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Top 5 Myths about Mac

Posted by kianyang on Friday, September 26th, 2008

Quite possibly one of the most talked about topic when it comes to a Mac. Here are 5 popular myths about the Mac and my personal take on them.
5. Macs are difficult to operate.
This is probably a less common myth that I hear nowadays but nonetheless there are still some people who believes that Macs [...]

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Posted by kianyang on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Hello and welcome to my blog on Macs, design trends and interesting tech news from around. This blog will  also serve as my test bed to master CSS and the WordPress engine. The template you see on this site was based off of WordPressFun from Maleika Attawel (http://rockatee.com/) which was featured on Smashing Magazine. Simply [...]

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Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category

Engadget Reviews the MacBook and MacBook Pro

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Engadget has covered an indepth review of the latest MacBook and MacBook Pro from Apple and screen comparison from all the previous models as well. Read all about it here:
Engadget - MacBook and MacBook Pro review

Apple’s New MacBook / MacBook Pro Coverage

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Since the release, there’s been a wide coverage of the new MacBook and MacBook Pros and here I’ve collected some of the more interesting ones around the net. You’ve gotta check out Apple Insider’s article on the new MacBook fabrication process with photos and a few interesting points from ArsTechnica on the new button-less track [...]

New MacBook and MacBook Pros

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

The cat’s out of the bag. Apple has unveiled the latest line of MacBook and MacBook Pros. So let’s see, the new MBs/MBP sare indeed using the new “brick” manufacturing process, MBs are now all aluminium based designs, sadly the rumors of a sub $800 model didn’t materialized but good news is that the MBs [...]

New Rumored MacBooks and MacBook Pros Line Up on October 14

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

There’s been a lot of buzz lately surrounding Apple’s recently announced special media-only invite event at their Town Hall in Cupertino on October 14. The invite features what appears to be an unknown MacBook model with a ray of light over its cover followed by the tagline “The spotlight turns to notebooks”. ArsTechnica has some [...]

5 Tips to Get Started on Your New MacBook

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

If you’ve just bought yourself a new MacBook with Leopard, here are 5 quick tips to set it up to enhance your productivity.
1. Enable Multitouch
Multitouch is one of the much touted feature on the iPhone and iPod Touch which was later introduced in the newer lines of MacBook. Multitouch on a MacBook allows you to [...]

Google Chrome for MacOSX CrossOver Chromium

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Well, it sure didn’t take long for the folks at CodeWeavers to whip out a MacOSX port of the most talked about browser this season, Google Chrome. CrossOver Chromium is essentially a build of Google’s Chromium project that runs natively on MacOSX and various Linux distribution based on their Wine emulation API. Since its not [...]

Caffeine

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Having problems keeping your Mac awake during those long presentations ? Or you just didn’t want the screen dimming to kick in. Well, give your Mac some Caffeine and that ought to do the trick. Caffeine is a nifty free utility that stays in your menu bar and allows you disable screensaver, sleep and screen [...]

Top 5 Myths about Mac

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Quite possibly one of the most talked about topic when it comes to a Mac. Here are 5 popular myths about the Mac and my personal take on them.
5. Macs are difficult to operate.
This is probably a less common myth that I hear nowadays but nonetheless there are still some people who believes that Macs [...]