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After reading that Mac OS X 10.6.2 was already seeding to developers, I figured it was about time I jumped on the Snow Leopard bandwagon, leaving my older Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard to the wolves. This would also be the first time I actually bought a piece of Apple software in a retail store [...]
A few years ago we used to notice a lot of web pages with “Mac On a Mac” buttons in colorful retro Apple logo styling. Now you hardly see anyone revealing they actually created *all this* on a Mac. Let’s face it. Macs are sexy. The new Macbook makes me all warm inside just thinking [...]
Sure, there are thousands of articles out there on “Mac versus PC” but I’m going to take it in a different direction and look at the top six reasons why your next computer should be a Mac, and why those Mac owners are just so damn happy with their computer. This won’t be a technical, [...]
I’m somewhat of a minimalist. Heavy 3D eye-popping wallpaper that seems to have infected the Internet’s free desktop wallpaper sites aren’t my cup of tea. For the longest time, I was using a very minimal solid black wallpaper with a big, bright, white Apple Logo right in the center. While this is good stuff, I [...]
I’ve all but gutted my first Hackintosh — the Celeron D-powered war horse and by doing so, I saved myself some cash. While everyone’s running to buy the wireless Time Capsule device, I only have one machine i really need to back up and that’s my HackBook Pro I use at the office. Why waste [...]
I’ve been thinking for the past couple days about taking up one of these amazing website offers of absolutely “free” prizes just for completing some random offers. One of the biggest prizes and most popular happen to be Apple products. A free iPhone, Mac Mini, Macbook Pro, etc. A quick Google search undercovers multiple blog [...]
Move over, Michael Jordan. Apple has introduced a notebook that’s going to be getting some serious air. And I don’t mean that lightly. At Macworld 2008 today in San Francisco, CA., Steve Jobs unveiled to the world the thinnest laptop computer ever made: The MacBook Air. This computer is so thin that Intel Corp. had [...]