Wednesday, July 27, 2005
News: iPhoto 5.0.4 Update
There is a new iPhoto update available at Apple. It addresses some issues with photos that have been auto-rotated by a camera.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2005
News: New iBooks/Mac Minis
So the rumors were true. Totay Apple announced new iBooks and Mac Minis.
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Thursday, July 21, 2005
Tech: Apple Laptop startup problems
If you are experiencing problems starting your iBook or Powerbook, there are a few troubleshooting steps you can take before bringing the laptop in for service. You can try resetting the PRAM and/or PMU in the laptop. Here is an Apple documentation that goes through some of these troubleshooting tips.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Tech: Scheduling Defrag and Disk Cleanup in XP
Often times simply running defrag and/or disk cleanup on your Windows machine will bring back some performance on your machine. You can run defrag and disk cleanup manually by following these steps:Open My Computer
Right-click on the C: drive ( or any other hard drive you want )
Select Properties
Click Disk Cleanup in the General tab to run the Disk Cleanup tool.
Click on the Tools tab and click Defragment Now... to defrag your hard drive
To schedule these tasks to run automatically follow these steps from Microsoft:
Disk Cleanup:
1. Click Run from the Start Menu.
2. In the Open box, type cleanmgr /sageset:1
3. Click OK.
Disk Cleanup opens with a list of the possible files to be deleted. Select a file type to display a description. Check the boxes for the files you want removed, and click OK.
Next, you can schedule Disk Cleanup to run when you want it to.
1. Click Control Panel, then click System and Maintenance, and then click Scheduled Tasks.
2. Double–click Add Scheduled Task to start the Scheduled Task Wizard. In the list of applications you want Windows to run, click Disk Cleanup, and then click Next.
3. Select a frequency for the task—weekly is good—and click Next.
4. Select a day of the week and time for the task to run.
5. Enter the name and password of a user. The program will be run as if that user started it. Check the box to open Advanced Settings when you're done.
6. In the Run box, add the following to the end of the path: /sagerun: 1 and then click OK.
Defragment:
Goto Control Panel > Add Scheduled Tasks
Follow the prompts until you get to Browse for the defrag program
Navigate to windows\system32\defrag.exe and click Open
Set your desired schedule and add the drive letter so the the program field looks like:
C:\windows\system32\defrag.exe c:
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News: New iBooks on the way?
ThinkSecret reports that new iBooks may be coming soon.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2005
News: More Apple Speculation
I, Cringley has another theory about the Apple Intel deal. It's quite interesting, and would definitely be good business for Apple if it were true.
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Saturday, July 16, 2005
News: iTunes Japan
Looks like Apple plans to open an iTunes Music store for Japan in August. The original report is from Asahi.com ( translated ).
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Thursday, July 14, 2005
News: More Apple Updates
Apple released some more updates today:iPhoto 5.0.3 Update
Airport 4.2
Check Software Update to get these updates.
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Wednesday, July 13, 2005
News: Apple 2005 Q3 Earnings
Apple released it's quarterly earnings report today. Apple beat most analysts estimates, and continues to report strong iPod sales. An audio webcast of the conference call is available at Apple.
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News: CodeWeavers to support new Intel Macs
CodeWeavers develops the CrossOver tool for Linux based systems which allows the user to run Windows only programs directly on Linux. With the Mac moving to the Intel platform, CodeWeavers have announced that they will support Macs as well for their CrossOver tool. This would definitely help convince more people to 'Switch' to Macs.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2005
News: Tiger 10.4.2 Update
Apple has released the latest update for Mac OS X 10.4.2. See Apple Support for more information.
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Saturday, July 09, 2005
Tech: Tiger RSS Screen Saver
Apple has added a really cool Screen Saver to Tiger. It's called the RSS Visualizer. The screen saver will gather RSS data from a selected website and animate the headlines and excerpts in 3D.Goto System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Savers > Screen Savers
and select RSS Visualizer to turn this on.
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Friday, July 08, 2005
News: DVD Playback Update for Mac OS X
There's a new Software Update for Apple's DVD player. Get it via Software Update.
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News: PowerPC 970MP Released
IBM has released the PowerPC 970MP Dual-Core PowerPC chip yesterday in Japan. Three new low power PowerPC chips were announced as well, as mentioned at MacRumors.com. Perhaps new G5 PowerBooks will still be available.
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Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Reviews: Tiger Review
Linux Pipeline has a brief review of Tiger. It's not very in depth and mainly focuses on the general aspects of installing and using the new Mac OS X. However, it does have many links to very useful software, such as SuperDuper.
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Friday, July 01, 2005
Tech: Finding WiFi MAC address in Windows XP
There doesn't seem to an easy way in the GUI on Windows XP to find the MAC ( or hardware ) address of a wireless network card. There doesn't seem to be a GUI to find the MAC address of a regular network interface either. You can however find the MAC address via the command line tool ipconfig.Goto Start Menu > Run... > command
At the command prompt type: ipconfig /all
Look for the following line under the appropriate interface for your MAC address: Physical Address. . . . . . . . . :
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