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Archive for February 2009

February 24th, 2009

Apple Announces The World’s Fastest Browser: Safari 4

Today, Apple released the public beta Safari 4. Apple is touting it as the world’s fastest and most innovative web browser for Mac and Windows. Safari 4 is powered by the Nitro Engine which runs Javascript 4.2 times faster than Safari 3.
Quoting the press release:
“Apple created Safari to bring innovation, speed and open standards [...]

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February 20th, 2009

AirPhones: Wireless Headphone Software Solution

Wireless is the way to go nowadays. Cables are just so ugghh.. 20th century. Unfortunately wireless headphones do cost a lot of money. Especially stereo headphones.
AirPhones is a new app available for iPhone/iPod Touch that will allow you to stream music from your computer to your device, essentially making your iPhone/iPod Touch a wireless [...]

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February 19th, 2009

Puzzlicious: Endless Fun for A Buck

[image courtesy of Information Appliances Associates]
Sometimes the it’s the simple things in life that give the greatest pleasure. That also translates to apps. Great apps don’t have to be complex.
This is true with the new game from Information Appliances Associates. Puzzlicious is a simple puzzle game but it’s quite addicting. Basically, the app grabs a [...]

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February 17th, 2009

Transferring Your iTunes Library From Windows To Mac

[via LifeHacker]
Someone asked me how to transfer your iTunes library from Windows to Mac. I haven’t touched a Windows machine for any significant time in recent years save for the times I needed to check something on IE for the web sites that I do, that I didn’t know how to transfer music libraries.
A quick [...]

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February 16th, 2009

Tip: Resetting Account Passwords

I was helping setup a new MacBook for a friend of mine today. During the setup process OS X asked her to create an account and to assign a password to it. Everything went well and we were able to setup the Mac in no time at all.
However, when we were updating the OS [...]

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February 13th, 2009

MarsEdit Releases 2.2.3 Update

Head’s up for MarsEdit users, they just released the 2.2.3 update. Here are the improvements with this release.
MarsEdit 2.2.3
Improve networking compatibility by always encoding XML “>” literals
Fix a bug in the preview window that could cause it to stop updating
Fix a possible crash when closing the enclosure sheet before URL finishes loading
Fix a bug [...]

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February 13th, 2009

Coming Soon: Microsoft Retail Stores

[via Pittsburgh Business Times]
In a bid to match up against Apple in the retail front, Microsoft is set to open retail stores of its own. Microsoft named David Porter as VP of retail stores.
I’m not sure what Microsoft plans to accomplish with this move. Sure they have other products apart from the OS such [...]

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February 11th, 2009

Backup SalesForce Data

[Image courtesy of PocketMac]
In today’s world data is everything. It’s especially critical when you’re in sales. Your customer list and information is crucial to your ability to sell. SalesForce is a great online CRM tool but what happens if you don’t have access to the internet?
Well PocketMac has a new PocketMac Backup for SalesForce. [...]

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February 11th, 2009

Migrating Your Zinio Reader Account

For the most part migrating to another Mac using Time Machine’s restore feature is painless. However nothing is perfect. There are some small details that is sometimes missed.
Migrating your Zinio Account is one of them. I found out that when I restored from Time Machine, Zinio recognized that I was using another Mac. Therefore [...]

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February 6th, 2009

Apple Stock Poised for a Strong Comeback?

[via CNBC]
Jim Goldman seems to think so. I agree with him. With Apple announcing one of its best quarters ever, it’s showing no signs of weakness.
Apple is in a unique position that it’s got a ton of money locked up in its vaults, it has no debt and a strong product line. All these make [...]

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