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Mac

iTunes Store doesn’t have wish lists! Or does it?

July 20, 2009

If you’re like me, you find lots of music you want to buy on the iTunes Store every time you go. Neither of us, though, allow ourselves to buy everything we see, right? Some of it is a “maybe” or a “compare to something else” or whatever. The point is iTunes doesn’t have a button [...]

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Why not to use Bit Torrent

January 23, 2009

Well, I’m being a little hypocritical with my headline on this one since I use Bit Torrent from time to time (for legal things!) but I’m very aware that this stuff could contain something malicious if not simply annoying. Now there is proof of an actual malicious Trojan Horse for the Mac! Let’s repeat: a [...]

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Bush’s White House computers: stuck in the 90′s

January 22, 2009

Obama Staff Arrives to White House Stuck in Dark Ages of Technology – washingtonpost.com One member of the White House new-media team came to work on Tuesday, right after the swearing-in ceremony, only to discover that it was impossible to know which programs could be updated, or even which computers could be used for which [...]

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Goodbye Macworld, Goodbye Apple

January 9, 2009

Macworld 2009 is over and Apple won't be back. We will miss you. Steve Jobs, I hope you reconsider coming back in 2010! If there is a Macworld next year, I'll be back.

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Macheads!

January 7, 2009

"don't love apple, love the mac community" is a quote from this documentary about the mac and its extremely loyal base of followers… I mean users. I was one of the 45,000 mac evangelists in the late 90's before Steve jobs came back and saved the company. To say I have mixed feelings about the [...]

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Artsy skins…

January 6, 2009

Gelaskins – Pretty cool stuff if you like cluttering up your beautiful mac or iPhone. I don't know who was asking for something like this but I'm posting this for you!

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2 Great things that suck together: iPhone and MobileMe

December 4, 2008

There are many many things I love about my iPhone. They are too great to list here so I won’t… but I do want to bring up how the combination of two great things combine to make them both SUCK. First, Ringtones. I love these things. I love being able to make them myself in [...]

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IMAP… not your father’s email

November 11, 2008

I’ve been explaining the value of IMAP email to clients for years. It’s far superior to POP, especially when you check your email from more than one computer or mobile device. Plus, if your computer crashes and you have no other backups, at least your email is safe! I set up pretty much all of [...]

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Don’t kill the Mac Mini!

October 22, 2008

Nooooo, Apple, No! Are you listening? Don’t kill the Mac Mini! Are you crazy? It’s a great little machine that fills so many niches I can’t even list them here. My two favorites are: Entertainment Center (more powerful than an AppleTV) and low-cost server. I’ve set Minis up as both with many clients. The end [...]

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Recycle your computer.

October 6, 2008

It may be a little later than our Greenpeace friends may have liked, but Apple has mostly gotten its act together on recycling. When you buy a new Mac, you can send or bring them your old one for proper disposal… at no cost to you. That’s a huge step and as this Macworld article [...]

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