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Day: Monday, January 19th, 2009

Quick iPhone/iPod Touch Mail Tip: Hidden “.com” Button

Learned about this little tip over at Mac Help Blog.
When you compose an email and you are typing a new email address in you can hold down on the period button at the bottom for extra options.

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Interactive Museum Display: Running on Mac Pros

The “Surviving Australia” exhibit at the Australian Museum in Sydney has an interactive display that I would love to see first hand. According to Dan Moren from MacUser.com the six meter table is powered by “four synced Mac Pros and four video projectors.” Dan also found out that the software used for the display was [...]

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Windows Worm: 8 Million PC’s hit in a week

photo credit: pshutterbug
Just saw this in the news this morning…
DailyTech – New Rampant Windows Worm Seizes 8 Million Business PCs in a Week .
“As of today, an estimated 8.9 million machines are infected with the virus.  The very sophisticated worm exploits multiple secure flaws in Microsoft’s Windows OS’s.  It injects itself into services.exe, a common system process.  [...]

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A Mac in the White House?

I found this to be an interesting question only one day away from the inauguration. In the political scene we already know that state senators from Nebraska are coming back to brand new MacBook Airs. This was a decision that caused some rumblings from Nebraska State Senator Tony Fulton during these hard economic times. 
Aside from whether [...]

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