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MacBook

Apple: It’s Normal for MacBooks to Moo

If you’ve been keeping up with MacBook sans-Pro news, you may have heard something about an infamous “moo”-like noise coming from the fan. Basically, the fan goes on and off and on and off and on and off continuously, in a vain attempt to keep the machine cool. Now, I’m no engineer, but it certainly […]

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Hack

iTunes Visualizer for the MacBook Pro Backlit Keyboard

Sorry MacBook users, this one requires a keyboard backlight. iSpazz is a plugin for iTunes on OS X, controlling the MacBook Pro/PowerBook backlit keyboard and optionally the display backlight. To use this yourself, download the plugin uncompress it and copy it to Library/iTunes/iTunes Plug-ins in your home folder. Pressing the “i” key toggles the display […]

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Software

The Apple Core: Fun with iChat AV

Judging by my column the past couple of days you’d think that I didn’t like iChat AV or something. Au contraire! I only point out it’s deficiencies because I think that video conferencing is nothing short of revolutionary and I want Apple to invest more R&D into iChat so that more people will start using […]

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Opinion

Apple & Open Source… Strange Buffaloes?

The opinion that Apple’s binary-only kernel for Intel involves a huge coverup, or misleading advertising on Apple’s part, or is otherwise a broken promise on the level of massive fraud, has been thoroughly beaten into the ground by certain political advocates, who scour the web like an army of GNU-bots, looking for venues to unleash their political screed on open source as a political philosophy.