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How To: iCal Birthday Reminders With Alarm (iCalBirthdays 2.0)

March 12, 2010

Here’s a quick and really neat trick for Mac users who would like to have birthdays listed in iCal. As default, your Mac will easily display birthdays in iCal, based on dates from your Addressbook, but it can’t give you an alarm and there’s no way to modify the events to do so.
So, somebody created [...]

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Apple Q1 2010 Financial Statement: Fantastic Result!

January 26, 2010

Bad news first: The only bad thing to report from Apple’s Q1 earnings 2010 was a decrease in iPod sales by 8%, but still a total of 21 million iPod’s sold in Apple’s Q1 fiscal year (which is actually Q4 of 2009).
The good news: Apple sold 8.7 million iPhones during that quarter, an increase of… [...]

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Linux, Windows & Mac – As Seen By Fanboys

January 11, 2010

I found this great piece of image in my archives. Unfortunately I can’t remember from where I got it, so I can’t give proper credits. If you know who made it, please leave a comment.
I wanted to show it to you cause I think it’s pretty funny – and I’m sure, in most cases, even [...]

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Internet Explorer 8 Extends Laptop Battery Life

November 21, 2009

Who would have thought, there’s actually something that Internet Explorer 8 does better than the other browsers
When it comes to battery life on your laptop, surfing with Internet Explorer 8 is likely to provide you with 8% more minutes for surfing than if using Firefox 3.5.2. Safari 4 in Windows is the worst [...]

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Summary: Apple Q4 2009 Quarterly Financial Statement

October 20, 2009

Apple once again delivered a great quarterly result by breaking their own record, again.
The turnover for Q3 2009 was 9.87 billion dollars with a profit of 1.67 billion dollars. An increase in turnover of almost 2 billion dollars from 7.9 billion dollars compared to the same period last time. Profit increased by 410 million dollars.
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I Finally Managed To Screw Up My Mac – Snow Leopard Guest Account Erased My Files

September 10, 2009

I don’t know what happened and I never thought I should say this, but I finally had my first really bad “whoops” with my Mac, after being a Mac user for over 3 years.
By accident I clicked the “guest account” when I was going to login and it tried to login at my guest account [...]

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Orbicule’s Undercover Mac Theft Recovery System – Reinstall Necessary On Snow Leopard

September 3, 2009

Ever since I had my good ol’ MacBook stolen from within my flat because somebody forgot to lock the kitchen window, I’ve been using Undercover from Orbicule on all my other Mac’s.
The reason is clear: It gives me a better chance of ever recovering my Mac, than if I didn’t have the software installed.
Here’s what [...]

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GrabUp & Snow Leopard Does Not Mix – Possible Solution & Alternatives…

August 31, 2009

Oh bugger, I found another Mac application that doesn’t play nicely with Snow Leopard. This time it’s GrabUp.
GrabUp is a cute little application, resting nicely in the menubar until you need it. What it does, when you need it, is that it takes your screenshot and uploads it in a jiffy to either your own [...]

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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Ready For Pre-Order. What About Malta?

August 24, 2009

Apple is now offering its users the ability to pre-order Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard from the Apple Store.
You can get a single-user license for just $29 and a Family pack license (install on up to 5 Mac’s within the same household) for just $49. One should note though, these are Leopard upgrades, so [...]

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Summary: Apple Q3 2009 Quarterly Financial Statement

July 22, 2009

Here’s a summary of some of the highlights from Apple’s Q3 2009 results, announced yesterday. Note that Apple’s fiscal year does not follow the calendar year, their fiscal year ends in September so their third quarter results are more like second quarter

Apple call it their “Best Non-Holiday Quarter in Apple History”
Apple turned over 8.34 billion [...]

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