Apple sees Mac sales rise 28% amid latest notebook launch - MacBook

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New Apple Notebooks Boost Mac Sales By 28% Published 18 hours ago by Aviv at MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News ... Gene Munster, a long time Apple analyst for Piper Jaffray, relayed some data by market research firm NPD Group, ...

New Apple Notebooks Boost Mac Sales By 28% | MacBlogz - One Stop

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Apple's latest line of notebook computers has helped the company stay ahead of the pack, while Mac sales grew by 25% when compared to this time last. ... Submit News. news@macblogz.com ...

Apple Incorporates HDCP (Copy Protection) in New Laptops

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Apple's new unibody notebooks appear to incorporate a version of copy protection known as HDCP. HDCP is most well known for preventing unauthorized copying across HDMI but is also used for the DisplayPort which is found in Apple's new MacBoo...

10.5: Edit multiple events at once in iCal

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In 10.5, the iCal user interface is quite limiting. For instance, you can edit only a single event at a time. But there is something of a workaround to that problem: open multiple iCal windows at a time. Here's how. Quit iCal, then paste the following line into Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.iCal IncludeDebugMenu 1
Now launch iCal and select Debug » New Calendar Window, or just press Command-L. You can now edit an event in one window, and another event in the other window. iCal keeps the windows in sync, so that a change in one appears in the other.

[robg adds: The iCal debug menu was covered in this hint, but I thought this workaround for editing multiple events was worth sharing.]
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Call the bit.ly URL shortener for the current site

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I use bit.ly as my URL shortening service, mainly because I like the way that it links to Twitter and tracks statistics on shortened URLs that I send folks. I am, however, lazy and I don't like to do any more clicking, copying, or pasting than I have to.

So I created a bookmark on my bookmarks bar in Safari which opens bit.ly in a new window and passes the current page I am on as a parameter. The net effect is that most of the work is done for me when the window opens. The JavaScript bookmark is:
javascript:window.open('http://bit.ly/?url='+location.href);
This approach will probably work with other shorteners as well, and the above shortcut should work in any browser.
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Show a one-line weather forecast on the desktop

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I love Wunderground.com's forecast. You can read all of the numbers, and look at radar all you want, but 95% of the time, it's too much info. Wunderground has a one-line forecast that relates today or tomorrow's temperature to today's. "Today is forecast to be colder than yesterday" is all I need to know.

Once you've installed GeekTool, you'll also need Lynx, a popular text web browser. Once GeekTool and lynx are installed, create a new shell entry in GeekTool and enter this code, substituting in your zip code for 12345:
lynx -dump http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=12345|awk '/Tomorrow is/ ...
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Use Quicksilver for Finder cut and paste

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For those of us who miss being able to cut and paste in the Finder, I just found a pretty functional way to do it through Quicksilver triggers. Here's how:
  1. Invoke Quicksilver (probably by pressing Control-Space)
  2. Press Command-, to open its preferences
  3. Go to Preferences » Application, and make sure 'Enable advanced features' is checked
  4. Go to Catalog » Quicksilver and make sure 'Proxy objects' is checked
  5. Go to Triggers and click the plus sign to add a new trigger and select Hotkey
  6. Start typing Current Selection, and when the item pops up, press Tab
  7. Start typing Move to... and then press Tab
  8. In the last box, press Command-X clear the field. It must be completely empty for this to work -- no text, nothing
  9. Click Save
  10. Click the 'i' at the bottom right of the screen to show the trigger options
  11. Under hot key, choose your preferred ke...
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MacNN | Apple likely to refuse Flash on iPhone?

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Mac Enthusiast. Joined Jan 2001. User is offline. danledingham. Time will tell. 0. 11/18, 10:10am, EST. If Adobe wasn't moving forward with developing a mobile Flash, Apple could possibly feel safe that web developers would increasingly ...

Apple 24” LED Cinema Display Available for Order

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Apple is now taking orders for their new 24" LED Cinema Display that was announced in October. While early versions of the new Cinema Display have been shown at Apple retail stores, orders had not been accepted until now.

Apple rece...

Google’s Voice-Enabled Search for iPhone Now Available

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Lifehacker reports that Google's new Voice-Enabled Search application is now live in the App Store (sort of).

The new application is actually an update to Google's existing Google Mobile Application that is already available in the A...