If you’re thinking of buying a MobileMe subscription, you may want to wait to see how Apple handles glitches with the transition from .Mac to the new service. As The Apple Blog and others have pointed out, Apple has done a poor job not only of making the transition, but also of responding to support [...]
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Apple Patent Hints at Notebook Tablet
As we all know, patent filings don’t mean the patents in question will ever see the light of day in a product. But it’s fun to imagine a notebook tablet Mac. In fact, I’ve been wishing Apple would create some sort of lightweight hybrid cross between a Newton and a MacBook for years now. Perhaps [...]
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Hilarious Mac v. PC Comparison at AOL.com
I thought we already had April Fool’s Day, but apparently it’s come late this year. AOL Shopping has a Mac v. PC comparison titled, “Mac vs. PC: Which is better?” that seems to have been written by someone with an only passing familiarity with computers. The article is brief, inaccurate, and unsigned. If I’d written [...]
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Law School IT Departments Paying Attention to Macs
Macs are showing up on law school campuses at a truly astonishing rate. At least two schools I know of are expecting half of the incoming fall 2008 students to be using Macs. This is a far cry from 2005, when the Intel Macs hadn’t been introduced and Macs were few and far between in [...]
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Common Access Card Readers on Macs
I don’t use a CAC reader, so I don’t know if this will be helpful for those of you having trouble using CAC readers with Macs. As Aaron reported earlier, it can be tricky getting them to work properly. A contact of mine at Apple passed along this document created at the Naval Postgraduate School: CAC on [...]
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