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On Newest iPhone, Another Camera and a Gyroscope
2010
06.07
06.07
From NYT, JENNA WORTHAM
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple unveiled a fourth generation of its iPhone, called the iPhone 4, on Monday, containing an additional camera and a gyroscope that may unlock new uses for the device.
Steven P. Jobs, chief executive of the company, introduced a new version of its hit phone during a presentation at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference, a weeklong meeting of software developers.
Read more here, here and here.
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Enhanced icon view not working?
2010
05.24
05.24
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Working in the Finder and and this feature is not present. Is this a hardware issue?
Nope, Increase the thumbnail size a bit. If the thumbnail is too small then it won’t work.  |
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Steve’s thoughts on Flash
2010
04.30
04.30
Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around 20% of the company for many years. The two companies worked closely together to pioneer desktop publishing and there were many good times. Since that golden era, the companies have grown apart. Apple went through its near death experience, and Adobe was drawn to the corporate market with their Acrobat products. Today the two companies still work together to serve their joint creative customers – Mac users buy around half of Adobe’s Creative Suite products – but beyond that there are few joint interests.
read more here
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Rotating movies in Quicktime
2010
02.13
02.13
You recognize this situation? Shooting a vid with your point an shoot or iPhone, and instead of holding it in landscape you capture the vid in portrait. No worries!!, here is how to simply correct this.
First of all, open Quicktime 7 on your Mac, then:
- open your movie
- goto the ‘movie’ menu and down to ‘get movie properties’
- select ‘video track’ on the left side of the pop up menu that appears
- then on select ’size’ on the right hand side of that menu
- you can then rotate, adjust size etc. with the buttons on the bottom of that menu and preview in the main window
- in the ‘file’ menu select ‘export’ and choose the file format, codec etc that you want.
- or just save!
Simple enough for you?
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Random Apple newsbits
2010
02.01
02.01
Another article on Intel’s Core i3, i5, and i7 processors: and when is it implemented in the MBP?
iPad Can’t Play Flash Video, but It May Not Matter, in this NYT article
So, what the hell is HTML5
27-Inch iMac Production Halted Pending Fix For Display Issues? yeez that’s why mine was delayed, got so tired that I canceled out, waiting for new MBP.
and last, Steven Colbert has an iPad… (video)
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Apple Issues Invitations for January 27th Media Event – Tablet Rumored
2010
01.18
01.18
Engadget, Arstechnica, and others are reporting that Apple has issued invitations for a media event scheduled for 10:00 AM Pacific Time on January 27th. The event will be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and the invitation’s tag line reads “Come see our latest creation.”
Apple had been rumored earlier this month to have scheduled a media event for that date and location, and the company is widely expected to introduce its highly-anticipated tablet device at the event.
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Ten years since 1999
2009
12.29
12.29
Bas is remembering the year 1999. 10 years back I was working at a Judiciary Court preparing for the feared year 2000 bug. Specializing in Windows NT 4 Server, it was the age of Windows 95, the Nokia 5110 (also used by Agent Dana Scully in the X-Files). Internet was all about Napster and Altavista.com for searching news and mayby a mp3 or so. For social networking I was using ICQ, remember that one?
In June of 1999, Apple introduced their first iBook G3.
And now back to today, wishing you a awesome 2010
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Startup key combinations for Intel-based Macs
2009
12.04
12.04
Today I needed to dump my Macintosh HD to an external HD using Carbon Copy Cloner. For backup issues I needed to boot from the external HD afterwards. These handy boot options helped me pick the right one. Note these options are for Intel Macs only!
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When was your Mac born?
2009
11.10
11.10
Today I asked myself the question, when did I get my iMac? (yes I am considered a normal person) Normally on a Macbook (Pro) I would use Coconut Battery, but on an iMac, there is no such thing as a battery. So I went online an did a search. I found out that you can determine a lot about your Mac from it’s serial number.
So here is the deal….
You might think those numbers and letters are random, but each one actually contains vital info about your computer. Deciphering the code reasonably simple. The alphabetic prefix consists of one or two letters designating a factory code, such as:
- F: Fremont, California, USA
- CK: Cork, Ireland
- SG or E: Singapore
- UV: Taiwan
- QT: Taiwan (Quanta Factory)
- W8: Shanghai China
- PT: Korea
- there are others, but I don’t have a complete list. Perhaps I will when the comments pour in!
For Example, one of my Macs, has a serial number of SG7331FSK59, so I know it was manufactured in Singapore. The first numerical character indicates the last digit of the year of production. Common sense should tell you which decade your Mac was made in. Using the above serial number, it’s safe to assume my Mac was made in the year 2007.
The next two digits indicate the week of the year it was produced. So my Mac was made the 33rd week of the year 2007.
According to Macfaq.org, the next three characters are a three-digit base-34 unique identifier. (The letters ‘O’ and ‘I’ are not used, apparently to avoid confusion with the numbers zero and one.) My Mac appears to have been number 1692 within production week 33 of the year 2007. The remainder of the serial number tells the model number.
To find out more about your own computer, you can save yourself the trouble of having to decode the serial number yourself by using Chipmunk’s online Mac Serial Decoder.
You can find your Mac’s serial number by going to your Apple Menu and choose ‘About this Mac’. Then on the Hardware Overview you will find your serial number.
Courtesy of Laurie A. Duncan of Tuaw