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The Leo Laporte Clause

Apple to Provide Live Video Streaming of September 1 Event: “Any reproduction or distribution is strictly prohibited without prior written approval from Apple. Please contact Apple Public Relations with any questions.”

This one line will forever be known as the Leo Laporte clause.

Leo Laporte Live blogging… Joshua Topolsky As live as possible. Leo [...]

Getting Ready for WWDC?

As you probably already know, the WWDC is on today and Apple does NOT broadcast it live. Most of us are relying on “liveblogs”. So here is the run down of what we are monitoring.

You might want to try these links:

Engadget.com TWiT.tv with Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt Andy Ihnatko GDGT.com [...]

Dear Steve, Where’s my I5 MacBook Pro?

Dear Steve,

I have been a pretty loyal FanBoy / Apologist / Web Developer for the past 4 years. In fact, I was one of first Wintel Geeks North of the Border to switch to the new super cool Intel MacBooks. Despite the cooling issues, replacing the logic board a couple of times  [...]

No Assembly Required, Battery Included

Where did I see that the other day? Oh right, nowhere. Although….

When we bought our MacBook Pro last February the Apple experience was brand new to us (minus some iPod exposure). The battery lasted close to four hours on a charge and the majority of my time was spent in configuring the machine for both my setup and my wife’s preferences (those that know us are familiar with our gMail vs Yahoo! discussions). In doing so, I eventually set up two separate user profiles, and a couple of admin accounts. Soon after, I noticed that the battery life was diminishing, somewhere under the three hour mark, and eventually in the neighbourhood of two hours.

The balance of the year went by without much incident, if you don’t count the Blackberry syncing issues we had with my wife’s Pearl (see my post “Maybe now we can actually sync a Blackberry with a Mac?“). In the last few weeks, our laptop started to have random shutdowns. At first I thought it was a thermal issue, but it even happened while the Mac was sitting on a flat cool surface. This also never happened while plugged. So after some further analysis, I concluded that the shutdowns only happened when unplugged, and usually in or around the 40% charge mark.

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Birdhouse – a notepad for Twitter

Apart from the obvious “They Might Be Giants” reference in the name, this is actually a very awesome Twitter tools. I can see it being big with iPod Touch users as well as anyone who has ever had to put up with crappy EDGE service in the [...]