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Apple Announces Two-for-One Stock Split

CUPERTINO, Calif., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple(R) announced today that its Board of Directors has approved a two-for-one split of the Company’s common stock and a proportional increase in the number of Apple common shares authorized from 900 million to 1.8 billion. Each shareholder of record at the close of business on February 18, 2005 […]

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Apple Dumps Trackpad Vendor Synaptics

Apple this week notified their supplier of trackpads for PowerBooks and iPods, Synaptics Inc. (NasdaqNM: SYNA), that they weren’t going to use them in PowerBooks any more. The new 2005 PowerBook G4s use a totally new trackpad that Apple developed in-house that features scrolling capability. According to a Forbes.com article “two analysts on Thursday cut […]

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Trackpad Scrolling on a Pre-2005 PowerBook

SoupNazi.org writes about a workaround for trackpad scrolling on pre-2005 PowerBooks: When Apple released the new Powerbooks recently, the feature that caught my attention the most was the scrolling trackpad. But, since I just got my Powerbook this past November, there’s no way I’d buy a new one just for the trackpad. Earlier this evening, […]

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Bagging Mail

If you’re like me you were elated when Apple announced that they’d be shipping their own email client with Mac OS X and that it would be integrated with a contact manager (Address Book), calendar application (iCal) and a synchronization program (iSync.) The best part is that it would all be built into the lowest […]