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Apple Has Lifetime Limit on iPad Purchases?

The iPad may be too popular for its own good:  Apple seems to be imposing limits on how many you can buy.
When a hospital district wanted to buy 100 of them to equip medical staff, they ran into trouble:
Apple's ordering system automatically canceled Volosin's purchase, informing him that he could not order more than three.
"They [...:]

Apple Updates All MagSafes To MacBook Air Design

Apple has finally seen fit to update the design of its 85-watt MagSafe Power Adapters to use an all aluminum tip instead of a plastic one, mimicking the design of the 45-watt MacBook Air's adapter.
Not only will this minimize the 85-Watt MagSafe's physical footprint, but ditching the plastic should prevent the occasional melting problems we [...:]

Dropped The iPad Into A Bath? Data Can Be Fished Out — For A Price

With the iPad kinda bridging the chasm between iPhone and MacBook, it becomes increasingly likely a 70-page legal brief some lawyer's been working on for months will be lost when junior accidentally flings the iPad into the pool while taking a turn a little too hot in Real Racing HD.
That's where DriveSavers comes in. Located [...:]

Desktop for iPad allows you to split screen multi-task

When Jobs announced the iPad, declared the netbook to be dead and claimed that the iPad was a decent productivity machine, I was cynical. Lustful for an iPad I was, but as a blogger, the ability to type in one window while referencing a source in another is invaluable. Simply put, my netbook allowed me [...:]

Apple iPhone Takes 72 Percent of Japan Smartphone Market

The iPhone's popularity in Japan just keeps growing. Apple's handset has grabbed 72 percent of the smartphone market on the gadget-obsessed island nation.The Cupertino, Calif. company has doubled its shipments to Japan, hitting 2.3 million all together, according to Tokyo-based researchers.
The iPhone, which began Japanese sales in July 2008, shipped 1.69 million handsets during the [...:]

100 Tips #12: Use Spotlight To Find Your Stuff

Spotlight is the built-in search system in Mac OS X. You can get to it at any time by clicking on the magnifying glass icon in the very top-right corner of your screen.

Spotlight is an excellent search tool, despite one or two quirks.
You can use it to find all sorts of things on your [...:]

How To Manage Safari Bookmarks Efficiently [MacRx]

Welcome to MacRx, a new category dedicated to some common setups, problems and headaches of All Things Mac. As we all know, how things should work isn't always how they do work.  Sometimes a little assistance can be in order.
This week an issue I've seen many users struggling with, Managing Bookmarks in Safari. As a Mac consultant I [...:]

Steve Jobs Tells Us To "Belly Up To The Bar" [Recollections]

In Part 4 of Macworld founder David Bunnell's memoirs about the Mac, Steve Jobs tells a publishing mogul to "belly up to the bar" and hangs up on him.


Meeting with Steve Jobs a second time in less than a week might give me a stroke, I worried. But it was Pat McGovern, not Jobs, [...:]

Steve Jobs Personally Intervenes To Replace iMac Lemon

How's this for customer service" Steve Jobs personally intervened to get a dodgy iMac replaced. Author Michael J. Weber bought a new iMac, but his Apple machine was a lemon. Perhaps emboldened by Steve Jobs' recent email responses to customer emails, Weber didn't waste any time going straight to the top to complain about it:
Steve,
(I) Received a [...:]

Apple CEO Calls iMac Buyer to Apologize for Lemon

Author Michael J. Weber bought a new iMac, but his Apple machine was a lemon. Perhaps emboldened by Steve Jobs' recent email responses to customer emails, Weber didn't waste any time going straight to the top to complain about it:
Steve,
(I) Received a 27″ i7 iMac today that would only boot in verbose mode. Whatever happened [...:]