My Mac Journal — From a 20-in. aluminum iMac to a 2.4 GHz, 15-in. MacBook Pro (2008) and 2.93 GHz iMac (2009)

Buzzword-Savvy CEOs

March 31, 2011

If you want to be the next Apple, beware of hiring CEOs who can spout these buzzwords without missing a beat.

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How Can Acer Ever Hope To Compete With Apple?

March 31, 2011

Acer lacks: Product innovation. Great customer service.

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Snow Leopard 10.6.7 Combo Update and Update for Early 2011 MacBook Pro

March 22, 2011

The current version of Mac OS X is 10.6.7. If you wish to reinstall Snow Leopard on your machine and your installation DVDs contain the older version of Snow Leopard, you’ll need to download Mac OS X v10.6.5 Update (Combo) to bring your clean installation up to the latest version of Mac OS X. A [...]

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Scrolling The Transmission Web Interface in Mobile Safari on iPad

November 20, 2010

The Transmission web interface in Mobile Safari on the iPhone allows you to scroll your list of torrents with one finger, but this functionality, for some reason, doesn’t work on the iPad. Instead, on the iPad you’ll need to use two fingers to scroll the list, similar to what you’d do on the trackpad of [...]

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Make the size of the Grid View artwork bigger in iTunes 9 and 10

November 15, 2010

Switching to the Grid View in iTunes 9 or 10, you’d likely think that there isn’t a way to change the size of the individual album art and make them smaller or larger, but there is. To be able to do so though, you’d first have to select View > Grid View > Show Header [...]

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Snow Leopard 10.6.5 Combo Update

November 11, 2010

The current version of Mac OS X is 10.6.5. If you wish to reinstall Snow Leopard on your machine and your installation DVDs contain the older version of Snow Leopard, you’ll need to download Mac OS X v10.6.5 Update (Combo) to bring your clean installation up to the latest version of Mac OS X. See [...]

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Mac OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard Combo Update

November 1, 2010

The current version of Mac OS X is 10.6.4. If you wish to reinstall Snow Leopard on your machine and your installation DVDs contain the older version of Snow Leopard, you’ll need to download Mac OS X v10.6.4 Update (Combo) to bring your clean installation up to the latest version of Mac OS X.

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Steve Jobs’ 11 Principles For Business And Product Success

October 15, 2010

Ex-CEO of Apple, John Sculley, shares the 11 principles that form the basis of Steve Jobs’ successes: beautiful design; customer experience; no focus groups; perfectionism; vision; minimalism; hire the best; sweat the details; keep it small; reject bad work; perfection and systems thinker.

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Managing multiple monitors, secondary screens and the command menu on the Mac

October 14, 2010

“noexpectations” made the following comment on AppleInsider: MAC OS X is a pain for concurrent, multiple monitors. I move my app to the secondary screen but the command menu is stuck on top of the first screen. Is there a fix for this? “DocNo42″ proposed the two solutions, as well as a vs. comparison to [...]

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