Category: Computing
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Make Magazine: Digital
I’ve been thinking about switching my Make magazine subscription from the ‘Premier’ paper+digital to digital only. The digital edition of Make is available as a PDF, which is easily imported into iTunes as an eBook, which in turn is easily synced to the iPad. In addition to the obvious advantages such as reduced cost, faster delivery and…
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How to Clean a Mighty Mouse
As with many Apple products, the Mighty Mouse is an absoute nightmare to disassemble. Normally I wouldn’t care, but the Mighty Mouse has a major design flaw that results in a non-functional trackball after a relatively short period of normal use. There is no shortage of how-to guides for cleaning a Mighty Mouse, though most…
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Non-Apple TV Update (Again)
It’s been a while, but here is another update on my non-Apple TV. The set up has remain largely unchanged, though the usage has evolved with changes in the available video sources. First up, hardware. The system is currently based on a Mac Mini 1.66 GHz Core Du0 with 2GB RAM, and a 500GB internal HDD– the old…