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It’s Windows 7 Day: Are We the Early Adopters?

Written on October 22, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 24 people have commented

Apple did pretty much everything they could to steal some of Windows 7’s thunder by announcing some pretty major hardware changes earlier in the week, but Thursday is here nonetheless, and that means Microsoft’s latest OS is on store shelves now, ripe for the picking. Question is, will Mac users be helping with the harvest?
I’m [...]

Apple Freezes Snow Leopard APIs, Makes Mac Drives Accessible Under Boot Camp

Written on May 12, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 1 person has commented

Snow Leopard is starting to settle down into a relatively stable piece of software that will likely resemble the final release version, according to Engadget. Some speculate that it could receive retail release alongside iPhone OS 3.0 as soon as WWDC, which takes place in early June.
Like iPhone OS 3.0, Apple is now giving developers [...]

Boot Camp: Taking the Sting Out of Your Sin

Written on October 30, 2008 by Darrell Etherington and 21 people have commented

I’m not ashamed to admit it. I run XP on my aluminum iMac. My girlfriend is ashamed of me and my brother won’t speak to me. All because of a 40gb hard drive partition and a start button.
I did it mostly so that I could play City of Heroes again (look what you’ve made me [...]

New Airport Extreme/Express update today

Written on August 14, 2007 by Billy Halsey and 46 people have commented

If you’re like me, you’ve had seven (or more) kinds of problems with your Airport Extreme. Maybe today’s update will fix it for you, even though Apple’s description is terse as usual, offering only “general fixes and compatibility updates.”
While you’re at it, don’t forget to pick up last week’s Boot Camp 1.4, which seemed to [...]