Posts Tagged: Mac
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Jan 08
MacWorld – iPhone and iPod Touch enhanced, introduces Time Capsule, Apple TV untethers from Mac, iTunes Movie Rentals
Yesterday’s Keynote of Steve Jobs at MacWorld dragged everybody to the Internet, not just Apple fans but many other Internet enthusiast. It even pull down Twitter during the keynote. I downloaded the MacBook Air guided Tour and just finished watching it in its full glory and here are the few words that slipped off my lips – awesome, damn, jesus, holy cow, oh! man – I think I seriously need to get a MacBook Air.
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Jan 08
Apple unveils the fastest Mac: 8-Core Mac Pro
In a rather rare and surprising pre-Macworld Expo move (Macworld Expo 2008 will be from January 15 to 18 at the Moscone Center, San Francisco), Apple unveiled a retooled Mac Pro Desktop machine and a new Xserve server – calling them the fastest Macs ever. The ultra-end Mac Pro features Advanced Micro Devices ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics card with 256MB standard memory. The new 45-nanometer quad-core Xeon processor from Intel, can be equipped with up to 32GB of RAM and as much as 4TB of Disc Drive Storage.
More power with less power
Inside the new Mac Pro is the latest technology from Intel – Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Harpertown” processors. These processors run at blazingly fast speeds up to 3.2GHz.
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Jan 08
Axiotron Modbook- First Apple-Authorized Tablet Mac
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Axiotron ModbookThe first Apple-Authorized Tablet Mac
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Dec 07
Holiday Mac Software, Games and other Packages
There are Mac Software, Applications and Games Gifts galore this Holidays. MacHeist is in its 2nd phase and is already out with its first briefing.
MacSanta is offering 10% discount for all software products and a 20% discount featured daily for the whole month of December.
Give Food to your Mac is offering up to 70% discount depending on how many packages you buy.
And 20MacApps is giving away the whole 20 Apps if you buy right now for just $40.
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Dec 07
Here’s why you might switch to a Mac
USA Today have a nice article – Thinking of switching to a Mac? Here’s why you might – which is worth a read if you’re planning to switch to a Mac or just love the Mac. The author, Edward C. Baig is a Mac guy but he do not believe in bashing Windows being a prerequisite for a Mac user. So, the article is a primer on switching to the Mac. He promises to come back next week with advice for folks who plan on sticking with Windows.
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Dec 07
MacHeist II begins
Last December, Mac users around the world participated in what became to be known as the most explosive Mac indie software event in history – MacHeist. Tens of thousands of users participated in MacHeist missions, discovering clues, solving puzzles, and winning free software prizes. And when the fuse ran out, the best software deal in Mac history was unveiled.
Over the course of a week, over 16,000 customers snapped up the bundle. With 25% of each sale going to a charity of the customer’s choice, the event ended up raising $200,000 for important causes.
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Nov 07
Getting things done with your Mac’s OS X Date and Time
Here is one simple way to use the Mac OS X to keep you company with Date & Time while you work. In fact, this can also be one of your Getting Things Done tit-bits.
Set you clock to announce the time. This way, you will know the time passing by. This helps a lot when you’re so engrossed in work that you forgot to got up from your chair and cannot keep tract of time.
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Nov 07
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
On the 26th of October, 2007 as soon as Apple releases Leopard, I went to an Apple retailer here in Mumbai, India only to be told that “The release is postponed. We got official emails!” “What?”, I asked and thought to myself “Apple and not on time, postponed and I wasn’t aware. Did I miss the news feeds while I drove just 15 minutes from home to their store.”
Anyway, it was just one of the stupid sales-girl unaware of enough facts about Apple despite being stationed at an Apple Products Retailer/Store. It was later confirmed that Leopard is nowhere releasing anytime soon in India.
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