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http://daringfireball.net/2007/12/fastcompany

From Adam L. Penenberg’s December cover story for Fast Company, “All Eyes on Apple: Will the gray light of January cool the world’s hottest company?”:
As Apple moves into new markets, it has made powerful new enemies, some working in concert. Nokia, for example, is banding with …

http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macbookmacbookprosoftwareupdate11.html

Remember the trifling little problem where the Macbook/Pro doesn’t put in actual characters when you start typing? Minor annoyance, yeah?

Apple has finally fixed it. Requires leopard (weird, as I had the issue with Tiger too) updated to 10.5.1. Feel free to report your after-install experience.

That’s right, kiddies. The classic tale of good and evil has come to your iPod, and is a mere $4.99. Click the picture to check it out.

NewEgg has a promotion running with Netgear in which you can get a free iPhone after purchasing a Netgear switch.

There are several models to choose from, including:

NETGEAR GSM7324 10/100/1000Mbps ProSafe 24 Port L3 Managed Switch

Additionally, you can get a free Shuffle with the purchase of a home router:…

SWsoft, who has been in the virtualization game for years, has decided to capitalize on the success of their Desktop application and rename their entire company simply ‘Parallels’.

On the SWsoft, err, Parallels blog, Ben Rudolph likened the change to that of other products who have become identified by a single name, i.e. Google, Kleenex and Madonna. Ok, not Madonna, but …

http://www.tuaw.com/2007/12/16/quickbooks-users-be-cautious-of-recent-update/

Quickbooks auto-update runs and overwrites (not merges, overwrites) the currently logged in users Desktop folder. Oh my.

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A reader on MacOSXHints.com found that some cards may cause high CPU usage due to a problem with the daemon that allows OSX to read Windows formatted disks.

We have a G4 iBook running 10.3.9 that has been running extremely sluggish and very hot — too hot to rest your hand on the lower left corner. A visit to …