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Posts Tagged ‘Apple’

Duplicate Contact and Calendar entries in iPhone OS 3.0

I noticed something odd when thumbing through my calendar the other day on my iPhone. I noticed I had doubles of every entry in my calendar. I figured it was a sync issue so plugged it into my machine and noticed that I was syncing to the computer as well as to MobileMe. I figured [...]

10.5.7 ongoing weirdness

I managed to fix the wake-from-sleep problem that I originally suffered from on my MacPro. A reboot (or two) seemed to fix it and it sleeps without waking up now. I am still seeing some pretty weird issues with other areas though, particularly the Finder. Mapping drives through Finder seems prone to issues, often taking [...]

10.5.7 Breaks Sleep, Hopes and Dreams

Also known as the 10.5.7 sleep problem. There are a bunch of reports of Mac OS X 10.5.7 update breaking sleep on a variety of machines ranging from PowerMac G5s to MacBooks. I can personally vouch for having issues with my MacBook Pro and MacPro*. The recommended fixes range from resetting the SMC on MacBook [...]

Mac Pro Video Card Noise

I’ve noticed that my Mac Pro has gotten progressively noisier over the past year or so. I thought it was due to firmware updates bundled along with OS X 10.5 version bumps. I’ve been through a similar experience with my PowerMac Dual G5 which had wildly-different fan characteristics with odd versions of Tiger. Finally, I [...]

The demise of this iPod is greatly exaggerated

Since Woz spouted off about the death of the iPod in an interview yesterday, some pundits are all a-twitter about what this means for the world’s favorite media player. While I can’t argue with the fact that the devices have become commoditized to within an inch of being useless (the change from Wolfson Audio to [...]

Apple locks out application developers they don’t like

The recent fiasco about Apple limiting an application on iTunes’ AppStore is well-documented. A great comment from the Twittersphere even hints at the kind of dark times this may be the harbinger of. I’ve babbled about how DRM is bad for consumers and bad for the world before. I think it’s important to keep in [...]

Iphone 3g

Deb and I went to the rogers store yesterday ostensibly so I could get a replacement battery for my ailing blackberry 8800. We ended up leaving with a brand new pair of iPhone 3g 16Gb phones. It’s been increasingly clear that the iPhones are closer to what I’ve wanted as a wireless device for awhile [...]

Apple pulls out of Black Hat security conference

Black Hat Director Jeff Moss, “nobody at Apple is ever allowed to speak publicly about anything without marketing approval.” So engineers at Apple don’t get to talk to anybody? Ever? That kinda sucks. MacNN | Apple backs out of Black Hat security conference

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