In other educational news – 13 high school students in the PowerPage’s home state of Pennsylvania (the Kutztown 13 as they’re known) were charged with third-degree felonies for misusing their school-issued Apple iBooks. Their heinous crime? They used the administrator password (which was taped on the back of the computers, no less) to install unauthorized […]
Month: August 2005
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iBooks Replace Textbooks – Finally
The demise of the dead-tree edition textbook may finally be upon us – at least in Arizona anyway. Empire High School in Arizona is the first public school in the United States to replace textbooks with their digital equivalent – Apple iBooks. According to a story in the Associated Press, the school will be issuing […]
Plentycom Systems’ SteerMouse 2.0 is an alternate mouse driver for the Apple Mighty Mouse that allows you to customize buttons, wheels and cursor speed. SteerMouse has convenient and unique functions that Apple’s driver doesn’t: – You can assign various functions, such as a shortcut key input, a cursor movement for the default button, etc… – […]
I have a Mac mini set up as a small media center connected to a plasma screen and also serving iTunes out to two areas of the house via a M-Audio Sonica Theater USB sound out device (also used for Dolby 5.1 for DVD playback) and via Airtunes/Airport Express (trivia: you can watch DVD’s in […]
MAKE Blog: has a tip for you if your PowerBook suffers from podiatry issues. One of the complaints about the first-generation PowerBook G4 is that the rubber feet easily wear down/tear off leaving the owner with a very hot machine that sits directly on the table. Not good for the table, not good for the […]