In Michigan, an iPod repairman named Nicholas Woodhams manipulated Apple’s warranty system by guessing at iPod serial numbers and using defunct credit cards to score 9,075 free iPod Shuffles from Apple, who was predictably pissed and filed a lawsuit against him last July. The government has also filed federal charges against him and wants to […]
March 19th, 2009
An Accidental Stroke of Brilliance
Today, when I left my newly installed and configured HackBook (running XxX 10.5.6) downstairs for awhile, the display went to sleep. I thought nothing of it of course. I closed the lid and took it upstairs. When I opened the lid, it gave me the boot prompt. “Strange,” I thought, and when I pressed enter […]
March 18th, 2009
“Green” MacBook Pro Wallpaper
I’m sure you’ve seen the new “green” MacBook Pro commercials on TV. Well now you can get a little closer to it by using the official, gigantic, high-res wallpaper that was used in the advertising. Weighing in at a whopping 2560×1600 pixels, it’s definitely sexy stuff and it just might grow on me. Grab a […]
March 18th, 2009
Working Ethernet For All!
As most of you may already know, there was a recent breakthrough with one of the many (although the number is rapidly dropping) problematic hardware devices in the Inspiron 1525. Ethernet, which is essential for those of us old timers that have only a modem and no router or just want slightly faster speeds, was […]
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March 20th, 2009
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