Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance is a free, non-commercial, reference designed for ordinary Macintosh users (not power users) to tell you how to do effective routine maintenance on your Macintosh running OS X. It not only tells you what to do, it tells you which utilities to use (with an emphasis on easy to use […]
Author: Jason O'Grady
Founded the PowerPage in 1995.
Notebook HDD Progress Disappointing
The speed at which hard drive capacity is growing for laptops is painfully glacial.
iPod nano: Full Metal Jacket
This reminds me of the metal iPod shuffle case (US$25) from Speck Products. In an effort to reduce the player’s susceptibility to scratches, Apple has been experimenting with aluminum anodized enclosures similar to those used in the company’s iPod mini digital music players, sources familiar with the company’s music plans have said.In what Apple chief […]
I introduced an experimental project to replace a fleet of PC laptops with MacBooks in Do MacBooks Make Business Sense as PC Laptops? It turns out that MacBooks do make pretty decent Windows laptops at a good price. The fatal flaw I ran into wasn’t a limitation in the MacBook however; it related to the partition map used in Intel’s new EFI firmware.
The Apple Core: iWork ’07 wishlist
It looks like Apple is preparing to make a big splash at Macworld Expo in January with iWork ’07. Apple is believed to preparing Charts 1.0, a spreadsheet application that will round out their iWork ’07 suite. I prefer the name that Apple trademarked in June 2005 (“Numbers”), so that’s still an option. The new […]