Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category

Apple Preview PDF Bug

For a long time I had an ongoing problem optimizing PDFs in CS3 (I believe the problem occurs with CS2 and possibly other versions too). After a file had been optimized it wouldn’t display or print properly from Apple Preview. Elements of the PDF would either be missing or only partially displayed. I found documentation of the bug online but in each case the person said there was no known workaround.

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$200 Price Drop on Apple iPhone

iPhoneI’m probably the last person who cares to actually find out about this, but last night Apple dropped the price on the 8GB iPhone from $599 to $399! And they added new touch iPods that are basically the iPhone without the phone (but with the web features and apps) that start at $299.

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One step closer to world domination

Apple – Boot Camp might bring in a lot of Windows users who will be willing to experiment with OS X so long as they have the option to switch to Windows at any time. Especially given the fact that the MacBook Pro is the fastest Windows XP notebook on the market.

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Apple’s Burning Ring of Fire

An amazing thing happened to me today. I was sitting at my laptop working when, all of a sudden, the connector for the power cord that plugs into the laptop caught on fire. I yanked the cord immediately. The thing gave off a few thin tendrils of smoke and then died a quiet, peaceful death.

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SXSW Update

A collection of links, applications (Textmate), presentations (Microformats), and photos (Flickr stream) from the last few days at SXSW 2006. This is a very tiny list — there just are not enough hours in the day for more, but everything on the list is worth checking out.

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When Good Interfaces Go Bad

I had been wondering why I read Daring Fireball for about a week now when this post popped up in my news reader: iLife ’06 From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal Interface.

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