If you are one of the 20,000 people who have already pirated Apple’s iWork 09 at the time this article was written, technological karma may have arrived on your doorstep. It seems that a good number of the pirated iWork 09 installations have installed a nasty Trojan onto the computers of the software thieves.
If you are an iPod owner, you know that many things can happen to make you need to move your music from one iPod to another. You could get a new model of iPod and no longer have your old computer. You could get a second iPod to keep in the car. You could get your kids an iPod. Whatever the reason, the need to move files from one to the other comes up now and then. So how do you do it?
So Steve Jobs finally allowed himself to be seen as human. He took a leave of absence from Apple to address his health today. Frankly, this has been a long time coming. I am in awe that he postponed the inevitable for such a long time. He must have been busy training one heck of a replacement and back up team. I can’t wait to see how they do.
As many Mac loyalists are happy to point out, 2008 has been one of the best years ever for Macintosh sales, and much of it is due to the Mac OS X Leopard operating system. Leopard has taken the market share from near 7 percent in 2007 to nearly 10 percent of the market share (9.63 percent) by the time December 2008 rolled around. Part of those sales have been due to the Mac OS itself and part have been consumer reaction to Vista. That’s huge growth for this segment of the computer industry in just one year. Will Microsoft’s copycat operating system change that?
Mac OS X has shipped with Dashboard installed and constantly active since OS X 10.4 came out. Dashboard can be an incredibly useful tool, but it can also be a memory hog that some could do without. I’ll tell you how to get more out of Dashboard as well as how to get rid of it if you don’t want to use it.
Love it or hate it, Skype keeps coming out swinging to prove that VoiP (voice over IP) is indeed not yet dead. This time they have treated Mac owners to a few extra features in their newest release, Skype 2.8 for Mac. Their inclusion of some of the more popular iChat style features combines with their cross platform compatibility to create a one-two punch for the Skype user.
Apple files many patents that either make no sense to the average user or that end up going nowhere. Recently, they filed a patent for, of all things, a clothing item, that I hope goes all the way to production. It will help the iPhone 3G and iPod or iPod Touch users in the colder climates immensely.
Working with electronics and doing your own repairs can be intimidating. You don’t want to break anything, especially if you are still under your Apple Care warranty for any part of the machine – some scratches and other issues can void the warranty. Even so, some parts eventually fall out of warranty, and you find it may be cheaper to replace them yourself. One of the most frequent of these is the keyboard (or even the individual keys on occasion).
Hi, I’m Leslie, and I’m a Twitter-holic. I admit I have a problem. I was tweeting from my phone all during a two week power outage where I live. I tweet while in the car if I’m not driving. I tweet on trains, planes, buses, from my MacBook, in waiting rooms, pretty much anywhere my phone or laptop can get a signal. Oh it isn’t all play, I also work via Twitter much of the time. Toss in the fact that I’m a total Apple junkie, and the news I could control my Mac with Twitter sent me into spasms of glee.
Once you buy a Mac, whether it is a MacBook, iMac, or Mac Pro, you want to keep it running well for as long as you have it. Macs are pretty self-sufficient machines. They aren’t prone to viruses and other mishaps like PCs are, but that doesn’t mean you don’t need to be prepared. Here are a few simple, free ways to keep your Mac running well all year long:
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