Applelinks Tech Web Reader - Thursday, May 1, 2008
Apple's USB Power Famine - What's happening with USB power on the iMac?
Excess Thermal Paste Causing High Temps In MacBook Air?
MacBook Air: Apparent Overheating, Leading To Freezes
Save the Internet!
Top Ten OS X Tips You May Not Have Thought Of
The World Wide Web turns 15 (again)
A Very Pismo Christmas in April
Evade E-mail Exasperation
US beak pecks at RIAA's 'making available' filesharing attack
Alienware Unveils Its Most Powerful Notebook Ever: the Area-51 m17x
How To Open An Alternate iTunes Library File Or Create A New One
The Mac Night Owl: Apple and the Enterprise: A New Focus?
The Mac Night Owl: Why the iPod is Not a Walkman
Gene Steinberg meets Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus, Steve "Mr. Gadget" Kruschen and commentator Daniel Eran Dilger this week on The Tech Night Owl
Apple's USB Power Famine - What's happening with USB power on the iMac?
ITWire's Stephen Withers says:
Back on the iMac G5, each of the three USB ports could supply 500mA - plenty for any bus-powered device, and enough to allow the connection of an unpowered hub with multiple devices that only require the normal 100mA or less.
Fast forward to the "April 2008" iMacs, and things have changed. There are still three USB ports, but only one of them can be used as a high-power port at any given time (source: iMac Developer Note, Apple).
For the full report visit here:
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/17994/1151/
Excess Thermal Paste Causing High Temps In MacBook Air?
The Apple Core's Jason D. O'Grady says:
Remember the thermal paste problem with earlier MacBook Pros that was reported back in May 2006? Well, it's back.
Chief Japanese Mac disassembler Kodawarisan took apart his MacBook Air (of course) and discovered a metric-ass-load of thermal paste (also called "thermal grease") on the top of the CPU and GPU......
Temperature Monitor was reporting the temperature of his Core 2 Duo chip to be running between 50 and 70? (122 and 158 degrees Fahrenheit).Which is quite toasty....
For the full commentary visit here:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1662
MacBook Air: Apparent Overheating, Leading To Freezes
MacFixit says:
Though the MacBook Air is generally one of the coolest Apple notebooks shipped to date in terms of surface temperature, systems appear to be overheating under various circumstances for some users, resulting in freezes.....
Overheating issues were extant with early iterations of the MacBook Pro and MacBook as well. Some postulated the units contained too much thermal grease, though those theories were seemingly debunked for the most part, with most users reporting similar temperatures after re-applying a thinner layer of thermal grease.
Still, some MacBook Air owners have resorted to scraping excess thermal grease from their systems' logic boards -- a dangerous, warranty-voiding procedure. This Japanese site has one user's experience and some instructions for disassembling the MacBook Air.....
Again, we strongly recommend against attempting a thermal grease reduction procedure.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20080430103136867
Save the Internet!
PCMag's Lance Ulanoff says:
The Internet as we know it is in jeopardy. Soon you may be saying so long to those nights spent consuming countless videos of all kinds, uploading big photos to Flicker, communing with friends via webcam, and backing up your whole hard drive to the Web. The cost of using the Internet is about to go way, way up, and if you don't speak out now, the ISPs are going to flip you over and shake you until your pockets are empty.
I'm dead serious.
There's a proposal floating around among ISPs to start charging you for the amount of data you download (and possibly upload). So instead of a flat rate for promised but rarely realized download and upload speeds, you'll pay for every gigabyte you suck down and send up....
For the full report visit here:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2289143,00.asp
Top Ten OS X Tips You May Not Have Thought Of
Peter White has posted a top 10 tips article on OS X
The tips include
Multi Screening on your mac.
Sharing Internet over Wireless
Bluetooth Internet through your phone
Watching TV on your mac
Keeping an eye on your memory limit
More....
You can read the article at:
http://www.imafish.co.uk/articles/10-useful-mac-tips-you-might-not-have-thought-of
The World Wide Web turns 15 (again)
In a BBC report, Dr James Gillies, Director of communications, Cern, says:
The World Wide Web has many birthdays.
March 1989, when Tim Berners-Lee handed his boss a short document entitled Information Management: a Proposal, is one.
Christmas of the following year, when the Web was up and running on two computers, is another.
But perhaps the most important Web anniversary of all is 30 April 1993.
That's the day that Cern put the web in the public domain, thereby ensuring that the world would have a single system for accessing the Internet, instead of a Microsoft Web, a Macintosh Web and who knows, perhaps even an Amstrad Web....
More fundamentally, however, the original browser only ran on NeXT computers. To see it in all its glory, people at Cern had to visit Tim Berners-Lee's office, and as Sendall later remarked, that was hardly the point.
[Editor's note: Of particular interest to Apple fans is a photo of the original NeXT cube which hosted the first web server and browser. Steve Jobs' NeXTStep OS was of course what morphed into OS X when Apple bought NeXT and got Steve Jobs back in the bargain.]
