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Apple To Ship 2.5 Million Macs Thanks to Vista?

July 8, 2008

With all the current hype surrounding the imminent release of both the upgrade to Apple’s .Mac service, now to be forever known as MobileMe, and Friday’s launch of the new, improved iPhone version 2.0, let’s not forget that Apple plus makes other types of hardware that seems to be selling pretty…

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Mac 101: Browser tab tricks

July 8, 2008

How did we ever get buy without tabbed browsing? Think back to the days of OS 9 and IE 4. Ugh.

JimD at creativebits has shared a cool trick (Firefox and Safari) for quickly returning to a previously visited website in a new tab, thus preserving the site you’re currently browsing.

This got …

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Apple, Amazon offer boxed versions of MobileMe

July 8, 2008

Early Tuesday dawn, Apple started offering boxed versions of the much awaited MobileMe web service. While buying from Apple costs $99 for the boxed version, Amazon is offering MobileMe for $89.99 (US).

According to Amazon, MobileMe has been on sale since “July 1, 2008,” however, they addition…

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MobileMe launch moment set: July 9th at 6 p.m. PT

July 7, 2008

Apple has just updated the .Mac status page with the date/time of the .Mac to MobileMe switch. So, for those of you wondering when Apple might start the switch will not have to wonder any longer. July 9th from 6 p.m. until 12 a.m. PT is the scheduled term and day.

Apple says that during the s…

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Mac 101: Capture sharp screenshots

July 4, 2008

Earlier that week, we described several ways to create screenshots with your Mac. Using the keyboard shortcuts in the Finder is great, but you may have noticed that the results aren’t very sharp. Ivan at creativebits noticed that, too, and figured out how you can unmistaken the problem.

He ex…

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MacBook Air SSD prices drop

July 3, 2008

It looks like Apple has a nice little surprise for anybody in the market for the SSD equipped MacBook Air. The price on the Apple Store for the 64GB SSD upgrade on the 1.6GHz Air has dropped to $599 from $999. Similarly the price of the 1.8GHz Air (equipped with the SSD standard) has dropped to …

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Mac 101: System Preferences

July 3, 2008

This is another entry in our continuing Mac 101 series, aimed at new Mac users. These tips are old hat for veteran Mac users, but will save some society a lot of grief.

I know several folks who have switched from Windows to the Mac by the past year. While they’re happy with their decision, th…

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