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New Mac in the house

Scott February 19, 2007 Apple No Comments

Yesterday we stopped at CompUSA to look for a new MP3 player for my wife. We are going on a trip in a few weeks and she wanted something cheap to listen to on the flight, and we were thinking of a 2GB Sandisk or something comparable for around $100 or so. The idea of cheap didn’t work out so well, we ended up with a 80GB video iPod and a Macbook Pro. Nice impulse buy, huh? We had been planning on her buying a new laptop soon anyways, and she’d been leaning towards switching to a Mac since I’ve … Continue Reading

Mac switcher tip - Two for one special

Scott February 01, 2007 Apple No Comments

Apple should produce a nice ergonomic keyboard. Since they don’t, I’ve resorted to using a Microsoft wireless natural keyboard and mouse. Microsoft has Mac drivers that add a new control panel to the system preferences, and other than my needing to remember that the Alt key is really my Command key everything is good. Except for the first couple times the Mac went to sleep. With the original Apple keyboard I would press a key or move the mouse to wake from sleep, but this won’t work with the Microsoft keyboard. I needed a workaround.

The first tip is that you … Continue Reading