July 2009
I just picked up a Mimo 710 monitor for no other reason than it looked like a really cool gadget and after a couple days am liking it quite a bit. If you’re not familiar with it, it is a small monitor that is USB powered and can be set up in portrait or landscape [...]
In the most recent Mac Power Users podcast, ”Word Processing and Writing“, Katie (@maccore) and Dave (@macsparky) led a great discussion on Mac Word Processing Apps. I know… it sounds a little dry, but trust me. It was really good. By the time the podcast had wrapped up I not only had three new apps to test [...]
MessageLabs, a division of Symantec, said today the presence of shortened URLs in spam has skyrocketed over the past few days and now appears in more than two percent of all spam. Matt Sergeant, anti-spam technologist at Message Labs: “The entire trust model of clicking on the URL is completely broken. You can’t trust any [...]
Leander Kahney: MacMedics, a repair shop in Millersville, Maryland, recently serviced a Macintosh IIci, which was on the blink after two decades of faithful service…The machine was putting up funny patterns on the monitor. The client thought it was the screen, but it was actually the main logic board. He’d been using the machine for [...]