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QuickerTek 802.11n Upgrade Released for Older PowerBook Models

Even if Apple’s newest Santa Rosa-based MacBook Pro laptops may be a bit rich for your blood, QuickerTek might have a solution. The recently-released nQuicky, which functions as an 802.11n CardBus adapter, works with any PowerBook sporting a free PCMCIA slot, including the “Pismo” PowerBook G3 (the unit with built-in Firewire) and the Black PowerBook. […]

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Software

VLC Updated to 0.8.6c

Video Lan Client, the popular open source media player for multiple audio and video formats (MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Divx, ogg, etc.), has recently been updated to version 0.8.6c. The new version, a 23.3 megabyte download, adds the following bug fixes and changes: -Windows Vista compatibility. -Cropping in Direct3D. -Full screen change crash on Mac OS […]

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Apple Ups iPhone Battery and Screen Specs

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Newton Connection Reaches Version 1.1

I’ll grant that this is somewhat out of left field, but someone wrote me a few weeks ago wondering if I could fix their Apple eMate. There are still Newton units out there and for those of you who still have one, Newton Research‘s Newton Connection 1.1 has just been updated to version 1.1. The […]

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Macworld Runs Benchmarks for 17″ Santa Rosa MacBook Pro

The guys over at Macworld News have posted the benchmarks for Apple’s newest generation of the MacBook Pro laptop. The new units, which are based on Intel’s Santa Rosa hardware architecture, fared well in tests and performed as expected for the most part, but lagged in graphics cards tests, despite the new Nvidia GeForce 8600M […]