Posts Tagged ‘apple’
Magic Mouse
In: Geek Finds
8 Dec 2009Two-finger scrolling changed my life.
When Apple added multi-touch features to the (PowerBook and) MacBook trackpads several years ago it was a significant and intuitive breakthrough in human-computer interaction. The iPhone followed shortly after, improving multi-touch and introducing gestures. These improvements are now standard technology on all Apple laptops, but those of us still rocking early [...]
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Snow Leopard 10.6 Update released.
In: Good Stuff
9 Nov 2009A welcome update meant to fix numerous issues…
# an issue that caused data to be deleted when using a guest account
# an issue that might cause your system to logout unexpectedly
# Spotlight search results not showing Exchange contacts
# creation of mobile accounts for Active Directory users
And a fix for a feature that I didn’t [...]
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New iMacs Out Today
In: Geek Finds| News
20 Oct 2009The new iMacs feature LED-backlit 21.5 and 27-inch widescreen displays, with a new edge-to-edge glass and seamless aluminum case design. It’s quite the sexy little get up, and it’s sure to turn a few heads. Also sure to turn heads is the introduction of quad-core processors to the iMac line, though the entry level model [...]
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OSX Snow Leopard glitches
In: News| Work updates
5 Oct 2009With every major OS release, you can expect some applications to break, and things to act up until a few patches are released–The latest version of OSX, Snow Leopard is no exception. ZingIT along with some help from a few brave ZCoBbers have been putting it to the test and we’ve found some lingering weirdness:
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Make Mac Work
In: Geek Finds
1 Jun 2009I came across MakeMacWork.com last week when researching best practices for Retrospect. MakeMacWork is an awesome blog focused on Macs in enterprise environments. I particularly appreciated today’s tip about the 10.5.7 update affecting PPC machines. I was also excited to read their article on configuring default user template; their method is much more concise than [...]
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Color Your MacBook
In: Geek Goods
15 Mar 2009We’re fans of the see-thru, hard cases by Speck for the MacBooks; we’ve purchased several for MacBooks in the ZCoB. The MacBook case is plastic, fairly sturdy but not as tough as the aluminium MacBook Pro cases. The hard covers by Speck add another layer of protection, preventing chips, cracks, and scratches. Speck’s cases are [...]
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Free Up Space with Monolingual
In: Geek Finds
15 Mar 2009If you’re like most early adopters of a solid state hard drive, you’re probably doing everything you can to conserve space. One of our Macbook Air users was constantly running up against the storage limits of his new fangled 64GB SSD. There are a number of things that you can do upon [...]
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New Mac Minis Released Today
In: News
3 Mar 2009Apple has released the new Mac Mini today. The rumor mills were actually right this time. The only real change is the new NVidia graphics cards, which uses the new Mini-Display Port. Added bonus is the Mini DVI output, so you don’t have to go buy a new $30 dongle. Hard drive and processor speed [...]
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Mac Power Adapters: Lifetime Warranty?
In: Geek Finds
1 Feb 2009Brian found this on Apple’s support page for MagSafe power adapters,
Whether your product is in or out-of-warranty, you can take your adapter to an Apple-Authorized Service Provider or Apple Retail Store for evaluation and replacement if necessary. You may be eligible for a replacement adapter free of charge provided there are no signs of accidental [...]
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Leopard Upgrade Tip
In: techtip
25 Jan 2009I’ve upgraded a couple few different machines now from 10.4 to 10.5, Leopard, and have noticed something: With an in-place upgrade, Leopard hates when your hard drive is named something other than ‘Macintosh HD.’ The problem that manifests is after successfully installing Leopard you’re not able to log in; credentials are accepted but a blue [...]
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