Author Archives: David Chin
Reset the Dock on your Mac to its default configuration
Source: Apple – Support – Discussions – Can’t reset to dock defaults?
What worked for me:
delete the files com.apple.dock.plist and com.apple.dock.db from homedirectory/Library/Preferences and restart Dock. To restart dock either quit it in the activity monitor or enter the following command in terminal:
killall Dock
The dock will restart and it will be rebuilt to the default state.
The [...]
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Battery Life on the new MacBooks
Nice article by Walter S. Mossberg.
I also found Uwe Rueckeshaeuser’s comment very interesting:
In my own “test” the battery in the new 15″ MacBook Pro lasted 8 hrs and 15 minutes using 50% brightness, WiFi on, Bluetooth off and Energy Saver on. I played music most of the time and used the browser, email, office programs [...]
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A MacBook turns into a spacecraft and flies off
How did they do this vid?
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Interesting tidbit about Windows 7 performance
Randall C. Kennedy, in Page 3 his article, The generation gap: Windows on multicore, says:
But it’s not all bad news with Windows 7. Microsoft’s new OS has a clear multicore scalability advantage over both Windows XP and Windows Vista, especially on less I/O-bound tasks like our multiprocess database workload. (We can thank SQL Server 2008 [...]
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Why printed manuals for the iPhone aren’t needed
Joshua Ochs, in a comment to the article “iPhone for Newbies: Honey, I shrunk the manual” on TUAW:
Do you sit down and read the manual, or refer to it when you need help? If it’s the latter, online resources – whether included help or googling – would serve you far better. And for a device [...]
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Firemint Real Racing for iPhone
Firemint Real Racing for iPhone review by Chris Holt, Macworld.com – “Though it sounds blasé to say it, the prettiest girl at the ball gets the most dances. Real Racing is real pretty, and man, can she move. Real Racing has some of the most beautiful and cleanest graphics we’ve seen for the iPhone. The [...]
iPhone 3G S Reviews and References
Copy and Paste
★ Copy and Paste – John Gruber, on blogging with the iPhone to his Movable Type-driven website, Daring Fireball:
And but then what about creating additional links within the body of the entry? In those cases I was stuck doing it the pain-in-the-ass way. More often than not, I’d just not add any additional [...]
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2009) Reviews
Review by Jackie Dove, Macworld.com – You get better colors compared to the older, March 2009 model: “… viewing them together, the heightened intensity of the red and green spectrums made the difference obvious. Mere eyeball observations were born out by Apple’s Color Sync utility. In comparing the last generation MacBook Pros with the new [...]
Flight Control for iPhone
Flight Control for iPhone review by Lex Friedman, Macworld.com – “The game takes seconds to learn, and mere minutes to play. That makes it even more impressive that I’ve spent hours guiding planes in Flight Control and can’t wait to go play again.”
The comments to the review are also extremely positive about the game.
Good use of the Genius feature in iTunes