For the full commentary visit here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7375703.stm
A Very Pismo Christmas in April
Low End Mac's John Hatchett says:
It was Christmas in April
Well it was to me. An alert reader of Low End Mac had an old Pismo with some bits and parts that they felt needed a good home. After a flurry of emails and an exchange of cash took place, I found myself with a parts Pismo to supplement my old Pismo.
If you're maintaining and older vintage retro laptop like I am, I cannot recommend enough that you purchase a "parts" duplicate computer. It's a bit like maintaining a classic car; you have to have a parts donor, because they just don't make 'em anymore.
For the full report visit here:
http://lowendmac.com/ed/hatchett/08jh/christmas-in-april.html
Evade E-mail Exasperation
Macworld's Christopher Breen says:
If you're like 99.7 percent of computer users, your e-mail client gets more of a workout than any other software you use. And given the amount of time you spend with this particular software, it's not surprising that minor annoyances you'd forgive in other programs become a Big Deal when you encounter them hour after hour, day after day. I've rounded up some common e-mail problems and provided solutions to help you keep them under control.
You can check it out at:
http://www.macworld.com/article/133118/2008/04/workingmac2506.html
US beak pecks at RIAA's 'making available' filesharing attack
The Register's Chris Williams reports:
A US federal judge has shot down one of the Recording Industry Ass. of America's key arguments in its brave pursuit of students, idiots and grandmothers it accuses of sharing music over peer-to-peer networks.
In an order in the case of the Atlantic vs Howell in Arizona yesterday, Judge Neil Wake said that the RIAA's claim that making copyright sound recordings available to download counts as distribution was wrong. It means the major labels' bid to score a summary judgement victory has been denied, and the case will proceed to trial. The RIAA will have to come up with a new argument.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/30/riaa_making_available_defeat_eff_howell_arizona/
Alienware Unveils Its Most Powerful Notebook Ever: the Area-51 m17x
Alienware launches the Area-51 m17x, with a 17-inch widescreen HD display, Alienware designed the Area-51 m17x for PC gamers, 3D content creators and multi-media enthusiasts.
An Intel Core 2 Extreme processor teams with the fearsome power of dual, SLI-enabled NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX GPUs. The notebook's 500GB mobile hard drives are the world's largest. Dual drives configured in a RAID 0 array plus a 500GB Smart Bay drive for additional storage give the user an astounding 1.5TB capacity, accommodating approximately 250 games, 375 full-length movies or nearly 400,000 songs.
"We pride ourselves in designing elite systems for consumers who absolutely refuse to settle for second best," said Frank Azor, Executive Vice-President for Alienware's Product and Marketing Groups. "The Area-51 m17x is, by far, the most aggressive, most powerful notebook computer Alienware has ever built."
For more information on the Area-51 m17x, visit:
http://www.alienware.com/m17x
How To Open An Alternate iTunes Library File Or Create A New One
A new Apple Knowledge Base article says:
This article explains how to use iTunes 7.0 or later to choose a new or different iTunes Library. This can be use to verify or isolate issues, or just if you want to easily choose different l
You can check it out at:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1589
The Mac Night Owl: Apple and the Enterprise: A New Focus?
How well I remember the claim, years ago, that Macs weren't really business computers. The interface was simply too cute, and you had to use a genuine PC to get real business chores done. Of course, they forgot that Microsoft Excel actually premiered on the Mac platform before it was ported to Windows. The same holds true for Word.
Here's the link to the story:
http://macnightowl.com/2008/04/apple-and-the-enterprise-a-new-focus//
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The Mac Night Owl: Why the iPod is Not a Walkman
Whenever an analyst wants to write something without thinking, it's easy to pontificate on such silliness as the alleged resemblance of the iPod to the Sony Walkman. Both gained iconic status, but the latter was eventually largely supplanted by me-too products that were cheaper and offered identical or additional features.
Here's the link to the story:
http://macnightowl.com/2008/04/why-the-ipod-is-not-a-walkman/
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Gene Steinberg meets Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus, Steve "Mr. Gadget" Kruschen and commentator Daniel Eran Dilger this week on The Tech Night Owl
May 1, 2008: On this week's all-star episode, cutting-edge commentator Daniel Eran Dilger of Roughly Drafted Magazine will explore the meaning behind Apple's surprise purchase of PA Semiconductor and whether Microsoft is really on the ropes.
Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus will be on hand for his regular Mac update and his comments on the latest and greatest gear.
And if you're looking for great technology at an affordable price, look no further than "Mr. Gadget" himself, Steve Kruschen, who will be on hand with news of lots of great new tech products you'll want to learn about.
You can tune into the broadcast Thursday night from 6:00 to 8:00 PM Pacific, 9:00 to 11:00 PM Eastern, at:
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