With Apple celebrating the Macintosh’s 25th birthday recently, I went on a bit of a youtube searching spree and came up with a video of Macworld 2000. This wasn’t just any macworld. This was when we saw Mac OS X for the first time.
A lot’s changed in the last 9 years, but you can see [...]

A few days ago I posted about a Terminal command that allowed users to customize how OS X handles a machine going to sleep. The method worked, but wasn’t the most elegant of solutions. Reader ‘der Dennis’ wrote in the comments about a PrefPane alternative called SmartSleep so I tootled off to the appropriate [...]

I’ve had a read around the interwebs and it seems this is a common thing with the new Aluminium MacBooks and MacBook Pros, mine included. It’s not something that bothers me too much, but I know a lot of people don’t like it.
Basically, the keyboard’s keys are slanted to the left along the top. [...]

Evernote has been around for a while now in private beta form. Yours truly had an account, and I must admit I don’t think I’ve used it once since the initial novelty wore off ! Yesterday however saw the release of Evernote into the wild, with no invites required. They’ve also started [...]

Whilst stumbling through the dross on Youtube I thought I’d check out what Chris Pirillo is up to these days. I used to subscribe to Lockergnome emails years ago, so it’s good to see how things have gone for him.
Anyways, his latest video is all about MobileMe, and his take on it. It’s [...]

Another piece of news to come out of WWDC is the re-branding of .mac (dotmac). Renamed MobileMe, the service will be a subscription service offering ‘Exchange for the rest of us’.
Users can expect Push Email, Push Calendars and Push Contacts, with all this information stored on a central ‘Cloud’. From here your mac, [...]

As many of you will be aware, the mac community has been waiting to see how good the Psystar Open Computer really is.
After a long(ish) wait – ZDNet today published their comparison of the Open Computer with a Mac mini, and all three flavours of MacBook.
As you’ll read below – the results look promising…
The results? [...]