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Antennagate: Why Didn’t Apple Pick A Better Weak Spot?

Like many people I’ve been following the iPhone 4 Antennagate issue with some interest, since I’m thinking about upgrading from my old iPhone 3G to the new iPhone 4 when it arrives here in Australia....

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Time for a new Mac!

It’s over 4 years since I bought my first Mac: A lovely white iMac Core Duo 20″ (the first Intel iMac IIRC). It’s served me well over the years, but in the last few months it’s really started to slow...

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A Tale of Two MacBook Pros, Flickering Screens, and AppleCare

Well, I must first apologize for the recent lack of updates. This is mainly due to our new baby daughter taking up a lot of my time, but it’s also due to a lot of faffing around with my new Mac – a...

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MacBook Pro 17″ 2010 Review

I’ve been wanting to write this review for over a month, but various events such as babies, tummy bugs and flickering screens have got in the way. But all that stuff is (mostly) behind me now. So here...

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How to Import DV Clips into iMovie ’09, Preserving the Recording Dates

I recently started using iMovie ’09 on my new MacBook Pro. Since I had a few unfinished projects in my old iMovie HD (iMovie ’06) on my old iMac, I decided to import them to iMovie ’09 so I could edit...

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iMovie’s Dirty Little Secret: Colour Banding

(This one has been driving me nuts for weeks…) My new MacBook Pro came with iMovie ’09, so I decided to edit some 3-year-old DV tapes of my son that I still hadn’t dealt with. The output quality was...

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How to fix iOS Mail ‘Cannot Verify Server Identity’ error with self-signed...

Since upgrading my iPhone to iOS 4.2.1 I continually received this annoying popup every time I sent or received email: I use SSL for both sending and receiving email, and my mail server uses a...

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Ars reviews the Motorola Xoom

Ars Technica’s in-depth review of the Motorola Xoom tablet includes this nugget: Getting music onto the device wasn’t as straightforward as I had hoped. Most Android phones have limited internal...

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Dell finally gives in to Apple

Dell: “OK Apple, you were right. You do design the best-looking laptops. So rather than trying to innovate, we’ll just copy yours (badly)!” That has to be the ugliest-looking keyboard I’ve ever seen....

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AirPrint to Any Printer with Printopia

This looks like a damn useful Mac app if you want to print via your iPhone/iPad and don’t have an AirPrint-compatible printer (i.e. most printers):

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