Entries from February 2007

Show Desktop in OS X

Date February 26, 2007

One of the very frustrating things in OS X is that you can not click the button and show Desktop. Well, you can … sort of. You have three options:

Press F11, this will engage expose and move all windows to the edge of your screen,
click anywhere on your desktop while holding Cmnd-Option on your keyboard [...]

Apple on the roof of Africa

Date February 25, 2007

Earlier today I visited my sister who returned last week from the trip to Africa. She showed me quite a few pictures she’s taken in Tanzania, but one picture caught my attention in a special way - the one of her reaching the top of Kilimanjaro.
Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa, 5,895 m asl [...]

Apple and Cisco settle over iPhone trademark

Date February 22, 2007

Cisco and Apple said that they had settled the trademark infringement lawsuit over Apple’s use of the iPhone name for its new mobile phone device.
The companies agreed that Apple may use the name in exchange for exploring interoperability between the companies’ products in security, consumer and business communications. Both companies said that other terms of [...]

Future of DRM - is Apple buying EMI?

Date February 20, 2007

Ever since Steve Jobs posted his thoughts on future of DRM on apple.com, there’s been a fierce discussion anywhere you look. The ivestment gurus, company executives, musicians, bloggers, critics, even a few totally drunk old ladies at the local retirement village have been debating it to the death. OK, only kidding, they weren’t that drunk [...]

When to buy a new Mac

Date February 13, 2007

Mactactic is a web service that analyses what’s the best time to buy, or not to buy, a new Mac. It uses historical data to predict the product life cycle and suggests when a new release is on the horizon.

You can also download Mactactic widget so you can keep an eye on new Macs straight [...]

Mac OS X Dock explained

Date February 11, 2007

What is Mac OS X Dock ? It’s the beautiful thing on the bottom of your screen, the thing you either love or hate, but the thing you can’t live without after you’ve been using it for a while. It provides easy access to some of the applications on your Mac, displays which applications are [...]