Apple’s Interest In Gaming Isn’t Casual – Forbes.com

According to Forbes, Apple has “poached” Richard Teversham. Teversham was the Senior director for insights & strategy for Microsoft’s Xbox division (Asian). What does this mean? Well, hopefully it means that Apple has decided to become more aggressive regarding gaming…. Time will tell… (See the Rest of the Story at Apple’s Interest In Gaming Isn’t […]

Retrospect 8 Beta 2 console log?

Folks, What do you think this means? 4/30/09 2:12:09 PM com.retrospect.RetroEngine[4723] #3> DLLoadLib: no id resource in “/Library/Application Support/Retrospect/RetrospectEngine.bundle/Contents/MacOS/libretrores.dylib”, skipDyloCheck 0x1 4/30/09 2:12:09 PM com.retrospect.RetroEngine[4723] #2> Command line is /Library/Application Support/Retrospect/RetrospectEngine.bundle/Contents/MacOS/RetroEngine 4/30/09 2:12:10 PM com.retrospect.RetroEngine[4723] #1> 4/30/09 2:12:10 PM com.retrospect.RetroEngine[4723] This Retrospect Beta software has expired. 4/30/09 2:12:10 PM com.retrospect.RetroEngine[4723] For information, please contact: 4/30/09 […]

Fix apparently-corrupted PDF attachments in Mail

If you are having odd issues with a mail message attachments, before you start tearing the system apart, try rebuilding the mailbox.  Occassionally, I will receive a call complaining that the user can not open a particular PDF with Preview, Acrobat Reader, or quick look.  Yet, the message when forwarded somewhere else opens fine, the […]

Apple to Discontinue .Mac HomePage and Groups

In short, if you have any DotMac content, migrate it off or update it now.. You won’t be able to update it in the future… Apple to Discontinue .Mac HomePage and Groups: “Apple today announced that two legacy tools associated with .Mac, HomePage and Groups, will no longer be offered as of July 7, 2009. […]

Step by Step Instructions on opening 24 in. Aluminum iMacs

On of my great complaints about the Aluminum series iMacs, is simply that nothing is a customer replaceable part.  The white iMac’s that preceeded the aluminum (G5 & X86) were fantastic, with just about every component from the motherboard to the DVD drive, were completely customer replaceable.  Apple even has instructions online for customers to […]

Mac-toting UVA freshmen rise 925 percent over 5 years

Apple a Day: Mac-toting UVA freshmen rise 925 percent over 5 years – The Baltimore Sun’s David Zeiler follows all developments related to Apple, Inc. – baltimoresun.com: “Mac-toting UVA freshmen rise 925 percent over 5 years A dramatic shift in the Mac to PC ratio at the University of Virginia over the past five years […]

Darwine: Mac Wine in New Bottles

LowEnd Mac discusses Virtualization technologies other than vmware or parallels… How about opensource Darwine? Darwine: Mac Wine in New Bottles: “Apple’s move to Intel CPUs opened up a range of ways for Mac users to make use of Windows applications. Apple released Boot Camp, allowing Macs to dual-boot to Windows partitions in addition to Mac […]

Steve Ballmer, out of touch with reality.

I know that I shouldn’t allow this to annoy the heck out of me, but according to several sources (The Register, All Things Digital, & PaidContent.org) Steve Ballmer has done it again… According to Mr. Ballmer, since the iPhone uses a “expensive” capacitive touch screen, it’s too expensive. Capacitive touch screens are still relatively new […]