MAC.BLORGE Apple and Mac news and views 2009-11-22T21:12:33Z WordPress http://mac.blorge.com/feed/atom/ Ronald O Carlson http://mac.blorge.com <![CDATA[Firefox slowing down your MacBook? Here’s what to do]]> http://mac.blorge.com/?p=8676 2009-11-22T21:12:33Z 2009-11-22T16:13:48Z There’s been growing murmur for a couple years now and it’s all about how the world’s favorite open-source browser is slowing down people’s computers, especially ultraportables and netbooks. Call it malaise or whatever you like, but Firefox is noticeably less nimble than it used to be. Why and what can we do about [...]
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Ronald O Carlson http://mac.blorge.com <![CDATA[Apple canceling smokers’ warranties over ‘contamination’]]> http://mac.blorge.com/?p=8666 2009-11-22T00:46:45Z 2009-11-21T21:10:54Z Need another reason to quite smoking? This one’s a whopper—Apple is refusing to honor the warranties of Mac owners because the devices have become “contaminated” due to the effects of cigarette smoke.

The Consumerist is reporting the AppleCare experiences of several customers, who are smokers, where Apple has refused to service their [...]
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Michael W. Jones http://tech.blorge.com <![CDATA[iTablet – $800 LED or $2000 OLED?]]> http://mac.blorge.com/?p=8658 2009-11-20T15:59:59Z 2009-11-20T15:59:59Z iTablet - $800 LED or $2000 OLED?This week’s rumors about the Apple iTablet increasingly center around the touchscreen technology, with the options being LED or OLED, and with the tablet price up in the air between the two.

The basis for the latest rumors is the report [...]
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Ronald O Carlson http://mac.blorge.com <![CDATA[Hackintoshers bring back Atom support]]> http://mac.blorge.com/?p=8655 2009-11-20T19:18:36Z 2009-11-20T13:34:40Z Let the games begin! When Apple left support for Intel Atom processors out of Mac OS X 10.6.2, we all knew it would be a matter days before savvy netbook users would re-instate the functionality and now that’s exactly what’s happened—rock on.

Russian-language Tea Blog (via Yahoo Yech, Google translation) reports [...]
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Ronald O Carlson http://mac.blorge.com <![CDATA[Jobs personally denies developer’s name change request]]> http://mac.blorge.com/?p=8640 2009-11-19T18:56:01Z 2009-11-19T18:49:24Z After receiving a legal snot-o-gram from Baker & McKenzie asking his company to change the name of one its applications so it would no longer contain the word “iPod,” Little App Factory CEO John Devor decided to take matters into his own hands and write Steve Jobs personally. Surprisingly enough the Apple CEO [...]
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Michael W. Jones http://tech.blorge.com <![CDATA[Tablet, tablet, will Apple have a tablet?]]> http://mac.blorge.com/?p=8633 2009-11-19T16:44:57Z 2009-11-19T16:44:57Z Tablet, tablet, will Apple have a tablet?While a major magazine publisher announces big plans to bring its products to Apple’s fabled tablet computer, the Apple iTablet is now rumored to be delayed until the latter part of 2010.

Although it may seem difficult to delay a product [...]
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Michael W. Jones http://tech.blorge.com <![CDATA[Apple working on OS X 10.7]]> http://mac.blorge.com/?p=8619 2009-11-18T15:06:52Z 2009-11-18T15:06:52Z Apple working on OS X 10.7Never a company to rest too long on its laurels, even if they include record operating system sales, Apple gives every sign of being hard at work on the next big cat, OS X 10.7.

Of course, Apple started on the architecture [...]
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Ronald O Carlson http://mac.blorge.com <![CDATA[Apple portables better than average, not tops says survey]]> http://mac.blorge.com/?p=8606 2009-11-19T03:11:10Z 2009-11-17T16:47:06Z A warranty intermediary says that HP has the worst reliability and Asus the best when it comes to notebook computers. And — this should come as no surprise — netbooks are 20 percent more likely than full size laptops to break in the first year.

SquareTrade, a company that sells warranties [...]
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Michael W. Jones http://tech.blorge.com <![CDATA[Odd Apple patent for embedded OS ads]]> http://mac.blorge.com/?p=8600 2009-11-19T03:30:08Z 2009-11-17T13:56:39Z Odd Apple patent for embedded OS adsApple recently applied for a patent which describes a method by which the manufacturer of an operating system could disable certain OS functions until the user looked at an advertisement.

It is very difficult to tell where this may lead, but [...]
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Ronald O Carlson http://mac.blorge.com <![CDATA[Apple’s Black Friday specials leaked]]> http://mac.blorge.com/?p=8596 2009-11-19T03:36:00Z 2009-11-16T23:22:50Z Historically, Cupertino hasn’t been particularly generous when it comes to special holiday deals, especially not straight discounts. According to a rumor making the rounds, that could be changing this year and in a big way.

Boy Genius Report (BGR) says one of its sources, without providing any details, has delivered a [...]
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