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Jon Rubinstein to Helm Palm

Written on June 11, 2009 by Chris Ryan and 4 people have commented

Former Apple VP Jon Rubinstein will be shifting from his role as Chairman at Palm to the company’s new CEO. As many Apple fans already know, Rubinstein has been a prominent member of Steve Jobs’ core team since his original founding of NeXT in the early 90’s.

Two-Finger Scrolling for Pre-2005 PowerBooks and iBooks

Written on June 26, 2008 by Jenny Kortina and 8 people have commented

I was reformatting a Powerbook the other day and after a fresh Leopard install I went to use the two finger scroll function to scroll down a page…but it wasn’t there. I have been using intel based laptops for so long that I just take the two finger scroll feature function and the two [...]

My New Vintage Hardware – Can Leopard be installed on an 800MHz machine?

Written on September 28, 2007 by Stephanie Guertin and 35 people have commented

I have a vintage 800MHz iMac G4. There, I’ve said it, and wow, does that sound strange and unpleasant to me. I love my iMac – remember those commercials where it stuck its ‘tongue’ out at the guy on the sidewalk? – and I was very excited to hear, initially, that I could [...]