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The Great Incredibly Amazing Remarkable Easy Awesome Apple Keynote

Sep 18, 2009 - 1 Comment

I apologize to everyone that has seen this, but if you haven’t it’s pretty funny. It’s the entire Apple 9-9-09 keynote address condensed into just under two minutes of superlative adjectives. It’s incredible, awesome, easy, better and better, wonderful, remarkable, easy, amazing, awesome, amazing, amazing, easy, great, great, easy, great, amazing, awesome. It’s awesome. Check … Read More

File a Bug Report with Apple Directly

Sep 18, 2009 - 6 Comments

I’ve run into some unusual quirks and bugs in Snow Leopard and based on conversation with other Mac users I know I’m not the only one. Instead of just complaining about it (or writing a post about it, like this!), it’s much more helpful to Apple and the Mac community to file a bug report … Read More

Apple releases iTunes 9 and iPhone OS 3.1 for iPhone and iPod Touch

Sep 9, 2009 - Leave a Comment

In case you somehow missed the news today, Apple has released iTunes 9 available immediately for download, and iPhone OS 3.1 for the iPhone and iPod Touch, also available now. Both updates seem worthwhile and right in line with what the Apple Rumor Mill has been suspecting, although they don’t add anything jaw-dropping in terms … Read More

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard to be released this Friday, August 28

Aug 24, 2009 - 2 Comments

It’s official, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will be available this Friday, August 28. Confirmed by Apple’s online store, the August 28 ship date is right in line with some earlier predictions. Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is basically a finely tuned and optimized version of Mac OS X, it is noticeably faster … Read More

Secure your Mac – How to set an Open Firmware / EFI Firmware Password on system boot

Aug 15, 2009 - Leave a Comment

If you really want to lock down your Mac from other users, you can set an Open Firmware (PPC) or EFI (Intel) password that will require a firmware level password immediately upon system boot, prior to Mac OS X being loaded. This is somewhat of an advanced trick and if you accidentally mess something up … Read More

University of Washington offers Certificate in iPhone & Cocoa Development program

Aug 10, 2009 - 1 Comment

Here’s something that’s bound to be popular. The University of Washington is offering a Certificate program in iPhone Development, the coursework covers Cocoa too but there’s plenty of Cocoa development programs out there so it’s really the iPhone development that makes it stand out. For now the program is only offered at the University of … Read More

How to Check your Mac AppleCare Warranty

Aug 7, 2009 - 3 Comments

We don’t want it to happen, but there comes a day in all Mac owners lives that their warranty expires, and that date is related to your original date of purchase, give or take the time for any additional AppleCare warranty service you have purchased in addition. So how do you check your Macs warranty … Read More

It’s Oscar night at Apple.com

Feb 22, 2009 - 5 Comments

If you are like me and struggle to keep up with a years worth of Hollywood releases check out this page at apple.com. It gives a nice run down of the nominations with direct links to media for each category. The trailers are in HD and make a nice primer for tonight’s Academy Awards ceremony. … Read More