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Check out this picture. My Asus Eee PC (*) next to a 12-inch PowerBook. What’s really crazy is that the Eee has a faster processor. I had total flashbacks today seeing these two computers next to each other. The 12-inch was my *favorite* Mac of all time. I built a blog around blogging about that [...]

So remember how a bastard spam blog took over my old blog’s namespace? Well, I went ahead and used WordPress’s nice Blogger integration to import all my old 3650 and a 12-inch posts, so that site is now part of this site.
w00t!

I don’t normally “narq” on people, but I’m a little ticked off. As you may remember, I was selling Kristin’s old 12-inch PowerBook on ebay. The auction had about 3 buyers bidding on it, things were looking good and at the last minute anna_cole40@yahoo.com won the auction. She then emailed me and asked if it [...]

This works well:

For those of you that also have a RAZR V3 (or are thinking about getting one), this is the info you need to make it work with Cingular as a Internet gateway for your Mac via Bluetooth.

Following the instructions in this link, I’m posting this from my Cingular connection. Nice.

So, remember the other day, when I mentioned that I fried my PSP? Well, it turns out that I only fried the ability to charge it / run it off the AC adapter. Evidently, you shouldn’t plugin the PSP without the battery inside as if fries that basic connection. I bought a new battery [...]

This is cool:

EVDO StompBox Project Turn on your laptop, join the network and voila — you’re on the net! It’s just like using a hotspot (such as they have at Starbucks and airports), but it goes anywhere you car goes.

I want a battery-powered version of this that is small enough to throw into my laptop [...]

Attention to all you theme-heads with an AlPowerBook:

MacThemes.net | News
Albook is designed for owners of Apple’s aluminum Powerbooks, though it works as a professional theme for any Mac user. The extremely complete guiKit includes three theme variants, ten application skins for each, a system icon replacement set with about a hundred application icons skinned, a [...]

The new Powerbooks may have slow trackpads, but at least there’s a bright screen:

Several readers note that both the screens, and the backlit keyboards are brighter on the new PowerBook models.
While lamenting the slow trackpad speed, Thom Deevers notes the more intense screen and keyboard lighting. [via MacFixIt]

Cool.

It looks like the new PowerBooks’ trackpads’ added features may come at the expense of speed.

Check this page for all the details on the brand new G4 Powerbooks (which means G5s probably won’t roll out for another 6 months to a year). Besides the faster processors in all three models, two interesting tidbits caught my eye on the page:

. . . every PowerBook G4 features a new trackpad with [...]

Check this out:

Apple website points to PowerBook G5 | The Register Within an hour of posting the story, and the screenshot we took as evidence, Apple altered the HTML to replace g5 with g4. Don’t hang around, do they?

I don’t buy it. I doubt there’s a G5 Powerbook around the corner. Even if [...]

Hello, all. I’m going to blog announcements as they appear in MacMerc’s IRC chat. I’m in both the #macmerc and #mercworld channels if anyone wants to drop in and say hi.
Steve has started talking. Beginning with bragging about success of the Apple Store, iMac sales, etc.
Demoing Tiger and Spotlight. Tiger on target [...]

From the date-stamp on this post it looks like the battery life on my Apple Bluetooth Mouse lasted for a little over a full 3 months before going kaput about 15 minutes ago. Pretty impressive. Now I just have to dig up a new AAAAA (Oops; Thanks, Dan!) battery…

(Subtitle: Look at all the stuff I got!!!)
We spent the last several days out on Long Island with Kristin’s family. It was fun, but it is nice to be back home.
Christmas Eve, we had a very nice Italian seafood dinner at her Aunt Lisa’s place with shrimp scampi and fresh fried calamari. We exchanged [...]

Coolness:

AirPort Blog: Rogue Amoeba Expands AirPort Express to All Apps
This one deserves an exclamation point. Rogue Amoeba has used their very clever brains to extend AirPort Express wireless music streaming (AirTunes is Apple’s name for it) so that any application can stream its sound to an AirPort Express. Here’s that exclamation point: ! Coming in [...]

I want this: MCE 8X “SuperDrive” Upgrade for PowerBook G4.

You know when I said that my Porsche-designed LaCie Drive runs a little hot… Yeah, well, today I realized I had my Mac set to not allow drives to cycle down when plugged in. Now it runs cooler than my sperm-killing 12-inch Powerbook.

Several months ago, I blogged the idea to build some sort of x/y axis based USB interface to put over the screen on my 12-inch Powerbook to make it a touchscreen (can’t seem to find the post to save my life, but I assure you I did blog this idea somewhere). I offered the [...]