Posts Tagged ‘ Apple ’

How to Extend the Life of Your MacBook Pro Battery

  • September 17th, 2010
  • Posted in hardware

I’m on my third battery for my 2007 Apple 15″ MacBook Pro. The first two, thankfully covered by AppleCare, were replaced after their maximum capacity slowly reduced to unusable levels (10–20% of original capacity, 30 minutes or less of run time). Supposedly, these lithium-based batteries do not develop a “memory” from charging cycles, but something [ READ MORE ]

Date on Menu Bar in Mac OS X Leopard (10.5)

Why is Date in menu bar a "new" feature in Snow Leopard 10.6? This was one of the first things i changed when i got my MacBook Pro with OS X 10.5 back in December 2007. System Preferences… > International > Formats > Time / Customize… Show: Medium How To Make It Work The trick [ READ MORE ]

Apples vs Oranges

My beef with “Laptop Hunters” is they pit apples (Apple hardware) vs “PCs” but are pimping oranges (Windows software). Fair? To be clear, these are not Dell or Lenovo or HP advertisements. These are Windows ads from Microsoft. Let’s not forget that any Intel Mac can run Windows. I’d had a hunch these ads were [ READ MORE ]

Quick Look Full Screen Shortcut

Handy shortcut for Leopard’s odd-behaving Quick Look feature. Command-Option-Y will Quick Look files directly in full screen. Great for viewing images (takes a sec to load). Esc goes up a folder while in full screen. To exit from the keyboard hit Command-Option-Y. If you Alt-Tab to another program, then Alt-Tab back to Full Screen, you’ll [ READ MORE ]

Gone Macbook Gone

The search for Air [via Low End Mac[ READ MORE ]

The Years