Tag: Macintosh

This wired article talks about the new silvery logo Apple is about to unveil

Got an old mac? Thinking about a G5? Someone on Apple’s discussion boards posted this about their dual 2ghz machine: “Converting my 26 minute movie to a DVD format took 36 hours on my G3 b/w 300Mhz. Takes under an hour on this one, including burning. And this is a stock machine!”

From the Apple discussion boards: Greetings, We are aware of an erroneous fan error that Apple Hardware Test (AHT) may report on Power Mac G5s. If you run AHT and receive either of the following errors: 2Fan/4/x : Fan For BackSide: This error code usually indicates the Drive Bay has failed. The Drive Bay fan… Continue reading Apple to update G5 hardware test soon

On the Apple KBASE updates from last night is: iCal 1.5 for Mac OS X: Information and Download This article contains information about the iCal 1.0.2 for Mac OS X and a link to the software download. The document only lists 1.0.2, but the title says it all.

Check out this cluster of 1,100 Power Macintosh G5s

Interesting article on why Macs are not used more often.

Why don’t I have a G5 yet? As Simeon and I have discussed, Apple has burned people too many times when you buy the brand new thing early. I’m letting someone else debug this stuff. Check this out about the new Apple keyboard and mouse from Macintouch: Michael Blake pointed out a surprising compatibility problem… Continue reading This is why I am no longer an Apple gen 1 supporter

Sweet. Check this article out. He even had the courage to point out his previous articles dissing the Mac. It’s nice to see people finally, finally seeing the light. Read the article here…

If you are a .mac subscriber, head on over and pick up your free copy of Chronos’ organizer, Sticky Brain. This offer is only good in September however, so be sure to grab yours now!

Head on over to .mac and pick up your copy. According to the site: Backup 2 Public Beta lets you select any folder on any hard drive as a destination for your backup—use external FireWire hard drives, network servers, or even an iPod. You can also schedule these backups for an extra measure of protection.… Continue reading Apple posts backup 2 beta

According to the Register, the US Navy will buy 260 Apple xservers running Yellow Dog Linux, with the eventual destination, I suppose Yellow Submarines.

Go Apple!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CNET Article on Apple getting exclusive rights to movie soundtrack

Ok so there is all of this brohaha over Apple’s benchmark numbers being faster than a Dell or AMD or what not. People are writing 5 page articles on how Apple lied and used cheesy tests. However, some people see the humor in this, such as the wonderful Ars story on this subject. What really… Continue reading On Benchmarks

Wow. New G5s (drool), and Panther was so so in my book, but I will love Exposé, the feature that elegantly lets you navigate windows. That rocked! Fast search looked really cool too. Fast user switch was awesome, even tho I don’t use it much. However, one might be inclined to now, simply for things… Continue reading Panther Redux

I spent some time today trying out iChat AV on my TiBook 500. The audio was fairly poor with a lot of background noise on both ends. The video didn’t work much better. Forget putting an AV connection in the background, the mac grinds to a halt. This could be due to Comcast, they have… Continue reading iChat AV, uChat AV, we all chat AV

You’ve all seen the leaked specs. You can already buy a t-shirt lol

Much faster than MS fixes their holes, too! Check Software Update…………

I really like SpamFire from Matterform software, but today I and my friends got a little dialog stating that my filters were only good until a year after date of purchase? I went to their site and they have added a little link about getting your subscriptions up to date, and put something in the… Continue reading Matterform pulls a fast one with SpamFire updates

Update: I just purchased my first song. I had to quit iTunes and relaunch. I guess it got confused in the ragged launch morass. The song downloaded quickly and when I updated the iPod, it synced fine! It has been 3 hours since Apple’s iTunes service went live. I can finally get into the store… Continue reading iTunes Music Service report