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Filed under: Apple Corporate , Hardware , Multimedia , Apple Financial It’s Monday, let’s sue Apple! Chinese manufacturer Shenzhen Great Loong Brother Industrial is reportedly considering suing Apple over the design of the iPad, claiming that it bears too close a resemblance to their P88 . in an interview with El Mundo , Shenzhen Great Loong Brother Industrial’s president Xiaolong Wu said that the two devices are “completely identical.” In fact, the P88 features that are “completely identical” to the iPad include: Windows XP A webcam A 250GB internal hard drive A thicker and heavier body A resistive touch display (the iPad uses multi-touch) 1.5 hours of battery life Plus they’re both rectangles. With black borders. Ed Sutherland summed it up best at Cult of Mac : “How do you get more attention for a largely unknown netbook at a time when the tech press has the vapors for Apple’s iPad

Filed under: Hardware , OS , How-tos , Tips and tricks , Troubleshooting , MacBook A friend’s MacBook had slowed down to a snail’s pace. Despite looking everywhere for the issue, streamlining everything I could, and yelling at it, it failed to accelerate to usable speed. So I recommended we start from scratch and build it back up with only the things she was using, free of all the other downloads and aborted installs of various software she never used or cared about

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Filed under: How-tos , Tips and tricks , iTunes , AppleScript Folders, which have been a feature of iTunes since iTunes 5.0, serve as a means to better organize your music. For example, you could create genre- or artist-based folders with corresponding playlists nested within them. But moving playlists into folders isn’t the most fun thing, and can be especially time consuming if you’re going to be moving a bunch

Filed under: Software , Tips and tricks , TUAW Tips One of the great torments of owning several computers is keeping all of your personal data in sync; having multiple copies of the same application speak the same jive. Take The Hit List , for example. I use this app on my MacBook Pro at work for organizing tasks and collecting thoughts like a virtual inbox to my brain

Filed under: Software , How-tos , Tips and tricks , Internet Tools Before Snow Leopard was released, we were enjoying GrabUp for super-simple sharing of screenshots. It was a great little utility: After a brief setup, it automatically sent any screenshot to its servers (or your own) and added the resulting URL to the Clipboard. It was fast and very useful.

Filed under: Software , Tips and tricks , Odds and ends After several years of trying to figure out what task manager for Mac and iPhone worked best with my peculiar style of organization, I finally settled on Things from Cultured Code. The Mac application is easy to use, uncluttered, and can take advantage of many keyboard shortcuts, while the iPhone app iTunes Link gives me a portable version of the Things database to take on the road. While the iPhone app can do a local sync to a Mac, it still doesn’t do over-the-air syncing, which I hope Cultured Code will add in a future release.


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