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Ive wins National Design Award

by Mike Schramm (Jul 20th, 2007)

It seems like Apple's Johnathan Ive does two things: design great products, and win awards for designing said products. So today's Ive news is of the second order-- at the National Design Awards in Washington on Wednesday, Ive picked up the product design award. According to the Washington Post, Ive ...

iBooklet server

by Dave Caolo (Jul 5th, 2007)

How we love enterprising geeks. "This machine isn't dead," they say, "it's prepped for re-purposing!" Thus was Jonas' thought process (maybe not verbatim) when he came across this 500mhz G3 ibook with a busted display. Other than the screen, the computer functioned perfectly, making it a good server ...

Repair your iBook's logic board with a candle

by Dave Caolo (Jun 25th, 2007)

Mark at Geek Technique received a 700mhz G3 iBook with video issues. The machine would boot, but produce no image on the display or when connected to an outside source. In fact, the issue he was experiencing has been documented by Apple, and a repair program was put in place. However, the program ...

"30 Days with Mac OS X"

by Erica Sadun (Jun 6th, 2007)

Bryan Boyko spent 30 days using Intel Macs running OS X, which he found to be well designed but not worth the price in the end. Unfortunately, he started by testing a Mac Mini with only 512M RAM rather than a better equipped unit and ran into a lot of swapping slow-downs. The inability of the OS X ...

This Old Mac: Icebooks

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jun 1st, 2007)

Remember when Apple ditched the clamshell iBooks and created the sleeker "icebook" form factor? My wife calls them Chiclets. Well we have 3 of them: a 500 MHz G3 from 2001 with a 10GB drive, a 800MHz G4 with a 60GB drive but a busted optical drive, and a 1.2GHz G4 with a 30GB drive but working ...

Class action lawsuits filed against Apple

by David Chartier (Jan 2nd, 2007)

Just when you think Apple's financial woes have begun to recede, Forbes.com alerts us to a slew of recently filed class action lawsuits that all have the big fruit in their sights. First up is yet another complaint alleging that Apple has created a monopoly by tying iTS purchases to the iPod and ...

Adventures in tech support: iBook edition

by Dave Caolo (Sep 4th, 2006)

Alternate title (and moral of the story): A good backup saves the day. When I'm not gleefully blogging for TUAW in our secret, undisclosed location (Scott's livingroom), I'm working as the "Computer Guy" for a large, Mac-friendly company (yes, I'm essentially Nick Burns). On Sunday I received an ...

Happy birthday, Airport

by Scott McNulty (Jul 22nd, 2006)

Ok, so we're a day late, but seven years ago yesterday Apple introduced their fabulous Airport technology. Check out the press release (Apple worked with Lucent on the Airport technology) and this article in CNN describing both the new Airport technology and the iBook, 'the first computer designed ...

iBook battery catches fire

by David Chartier (Jun 1st, 2006)

We hear about the occasional battery recall, and there are always the complaints that computers are getting too hot, but things went to a whole new level for a family in Minnesota. As WCCO in the Twin Cities reports, an 11 year-old boy set a running iBook down on the carpet and left the room. His ...

iBooks for 48 bucks

by Scott McNulty (Apr 27th, 2006)

The Maine Learning Technology Initiative has 30,000 iBooks that the state has mostly paid off, and they are looking to get rid of them. That's why they are selling them to the schools that they are in for $8 a pop (that's the difference in what the state has paid and what is left over). Now, keep in ...

Poll result: Select a MacBook color

by Dave Caolo (Apr 14th, 2006)

The results are in from our most recent, highly unscientific poll. The question was based on rumors that the forthcoming MacBook would be available in white, black and one other "mystery color." We asked: What color MacBook would you be likely to buy? Here's how you answered: Black: ...

Strange app of the day: UnPlugged

by David Chartier (Apr 6th, 2006)

I'm still scratching my head on this app, but I figured I'd post it and maybe you guys could help make sense of how an app like this would be useful. UnPlugged is a one-trick pony with the sole purpose of (drum roll please) notifying you when your Mac's power cable is unplugged. It can use Growl ...

macTV posts my least favorite Apple ad

by Dave Caolo (Mar 28th, 2006)

Remember "Middle Seat," the ad that featured an iBook-wielding airline passenger? For some inexplicable reason, he decides he's just got to work on his iMovie project during the flight, and he commandeers the dining trays of the poor people sitting on his left and right, which he ...

Skyn laptop covers

by Fabienne Serriere (Mar 9th, 2006)

In my relentless pursuit for all that is stylish or feminine in the world of tech, I come across some interesting accessories. One such product that I'm not in the market for are Skyns' girly laptop covers. These glorified stickers (described as "durable plastic/adhesive laptop covers") ...

How to cram a PCMCIA WiFi card into your iBook

by Dave Caolo (Feb 16th, 2006)

Livejournal user tanais decided that he wanted to get his 700mhz iBook on his wireless network, but didn't want to pay sky-high prices for a discontinued 802.11b card. So, he took a $16 Orinoco Silver PCMCIA card, physically stripped it down to its bare essentials (so that it would fit underneath ...