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Appearance: PPUG meets Saturday in Philadelphia

The Philadelphia PowerBook User Group (PPUG) meets Saturday, November 6, 2010 from 12 noon to 3 p.m. at the Manayunk Brewing Company along the beautiful Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, PA. I’ll be on had with Bob Snow, Youngmoo Kim and David Berg to talk about the new MacBook Air, Mac OS 10.7 Lion, iOS 4.2, iLife ’11 […]

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MacBook Air News

Internal memo: Apple acknowledges second-gen MacBook Air graphics issue, fix apparently in the works

An internal memo allegedly leaked from Apple seems to support display issues experienced by some owners of the new MacBook Air notebook as well as indicate that an upcoming software update will fix the problems. The purported memo, obtained by Boy Genius Report, acknowledges that Apple is aware of the issue and is “working on […]

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MacBook Air News Software

New tests yield additional battery life in absence of Adobe Flash

It’s had a good run. Hell, it’s had a great run. Still, Apple has ceased bundling Adobe Flash on its new Macs, ostensibly so users could obtain the latest, secure version themselves with vastly increased battery life seems to be another leading reason for this change. According to the mighty Ars Technica, the new MacBook […]

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News Software

Skype 5.0 beta for Mac now available

Late Thursday, Skype announced a public beta of its client for the Mac. Per Macworld, the new version brings Skype much more in line with its Windows counterpart in both features and interface. First and foremost, the interface looks absolutely nothing like its predecessor, and entirely like its Windows counterpart, which got the 5.0 treatment […]