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User Group

Summer 2006 PPUG Meeting

Just a reminder: Today is the Summer 2006 PPUG meeting. If you live in the Philadelphia area you’re invited to attend. The Philadelphia PowerBook Users Group (PPUG) will hold its summer 2006 meeting today (Saturday, 24 June 2006. ) The meeting will take place from 12 noon to 3 p.m. at the Manayunk Brewery and […]

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BumpTop 3D Desktop Prototype

a new operating system metaphor

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Software

Windows XP Volume Licensing and BootCamp

The conventional wisdom is that you need to buy a full license of Windows XP Pro SP2 (US$299) if you want to install Windows on your Mac in BootCamp. This appears to contradict Microsoft’s long standing position that the Volume Licensed (VL) version of XP is an upgrade to Mac OS X when used with […]

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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: SightSpeed – an alternative to iChat

I’ve been writing all week about the pros and cons of iChat AV and the power of video conferencing in general. Today I want to take a look at a new option for video chatting that I recently discovered. If you’re frustrated by the performance of iChat AV there’s a little known alternative (at least […]

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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 […]