Tag Archives: mac

Calibrate Your Mac Battery

October 3, 2007 – 8:42 pm

Battery life not what it used to be on your MacBook? Does your MacBook Pro have you running for an outlet like bad actors in a Imodium AD commercial? While you might have a bad battery there is a good chance you just need to calibrate your battery. How you ask? [...]

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iPhone Update Locks Down 3rd Party Apps, Time for a Linux Phone?

September 27, 2007 – 6:10 pm

With Apple’s recent move to lock down the iPhone and iPod Touch the Linux Phone called OpenMoko is starting to look better all the time.
From the OpenMoko website:
OpenMoko is a GNU / Linux based open software development platform. Developers have full access to OpenMoko source and they can tailor their implementations to underlying hardware platforms.
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Apple’s World-Wide Pricing

September 12, 2007 – 10:46 am

Will Green has created a listing of word-wide prices for a few Apple products and a comparison on their cost to US Customers. I was wondering about this myself recently. So it was nice to see. Of course, the reason for these differences is that Apple is an America company and the prices for the [...]

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NBC Wants People to Stop Buying TV Shows

August 31, 2007 – 10:23 am

On the heels of iTunes getting rid of DRM in music NBC says they want more. NBC would also like to re-negotiate pricing and bundle shows. So far NBC has declined to renew its contract with Apple.
First issue: pricing. The pricing is fine. No one else really thinks it is too much or too little. [...]

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