Macgasm

Macam: For all of us iBook/Powerbook/Mac Pro users

We all haven’t been graced with the luxury of built in iSights, so we have to get our webcam love some other way. For us, the less fortunate, underprivileged, users, we have to turn to crappy, Logitech webcams like our pathetic Windows brethren (… that makes me feel like I need a shower). [...]

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It’s about time the iPhone comes to Canada

In typical Canadian fashion, we’re finally getting the iPhone months after the rest of the western world. According to ZDnet, Rogers made a terse announcement about having a contract in place with Apple to carry the iPhone, but little else was revealed. We’re thrilled to announce that we have a deal with Apple to bring [...]

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Checking Drive health in OS X from Terminal

In my quest to use VNC less, I’ve come across a pretty helpful command line application to check the health of my server’s disk drives. It’s pretty handy and works well with both OS X Server and regular OS X. Most of the problems I seem to encounter have to do with messed [...]

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iMac’s get an update.

Apple has updated their line of iMac’s to include: “With prices starting at just $1,199, iMac includes faster processors with 6MB L2 cache and a faster 1066 MHz front-side bus across the entire line, and 2GB of memory standard in most models. The 24-inch iMac now offers a 3.06 GHz Intel processor and the high-performance NVIDIA [...]

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MacBook Air

I got to play with a client’s MacBook Air today because she was tired and went home early. I love some things about it, but with most new Apple breakthrough products, most of us are better off waiting for the release of Gen 2 or 3. Simply speaking, no firewire and the base model still having [...]

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