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Google Calendar is one of the best calendaring solutions I’ve found simply because it handles three things - SMS alerts, its portable and it’s free. iCal is a great front-end calendar that many enjoy using although it has limitations. Sure, you can use Mobile Me, for a price. However, with [...]

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Sometimes a Mac behaves erratically. When it refuses to turn on, wake up from sleep mode, doesn’t recognize the AC adapter, or doesn’t charge the battery it could be a hardware problem. Or it could be that the Mac’s power manager (The SMC) became corrupted and unusable. A quick fix to try [...]

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Its no secret that I don’t like iTunes. I’ve tried to like it over the past seven years but I just don’t. Perhaps its the fact that it uses up too many resources on an older computer. Maybe its the way it manages music or it’s interface. I know that [...]

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Now that the new MacBooks have been released, we can enjoy the onboard Nvidia graphics chips, the buttonless multi-touch glass trackpad, the sweet new backlit displays, the unibody “brick” construction, and the lack of FireWire.
Wait, what was that? No FireWire in the new MacBooks?
That’s right. If you want FireWire (800) you [...]