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Weird iPad Bug: Audio from Certain Apps Only Played Via Headphones
If some of your iPad apps will only play audio through headphones, it could be due to a strange but easily-fixed settings problem.
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Steve Jobs’ Other Computer
After he was so rudely ejected from Apple in 1985, Steve Jobs created a new company called NeXT. They made a microcomputer that was way ahead of anything else. Unfortunately, so was its price tag: over $6000. The NeXT cube was a machine for geeks to salivate over. It had a Digital Signal Processing chip […]
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In which I play with fire, aka Mac Protector
There is much brouhaha and kerfuffle at the moment about the fact that malware for the Mac has finally arrived in strength. I’m not sure why anybody is surprised; we knew this day would come and, more importantly, we knew it probably wouldn’t be as bad as things were for Windows users in the days […]
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Fix After Security Update 2009-001 Bricked My MacBook
This afternoon I finally got around to letting Software Update install the OS X Security Update 2009-001 for Tiger on my MacBook. Being an idiot, I didn’t do a backup first. When the system restarted, it got to the grey screen with the Apple logo and the spinning gear, where it remained… for over half […]
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WebDD: Microsoft’s Reality Distortion Field is Fully Functional
A designer? Originally uploaded by writerus drivelus. Last Saturday I went to the WebDD conference at Microsoft Campus, Reading. Following my standard conference procedure, I checked in, obtained coffee, and fired up my MacBook.