.
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What happens when your laptop dies
November 26, 2009You unfortunately have some bad experiences with Mail order or have to travel hours to an Apple store. Click here to read.
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Chart: iPod vs. iPhone
November 26, 2009The growth of the iPhone is shown clearly in a graph here. It is fun to see how much it has progressed. Click here to view.
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iLife for the PC
November 26, 2009Some thoughtful suggestions. Also some other views of iLife. Click here to read.
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One way to solve Adobe Licensing issue
November 26, 2009Sorry to see aht you have to reinstall the computer to get Adobe Licensing to work. Click here to read.
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Restoring Time Machine backups over SMB or AFP
November 26, 2009Great to see these instructions! If you follow this, it will work. Click here to read.
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Fun with iLife 09. Is this your baby?
November 25, 2009Nice article about how iLife 09 and the faces feature entertained one lady. Click here to read more why it might be worthwhile to buy.
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10 Photo Printers to Enhance Your Holiday Memories
November 25, 2009Nice choices. Personally Canon seems to be the most cost effective according to Consumer Reports. Epson and HP are great, but the ink cartridges are an arm and a leg. Click here to read more.
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The Enduring Value of Macs – Why use an older mac?
November 25, 2009Very thoughtful and touching article. Gives you the theory as well why people hang on to older Macs. Click here to read.
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Six ways to watch movies on your Mac
November 25, 2009Another great article by Christopher. Lists some well known Internet and pay options. There are other illegal options of course which I am glad he didn’t list. Click here to read.
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iPhoto 09: Finding Missing Faces
November 25, 2009Nice suggestion! Click here to find an easy way to save face.
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iPod dead (and brought back to life)
November 25, 2009This is a nice tale of a apparently dead iPod that was brought back to life. Click here to read how.
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re-naming itouch back from repair
November 25, 2009Nice to know. In this thread Anna states “double click on the ipod name in itunes (when it is plugged in and appears on the left hand side) – you can change it there just like you would change the name of a playlist.” Thanks!
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Not able to edit event names in iCal
November 25, 2009After following the suggestions like trashing the ical prefs, removing duplicate fonts, he was able to get it to work. Click here to read more.
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Can’t delete one file in trash. No error message.
November 25, 2009In this case it was boot camp. He ran a disk check on the partition where Windows was installed and it found some unrecoverable errors. After deleting them the error messages were gone. Click here to read more. Thanks planb77!
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How to add a Windows SMB share to a Mac for generic printing
November 25, 2009Member PAHU in this post said “You may be able to work around the Add Printer issue by adding the Advanced menu to the Add Printer toolbar (control-click on the toolbar, select customize and drag the Advanced icon to the toolbar). If you then change the Type to Windows, you can enter the path to the printer in the URL section (smb://Windows_name/printer_share_name) and select the Generic PS in print using menu. Hopefully the Windows menu is available for you in this view.”
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iTunes remote not working with AVG?
November 25, 2009RedAndrew has the solution” In Firewall Settings>Applications change the settings for itunes and Apple Bonjour for windows to “allow for all”
Now go to system services>Manage user system rules
Add 2 rules on for protocol: TCP
direction: both ways
local port: 3689
remote port: all ports
remote addresses: check the box for safe networks
The second rule should be protocol: UDP
local port: 5353
remote port: all ports
remote address: check box for safe networks.
By not checking “all networks” and instead checking “safe networks” this excludes the internet (unless you’ve defined it as safe, which is definitely unwise), which minimises the risk of attack to your PC .”
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How do I fix iPhone Wi-Fi connection problems?
November 25, 2009Great list of suggestions. Worth doing before you reset the iPhone. Click here.
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Another Twitter client for iPhone called Twittelator Pro
November 25, 2009In depth review and scores highly. Looks like something worth trying. Click here to read more.
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Book Review: The New World of Wireless: How to Compete in the 4G Revolution
November 25, 2009This is a good book for the following audiences: CEO’s, iPhone developers, VC, marketing. It explains the consequences of the switch to 4G. Click here to read the reviews from Amazon.
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Book Review: Rebound A Proven Plan for Starting Over After Job Loss
November 25, 2009This is a really considerate and sympathetic view of Job Loss. It has lots of great suggestions. I am glad I read it. Click here to read the Amazon reviews.
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Using a 27-inch iMac as an external display
November 24, 2009Target Display mode! Oh yeah. Click here.
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Change a program’s menu bar name
November 24, 2009This is kind of cool. I wouldn’t do this for any of Apples signed applications however. Plus if anything went wrong after an update, I would suspect this hack contributed to it. Click here to read.
