The iPhone, and to a lesser extent the iPod Touch, has revolutionised Internet access on the go. 80% of iPhone users have taken the device online. Unheard of in smartphone statistics.
What does this mean? The mobile-device (non-laptop) revolution is coming. If your website cannot be easily viewed on a mobile device then now is the [...]

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I like TimeMachine, no really, I do. I think it is a good idea that has been poorly implemented. Hey, it is Apple, don’t expect it to be right on the first version. 10.5.2 is going to fix one issue, it will provide the ability to back up to disks attached to the Airport Extreme. [...]

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In part one I covered ‘Why use eSATA?’ In part two I’m covering ‘How to use eSATA’ The presumption is that you want to add additional external drives to your current setup. Maybe you are a laptop user or have run out of internal space in your computer but still want super fast disk access [...]

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Update: Apple has released this update that fixes the problem. After installing the update Time Machine will see and use USB drives attached to an Airport Extreme Base Station. No more hacks required.
Update 2: For an easy to follow guide on how to get this running see Michael’s post here.
Here’s the old post, you can [...]

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Will Wrights often delayed epic Spore will be winging its way to Apple’s OS X, launching at the same time as the Windows version. The announcement is timed to coincide with the Macworld Expo, which at the time of writing is still running. At the convention EA has three booths running Spore on Macs.

“With Spore [...]

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A two part post, you can find part two here.
Own a MacBook Pro or Windows Laptop? Want to write to / from an external disk at theoretical 3Gb/sec? Which, in practical terms, is a maximum of 280MB/sec.

Tags: Apple, art, book, conversion, disk, firewire, free, FW, mac, macbook, macintosh, sata, usb

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11 Mac apps, plus another rumoured to be bundled in when the total is achieved, are bundled together on Mac Heist. They are for sale at a great price, saving over 300 bucks on retail.
It’s a good deal, you get some useful apps in the bundle, plus a couple of stinkers of course. So [...]

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Wired takes a lot of flak these days. Yes it’s down from the heady Wired of the 90’s but sometimes Wired still shines.
One such glimmer is the current write up of how the iPhone has started breaking up the wireless behemoths view of how business should be done. Considering how behind the USA/Canada in mobile [...]

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