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MacBook Air: Initial Thoughts and 7 Concerns

Naturally with MacWorld today my friends and I were following the news via numerous websites. It seemed to be the clear highlight was that of the new MacBook Air. Now, officially the thinnest laptop ever. After a lot of debating and some ridiculous BBQ nachos I asked my friend Mike to provide his thoughts on […]

Manage Your Wires With A Cableyoyo

If your a techie or not you’ve most likely been frustrated at some point with organizing wires and making them look neat. Whether its behind your desk, monitor or wires you may carry with you while you travel, be it a cell phone charger or ipod charger. It gets frustrating! Extremely frustrating! I personally started […]

Quickie: Booting Your Mac

I saw a good tip on TUAW today that might be useful for some of you. There are often times when you need to boot up your mac a little differently than just using the power button. Say you want to boot directly from a CD or connect two macs to each other via firewire […]

Would You Buy A ModBook?

If you recall MacWorld 2007 you may just remember the announcement of the ModBook, a MacBook converted into a tablet with pressure sensitive touch screen. Well, with all the delays on production and rumors it may just disappear, there is word that it will be shipping around January 8th of 2008. So is there much […]

Review: Quick Look

As I become more and more accustom to using Leopard there are new features that I realize have revolutionized the way I work, play and really do everything on my mac. I recently discussed Spaces in a previous post and that feature has definitely changed the way I work, however, today I’m going to discuss […]

Review: Back To My Mac

So since I’ve been using Leopard I’ve been waiting to try the new Back To My Mac feature. Well, if you read my post last month you would know that I am with a new company, Ifficient. What does that mean? With my new position came a new MacBook. I’ve configured both of my machines […]

Apple Sprawl In 2008

If you’ve ever taken environmental economics, either because that’s your thing or because you heard the professor was easy and you wanted an easy class your senior of college, you’d know its a growing issue in the U.S. If you’re unfamiliar with urban sprawl, it’s the spreading of a city and its suburbs over rural […]

How To: Backup Your Computer Without Time Machine

With much anticipation for the new Mac OS, Leopard many have finally gotten their copy. There are also those that have yet to either upgrade or even make the transition to the Mac of their choice. If you have yet to make the move see my Top 5 Reasons To Switch To A Mac Now! […]

Top 5 Reasons To Switch To A Mac Now!

You can almost feel it! With Apple’s new Leopard operating system releasing this Friday mac users are anxiously awaiting this day. Many plan on upgrading to a new computer with new OS and many will just be upgrading their existing OS. What about those PC users that have secretly though about making […]

Mac OS X Leopard: Spaces

For the second part of this series I wanted to discuss the new feature called Spaces. Having been working on the developers version of Leopard for the last month I’ve gotten a pretty good taste of what it has to offer. I’ve particularly enjoyed this feature for work related uses. For those […]