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The Mac version of the Sims 2 has a control problem that drives me nuts. I don’t know if it happens for everyone but most people don’t notice or care, or if it’s somehow unique to the two Mac’s I’ve tried it on, but for me, the pie menus don’t work right.
I thought I’d [...]

Apple has made the videos from their latest WWDC available for purchase on iTunes, the way Microsoft did for the PDC videos.
Except that Microsoft doesn’t charge you $999 to watch them.
Crappy move, Apple.

I’m a PC. And now I’m trying to write software for the iPhone. Nothing serious, mind you, just some little toy apps. I did some Carbon development a few years back, but these days Cocoa is hot, Carbon is not. So I’m trying to grok Cocoa. Here are a few fun [...]

“Apple TV is syncing with iTun…”
That about sums it up. This is the message that comes up on your TV while Apple TV is syncing with iTunes on your PC or Mac, and because the box for the message is just a bit too small, the product name is abbreviated to “iTun…”.
Apple TV is [...]

With all the various battery recalls both for Apple and non-Apple laptops, it sucks to have a defective battery that’s not being recalled. Check this out:

coconutBattery is a great little utility that pulls together some battery numbers in a nice UI. In this case it’s telling me that my battery’s maximum charge is [...]

Finally, an agreement I can get behind.

I wonder if this is a binding contract.

Apple apparently takes crash data seriously. Not only does the Mac offer to send crash data to Apple when bad things happen, but so does the iPod Touch (and, I assume, iPhone).
Last time I plugged my iPod Touch into my Mac, iTunes popped up this dialog:

Clicking “Show Details” brings up the Console app [...]

This Financial Post article presents some information from Rogers president and COO Nadir Mohamed:
Rogers now earns about $63 in average revenue per user (ARPU), a figure that has risen rapidly over the past few years with the increasing usage of data-heavy services such as text messaging and over-the-air music downloads.
With the introduction of the 3G [...]

Hey, when did iTunes start selling and renting movies in Canada? I just noticed this morning that the iTunes store was showing me movies, and just to make sure it really worked I had to buy a copy of Spinal Tap. It works.
$3.99 for a rental, $9.99 to buy a movie, at least [...]

I needed to scan a document today, so I pulled my trusty Canon LiDE 30 scanner off the shelf. I haven’t used it since the Mac switch, so I went looking for a Mac driver, and found one.
Installing it was fun. The installer disk image is a pile of folders and something that [...]