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Mobile Phone

Sidekick 3 Details

On Tuesday June 6th, the FCC released new juice on the Sidekick 3: the reference guide and owner’s manual. More filings are on the FCC’s main page. (Note: You must change the extension on the downloaded file from “.cgi” to “.pdf”). Most of the rumors that had been published before this release were confirmed. The […]

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MacBook

MacBook Discoloration

Flickr user TSwartz has reported a problem with his white MacBook getting discolored on the palm rests: The spots don’t wash off, I’ve only had the MacBook for two weeks. Genius at Apple Store told me to call Apple about it, as he’s never seen anything like it. My iBook didn’t discolor in the 3 […]

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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: Google SketchUp released for Mac OS X

When Google acquired @Last Software on 14 March 2006 I got excited about the prospect of having a tidy little application to design all the house projects that I have planned for the summer. Needless to say, I was a little bummed out when I found out that the company’s SketchUp application was only available […]

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Software

Pimp Your MBP With Vista

I know that it has been reported ad nauseam all over the Web but I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that you can install Windows Vista beta 2 on the MacBook Pro. (No word yet on if it works on the MacBook.) Hans VB’s blog has the installation instructions and a page of screen […]

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Opinion

Unraveling The PowerPC Obsolescence Myth

According to proponents of this myth, Apple and third party developers will soon stop making software that runs on PowerPC Macs; even Leopard, the next release of Mac OS X, will be Intel only! They’re wrong, here’s why.