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AnandTech: Apple’s 2009 MacBook Pro: Battery Life to Die For

June 14, 2009

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 [...]

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Interesting way to increase a home network’s internet access speeds

June 13, 2009

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 [...]

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Four Useful Quicklook Plugins

May 7, 2009

theAppleBlog looks at four plugins that extend the functionality of the Quicklook function.

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Comparison of text expander software for the Mac

April 16, 2009

TypeIt4Me has a chart comparing the features of their software vs. two other popular abbreviation-to-full-word-or-phrase applications, Typinator (which I currently use), and TextExpander. The main shortcoming on Typinator and TextExpander is that they don’t allow for variable input. Let’s say I want a phrase that says: “Hey nnn, thanks for the query. Don’t worry about [...]

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PC to Mac – Any Regrets?

April 16, 2009

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 [...]

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An ALPS Keyswitch keyboard for the Mac Pro

April 16, 2009

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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