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Dock Spaces: Extend your spaces

Spaces is one of the most used features within OS X 10.5, for me at least. I can keep all related groups of applications within each space. For instance, Programming, General use, Video Encoding, and System Maintenance. This is easily done through the ‘Expose and Spaces’ section within System Preferences. I always thought [...]

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Apple V. Psystar update

Looks like Psystar will soon be going out of business. Today, Judge William Alsup dismissed Psystar’s lawsuit claiming that Apple was unfairly being a monopoly by only allowing OS X to be installed on Apple machines and not allowing clones. This decision will set a very interesting precedent with regards to having a company lock [...]

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Safari updated to 3.2

Apple released an update to their Webkit based browser, Safari. The new version is 3.2. This update is available for Windows , OS X 10.4 Tiger and Leopard . The update has eleven total fixes. seven of these fixes are Windows only and the other four are for OS X 10.4, 10.5 and Windows. For [...]

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Lame Duck Crossover: Is it worth it?

The President of Codeweavers, the makers of Crossover for the Mac, gave President George W. Bush a challenge to complete one of ten goals during the rest of his Lame Duck presidency. One of the goals set was for gas to hit $2.80 a gallon. Guess what happened. The price hit [...]

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Is Apple Care worth the price?

Is Apple Care worth the extra cost? We have more and more converts converting to the Mac end of the computing spectrum. When they begin looking at purchasing their machine they must ask themselves, do I spend the extra cash on Apple Care or get more on the computer and forego Apple Care? Well, it depends. [...]

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