For some reason, Apple doesn’t post all their TV ads in HD… still. Confusing yes, but there is a quick way to get the HD version. See, Apple’s web team makes the ads in HD, they just forget to link to them. Let’s take the latest Coldplay iTunes ad as an example. It only plays […]
No offense to Mr. Eddings, his email box is full today… with junk press requests trying to confirm .Mac’s transition to Me.com. As MacRumors has picked apart, Me.com appears to be the new site for Apple’s .Mac service, and Kenneth Eddings over at Apple is listed in the SOA record as the technical contact… confirming […]
If you have Flash Player 10 Beta installed on your Mac, Mac OS X 10.5.3 will erase it. This was done to ensure that everyone else got the latest security update, unfortunately the update package doesn’t run a version check to see if you have a Flash Player version newer than the one 10.5.3 includes. […]
Before this, any photos of what you will see below are fake. This, however, is very real. But, it’s also far from finished. So, please don’t go Slashdotting… plenty of time for that when I have some stability to report back. And now, for the HTC Shift: Powered by Mac OS X Leopard. Click to […]
Apple has posted a full guide, detailing how to use fsck. Fsck is not a curse word, it’s the utility that modern UNIX-based operating systems use to verify the filesystem, and repair it when needed. In Mac OS X, when you click Verify Disk inside of Disk Utility, you’re actually running fsck. Now, Apple has a full […]
Okay, yes, I know it sounds crazy, but FedEx wound up losing one of my iPhones for a month, which I had sent in for warranty repair. After numerous calls, and complaints, I was about to give up and create an anti-FedEx web site. Apple pointed the finger at FedEx, FedEx said Apple wasn’t giving […]
Users that want a 12-inch MacBook Pro really bad (myself included) now have their own discussion forum. As I’ve noted in the past, I think that there’s still plenty of room in the Mac Portable lineup for a 12-inch MacBook Pro. This is a system that would replace the 12-inch PowerBook G4. Unlike the MacBook […]
A list of 10 must-haves for Mac OS X 10.6. Why am I writing this right now? Tis the way of all things Apple. Now that Apple is wrapping up iPhone 2.0 firmware, Apple will start looking to a unified operating system to upgrade both platforms from. Mac OS X Leopard was a half-Mac, half-iPhone […]
While it didn’t initially, Apple Software Update for Windows now finally picks up the Boot Camp 2.1 update. This is actually a huge paradigm shift for PC markers. For the first time, Apple is updating all the drivers for all their systems in one payload. And, the software that is on every Mac will update […]
Comcast has said that they have stopped their filtering. So, I started a few BitTorrent sessions to put it to the test. The results? Not good… Traffic ticked up much better than when the filtering was in place, my 1:1 ratio broke 384k for the first time in a long, long time. In fact, speed […]