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Macworld 2000 – OS X gets shown for the first time

Oliver Haslam — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:02:39 +0000

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 [...]

SmartSleep – a better way to control your Mac’s sleeping

Oliver Haslam — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:53:01 +0000

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 [...]

How to fix your MacBook’s slanted keys

Oliver Haslam — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:31:04 +0000

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 hits the wild, paid for option available

Oliver Haslam — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:02:53 +0000

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 to [...]

Chris Pirillo on MobileMe

Oliver Haslam — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:19:05 +0000

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 interesting [...]

.mac is now MobileMe

Oliver Haslam — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:47:12 +0000

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, [...]

Psystar Open Computer – The results are in!

itsallaboutyou — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:42:36 +0000

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 [...]

WWDC08 schedule released

Oliver Haslam — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:09:03 +0000

Anyone lucky enough to be attending this years WWDC ? No, me neither. For those that are, or just like to know what time they need to be sat refreshing the-iBlog waiting for updates, Apple have uploaded a schedule to their website.

See how your week of exploring the latest Apple technologies will come [...]

Inquisitor 3 For Safari Released

Justin — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:16:30 +0000

For those of you that use Inquisitor with Safari, 3.1 (Build 54) was released this morning.

Its improvements include: improved performance, simplified process for switching search providers and the affiliate links have been removed.

It can be downloaded from the Inquisitor site, but if you already use it, you [...]

New ‘Get a mac’ ads…

itsallaboutyou — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:37:52 +0000

Once again, the folks over at infinite loop have come up with some cracking new ads as part of their ‘get a mac’ campaign.

In Pep Rally, PC tries to pep himself up despite the fact that the Mac is the “number one notebook on college campuses.” Just when PC finishes his rant, the [...]