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$10 iPhone App - Worth It

July 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment

I just purchased my first iPhone application, Air Sharing, after a friend’s suggestion.  It is a $10 application (for the Pro version, $5 for the regular version) that allows you to share files between your iPhone and your computer (without always having to sync).  The application is a web server that lets you connect through [...]

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Tags: Air Sharing · Air Sharing Pro · iPhone · iPhone Application · macbook

My Macbook Is Failing

June 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments

I’ve recently started noticing that the battery on my Macbook loses its capacity very quickly.  I think it’s at about an hour to an hour and a half limit.  It’s sad to see.  I had such faith in it.  I was so diligent to only plug it in at about 6-8% remaining power, often waiting [...]

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Tags: apple · battery · lithium · macbook

Face Transplant

March 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment

My Macbook had a face transplant performed by Surgeon Crystallitis. I cracked the display (see previous post for the photo), so I was left in quite a predicament. I rushed off to The Apple Store to find out about its repair, but at a $800 replacement cost, there was no way I [...]

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Tags: Powerbook Medic · ScreenTek · broken · display · lcd · macbook · replacement

Mac OS X Tip - Resizing Offscreen Window

February 6th, 2009 · No Comments

If you’ve resized your window off-screen and cannot resize it to fit back onto the screen as a result of the lower-right-corner resizing that is now off-screen, then you can get around it by the following:
1) Run: Applications->AppleScript->ScriptEditor
2) In the editor, type the following:
tell application “Finder”
set bounds of window 1 to {202, 103, 817, 508}
end [...]

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Tags: apple · mac os x · macbook · technology