Posted on September 30th, 2009 by admin
So, you own one of Apple’s trend setting computers, media players or handsets, and you don’t remember exactly when you bought it. Did you get the extended warranty? The receipt is “somewhere” and you’re worried that your baby is about to go off warranty. Here’s what to do.
Well, the first thing you need is your [...]
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Posted on September 30th, 2009 by admin
There’s an endless stream of flash-in-the-pan, one-hit wonders coming out of YouTube. What’s rare and unique is scripted programming that’s not only created by people with chops and credibility, but also available for sale.
So, are the words “YouTube” and “production value” mutually exclusive? Not for the The Guild, which is penned and produced by a [...]
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Posted on September 29th, 2009 by admin
Sub-$800 refurbished MacBooks have become increasingly rare in recent weeks, but the Apple Store’s listing two as we go to press. Also, don’t miss the 20-inch 2.4GHz iMac with ATI graphics and SuperDrive priced at a budget-pleasing $849.
• MacBook 2.1GHz, $749 (949)
— 1GB, 120GB, 8x SuperDrive
— White
• MacBook 2.0GHz, $749 (899)
— 2GB, 120GB, 8x SuperDrive
— [...]
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Posted on September 29th, 2009 by admin
Free TV—Ken Burns: The National Parks
The national parks spring from an idea as uniquely American as the Declaration of Independence and just as radical: that the most precious portions of the land should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone, for all time. Here are the stories of those magnificent places [...]
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Posted on September 28th, 2009 by admin
Apple has released a point for update for their office productivity suite covering a wide range of minor issues in Keynote, Pages and Numbers.
iWork 9.0.3, 59.62MB
•• This update addresses general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, updates the help, and fixes a number of other minor issues in Keynote, Pages, and Numbers, including:
– Reducing [...]
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Posted on September 28th, 2009 by admin
See also: VLC Player 1.0.5 arrives, plea for developers continues
It’s been weeks since the 64-bit Mac OS X 10.6 was released and, Apple’s own rewritten apps aside, there’s very little software out there designed to take advantage of all of that extra memory space, etc on the fairplatform.
VideoLAN.org has released VLC Player 1.0.2, which offers [...]
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Posted on September 25th, 2009 by admin
When Apple shipped iPhone OS 3.0 at $10, many iPod touch users simply ignored it. It’s easy to image all of those people as disgruntled first generation touch owners, except that sales of the devices didn’t truly take off until the second generation model arrived.
Now we’ve learned from AdMob the release of iPhone OS 3.1.1 [...]
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