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Good news for Apple fans

As the Macworld Expo is winding down today it looks like Apple fans have some good news. While there weren’t many exciting new hardware announcements (I was hoping for a Mini update) the update to iLife, especially the features in iMovie and iPhoto, are welcome news. And now that iTunes has evolved into a DRM-free [...]
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Macbook Pro hard drive upgrade

In lieu of upgrading to one of the new Macbook pros that recently came out I opted for an upgrade of my existing notebook. I purchased a Hitachi 320GB 7200rpm drive and had it installed by Mac Fusion in Long Beach, CA. The Hitachi drives have had consistently great reviews and so far it has [...]
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Great news for Google Calendar users on Macs

Lifehacker is reporting that Google Calendar now supports CalDAV, allowing you to sync iCal with GCal. This was already possible, but only via paid 3rd party tools from what I could determine. I really like Google Calendars, since it’s available online and lets you create multiple shared calendars. However, while it may be a bit [...]
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Macbook Pro update

So after a few weeks with the new MBP here are some thoughts: Pros: It’s nice to have a machine that will run OS X, various flavors of Windows, and has a Unix core. This is particularly attractive to me as a tech consultant, although I’d hazard a guess that a very large percentage of [...]
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New MacBook Pro has arrived

I’m the proud owner of a new MacBook Pro. I went for the more portable 15″ version and so far it has been great. Leopard’s underpinnings are very familiar to anyone who is coming from a Linux or Unix background and as usual the Apple build quality is exceptional. Although I have to say I’m [...]
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New MacBooks and MacBook Pros from Apple

Apple just introduced updated models for the MacBook and MacBook Pro.
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