So The Woz has written his autobiography… If you don’t know who I’m talking about, maybe you should be reading Paul Thurrott’s blog instead of this one… Mind you, you could be a recent switcher with no knowledge of Apple’s roots… So, in a word, Steve Wozniak is the cofounder of Apple, and genius inventor [...]
I am leaving for a two and a half month stay in Japan in three weeks. I’ll need some sort of laptop while I’m there, for photos, blogging, and communication. I do, as readers of this blog might know, have a 300mhz Clamshell iBook running Tiger, but 300mhz is awfully slow. It definitely needs a [...]
The MacBook is now back in my hands, again.
Last week, on the 6th, I got it back a first time, supposedly “repaired”. Sure, the keyboard was new. Wasn’t long before the machine shut down again unexpectedly. So it went back to repairs.
This time, Apple has changed the “heatsink assembly”, but my MacBook is still the [...]
I am ashamed to say that I bit the bullet and went to the Ginza Store’s Genius Bar and dropped my MacBook for repairs. But let me explain why I changed my mind…
My black MacBook is now subject to the infamous “sudden shutdown” syndrome that I believe some of you have had the displeasure of experiencing too. It shuts down at random, curiously when it is the most inconvenient. Sometimes I cannot even restart it without removing the battery and resetting the PMU.
I do not pretend to know what will be the future, I rather open here a topic to allow our readers to react.
I personally believe that it will increase hardware sales for Apple, but might have a negative impact software development (mostly for games so far Apple does not make any effort to improve OpenGL [...]
I’m beginning to tire of Safari’s rather clunky RSS handling and was wondering what readers here at the Hardmac blog use for RSS. Anyone have experience with Newfire or NetNewsWire?
Has anyone tried them all?
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After the (in)famous tech notes advising people to stay away from the SyncServices forlder “as if it were a swarm of bees”, here is a nice one, from the Apple Service Manuals CD…
The “clamshell” iBooks service manuals are located in a folder called “silly colors” ;-)
If you dig out other cool nuggets from Apple’s tech [...]