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What I Learned from Having My Laptop Stolen
After his MacBook Pro was snatched, David Blatner discovered the hard way that losing hardware was the least of his concerns. Lesson learned, he details what he’s doing now to prevent data loss and potential identity theft on his current laptop. Someday, somewhere, somehow your computer will be gone. It will be stolen, or the hard [...]
Continue reading...Don’t Remove Battery
15. July 2009
If you were considering running your MacBook or MacBook Pro without a battery, think again. Aside from the obvious problem of causing a power interruption by bumping the easily dislodged MagSafe connector, running without a battery significantly hurts performance.
Continue reading...Can I Use Titanium PowerBook for Entertainment Center
29. June 2009
Q: I just got back my old 800MHz Titanium PowerBook G4 that I have been letting my roommate borrow for the past 2 years. I already have an iMac and a MacBook so I am looking to do something interesting to repurpose this machine. Any tips on the best way to incorporate this into an [...]
Continue reading...MacBook Hard Drive Problems
13. June 2009
Several months ago it was reported that early MacBooks (with Core Duo rather than Core 2 Duo processors) were quite likely to suffer premature failure of their hard disks. Recently I’ve seen a couple of these failures, so if you have one of the suspect drives it may be a good idea to replace it [...]
Continue reading...How To Lift Your MacBook
20. May 2009
The vast majority of insert/eject problems on Apple laptops are related to how users pick up their machines. It sounds ridiculous, and some people even take offense when I offer a tutorial on how to handle their machines, but if you squash the optical drive opening, that is considered damage and is not covered by [...]
Continue reading...Hot Swap Your MacBook’s Battery
8. March 2009
Owners of Apple’s MacBooks have the ability to hot swap their batteries without using a power adapter. Imagine that you’re a blogger and you’ve worked all day in the local park blogging about squirrel mating rituals and the various trees, when suddenly your MacBook warns you that you have less than 30 minutes of power left [...]
Continue reading...How to Count the Charge Cycles on Your MacBook’s Battery
8. March 2009
Q: I have a MacBook running Tiger, and my battery doesn’t stay charged as long as it used to. I know Apple says batteries should retain up to 80 percent of their charge capacity for up to 300 full charge-and-deplete cycles, but I never bothered to count how many times I’ve charged the battery since [...]
Continue reading...Laptop Battery Conservation
27. August 2008
Since I bought a MacBook Air from our first delivery of them earlier this year, I’ve grown more and more attached to it. I take it with me when I travel, and it serves as my main home computer. Combined with the AirPort Disk functionality of the newest AirPort Extreme Base Station, the MacBook Air’s [...]
Continue reading...Plantronics Microphone and MacBook
7. August 2008
A Plantronics USB microphone could not get any input into a MacBook. Setting it up in System Preferences/Sound did no good. It turned out that system 10.4.10 had disabled input from a Plantronics microphone, as a default. This can be changed in Utilities/Audio Midi Setup, selecting Plantronics and unchecking a “mute” button. ~ Bruce Craven
Continue reading...MultiTouch Mail Trick
25. July 2008
The MacBook Air and newest MacBook Pros include MultiTouch-capable trackpads that let you rotate, resize, and gesture your way through many common tasks. For instance, you can increase and decrease font size in Safari by making a pinching gesture with two fingers on the trackpad. You can use three fingers swiped left or right to go [...]
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Antiglare Display Option For 15-inch MacBook Pro Now Available
If you prefer a display with antiglare coating for a matte rather than glossy viewing experience, an antiglare display is now available as a configure-to-order option on all 15-inch MacBook Pro models. This display has a silver aluminum bezel, which is the same as the 17-inch antiglare MacBook Pro display.Google CEO Schmidt leaves Apple board
In a statement, Apple CEO Steve Jobs cited potential conflicts of interest in explaining Schmidt’s resignation.
“Eric’s effectiveness as an Apple board member will be significantly diminished, since he will have to recuse himself from even larger portions of our meetings,” he said.
Apple is racing to offer a portable tablet-sized computer in time for the Christmas shopping season, in what the entertainment industry hopes will be a new revolution.
via Financial Times.
20. July 2009
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