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Software

CardRaider Helps Resurrect Deleted Memory Card Files

Memory cards are terrific up to a point. And if you’ve ever accidentally deleted your picture files from them, that point usually involves repeated cursing. CardRaider, which has been recently released from ecamm, may actually help recover from this. In cases where files have been deleted from a memory card, the user can plug the […]

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News

Apple and HP May Ship LED-Backlit Laptops This Spring

Apple and rival Hewlett-Packard look to be planning to introduce LED-backlit displays on their laptop computer products according to a report on DigiTimes. The LED-backlit systems would improve the image quality of the LCD screens used in the laptops and provide more even lighting as well as improve the overall color range on the screen. […]

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Accessory

Launchpad Raises and Protects MacBooks

Anyone using a MacBook Pro for extended periods for time is familiar with the decent amount of heat generated by Apple’s Intel notebooks. While the Core 2 Duo models are cooler, the original Core Duo chips output enough heat to fry on egg on them. My favorite stand these days is Launchpad A15 (US$50) from a group called 604 Labs.

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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: Month of Apple bugs being fixed

As Chris deftly reported, today is the third day in the Month of Apple Bugs (a.k.a. MOAB). The good news is that a modern day Robin Hood named Landon Fuller has come to the rescue with a mission to patch each of the bugs exposed by LMH and the MOAB.

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News

“Month of Bugs” Project Pins Down QuickTime and VLC Vulnerabilities

According to an article on Macworld News, two Mac users (“LMH” and Kevin Finisterre) have begun a self-described initiative called the Month of Apple Bugs to “improve Mac OS X” by locating security flaws in Apple’s operating system as well as third party applications. The duo published their first finds recently. Known as “MOAB-01-01-2007”, the […]