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Apple has dropped the price on its MacBook Air with a solid state hard drive by $500. The new pricing on the computer our own Pete Mortenson called “a dream secondary computer for the rich and famous” is not likely to cause a hiring …

Apple has quietly dropped the price of the high end MacBook Air by $500.

The high end MacBook Air comes equipped with a 1.8GHz upgrade (from 1.6GHz) and a 64GB Solid State Drive (SSD). The total price for the high end laptop is $2598…

Meckimac.com posts a photo of the MobileMe retail box that has started shipping to some customers.

The box itself is not particularly useful as it likely just contains an activation code for a year of MobileMe service. Apple…

NVIDIA reported that there is a problem with some older graphics chips that shipped in a “significant quantities” of laptop PCs. NVIDIA has provided no details as to which laptop models are affected, but plans to release a software driver in the nea…

Pete’s post yesterday, “Hello: Macs Are About to Get Interesting Again”, was pure Mortensen: articulate, insightful, well researched, and on the topic of Apple needing to change designs, dead wrong. While the Macbook / Pro line as well …

The United States Patent and Trademark Office revealed at least a dozen new patent applications from Apple this morning. The majority of the applications revealed ongoing multi-touch research by Wayne Westerman, the former cofounder of Fingerworks. …

I was digging through my old email archives the other day, when I stumbled on one that explained how to use Quick Look on documents in Open and Save dialogs. The trick? A free AppleScript Quick Look Droplet, provided by none other than Apple themselves.

There are actually two little apps on that page — Quick Look Droplet, and Quick Look Viewer. The first is just what you might guess it is — drag and drop any file or files onto its icon, and you’ll get a Quick Look preview of those files. The second is a miniature media player, of sorts. You can store files inside the application bundle, and those files will be shown in Quick Look when the program runs. So you could, in theory, place the desired documents in the application bundle, then distribute that bundle to customers as a demo of your work, without worry…

Think you emptied the trash on your external drive? Even if you did, there may be large amounts of trash still lurking on external or network drives that has not been emptied. As most folks know, the trash is segregated by user ID, and when you empty the trash, it only empties your user’s trash — even on FireWire disks.

If you delete a user’s account on your computer, the system won’t remove the trash for that user ID on the external or network drive. This can also happen if you have ever shared a disk between two computers. Since the UIDs on one computer may not be the same as the other, trashes can be created by one computer that cannot be emptied by the other. This can even happen if your username is the same on both computers, but your UIDs (e.g. 501 an 502) are different.

Thus periodically one needs to manually remove the trash like this, in Terminal:

$ sudo -s
$ rm -rf /Volumes/"my_external_disk"/.Trashes/*
$ exit

Replac…

Here’s how I got Bloomberg Radio working on my Mac. First, download and install both Windows Media Player for Mac OSX and Flip4Mac from this page on Microsoft’s site. Then create the following file, and name it Bloomberg_Radio.asf:

<ASX VERSION="3">

        <title>Live Bloomberg Radio</title>

        <entry>

                <title>Bloomberg Radio</title>

                <author>Bloomberg.com</author>

                <copyright>2006 Bloomberg L.P.</copyright>

                <moreinfo href="http://www.bloomberg.com"/>

                &l...