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Apple Airport Invisible

October 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

It doesn’t help that much, but you can make a network invisible, so that you need at least one set of hacker tools to get in. For Apple Airports, here is what you do, it is really buried in the latest user interfaces:
TMO Quick Tip – Make Your AirPort Basestation Invisible || The Mac Observer

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New DSLRs

September 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

(Finally a reprieve from soccer registration). Photokina is coming and it is just an incredible time to buy a high end SLR. The lower end cameras seem to be a deadend. Although they have 12 megapixels, they are reaching the end of the line in image quality (small lense) and low noise (small sensor), but [...]

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Apple momentum

September 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Ten million sales secured, is iPhone an iCannibal? | 9 to 5 Mac
Apple’s iPhone sales are breaking expectations, with the latest guess-timates indicating eight million sales of the iPhone this year alone – meaning the company’s well on course to achieve its stated ten million sales target.AppleInsider | RBC says sub-$100 “iPod phone” market up [...]

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Blackberry Bold coming on AT&T

August 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

AppleInsider | New BlackBerry suffering same 3G connection drops as iPhone
early testing of the Bold, which uses the same 3G network standard as current iPhones, finds the device with just as unstable a connection as that reported in the US and elsewhere for Apple’s handset, with data sometimes dropping to the slower EDGE network or [...]

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Four ways to make Mac simpler

August 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Mac 101: Four simple ways to make your Mac more efficient – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
1. Easy access from the dock
I always drag my hard drive and Applications folder into the dock. No need to minimize windows, invoke Expose or, worst of all, shuffle windows around manually to reach the folder or file you [...]

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1M iPhones and 10M app downloads

July 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Geek

Wow, at this rate of 10 apps per new iphone, this is going to be an amazing platform. The lower price I’m sure really helped. Hope I get mine soon. (Despite the short battery life and I’m going to love the white color!)
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MacBook, iPhone and Blackberry updates coming

May 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

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