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Archive for April 2008

April 30th, 2008

MobileEdge Discount Offer

Great news for The After Mac readers! MobileEdge is offering a 15% discount on products sold via their web site. Just punch in the coupon code AfterMac when you make a purchase and you’ll be given the discount. Yay! The code is valid until Dec 31, 2008.
Thanks to Matthew of MobileEdge for extending us this [...]

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April 30th, 2008

iMac: More Power, Better Graphics

Apple just updated its iMac line of computers. The base configuration of the updated iMac sports a 2.4ghz Core 2 Duo processor, 6MB shared L2 cache and a 1066MHz front side bus.
Processors up to 3.06Ghz and an NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS with 512MB GDDR3 Memory are upgrades available to the 24″ model.
There are some component [...]

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April 29th, 2008

iPhone Plan for People With Disabilities: Good Job AT&T

I’m really happy with companies don’t forget the little people or minority such as people with disabilities. Why? I’m one of them. Most of us have had to take crap through no fault of our own and to be treated unfairly. So when companies such as AT&T does something to help make the lives of [...]

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April 29th, 2008

Canada To iPhone, Rogers!

Forbes reports that the iPhone is coming to Canada and the provider of choice is Rogers Communications. Rogers made this announcement today together with the release of its first quarter results.
Rogers is Canada’s leading carrier. It will give Apple access to around 6 million post paid subscribers.
The article hints about the fact that [...]

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April 28th, 2008

MobileEdge SlipSuit A Perfect Fit

I got an email from MobileEdge through this blog. I must admit I haven’t heard of the brand until they sent me an email. I checked out the their web site and was pleasantly surprised with their products. It looks stylish and the price is reasonable. My particular interest is the SlipSuit for the 17″ [...]

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April 28th, 2008

ClamXav: Free Virus Checker

I blogged about Taking Security Seriously a few days ago. ClamAV is a great virus checker but it’s really for geeks. ClamXav is a free virus checker but with a GUI. It uses the ClamAV engine so it offers the same quality.
I know that people think that the Mac is not as susceptible to Virus [...]

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April 27th, 2008

The Dastardly Line On The iMac LCD

Sometimes life can be cruel. I woke up this morning to find out from my brother that our iMac developed a line 1 pixel wide on the right side of its LCD. Apparently we’re not alone.
Apparently people have been experiencing this with their iMac 17″ models both the G5 and the Intel versions. Some [...]

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April 26th, 2008

Taking Security Seriously

I wrote an entry awhile back regarding a guide posted on Ars Technica on how to keep your Mac secure. Well there’s another interesting article on Ars. It’s about five important security apps for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.
My interest and yours too should be on the Mac apps. Ars lists 5 apps that [...]

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April 24th, 2008

Mac Sales Up

Apple posted it’s second quarter results last April 23, 2008. The most notable figure for me was the fact that Mac sales are up. Apple shipped 2,289,000 units in this period equating to a 51% unit growth.
Macs are gaining market share and it has nowhere else to go but up. Macs actually represented the [...]

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April 23rd, 2008

Speaking of Sleeves

A friend showed me WaterField tonight. It’s a bag maker based in San Francisco. They look like great bags but what I liked most was the sleeves.
Their laptop sleeves are made of high-grade neoprene and ballistic nylon. Like other sleeves it can stand alone or inserted in a bag.
The great thing about WaterField is that [...]

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