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Posts Tagged with macbook pro

Rockin the Lap

iLap 1 - Small - Snagged from Rain Design’s Site I love my MacBok Pro, but it gets far too hot far too quickly when I have it sitting in my lap, and as I got this machine specifically to have the flexibility to use it when and where I…

Photoshop CS3 Beta

Adobe has announced that they will release a beta of Photoshop CS3 today (Dec. 15). Needless to say I am awaiting the release with high levels of anticipation as it will come out as a Universal Binary on the Mac, which means…

Remote Buddy

Remote Buddy “gives you control over the rest of your [Mac] via the remote control and also improves the available functionality in those apps that already supported the remote control by themselves.”

Right-click in XP on MacBook Pro

Add right-click to XP on MacBook and MacBook Pro - This should make life much easier while testing code on XP in Bootcamp, and I would assume Parallels as well.

Boot Camp

The pieces are falling into place… My shift to the Mac will be complete, now that Apple has released Boot Camp, software that will allow users to run Windows XP on Intel based Macs. A tasty quote from the release:

“Apple…

Remote Destruction of Data on a Stolen Laptop

Mac Geekery has a nice little article discussing how to remotely destroy data on your laptop should it be stolen. The concept is great, and the use of Perl could easily be replaced by other technologies. I like the idea of…

Mac Laptop Theft Recovery

For those with a Mac laptop, Orbicule’s Undercover software could prove a very useful bit of kit, should the computer ever be stolen. If someone absconds with your iBook/Powerbook/MacBook Pro, Undercover will reveal the Net location (IP address) of the machine…