I’ve often heard tales involving the removal of a Mac’s battery — the little, round, watch-style one that makes sure the machine remembers what time it is, among other things — from the motherboard for a half an hour as a solution to various power issues, but it’s never been effective for me. Until recently, [...]
So that’s what this is all about! I grabbed this screen shot a while ago when I updated to iPhone OS 3.1. I do that sometimes. See something that strikes me as odd and get a screen shot of it, just in case. Today I just happened to stumble upon some info that explains the [...]
Just a note to say that my MacBook Pro arrived yesterday (Sep 9). I’ve not had a chance to play much with it beyond transferring my data, but I’ll be sure to report on it as soon as I can. Also, today (Sep 10) my Snow Leopard Box Set — which I pre-ordered from Amazon [...]
So last night, on an impulse, I went for it. Of course, by “on an impulse” I mean “sight-unseen after the requisite three weeks of obsessing,” and by “I went for it” I mean, “I ordered my MacBook Pro.” What I finally decided on was the 17″ model with the anti-glare screen and the 7200 [...]
It occurs to me that the themes of the last two posts will likely soon converge. When I buy my new MacBook Pro it will come with Snow Leopard, thus negating much need for pre-ordering the beast at all, which I’ve spent the last two weeks obsessively worrying over. And, speaking of, pre-ordering, while I’m [...]
Some time ago I predicted that in the future I could see myself moving from a tower to a laptop as my primary system. And while I didn’t think this would happen so soon — I thought I’d at least live out the life of my current 8-core Mac Pro — I now find myself [...]
If this is what the rumored Apple tablet is going to be — basically a bigger version of the iPod Touch — then I’ll pass. I mean, really, what’s the point of a device like this? It’s too big to be an iPod or an extremely mobile computing device like the iPhone, and I already [...]
I’m with Mr. Gruber. While I think it’s cool that you can now see the iPhone’s remaining battery life as a percentage, doing so is only making me tense and nervous as my battery life trickles away before my eyes. I’m turning it off.
When I got my new iPhone 3GS I wondered what to do with the old one. After activating the new phone my 1st Gen was still loaded with all my content, and still functioned like it always did, just without phone functionality. In other words, an old iPhone is still a pretty cool thing to [...]
A while back I wrote about my initial impressions of my new iPhone 3GS. One of main reasons for upgrading was the touted improved call quality associated with the 3G models, but in my article I lamented that the improvement seemed nominal at best, from my cursory tests. I also noted that this would take [...]