OS 10.4.9 Update Causing Ugly Crashes

OS 10.4.9 Update Causing Ugly Crashes
If, like me, you install every new Apple software update the second it hits their servers, you might want to reconsider. Loyal ready Darcy wrote in to tell me about the nasty, violent crash he dealt with from the update to Mac OS X 10.4.9, which was released yesterday.

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How To: Clean Your Black MacBook

How To: Clean Your Black MacBook
"The matte finish of the “BlackBook” is notorious for attracting fingerprints and smudges, and the keys get very oily, even when the typist’s hands are seemingly completely clean. Needless to say, I searched high and low for a good way to remedy this problem, trying everything from soap and water to household cleaners. Luckily none of these..."

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MacBook Nightmare - 6 Lemons in a Row

MacBook Nightmare - 6 Lemons in a Row
Is Apple covering up a mass problem with the MacBook? First a MacBook exploding, now one customer gets 6 MacBooks in a row with faults and told by Apple just to take the refund, they won't replace them anymore.

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22 Excellent MacOSX Hidden Tips and Hints from MacWorld

22 Excellent MacOSX Hidden Tips and Hints from MacWorld
This is a quick summary of a presentation by Rob Griffiths at the MacWorldEncore Conf & Expo. It has a bunch of cool tips like making the expanded Save dialog the default for all programs, quickly combine PDFs, selective import from your camera into iPhoto, and a lot more. This is much quicker than the hour-plus presentation!

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Best 7 Must Have iPod Applications

Best 7 Must Have iPod Applications
This is a list of 7 applications that are designed to make up the ground that iTunes hasn't kept pace with.

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Monitor your Mac and more with GeekTool

Monitor your Mac and more with GeekTool
If you like to monitor your system using age-old command line tools like uptime and top, you want the free GeekTool on your Mac. Today we'll cover how to automatically embed command output, text files and even monitoring images - like web site traffic charts - onto your Mac desktop with GeekTool.

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NIN releases Garageband files for their newest single Survivalism

NIN releases Garageband files for their newest single Survivalism
This is similar to what they did with The Hand that Feeds and Only files. You now have the ability to completely construct / deconstruct Survivalism however you want to. They plan to release every song off of Year Zero like this, oh fun!

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