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This month's IT Architecture Forum, which Mark hosts as part of his job at Cornell, was a roundtable about supporting Macs in a Windows-heavy world. Check out the video and links to some useful tools.Read more...
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Apple has refreshed the consumer desktop iMac line with faster Intel Core 2 Duo processors and availability of a high-end Nvidia graphics card.Read more...
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Apple says that iTunes movie rentals expire after 24 hours, but is that really true? Mark Boszko investigates, and find out that you're not necessarily out of luck if you can't finish in that 24-hour window.Read more...
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Ever since the iPhone's arrival last June, corporate users have been champing at the bit for an opportunity to activate Apple's communications marvel on an enterprise plan; iPhones could only be activated by individuals. Finally, this week, AT&T announced enterprise data plans available to government, education, and business accounts.Read more...
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When you're buying a hardware add-on for your Mac, features and price are key factors, but what about warranty? If your accessory fails, will the manufacturer replace it? We explore what consumers need to know about the differences from one manufacturer's warranty to the next - looking not just at the number of years you're covered, but the number of days, or weeks, you might have to wait for service.Read more...
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New rules from the U.S. Department of Transportation forbid checking spare lithium batteries in your luggage; you must bring them in your carry-on luggage. Read on for details.Read more...
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The MacBook, MacBook Pro Software Update 1.1 deals with a problem with laptop keyboards becoming unresponsive, often for a minute or more.Read more...
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Black Friday means crazy deals at brick-and-mortar consumer retail stores, and at the Apple Store online and retail locations, but today, it also means a mind-boggling offer from Microsoft: buy Office 2004 for Mac today only, and you'll get a $100 rebate and a free copy of Office 2008 when it ships.Read more...
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That didn't take long. The T-Mobile wireless division of Deutsche Telekom has announced they'll offer an unlocked iPhone in Germany to comply with a court injunction, but freedom won't be cheap.Read more...
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Last week, Google announced Gmail now supports IMAP connections, making their free Web-based mail client even more useful for Mac users and iPhone users on the go.Read more...
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As Leopard rolls out around the world, we're hearing more and more about what third-party applications work, or don't, in the new Mac OS X. FileMaker, Inc. has posted an article in their knowledge base about known problems with FileMaker 9.Read more...
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The public beta Boot Camp software that lets users run Windows natively on their Intel Macs carries a user license that expires when Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard becomes available, still, as far as we know, scheduled for later this month. Does the software itself contain an expiration date that will make users' Windows partitions stop working? Here's what we know and what you can do about it.Read more...
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While we don't usually talk about politicians or Nobel Prize announcements, today we're following Apple's lead and covering this morning's announcement that former U.S. vice president and Apple board member Al Gore is sharing this year's Nobel Peace Prize.Read more...
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While many early iPhone purchasers are pleased with Apple's offer of a $100 Apple Store credit for those who purchased the initially pricey gizmo early on, and some are thrilled with the 14-day price protection policy that provided a $200 refund to those who bought in the two weeks immediately before this month's price drop, we hear that some iPhone customers who bought at an AT&T Wireless store have gotten the runaround when attempting to settle up.Read more...
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I've been using a Mac for 20 years, and a mouse for even longer. Clicking is second nature to me. For the last 13 years, I've been using trackpads, on laptops and even as external devicesRead more...
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Apple upgraded its entire MacBook Pro line of professional laptops last week, incorporating Intel's new Core 2 Duo processor instead of the Core Duo processor introduced early this year (see "Intel-Based iMac and MacBook Pro Ship Earlier than Expected," 16-Jan-06)Read more...
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Apple announced that "a small number" of the video-capable iPods shipped since new iPod models were introduced last month (see "Apple Updates iPods, Introduces Movies, Previews iTV," 18-Sep-06) are infected with the Windows-based RavMonE.exe virusRead more...
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Shipping a record 1.61 million Macs helped Apple achieve stellar financial results for the fourth quarter of the company's fiscal year 2006, which ended 30-Sep-06Read more...
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Qualcomm announced last week that future versions of the venerable email program Eudora, which the company has sold for many years, will become an open-source collaboration with the Mozilla FoundationRead more...
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Apple will donate part of the proceeds from sales of a new, red-hued iPod nano model to the global fight against AIDS. The $200 iPod nano (PRODUCT) RED offers 4 GB of storage, just like the other colored iPod nanos the company announced last month (see "Apple Updates iPods, Introduces Movies, Previews iTV," 18-Sep-06)Read more...
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