Technology blog Uneasysilence.com has posted an abridged history of Apple‘s legendary Dogcow, the cult favorite icon originally designed as part of the Cairo font by Susan Kare when Apple was designing its own fonts back in the 80’s. In 1986, the Dogcow image became more prevalent as Apple was looking for an image to demonstrate […]
An article on digg.com points to a possible misprint on replacement MacBook keyboards. The left parentheses symbol above the “9” on the keyboard is marked as a right parentheses. Although the key itself is said to function perfectly well, it’s an odd printing error that others commenting on the article claim to have experienced for […]
Claudio Procida, author of MiniBatteryLogger, has released version 1.5.4 of the shareware program. The new version, a 3.2 megabyte download by way of MacUpdate.com, brings new Panther-specific fixes as well as German language localization. The program, which is available as shareware for $15, monitors power charge and amperage through any Macintosh laptop over time and […]
Apple Computer has recently released version 1.0.1 of its Reset Utility for the first generation of its iPod Shuffle music player. The utility, when activated, erases all music and data from the iPod Shuffle and installs version 1.1.4 of the software. The software, a 2.1 megabyte download through VersionTracker.com, applies only to the first generation […]
Magnus Lundhold, creator of CoolBook, a battery testing and configuration utility for Intel-based MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops, has released a beta version of a dynamic frequency stepping utility called CoolBook Tester. Once installed, CoolBook Tester can experiment with different parameters such as voltage and temperature settigns. Users can easily install and uninstall the new […]