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Mac Heist 3 Begins

By Jay, January 6, 2009

They are offering Process, normally $39USD, for free

Mac Heist three began today. They are offering Process, normally $39USD, for free just for logging in. Beware, the web server is buckling under the load of people. So it may take a long time to get anywhere.

Head over to www.macheist.com to join the fun!

UPDATE: It appears that the next piece of loot is MacDust


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My two-day iPhone bill

By Nick, December 10, 2008

Or, how to time your cell phone purchases to save some money.

On December 1, I broke down and bought an iPhone after drooling over one since the beginning of time (or June 2007, at least). It’s a great device, and after having it for only a week and a half, I already discovered that it’s a really useful thing to have. Yes, I’ve become an iDrone.1.

At any rate, today I got my first bill--a mere week and a half after getting the phone. It turns out AT&T billed me $123 ($79.99 + activation fees) for a two-day billing period. Do the math, and that’s over $60 a day.

Personally I think it’d make more sense for AT&T to simply count those extra days as part of the next billing period, but so it goes. The moral of this story? Before you buy a new cell phone plan, check with the carrier to see when the billing period starts, and make your purchase on the first day of a new billing period so you don’t end up with a two-day bill like I did.

1They’re all over downtown San Francisco. It’s pretty ridiculous.↩


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So I’ve Just Come Into the Posession of a New Monitor

By Liam, November 11, 2008

And it’s been quite illuminating. Before I go on, however, I should note that this post contains images, and that if you’re using dial-up you should take a moment to remember that you are accessing the internet using the telephone line, which although may have sufficed in a bygone era, is a preposterous thought in this day and age. You should then go get something to drink because this page will take a while to load, what with you calling it up and asking it what it looks like instead of using broadband like civilized people.

Ahem.

For starters, I found a minor display bug in iTunes.

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I wonder if Apple has any large displays laying around their offices.... Eh, probably not.

I also found that glossy displays are better than matte. All matte advocates are hereby committed to a mental institute for their choice, which is wrong by virtue of differing from my choice.

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What’s on the screen? What’s in the room? Hours of fun for the whole family!

Lastly, I’ve found that the mobile web is more fun the larger the display gets.

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Who needs line wrapping?

The interesting thing that I’ve noticed is that, despite coming from…
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So, um, Windows 7

By Liam, October 28, 2008

There really isn’t any other way I can think of to introduce an entry where I talk about Windows 7.

So, after seeing a run-down of the new taskbar in 7, I have to say that I’m cautiously optimistic. On one hand, there was the somewhat bad decision to eliminate separation of open applications and shortcuts in the taskbar, as well as remove the titles from view. On the other hand, some of the other enhancements, such as the Jump Lists, the pinning applications in position, and the Peek slab sounds like a useful feature in theory, though it hasn’t yet been implemented. This is one situation where Microsoft’s position on deprecating old features can be appreciated, as it appears the current style can be chosen over the new one. I do like the direction Microsoft has taken with the system tray, which will, by default, suppress all third-party icons and notifications.

Aero Snaps could actually catch on like hot corners have on other operating systems. I can see myself making use of the left and right edges often, though I do wonder how it’ll handle dual-monitor situations. Gadgets should have retained the sidebar as I preferred them that way,…
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Note to Apple: Vista is fixed.

By UnnDunn, October 21, 2008

Apple’s relentless anti-Vista smear campaign continues, with its latest round of “Mac vs. PC” commercials accusing Microsoft of spending money on marketing that it could be spending to “fix Vista.”

Here’s a note to Apple: Vista is fixed. It’s called Service Pack 1, a release that, by all accounts, addresses the vast majority of issues Vista had at launch. Windows Vista with SP1 is fast, stable and highly capable, and despite Apple’s relentless smear campaign, people are gradually beginning to realize that Vista isn’t as bad as they’d been led to believe.

It’s time for Apple to stop the smearing and go back to focusing on the positive aspects of Mac OS X.


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