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Dear Santa Steve (Jobs)

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Dear Santa Steve, I know it is still May, but since I know there is a lot of work still to do, I figure the best way for us to start is for me to give you a heads up on my wish list. I'm a happy owner of a first-generation Unibody MacBook which I got ...

OCD Much? Normalizing Your OS X Address Book

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While working on another project that will be modifying my OS X Address Book, I happened to notice that all of my phone numbers were being output in a non-standard way on vCards. Rather than dealing with it in subsequent steps, I decided to resolve the issue at the source (in other words, my other project ...

Quote From Slashdot Comments

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This is exactly why I have an iPhone. Not because it's the best phone available, which it might or might not be depending on who you ask, but because there's a guy in Cupertino with a black turtleneck, a borrowed liver, and a really shitty attitude who owns the exact same phone I do, and who ...

Enabling Numeric Battery Indicator on iPhone 3G

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There hasn't been a clear tutorial for this, so I'm writing one: Jailbreak your iPhone. Install OpenSSH through Cydia. Copy the file /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/N82AP.plist to your Mac. Using Property List Editor add a new boolean child to the capabilities property list: gas-gauge-battery. Save this file. Hop over to Terminal and run a bit of code to convert ...

Mac Mini

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The Mac mini is either incredibly underpowered, or incredibly overpriced. Congratulations Apple on completely removing the Mac mini from the market segment you were targeting, "Our Most Affordable Mac Yet." DO NOT BUY. ItemMac mini24" iMac CPU2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo RAM4GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM4GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM HDD320GB 5400 RPM SATA640GB ...