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Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But someday I will replace my ageing desktop computer. Since I don’t have a need for desktops any longer, I’d probably consider a second laptop. After pointing my browser to Apple.ca, I selected a Mac Book Pro configuration that I think would suit my needs:

Firefox, [...]

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Safari is available for both Mac OS X, and now Windows too! Yay? Meh.
According to Apple, Safari is “the world’s best browser”. Really? It’s pretty. It looks good with the rest of Mac OS X. However, compared to Firefox and Opera, Safari isn’t in the same league. Try [...]

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It’s Friday, so let’s enjoy a laugh followed by a “huh?”. The Commonwealth Bank, a large Australian bank, has used the 2nd-gen iPod Nano as a measure of currency buying power. Using a consumer product to measure a country’s buying power seems strange, but C|Net reports that this is the case.
The Commonwealth Bank [...]

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Here’s how things unfolded yesterday…
First, Apple announced their long-awaited cell phone at CES today.
Then, the iPhone’s page on the Apple site went live.
Finally, this happened:

It’s funny what a sexy PowerPoint presentation can do, isn’t it? Later on, Engadget uncovered what the iPhone is really capable of. It turns out that it’s not a [...]

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Wired reports that Apple will looking for a new “Mac guy” for their “I’m a Mac vs I’m a PC” campaign. Personally, I think they should drop the campaign all together. There’s plenty of spoofs of the commercials over on YouTube and even yours truly took a shot at lampooning them.
I know that [...]

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I’ve been doing a couple of contract jobs over at RentACoder for some extra cashola. One of them involves writing a tool that will convert over 700 MOV files to MP4. Ideally, the user should be able to run the tool, pass in two arguments (source directory and destination directory), be prompted for [...]

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