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Apple’s Decade: Getting Into the Games
November 24, 2009Great information if you are thinking of programing for the iPhone or iPod Touch platforms. Click here to read.
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Sony VAIO and Snow Leopard
November 24, 2009Is it worth it to hack this hardware for it? Click here to read.
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How to improve your photos without spending a dime
November 24, 2009Nice intro into using lighting. Click here to read more.
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Chrome OS is No Threat to Apple for Now
November 24, 2009Interesting analysis. I mostly agree with him. Click here if you want to read more.
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Need a Mac spyware protection program?
November 24, 2009Then you might want to consider MacScan. Its a nice thing to do if you do heavy internet usage. It doesn’t hurt ot have this and Clam X Sentry as well. Click here to read more.
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Want to hack your iPod Touch?
November 24, 2009To be basically like an iPhone without the phone capacity. Click here to learn how.
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Two hard drives: the PC and Apple approach
November 24, 2009This is an example of the difference in support between Apple and most PC vendors. Click here to read.
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How To Clean Up The Duh iPhone Worm
November 24, 2009Very good instructions including a step by step of how to inoculate yourself if you are testing Jailbreaking for educational reasons. Click here to read.
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Want a free iPhone app called eBuddy for IM?
November 24, 2009Supports many IM formats and has a positive review. Learn more here.
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3.06 GHz MacBook Pro
November 24, 2009From the article here “The difference in speed between OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard is remarkable. I did two tests in the latest version of Final Cut Studio’s (3) Compressor. I took a 33-second clip NTSC (720 x 480, 29.97 frames per second/fps) and converted it to a similar .m2t (MPEG-2 Transport Stream), which I have to convert video clips to at work. The results:
- With Mac OS X Leopard: 26 seconds
- With Snow Leopard: 18 seconds”
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Core i7 iMacs showing up DOA — including ours
November 24, 2009I wonder if you can take them into an Apple store to trade? I would be very disappointed if this happened to me. Click here.
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A possible solution for system hang on Safari launch
November 24, 2009Good sleuthing! Click here to find out how to fix it. Two suggestions presented.
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iWork 09 – I Use It All The Time On My Macbook
November 24, 2009Good review of what the iWork package can go. He said that he uses iWork much more than iLife. Most people seem to love iTunes so that tends to be the most popular i application that I see. Click here to read more.
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A thrilled new Mac owner
November 24, 2009Even inspired a family member to get a Mac as well. Click here to read.
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A cat, a border and iWork Pages
November 24, 2009Cute work. Click here to look at it.
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Looking for more iPhone Apps to keep you healthy?
November 24, 2009You might want to look at this list. One of them costs $19.99 but has many functions. Click here to learn more.
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Miss Mario? New Super Mario Bros. get 40/40
November 24, 2009It looks like a fun game and it has great reviews. Click here to read more about this classic that many of us know so well.
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Book Review: Nerds 2.0.1 A brief history of the Internet
November 24, 2009I thought this book was disjointed and repetitive. Good thing I got it at the library. Click here to read the Amazon reviews.
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Book Review: Weaving the Web : The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its Inventor
November 24, 2009Very nice book about our favorite web creator Tim Berners-Lee. It tells the story from his point of view. Interesting the kind of ideas he had when this book came out in 99. Click here to read the Amazon reviews. Highly recommended!
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Book Review: Network Maintenance and Troubleshooting Guide: Field Tested Solutions for Everyday Problems
November 23, 2009This is a great book for beginners or even experienced network technicians. It explained some things that other materials haven’t. Click here to read the Amazon reviews.
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The 5 minute WordPress Security Audit
November 23, 2009Great list and links for people who are hosting their own WP blogs. Click here to read.
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Mac Pro: R.I.P. by Ted Landau
November 23, 2009He makes some compelling arguments why the Mac Pros days are over. Click here to read.
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Need a program for User defined keyboard shortcuts in Snow Leopard?
November 23, 2009There are several that are well reviewed to choose from. QuicKeys or Keyboard Maestro both have positive reviews.
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Mystery iPhone musical instrument – World’s most expensive ocarina
November 23, 2009Beautiful piece of work and very creative. You have to look at this! Click here.
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Notes from talk from Creator of Gmail
November 23, 2009From a TechCrunch article “Email is not going to disappear. Possibly ever. Until the robots kill us all.” – Paul Buchheit, creator of Gmail, co-founder of FriendFeed, currently doing vague infrastructure things at Facebook. Click here to read.
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Our Favorite Blogs 2009
November 23, 2009Very good list. I love some of these! Click here to read.
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