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Put Your Mac to Sleep with an E-Mail

A cool trick posted on Murphy Mac describes how to configure Automator to have your Mac watch for e-mails containing certain criteria such as a specific subject or sender and configure actions such as going to sleep. This is accomplished by creating a simple Automator program with two actions in its workflow, a one-line AppleScript […]

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Mac OS X Market Share Climbs to 5.67% in December

A recent market share report released by netapplications.com shows that the Mac OS X market share (with both the the PowerPC and Intel architectures factored in) reached 5.67% in December of 2006, up from 5.39% in December. Apple’s operating system has now surpassed Windows 2000 for second place in market share positioning. Windows 2000 fell […]

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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: Crystal ball: Macworld Expo 2007

Another January means another round of fortune telling. The week leading up to Macworld Expo is when pundits predict what Apple has in store for us in the new year. With that let’s dive into what Steve Jobs could announce at the Moscone Center in San Francisco one week from today.

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Micromat Debuts TechTool Protogo

According to an article on MacNN, Micromat today announced the upcoming release of TechTool Protogo. The new product is an application that allows Mac users to turn a device such as an older iPod or flash drive into a bootable unit packed with several of Micromat’s utilities as well as third party utility programs. TechTool […]

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Autonet Mobile: Broadband Wireless Internet for Your Car

An article over at Engadget highlights Autonet Mobile, the first company that intends to be an Internet service provider for the devices within your car. The firm will be selling the Autonet wireless unit, a $399 wireless Internet router using what appears to be Verizon’s EV-DO wireless network. Specific details as to available plans and […]