I have a PAX write-up to complete. I’m doing some major work on my other site, LOb, tonight; hopefully I can say that is live shortly. By shortly I mean probably Friday.
Must stop twittering so much, it takes away from blog time.
Speaking of time, the focus of my time is shifting from tinking around to [...]

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A spiffy mod to turn your old Powerbook into a cool new desktop tower. This is a really neat trick but somewhat beyond most people — including me.
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Tags: Apple, mods, reused

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Here’s the most popular posts on CR:
Convert MP3 to AAC
How to use the free iTunes to convert music formats.
Pin up aircraft nose art
The history and artwork of aircraft nose art.
Best tattoo ever? (NSFW)
The post that just will not die.
MacBook/Macbook Pro in Pink and Other Colours
How to have your Mac in any colour you want.
Future Warning [...]

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CR gets OK readership, over 2.5k unique hits a day, serving almost 5000 pages (using wp-cache) which amounts to 200MB bandwidth a day and 33k hits. So what OS and browsers statistics can I pull from these figures? It breaks down like this:
Operating Systems Hits Percent
Windows 259428 78.4 %
Macintosh 55468 16.7 %
Unknown 10909 3.2 %
Linux 4172 1.2 %
Sony PlayStation Portable 466 0.1 %
Symbian OS 71 0 %
BSD 45 0 %
Sun [...]

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I purchased the last pack of applications from the Macheist people, and I was burned by the Speed Download 4 (SD4) fiasco. TUAW has a good write up on it, but more exists.
the SD5 update was pushed down via the automatic updating system [built in to SD4 and switched on by default-CR], apparently catching [...]

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Another Tuesday, another Apple update. This time it is the big guns - The MacBook and MacBook Pro.

Apple today announced long-awaited upgrades for both its MacBook and MacBook Pro portables, adding Intel’s 45 nanometer Penryn architecture for its Core 2 Duo processors. All systems now include the larger Level 2 cache, SSE4 media instructions, and [...]

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How to Protect your Laptop, MacBook or MacBook Pro
So you’ve just spent a small fortune on your new laptop? Money that could have gone toward gold plating your dog, cat or toddler. Although you missed on on the gold plating, you do have a wonderful new shiny laptop. All is well with the world - [...]

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Welcome to the Greatest Games of All Time
First lets get some classic preamble in here. You know, up the word count a bit. Stick with me, this might get interesting. Video Games have been around since around 1947-52, depending on your terminology.
What game types exist? Well they break down into a few distinct categories:
Action [...]

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