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Mac controlling hardware

It’s been a while since something caught my attention enough to blog it. This article on Lifehacker, Connect Hobbyist Hardware To Your Mac looks like it could be a cheap but interesting way into using a Mac (or PC) to do computing things with external inputs using a controller board called Arduino. Projects like the [...]

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Tue, May 20 2008 » Mac'n'stuff » Comments Off

Jobs keynote in 60 seconds

Includes the ultra thin Mac Air notebook, Movie Rentals and Time Capsule wireless backup. As seen on Mahalo Daily and The Guardian’s AskJack.

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Wed, January 16 2008 » Mac'n'stuff » No Comments

Slapping iPod fixes noisy drive that doesn’t play

My iPod stopped working last Wednesday for reasons unknown, during a song it stopped. During the next minute or two I tried to move on a song, back a song, etc, with no joy. After resetting it using Menu/Select, then following www.apple.com/support/ipod and the more worrying iPod displays a sad iPod icon link I left [...]

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Tue, April 4 2006 » Mac'n'stuff » No Comments