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Choosing a new mobile phone or smartphone is difficult enough – when you want your phone to work with your Mac, it adds a whole new level of complexity. Lucky for us, PC Magazine has a review round-up of Mac-friendly phones.
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The 30th anniversary celebration continues. Wired News takes a look back at Steve Jobs’ Best Quotes Ever, from way back in 1985 to the present. The topics include On Innovation and Design, Greatest Sales Lines, Pixar, and more.
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With April 1st coming fast, we are seeing many different retrospectives on Apple’s 30th anniversary. The San Francisco Chronicle has released several interesting podcast interviews with Apple’s famous and influential employees and management, including founder Steve Wozniak, Andy Hertzfeld, John Sculley, Steve Capps, Guy Kawasaki, and Mike Boich.
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It’s birthday season – handheld (and now smartphone) company Palm just turned 10, and Apple turns 30 this weekend on April 1st. Another milestone this week is the 10th anniversary of WebObjects, Apple’s object-oriented development tool.
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This is an oldie but goodie – the article is now over 2 years old. Amit Singh writes about Making An Operating System Faster – 10 things Apple did to make Mac OS X faster. No doubt over the past 5 years, Mac OS X has undergone a lot of optimization to compensate for the slow PowerPC processors.
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Next week, on April 1st, Apple celebrates its thirtieth anniversary. AP has a short retrospective on the history of out favourite company, and we should see more of the same from various sources soon. Over at Arstechnica, John Siracusa takes a look at Five years of Mac OS X.
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Miramar High School in the US received 3,000 iBooks for their students. They successfully configured, installed and delivered them all. Jaron Brass has dozens of photos to prove it.
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Way back in January this year, Colin Nederkoorn put up $100 of his own money for the first person who could successfully dual-boot Windows XP on the new Intel Macs. The prize money bloomed to $13,854 – which provided sufficient motivation for thousands of hackers to try. Now, there’s a winner – known only as “narf”.
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If you updated your Mac with the Apple Security Update earlier this week, and if you’re running Mac OS X 10.4.5, I’m afraid you’ll have to do it again. Apple just released a v1.1 update to the Security Update.
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In the office productivity space, Microsoft still reigns. Chances are that even on your Mac, there’s a copy of Microsoft Office. If that’s the case, then go ahead and download the Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.2.3 Update.
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