Mike Williams | 
Oct 1st, 2008| 
There is also an HP Driver update that shows up after you do the Java update.
I’m just sayin’
Oct
1
I have (and love) my MacBook Pro laptop and use it for everything from podcasting to video production to…
…writing.
Right after I got the laptop on the very same day, in fact, the “N” key popped off. One of the plastic pieces that are used to keep it in place broke leaving me with an “N” key that is hanging on to the rest of the keyboard for dear life. After a few keystrokes, it would come loose and I’d have to push it back in place again.
Well, during the week the key popped off and this time, it refused to semi-click back into place. In essence, it is now no longer even semi-secured to the keyboard.
During this whole thing, my father offered to call Apple and see if they could send me a replacement “N” key to simply snap back into place. Apple’s response was…
…”ahh, no.” We’ll replace your entire keyboard but the “N” key by itself is simply out of the question. This exchange between Apple and my father went on for about a week. My father lost the battle. Apple will not send out an “N” key by itself. If anything happens to your keyboard at all, Apple will replace the whole thing.
I just didn’t want to be without my laptop for any length of time. The compromise will be waiting while a local technician makes the repairs and changes out the keyboard with me watching him/her.
I haven’t made the reservations or called the technicians yet. In the meantime, I bought a HP USB 2.0 keyboard at Wal-Mart to hold me over. Of all of the keys on your keyboard, the “N” key is one of the most pressed.
At least, when you don’t have it you think it’s the most pressed!
I’ll let everyone know how the repair goes. It should happen sometime this week.
May
2
I found these stories interesting…
Apple Releasing DVD downloads as soon as the DVD is released.
Good news for iTunes addicts: Apple is making full movie downloads available on the same day DVDs are released. New-release downloads will be priced at $15, while catalog titles will still cost $10 per download.
It was a decidedly underhanded move — Apple’s slipping that copy of Safari 3.1 in with the latest version of its Windows-software update. But beyond annoying and alienating a sizable portion of users, it also appears it was rather effective.
According to Net Applications, the sneaky update, which included a copy of the new (non-beta) web browser, actually increased Safari’s Windows market share threefold over the course of one month.
“Safari 3.0 on Windows never gained much market share, peaking at 0.07 percent,” the company notes. “However, Safari 3.1 on Windows is rapidly gaining market share, already tripling Safari 3.0’s peak.”
The Defense Department hasn’t kept close enough watch over the contractors working on its most important aircraft program, the Joint Strike Fighter. And as a result, “the advanced aviation and weapons technology for the JSF program may have been compromised,” the Department of Defense’s Inspector General notes in a report, obtained by the Project on Government Oversight.
The Pentagon is working with eight other countries to build a single, stealthy, single-engine fighter that is supposed to be a low-cost replacement for a huge variety of aircraft — the A-10, F-16, F/A-18, even the British Harrier jump jets. More than 2,400 JSFs are planned over the next several decades, at a cost of $337 billion.
Apr
27
MacMerc has the list but here’s the quick and dirty…
On June 17,2008, Apple is changing the following designations:
Products to be designated as vintage in the U.S. and obsolete everywhere else:
iBook (14.1 LCD 32 VRAM)
iBook (32 VRAM)
iBook (Opaque 16 VRAM)
iMac (17-inch Flat Panel)
iMac (Flat Panel)
iMac (Summer 2001)
eMac
Power Mac G4 (FW 800)Products to be designated as obsolete:
iBook (Firewire)
PowerBook (Firewire)
