Entries from August 2008

Australian Mac sales up 52%

Date August 24, 2008

Australians are switching to Macs at a faster rate than almost anywhere else in the world.
Research firm Gartner’s latest figures show Mac sales grew 52 per cent in the second quarter - nearly six times the rate of the PC industry overall.
This is even better than in the US, where Mac sales have been growing [...]

Publishing with iWeb

Date August 6, 2008

Publishing with iWeb can sometimes be pain in the neck, unless you are using Mobile Me (.Mac). FTP-ing your changes onto the web server can be extremely frustrating as you are not always sure which files are new  or which ones have changed. The easy way out, of course, is to upload the entire site, [...]

How to revive a dead hard drive

Date August 3, 2008

If you are one of a numerous victims of MacBook and MacBook Pro hard drive failures, there is a glimpse of hope that you can still have your data recovered. It involves removing the hard drive from its enclosure, from the computer in this case.
Removing the hard drive from a MacBook is a breeze, it [...]