Categories
Hardware

Mac mini Media Centers and Home Theatres

Engadget has posted an excellent article HOW-TO: Turn your Mac mini into a media center where they dissect every aspect of the task from storage, audio, video, video in, recording and playback of HDTV, remote control, installing and connecting with VNC: Yep, everyone?s talking about using the Mac mini as a home media center, and […]

Categories
Software

Why I May Fire the 'Fox

I’m all about cool new Web browsers that are super fast and have features that aren’t available in Safari (the ability to control cookies on a site by site basis comes to mind) but Firefox has got me hopping mad. The alt-browser of choice at PowerPage World Headquarters has been Firefox for a while now, […]

Categories
Hardware

Dear Apple: Enough With the Pulsing Lights!

Since we know that the Apple brass likes to read the PowerPage I’d like to pass along a tip that the company has ignored on their support forums and feedback pages for years: enough with the pulsing sleep lights already! Read More…

Categories
Archive

PowerBook G5: Leaked on Apple.com?

Gizmodo is reporting more PowerBook G5 conspiracy theories: This is the sort of sharp-eyed reporting (and reading) I get a kick out of: somebody spotted a placeholder gif on Apple’s Powerbook page labeled “apple_g5_powerbook.” The Register then walks us through all the shortness of breath, denial, acceptance, and ultimately empty promise that those two little […]

Categories
Software

An iLife '05 Incompatible with Original iBook

An Apple Support article mentions that the company’s new iLife ’05 software suite is incompatible with the original iBook because the software now requires a display resolution of at least 1024 x 768 pixels. The original iBooks are Blueberry, Tangerine, or Graphite in color. The iBook (FireWire) computers, which are Indigo, Key Lime, and Graphite […]