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The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Macintosh: Part 1
A Brief and Warped History of the Mac, part 1(in which the Mac doesnâ€t appear). By Rick Tanner Welcome to the first column in my series. I would at this point like to tell you what the column is going...
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The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Macintosh: Part 2
A Brief and Warped History of the Mac, part 2 (in which the Mac is born) By Rick Tanner Welcome back to my column, where last week I left you all hanging in the story of the Mac. Appologies to anyone...
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The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Macintosh: Part 3
A Brief and Warped History of the Mac, part 3 (in which the Mac sucks) By Rick Tanner Welcome back to my column – I am surprised youâ€re still reading this given last weeks warning. Read on, but...
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The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Macintosh: Part 4
A Brief and Warped History of the Mac, part 4 (in which the Mac readies a come-back) By Rick Tanner Welcome back to my column – and if youâ€ve followed the story this far then you are truly a Mac...
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The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Macintosh: Part 5
A Brief and Warped History of the Mac, part 5 (in which the Mac is reborn) By Rick Tanner Welcome back to my column – by now Iâ€m sure only the dedicated Mac Geek will be with me so I can probably...
View ArticleAll You Need is Love… and iLife
by Ben Hampton (http://www.macfriends.com) The first time I heard that the Beatles’ AppleCorp had sued Apple Computer, Inc. back in 1981 over the “Apple” name, it stung. Then when AppleCorp and Apple...
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The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Macintosh: Part 6
A Brief and Warped History of the Mac, part 6 (in which the Mac rocks) By Rick Tanner Welcome back to my column – I imagine that many readers will be wondering when this insight into the past of the...
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The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Macintosh: Part 7
A Brief and Warped History of the Mac, part 7 (Soul of a Mac) By Rick Tanner Welcome to the HitchHikerâ€s Guide to the Macintosh. Firstly, I want to say thanks to all the people who emailed me or left...
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The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Macintosh: Part 8
A Brief and Warped History of the Mac, part 8 (My Favourite Mac) By Rick Tanner This week, Iâ€ve been in the mood to reminisce and have been thinking about all the Macs Iâ€ve owned, used or lusted...
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The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Macintosh: Part 9
A Brief and Warped History of the Mac, part 9 (WozCast) By Rick Tanner Taking a break from the Mac itself, this week the column is going to focus on something that may have been the PodCasting of its...
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The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Macintosh: Part 10
A Brief and Warped History of the Mac, part 10 (Future OS) By Rick Tanner With Mac OS X version 10.5, Leopard in the works and Windows Vista, er, having its name unveiled, my thoughts have turned to...
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The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Macintosh: Part 11
A Brief and Warped History of the Mac, part 11 (Single Button Simplicity) By Rick Tanner I’m a huge fan of the MacCast. There are several reasons why I favour it over pretty much every other Macintosh...
View ArticleVista On Intel Macs Looks Likely
By Matt Hoult (staff writer) Microsoft has released the required system specifications for running Windows Vista. Does this really effect Mac users you may ask? Well yes, possibly. Since the...
View ArticleThe Story Behind the iPod “Scratch” Lawsuit
The Truth is Out There So ask yourself how you would feel if overnight you were suddenly hated and villified by an entire community just for speaking your mind on a few Mac forums and blogs (the...
View ArticleThe Thermal Paste Debate Rages On
By Matt Hoult & Adam Christianson We have all heard (and even been a part of) the rumors that the MacBook Pros heat issues are stemming from the amount of thermal paste applied. Not too long ago an...
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Learn from my mistakes. Please.
Here is a story about why you should all do as I say and not as I do. About a week and a half ago my 20″ iMac G5 started to turn off by itself. I thought it was a fluke at first, but when it happened 2...
View ArticleWhen is it Bloatware?
With the official word from Apple that Steve will give us a glimpse of Leopard at the World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) in August the media frenzy to predict new features is starting to roll into...
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MightMouse goes wireless
Can losing the cord save the mediocre Mighty Mouse? Well at least Apple finally caught a clue and fixed one of my major complaints about the Mighty Mouse. It should have been Bluetooth from the...
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Saving the Mighty Mouse’s Day
by Erik Uetz Apple’s Mighty Mouse can’t seem to catch a break. I’m still amazed at the bad reviews it gets. And almost all the reviews of the new wireless version seem to have the same ‘Too little, too...
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FrontRow a no go on Pro?
I am not really sure how I missed this one, but I guess (like many others) I was so blown away by the awesome specifications of the new Mac Pro that I didn’t notice an interesting omission. Now I need...
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