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AlleyInsider reports on a new analyst report from Friedman Billings Ramsey which claims that Apple’s iPhone production could fall “more than 40%” in the 4th Quarter of 2008. AlleyInsider points out this may simply represent a surplus of iPhone produ…

There seems to be no limit to the lengths iPhone fans will go for their precious Apple smart phones. Witness the amazing hand-whittled pedestal created by design student Kyle Buckner for a class assignment at Virginia Commonwealth . …

There are several hints here on remapping the function keys on a standard PC keyboard when used with a Mac (in my case, a Mac mini). The standard key map does use F8 to F12, but lacking are volume controls, shut down switch, and others. Several people suggested using ControllerMate or Keyboard Maestro to handle this problem. Here’s another solution…

Somewhere, I found a hint suggesting to use Griffin’s Proxi to solve this problem. After installing Proxi, create a new trigger by using “insert Trigger” from the little gear icon, then select Hotkey Monitor. You can then choose the desired key. Then select a new task (Insert Task, Key Press). I choose to set up volume control on F4/F5, and mute on F3. This works like a charm.

The Adobe updater application (used to search for and install updates for many Adobe products) does not always work properly when run from a FileVault-protected account. Some updates install, but others simply quit with an error every time (Camera raw updates are especially bad). There are two fairly simple workarounds:

1. Try to locate the update on the Adobe website, download it, and run the installer manually. The update should install fine this way.
2. Log in from a non-FileVault account and run the Adobe updater application. The update should install fine and be usable for all accounts.

Admittedly, most people could have easily discerned the workarounds, but it took me many months to realise that FileVault was the culprit, so this might help someone else who is wondering why Adobe updates won’t install.

First of all, this hint (which is based on some very good previous hints appearing here) is only of academic interest, almost as a proof of concept, for now (at least until Apple will change their licensing terms). So, let’s take it only as an — I hope interesting — exercise to understand things a little better.

So, why would one hypothetically want to do all this? Well, it could be very good for running legacy, up-to-Tiger-only programs (see, for example, Photoshop 7, which won’t run on Leopard; etc.) and/or for testing software in a Tiger/Intel environment, without being forced to have a partition dedicated to Tiger. So, Apple, it would really be a great thing to permit virtualization of *all* your Intel-compatible OSes, both server and client, starting from Tiger and upwards.

Now, assuming you have a machine-specific Mac OS X 10.4.x Tiger DVD for Intel, and want to try…

Bit-tech.net has benchmarked the new Nehalem (Core i7) processors from Intel ahead of their official launch. The hardware site compares the new processors to Intel Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo and AMD Phenom X4. From a Mac perspective, the Intel Core 2 Q…