From the monthly archives:

July 2009

Mimo + Tweetie = Perfect Match

July 13, 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 [...]

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3 Tips to Get the Most Out of Word 2008 on the Mac

July 7, 2009

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 [...]

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Can Shortened URLs be Trusted?

July 7, 2009

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 URL [...]

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Cult of Mac: 20 Years Later, Mac IIci Dies

July 2, 2009

via cultofmac.com
Leander Kahney on The Cult of Mac:
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. [...]

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