Author Archives: David Chin
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.
AnandTech: Apple’s 2009 MacBook Pro: Battery Life to Die For
Heavy or light loads, it didn’t seem to matter … the new MacBook Pro gives “The Best Battery Life I’ve Ever Seen“:
Eight, freakin, hours. I couldn’t believe it. In my lightest test, the new 15-inch MacBook Pro lasted eight hours and eight minutes. That’s with the screen at half brightness (completely usable) and no funny [...]
Interesting way to increase a home network’s internet access speeds
From a reader’s comment to the TUAW article, Worldwide Mac: getting online in New Zealand:
What I’d recommend doing to alleviate your problem is to set up some kind of home server (perhaps a Mac Mini) and configure an Apache / Squid proxy server on it. Set up each Mac to use the server as its [...]
Four Useful Quicklook Plugins
theAppleBlog looks at four plugins that extend the functionality of the Quicklook function.
PC to Mac – Any Regrets?
This forum discussion is one of the best threads I’ve read on the subject of switching from the Windows / PC platform to the Mac.
Here’s an excerpt from my favorite post in that thread, the one by Greg Zillgitt:
The machine I’m using to write this post, a late ‘08 Macbook Pro, is the best all-around [...]
One big disadvantage with Acorn
One big disadvantage with the Acorn image editing software is that it cannot open up RAW images such as NEF files from my Nikon D90.
What gives?
I’ve now downloaded Pixelmator and giving it a spin. At least Pixelmator opens up RAW files out of the box.
Just to be clear though, Pixelmator does not have RAW conversion [...]
An ALPS Keyswitch keyboard for the Mac Pro
Bill Wilson dislikes the keyboard that comes with Intel Mac Pros, and bought a Matias Tactile Pro 2.0 USB keyboard instead.
The Tactile Pro is designed around ALPS mechanical keyswitches that provide great tactile feedback.
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Anything but the Mighty Mouse
The Mighty Mouse that comes with Macs are horrendous, mainly due to the low DPI and sensitivity.
With the Apple Mighty Mouse, you’d have to make large movements with the mouse to move the cursor just a little distance on-screen. To get the mouse cursor from one corner of the screen to the other, I’d need [...]
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MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2009) Reviews