There is now a way to read the internal temperature of the MacBook Pro, something no other software has been able to do to date. A creative developer has figured out a way to get data from the internal monitors via a kernel extension (kext). Read the rest of the story on my ZDNet Blog: […]
Month: May 2006
After comparing prices at the Apple and Dell online stores on 4/24/06 a 17″ MBP can be purchased for $400 less than and similarly configured Dell XPS M1710 even with the inclusion of XP professional for the MacBook Pro.
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New Apple Television Ads
Apple has released a new set of TV ads. Featuring two guys, one representing a PC (and who just happens to bear a passing resemblance to Bill Gates), and the other a Mac (who looks a lot like Steve Jobs would probably like to!), they are short, humourous, and worth a look if you have […]
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Tiny Stocks’ Stock Manager for Palm OS
Stock Manager (US$25) is a best-selling stock portfolio program for mobile phones and is a must have for Treo-toting mobile technologists with a stock portfolio. If you have a smartphone with a mobile data plan you can get up-to-date stock information over the Internet. Stock Manager also comes with a desktop synchronization module that automatically […]
I was reading Mark Standen’s story from yesterday entitled 1.5GHz PowerBook Drives Dropping Like Flies and if it hadn’t just happened to me also (yes, seriously) I would have looked at the piece as a story of a couple of coincidental drive failures. It was the morning of April 19th when my PowerBook locked up […]