Battery calibration recommended by Apple, why no utility?
July 30, 2008
Like virtually all mobile computer manufacturers, Apple recommends that users calibrate their laptop batteries every few months, as Scott pointed out a couple of years ago. Unlike many manufacturers, however, Apple does not include a utility to automatically perform a calibration. Given Apple’s …
Two auto performance meters for iPhone
July 30, 2008
I’ve seen a lot of fun accelerometer uses in the App Store so far, but that is probably the coolest — Dynolicious will actually use your iPhone’s accelerometer to determine all kinds of stuff about how awesome your ‘92 Subaru is, from 0-60 and 1/4 mile duration up to lateral Gs and horsepower. Just…
Cool Hack: Running Leopard on an MSI Wind UMPC
July 15, 2008
Mac owners often look on with envy at the Ultra-Mobile PCs (UMPCs) in the Windows world. These are truly tiny laptops, often with 10″ or smaller displays and weights that manufacture a MacBook Air seem downright obese by comparison.
MoDaCo network founder and Microsoft MVP Paul O’Brien decide…
Apple updates RAW support with 10.5.4 update
July 2, 2008
The Mac OS X 10.5.4 update might have made you restart your Mac, but it additionally added “RAW image support for several cameras.” While Apple didn’t tell us what these cameras were in Software Update, they did later update the RAW support page for Mac OS X Leopard.
According to the page, Ap…
Blu-ray recordable drive for Macs
July 1, 2008
Is it moment to finally put your HD mountain biking documentary on Blu-ray? Apple upgrade vendor MCE Technologies announced availability of a totally Mac-compatible Blu-ray recordable drive for Mac Pro and capability Mac.
The $499 (internal) drive is compatible with Mac OS X 10.5.2 and later,…
Turn that dead HD into something useful
June 29, 2008
As an entertaining Friday afternoon aside to our discussion earlier that week about how to recover info from a dying hard disk, it turns out there’s plenty of uses left for the ones that have finally stopped pining for the fjords.
With that tutorial from HacknMod, you can turn your hard disk…
TUAW Review: Dymo DiscPainter
June 29, 2008
I have a mountain of CDs and DVDs in my office. Some of them are in sleeves, others are stacked on spindles. For the most part, my disc labeling consists of grabbing a Sharpie ultra-fine-point marker and scrawling something right on the top of the disc. I’ve tried sticky labels before, but stopp…
