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I’ve upgrade two Macs (2009 MacBook Pro Laptop & 2006 Mac Pro desktop) to Snow Leopard OS X 10.6 and here’s a few things I’ve experienced.
Note: These findings are mostly from my older Mac Desktop which has many years of accumulation of odd utilities and applications. Your mileage may vary with your own Snow Leopard [...]
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While I’m still a couple of days away from receiving my upgrade copy of Apples OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, I have been reading and monitoring others experience and it appears overall a good release. Remember, Snow Leopard is only for Intel based Macs. If you’re using an older PowerPC processor Mac, Snow Leopard will [...]
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It’s been announced by Apple (and everyone else) that the next version of Apple OS X (Snow Leopard) 10.6 ships this Friday, August 28th. Apple is taking pre-orders as of this morning at the apple store.
I’ve already placed a family pack pre-order via Amazon, since I’ll have a number of computers to upgrade. If your [...]
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I sometimes get urges to do small hardware or software hacks so I try and find projects that are not too difficult while providing some improvement in a devices capabilities. I’ve been feeding this “geek tech-hunger” for many years.
The latest project:
This past weekend I replaced the internal PCIe wireless card in my [...]
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Apple has released the next Leopard OS X 10.5.8 update. According to Apple:
The 10.5.8 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac, as well as specific fixes for:
compatibility and reliability issues when joining AirPort networks.
an issue [...]
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It’ll soon be time for the 2009 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), June 8-12, in San Francisco. I’m a long time Mac user, general fan and gadget geek so I always watch these events with interest.
The WWDC annual event is one of two major events where Apple often announces new products. A new iPhone and [...]
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This evening Apple released OS X 10.5.7 update which is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac. On my Mac Pro the update was listed as 449 MB. A system restart is required.
According to Apple documents this [...]
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Apple released iTunes 8.1 and Front Row 2.1.7 updates tonight.
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Paul Lester became a new Mac owner/user this week. There’s many reason for switching from Windows to the Mac OS X platform–Paul explained some of his here. Paul, as a Photographer and having many photography friends, was exposed to a higher percentage of Mac users then perhaps someone in the general population. It was almost [...]
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Microsoft released a beta of Windows 7 that is getting good reviews so being curious I decided to take a look.
In the past I’ve posted more then a few curt comments and jokes about Microsoft and Windows Vista. My scorn didn’t originate simply from being a Mac OS X user, which provides a baseline for [...]
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Another cool rainy day here on the mid-atlantic, right side of the country. I watched the live coverage today from MacWorld in San Francisco.
At the Keynote Address Apples’ Phil Schiller announced upgrades:
iLife Software Suite (iPhoto, iMovie, iWeb, iDVD & Garage Band);
iWork Software Suite (KeyNote, Pages & Numbers);
available iTunes customer upgrades to high quality, 256-kbps AAC, [...]
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SoFoBoMo '09
