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

By David Chin | Published: 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 funny [...]
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Interesting way to increase a home network’s internet access speeds

By David Chin | Published: 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 its [...]
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Four Useful Quicklook Plugins

By David Chin | Published: 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

By David Chin | Published: 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 it, ok nnn?” … [...]
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PC to Mac – Any Regrets?

By David Chin | Published: 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 best all-around [...]
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One big disadvantage with Acorn

By David Chin | Published: April 16, 2009
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 [...]
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An ALPS Keyswitch keyboard for the Mac Pro

By David Chin | Published: 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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