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Wrap up your work and pick up the next day from the same spot

Ever been working on a project, and you have a bunch of tabs open, and you want to finish work for the day, and lets say, read the news or watch a movie?
So, you can always open a new browser window, and even minimize the work one, but you are always at risk of accidently [...]

  • January 31, 2008
  • | Category: Mac
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Office 2008: Still no right-to-left support

I live in Israel. When I tell friends about Macs and how good they are, the first question they ask is: “Can I use MS Office on a mac” And sadly, I have to say, Nope, you can’t.
Microsoft Word for mac does not support right-to-left writing, so it can’t be used for writing in hebrew.
Yes, [...]

  • January 18, 2008
  • | Category: Mac
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AirMail – Envelope sleeve for the MacBook Air

When Steve Jobs dramatically pulled out the MacBook Air from a manila envelope in the his Macwold 2008 keynote, nobody thought of a manila envelope as a real solution for storing their MacBook Air, except two. Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans actually took the inspiration to the next level. They created a protective sleeve [...]

  • January 17, 2008
  • | Category: Mac
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iTunes movie rental and the 30/24 rule

Apple launched iTunes movie rentals yesterday. Basically, you pay $2.99 or $3.99 per movie and can start watching it within the next 30 days. One you start, you have 24 hours to watch the movie.
I think the 30/24 rule (30 days to start, 24 hours to finish) is a bit off:
First, nobody will rent a [...]

  • January 17, 2008
  • | Category: Mac
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Vista is so bad that people want to save XP

Usually, when software is updated, the newer version is better then the older, call it the evolution of software. Just yesterday, Steve Jobs announced in his keynote that about %20 of the OS X user base has already updated to Leopard within the first 2 months.
Vista is different. Apparently it’s so bad that more and [...]

  • January 17, 2008
  • | Category: Tech
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MacBook Air – The future of laptops

Yesterday, the MacBook Air, an ultra-light laptop was announced at Macworld 2008.
Although it doesn’t yet have all the power you normally find in a full powered laptop, what they did is amazing. They shrunk the size of the Core 2 Duo chip by %60, and were able to slip it into a computer so thin [...]

  • January 16, 2008
  • | Category: Mac
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iPhone ringtones – not cool

Let me start and say: I love Apple. I love their products and their creative approach to everything.
BUT… their music industry partners have taught them some uncool tricks. The latest one is the iPhone ringtone service. With the new version of iTunes, you can take songs you purchased on iTunes (well, some of them [...]

  • September 7, 2007
  • | Category: Mac, Tech
  • | Comments: 4

Russian mafia tactics now used by spammers

As all of you that have a blog must know, comment spam is a huge issue. Some blogs can get thousands(!!!) of comment spam a day. Akismet catches about %95 of the comment spam on this blog. All the other comments are held for moderation unless the comment author has a previously approved comment. I [...]


iPhone hacked, thrice!

In the last 2 months since the iPhone was released, many people have been trying to hack it so it can work with other mobile carriers. This is useful for people outside the US, as well as people that don’t want to pay a premium for the AT&T plan offered.
1. The iPhoneSIMfree.com team broke the [...]

  • August 27, 2007
  • | Category: Mac, Tech
  • | Comments: 0

Mac Software Review: Downsize

Downsize is a simple Mac app for batch processing images before uploading them to the web. With Downsize you can resize, add watermarks and even add frames to your images. It also integrates with iPhoto, so you can process whole iPhoto albums at once.
If you take a look at my photo albums, I used Downsize [...]

  • July 1, 2007
  • | Category: Mac
  • | Comments: 2

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