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[5 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 36 views]
iMaxi case for your iPad

Need protection for your iPad? Jokes surrounding the name for Apple’s latest device have been floating around since the second Steve Jobs announced the product, but these guys take the pie for making it the jokes a reality.

This iMaxi product with wings is probably slated as a gag that will humiliate that insane Apple fanboy/fangirl in your life who incessantly talks about Apple, Apple, APPLE. It’s fairly cheap to give away as a crazy gift, but I wouldn’t be caught dead with one. If you’re really, really keen on getting …

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[7 Dec 2009 | 2 Comments | 123 views]
Facebook pages of Bill Gates & Steve Jobs

In a humorous article I saw recently in PC World, I thought I’d extract the fictitious profiles of 2 of the greatest tech innovators of all time and share them with you. They put a smile on my face, something we all need on a Monday morning, huh?
Here’s Bill Gates of Microsoft fame – note the snide comments to Steve Jobs. Looks at the contextual advertisement that appeared on the right hand column too!

And now, Steve Jobs, the man who brought us Apple computers (and nearly Apple everything these days!). …

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[15 Nov 2009 | 77 Comments | 8,540 views]
Remove the Ikee virus from your iPhone

Oh bugger, I’ve been Rickrolled! I was out getting tea and I received a phone call – I spotted Rick’s face which shocked me for a bit, but then remembered reading about the virus which originated in Australia. I guess it crawled fast enough over to my iPhone from there. After doing research and reading several incomplete methods on cleaning up the virus, I’ve put together a comprehensive 2 part article – how to remove it, and how to secure your iPhone from getting infected by it.
If you haven’t heard, …

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[3 Nov 2009 | 3 Comments | 308 views]
What if Microsoft and Apple built cars

This is a really funny comic graphic, shared on Twitter by @kellster

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[27 Oct 2009 | 33 Comments | 6,206 views]
Hackintoshing with Snow Leopard

I’ve been intrigued by Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6) ever since it came out. Sure, many people hail it as the king of bugfixes (just like what Windows 7 is to Vista), but it does sport some pretty nifty features beneath that facade which are unseen.
Anyhow, in keeping with the times, we needed a new Mac-based machine in the office and I decided to get grimy and build one with Snow Leopard AND Windows. Yup, dual-booting it’s called. Over the weekend, I encountered numerous grey screens of death, hung computers and …

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[5 Aug 2009 | 16 Comments | 1,699 views]
iPhone 3G vs iPhone 3Gs camera comparison

Last weekend, I attended a wedding and had the opportunity to use 2 iPhones simultaneously to capture photos. @warrentan had just picked up his iPhone 3Gs the night before and it was still brand spankin’ new! Here’s a side-by-side comparison of how the photos turned out from both phones.
For the iPhone 3Gs, I did use the tap-to-focus on the subject feature. All photos are not touched up, and are saved at the highest quality after adding the watermark in Photoshop.
Initial observations are that the tap-to-focus on the iPhone 3Gs also …

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[20 Jul 2009 | No Comment | 301 views]
Fixing Apple Mac Mail IMAP error

One day, after making the switch to using Apple Mac Mail coupled with IMAP retrieval through Google Apps, I was unpleasantly surprised by a “goobledigook” error message.
Sure it beats the Microsoft error messages of “An exception 06 has occured at 0028:C11B3ADC” (Do I locate that on Google maps? Or is that on someone’s Tee?), but it was still pretty darn foreign to me.
After doing some research, I found the solution, which was hidden under a haystack, under another haystack. In case you encounter an error message like the following, I …

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[15 Apr 2009 | One Comment | 58 views]

I’m not one of those crazy Mac fanatics who frowns on PC users, but here’s a very funny photo that I received in my email recently.
Is he a spy? Perhaps his Mac was at the doctors for service?

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[25 Feb 2009 | No Comment | 4 views]

Oh great… the secret is out now. It seems Lois Lane now knows the true identity behind Superman. iPhoto just had to spoil it by identifying them both. For those who don’t yet know, iPhoto ‘09 has a feature where it tries to identify the people in your photos automatically. It will then ask you to confirm whether it got it right or not.
When I first “heard” about the concept of this comic, it totally cracked me up and I knew I had to hunt it down and share it. …

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[4 Feb 2009 | 6 Comments | 208 views]

If you’ve just gotten a new Mac, taken it out of the shiny box (or started off with Hackintoshes like me!), then installed Mozilla Firefox, you might wonder why the tab button does not move the cursor within forms as it should (or as you are used to anyway).
I’m the type who uses the tab button to switch between text fields, radio buttons, list boxes and submit buttons. But when I got the Mac, I was flabbergasted for a good day or two as the tab button behavior drove me …