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Entries from August 2006

Companies with a sense of humor…

August 16th, 2006 · No Comments

Seriously, how can you not love this?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301920
As if it were a swarm of bees, you should stay away from the SyncServices folder in Mac OS X 10.4. Removing or modifying anything in it—or in subfolders within it—may cause unexpected issues. (This folder is located in your Application Support folder, in your Library folder, in your [...]

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SoCal Linux Expo (SCALE) releases a call to papers

August 14th, 2006 · No Comments

Our friends over at the Southern California Linux Expo have officially opened up the call to papers for the upcoming SCALE 5x event.
SCALE 5x will be held on Feb 10-11, 2007 at the Los Angeles Airport Westin. Past speakers have included Chris Dibona, Jon “maddog” Hall, and Andrew Morton. If you are working [...]

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OS X Leopard - Application versions and info

August 11th, 2006 · No Comments

Curious about what version of what apps are in the Developers Preview of Leopard? Then take a gander at the following information and wonder no more!
First, a screenshot of the System Profiler data, which is quick and dirty (180kb, 470×888px):

Then we have the following, which is a text dump of the same data, along with [...]

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Baby, can you Digg your man?

August 11th, 2006 · No Comments

(Bonus points for getting the titular reference!)
This was an interesting week for Techpedia. After a few months of hobbling around with a few hundred hits a day from internet acquaintances, the site suddenly generated some content that had more widely spread appeal.
Some pictures of Apple OS Leopard, from the Developers DVD distributed at WWDC, were [...]

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Review: Kensington RDS iPod charger/transmitter

August 9th, 2006 · No Comments

It was with a great deal of interest that I happened upon the new Kensington RDS FM transmitter and charger for iPods. Last week i got a new vehicle, and it was the first one I have owned with the RDS feature.
RDS stands for ‘Radio Data Systems’, and we’ll let Kensingtons blurb define it for [...]

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Apple ‘Teams’ to compete with Sharepoint? Maybe Exchange?

August 9th, 2006 · No Comments

An interesting article on Macrumors indicates that the ‘Teams’ feature of OS X Leopard Server could, in all likelihood, be a direct competitor to MS Sharepoint.

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First Look: Apple OS X Leopard

August 7th, 2006 · 28 Comments

Fresh off the presses, here’s a first look at some of the cool new features in OS X Leopard!
As you’ll find all over the web at this point, there are some great new features in Apple Mac OS X Leopard, which is scheduled for release in early 2007.
Feel free to discuss these images, ask questions [...]

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Live from WWDC

August 6th, 2006 · No Comments

Keep your eyes peeled for live news from WWDC this week! We’ll be posting pictures, links, content and commentary. Watch this post for all the good stuff!
Day One: Flight to SF from ATL is delayed until 7pm, from 4p. We’re off to a rousing start! Oh, and there is a thunderstorm starting up…yes!
Day Two: more [...]

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Unsanity (finally!) releases a universal ShapeShifter beta!

August 2nd, 2006 · No Comments

Unsanity has finally released a long-awaited update to ShapeShifter (the premiere theming tool for Mac OS X) that will work on Intel based Macs.
Rejoice, loyal fans!
So far, on our test system (a MBP), it is working beautifully. All themes seem to be working without issue, and there is, as usual, very little in the [...]

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