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Archive for March 2008

March 31st, 2008

Corporate Customers Satisfied With Leopard

PC World’s Gregg Keizer writes in his column that users of Leopard are five times more likely to say that they’re “very satisfied” with the OS than users of Windows Vista. This is according to a research done by ChangeWave Research.
Quoting from the article
In a February survey of 2,200 U.S. corporate computer users, 53% of [...]

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March 31st, 2008

Physical or Virtual Keys, Which Is Better?

Reading a post on Fortune’s Apple 2.0 blog entitled “iPhone vs. BlackBerry 9000: The keyboard wars, round 2“, I can’t help but ask which is really better, physical or virtual keys?
I’ve been using a Nokia e61 for the past year. So far I’m happy with it’s keypad and I must say going back to [...]

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March 30th, 2008

Mac and Tatoos

Who knew that Mac and Tatoos would go well together. Well, apparently Guy Aitchison and Michele Wortman did. These two are the people behind Hyperspance Studios.
Guy and Michele have been using Macs together with Photoshop and other software to create inspiring tatoo designs. Using the internet to do research on possible designs, they then [...]

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March 28th, 2008

Aperture 2.1 Out Now

Available as a free download, Apple has just released Aperture 2.1. What’s new with this version? Well the most notable addition is the introduction of an open plug-in architecture that will enable third party developers to create plug-ins for Aperture.
Apple has included it’s own plug-in, Dodge & Burn. Other plug-ins from third party developers are [...]

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March 26th, 2008

Yahoo Mac Finally Speaks

Finally! A feature that most Yahoo Messenger users have been wanting, something that the Windows counterpart has had since time immemorial. Voice!
Yahoo Messenger 3.0 Beta 3 is now available and it comes with voice. Mac users can now have voice chats with other Yahoo Messenger users for both Mac and Windows. You can also make [...]

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March 25th, 2008

Creative Uses For The Mac Mini

Apple’s cheapest Mac offering was thought to be going the way of the Powerbook, iBook and other extinct Macs. However that doesn’t seem to be the case just yet, as Apple Insider reports.
The Apple Blog has an interesting post chronicling the creative uses for the Mac Mini. Given the Mac Mini’s small foot print, [...]

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March 25th, 2008

Another iPhone User

It’s funny and timely that I just read this blog post of Matt Asay on CNET. I saw the link through Daring Fireball. Quoting from the entry…
I walked into my local AT&T Wireless store on Saturday fully expecting and prepared to get a Blackberry 8820. My Blackberry 8800 died while I was in London last [...]

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March 22nd, 2008

Time Capsule Functionality in Airport Extreme Base Station

[via MacRumors]
Apple released updates for Time Machine and Aiport a few days ago and according to Mac Rumors some of its readers are writing in to say that you can now backup wirelessly to an Airport Extreme Base Station with an external USB drive attached.
Now this is certainly a good thing. An Airport Extreme with [...]

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March 18th, 2008

Adobe To Develop Flash Player For iPhone

CNNMoney reports that Adobe is working on getting a Flash Player for the iPhone. It was reported awhile back that Apple has decided not to support the Flash Player on the iPhone because of technical concerns. Apple also suggested to Adobe to develop a player suited for the iPhone.
During a conference call last Tuesday [...]

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March 18th, 2008

Safari 3.1 Out Now

Apple has released the latest version of Safari, its web browser. According to Apple, Safari is 1.9 times faster than IE 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2 in loading web pages. Safari also supports the latest audio, video standards to provide a better web 2.0 experience.
Another notable feature is the support of [...]

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