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The Macintosh computer family compared to others.
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All gone
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None of the following folks seem to be posting. Hope they are all OK: "Evil" John "Evil" Snit Cornelius Munshower CSMA Moderator Edward Stanfield Fretwiz Measles Petruzzellis Kids Sigmond Smit Steve Carroll Steve Carrroll Yevette Owens They all seem to find a life at the same time, eh?... more »
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Flash 10 is faster for OSX
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Flash has always been sluggish on OSX, but the beta of Flash 10 promises to be faster, according to one of the developers blogs: <quote>If you have followed GUIMark at all you will notice that this version of the player runs this benchmark substantially better on OSX than any previous Flash Player version. It should be up to 3 times faster. How will this affect you? Well, OSX device text rendering got a huge performance boost. If you use lots of device text you will see a big difference.</quote>... more »
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Another Vista Problem AS USUAL
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Well it happened yet again a few minutes ago. I brought up IE 7 and Vista responded by opening over FIFTY FUCKING IE Windows. So far this is the fourth time it has happened in the last year and a half. I looked it up and several other people have reported this "feature" of Vista. Extremely... more »
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Mac advocacy again: Springer changes to Mac
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Here's a bit of Mac advocacy for the US Independence Day. [link] From the article: In a YouTube video, posted below the fold, CEO Mathias Döpfner lists four reasons for the change: Most of the company’s layout work was already being done on Macs Macs are more user friendly than other computers... more »
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iPhone Timeline
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This is an iPhone Timeline starting in 1999 with the first sign of Apple preparing an iPhone and ending with the release of iPhone 3G. [link]
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Organized widget
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Take care of the little jobs with Organized, a new widget from iSlayer featuring a calendar with events, world clocks, notes and to do's. The calendar and to do's utilise OS X's built-in databases, so they're always in sync with iCal and Mail. [link]
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1.8GHz SSD MacBook Air Drops $500
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Apple has quietly dropped the price of the high end MacBook Air by $500. The high end MacBook Air comes equipped with a 1.8GHz upgrade (from 1.6GHz) and a 64GB Solid State Drive (SSD). The total price for the high end laptop is $2598. Compare this to the original price of the 1.8GHz/SSD MacBook...
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Does AppStore make it possible to add missing functionality to the iPhone?
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So, while I doubt MMS could be implemented by third party developers, how about such crucial things we really miss from the iPhone? Such as: Todo list OSX has a built-in system-wide todo-server that any application can talk to, but it's sort of half-baked when it doesn't sync with your iPod or iPhone. Even better would be for it to sync with MobileMe (as... more »
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