Hope for FireWire on the MacBook?
A ZDNet Blog casts some hope on the future of FireWire on the MacBook now that Apple has removed it from the new MacBooks. The theory is that because there are plans afoot to implement FireWire over a standard Cat5 ethernet cable (codenamed 1394c) that Apple may build in [...]
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MacBooks and Firewire
October 21, 2008MacBook Air Target Disk Mode
January 22, 2008Target Disk mode is such a useful thing to have on a Mac. In fact it’s the number one I think when dealing with problematic PCs … “If only I could put this thing into Target Disk Mode”. The MacBook Air is a worrying development because of the lack of firewire it would seem TGM [...]
MacBook Air: Ugly (keyboard)
January 17, 2008No-one could deny that the MacBook Air is a thing of beauty. And that having a full size keyboard with backlighting is great.
But why oh why is it that butt-ugly black? Why not MacBook Pro grey like the rest of it?
iPod Touch upgrade charge forced by iPhone agreement?
January 17, 2008Regarding the $20 charge for the iPod Touch software upgrade that gives it the same apps as the iPhone: Am I the only one that thought Steve looked a little uncomfortable when he said the price, like it was something they’d had to put in but he wasn’t happy about it? Here’s my take – the [...]
Mac OS X Uninstaller
October 30, 2007Having just read John Siracusa’s excellent (as always) review of Leopard, I got thinking about one gaping hole in Mac OS X. An uninstall application/framework.
Apple’s Installer application and underlying framework is right up there, it’s easy to use, easy to create installer packages (and metapackages) for, easy to use and parse via the command [...]
