Tag Archive | "MacBook"

Full HDMI support comes to the updated MacBook

Thursday, May 20, 2010

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Full HDMI support comes to the updated MacBook

On Tuesday Apple quietly updated the Polycarbonite MacBook.  This is the white plastic Macbook.  To give us the 411 on what was updated, Wayne Dixon wrote a piece Tuesday on the MacBooks upgraded hardware entitled, “White MacBooks: New Innards, Same Look”.  What was not known to him or anyone else is that Apple also updated [...]

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White Macbooks: New Innards, Same Look

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

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Apple has very quietly upgraded the white unibody polycarbonate MacBooks to more closely match the shiny aluminum MacBook Pro line. This update was so quiet that it does not even warrant a ‘new’ tag on the front page of the Apple Store; however, there is a ‘new’ tag on the product page. The outside of [...]

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First U.S. High School to buy iPads for their students.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

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First U.S. High School to buy iPads for their students.

Imagine schools without books, or calculators, or paper.  Kind of strange, huh.  What’s a school without these core items?  Now imagine schools where all this is replaced by one device.  If you said Apple‘s iPad, you’re correct.  The iPad is more than just a home consumption device, and it transcends to the educational sector very [...]

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My first week with the iPad

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

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My first week with the iPad

When I got my iPad last week I made a conscious decision to only use my iPad instead of my MacBook for all of my laptop/mobile needs. I wanted to see if I could count on my iPad in a pinch when I didn’t have my MacBook. As I mentioned in my other articles regarding [...]

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Blogger Bob says, “Your iPad has been approved for Travel.”

Thursday, April 8, 2010

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Blogger Bob says, “Your iPad has been approved for Travel.”

Now that you have your shinny new iPad, you are going to want to take it on trips with you. The TSA, might make you take out your iPad so that it can be inspected, or run through their security scanner.  We all remember what happened to fellow writer Michael Nygard, who was pulled aside [...]

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MobileMe synchronization gone awry

Saturday, February 27, 2010

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MobileMe synchronization gone awry

I use MobileMe to keep my data synced on all my Macs that I use.  I like the fact that I can go from Mac to Mac and have my Address Book, Calendar, and many other native application’s data all synced.  This is good and bad at the same time.  In the past five years [...]

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Apple offers repair extension program for MacBook

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

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Apple offers repair extension program for MacBook

This past Monday, Apple posted on their support page notification that MacBooks purchased between May 2006 and December 2007 that experience a hard drive failure may be eligible for a free hard drive replacement. It’s pretty easy to know if you are one of the affected. Upon starting your computer, you will see a flashing [...]

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ProTouch, Protection for your Keyboard

Monday, October 5, 2009

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ProTouch, Protection for your Keyboard

It’s no secret that I am an advocate for protecting your gadgets. This is true for iPods, iPhones and even your Macbooks, Macbook Pro, and Macbook air. iSkin covers pretty much all those areas. But you have heard me preach about iPods and iPhones before. This time I want to talk about protecting your Macbook(Pro, [...]

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With Windows 7 on the horizon, Apple’s planning on stealing the show?

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

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With Windows 7 on the horizon, Apple’s planning on stealing the show?

Sounds about right, Microsoft plans to release Windows 7 on October 22 and Apple‘s going to try stealing their thunder with a product update. At least that’s the currently held assumption by some of the tech industries’ top analysts. It only makes sense right? Apple didn’t blow our doors off at the 09/09/09 event, so [...]

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Four Finger Trackpad Motions Back-Ported to Pre-Unibody Macs

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

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Four Finger Trackpad Motions Back-Ported to Pre-Unibody Macs

One of the nice updates in Snow Leopard is the addition of four finger trackpad motions to pre-unibody laptop models that have multi-touch capability. Now even more people can trigger expose and change application with a single swipe.

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