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How to improve the mouse speed on Mac OS X

Ok, I've been annoyed by this since the very first day I've been using my Mac Mini: the mouse feels weird, very weird. Broken actually!Part of my problem was the Bluetooth operating range, which I could only fix by moving the mac nearer to where I us…...

September 16, 2007 · 7 min · François Planque

iPod touch: what's missing!

So that new iPod touch that Apple presented today is pretty nifty, isn't it? And Steve's keynote was pretty entertaining too. Yeah well... there's quite a few missing features (no it's not the Beatles) that itch me... even before I lay down the $399 I…...

September 6, 2007 · 12 min · François Planque

Mac OS vs Windows font rendering

I want to recommend this post by Joel Spolski about differences in font rendering philosophy between Mac OS & Windows. I never really understood why Apple failed to render sharp fonts on screen. Now I understand the purpose. I'm still not sure…...

June 26, 2007 · 1 min · François Planque

The truth about Safari for Windows

Everybody's talking about Apple's release of their Safari web browser for Windows. And everybody's speculating about how Apple needs to convince Windows developers to make their sites iPhone compatible (the iPhone includes Safari) or how Apple wants to…...

June 23, 2007 · 1 min · François Planque

AppleJack

If you crash your mac: AppleJack! And even if you don't crash your Mac bad, you want AppleJack. Everytime you hard reset/reboot your mac you add a few errors on your hard drive structure. And as time goes by, you get more and more of those turning…

November 11, 2006 · 1 min · François Planque

How Apple got green overnight...

At Apple's last special event, after introducing the new iPods, Steve Jobs added this: "We've got some new packagings for the new nano as well. And it's 52% less volume. This turns out to be an environmentally great thing. Because it dramatically…...

September 30, 2006 · 28 min · François Planque

iPod car integration: not quite!

On the last Apple special event, Steve Jobs was almost bragging about the fact that 70% of new cars sold in the US this year had (optional!) iPod “integration” available… Obviously, he didn’t talk about the rest of the world.…...

September 25, 2006 · 31 min · François Planque

Apple Mighty Mouse goes wireless... but how far away?

Wireless Mighty Mouse Until now, Apple had a cool mouse called the Mighty Mouse with all the advanced features you'd expect from a mouse (right click, scroll weel... even better: multidirectional scrolling ball)... it just wasn't wireless. Apple also…...

August 2, 2006 · 2 min · François Planque

About Apple Bluetooth

One of my biggest frustrations with the Mac Mini has been using the mouse... the Bluetooth Wireless Mouse actually... The pointer movement just wasn't smooth enough... just not as responsive as it is on Windows... I first blamed it on using PowerPC…...

July 26, 2006 · 3 min · François Planque

Two weeks of facts about the Intel Mac Mini

The 10 feet interface Okay, well, one of the reasons I've been quiet for the last two weeks is because I got myself one of those intel Mac Minis... The bottom line is: I love that thing! But here's a little more details... including answers I…...

April 10, 2006 · 9 min · François Planque