Posted by admin on May-19-2010 Add Comments

MacBook White Upgraded

MacBook White
Yesterday, Apple updated their basic and cheapest laptop – the white plastic MacBook.
The updates are:

  • faster CPU, from 2.26GHz to 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. The processor is just a faster version of the previous one, no changes in the FSB or the Level 2 Cache size (3MB)
  • powerful video card, NVIDIA GeForce 320M, the previous was GeForce 9400M. Its again a integrated video card with 256MB of memory. Apple reports that this card is faster than the 9400M between 30% to 80% (this tests are based on games)
  • better battery, which can run for 10 hours straight. One of the most useful upgrades, with this long lasting battery you can use your laptop for a whole day. I presume that it will not last that long if you play a game or a movie, but with some office work, playing music or surfing the web it will last

With these upgrades, now is the time to buy the white MacBook

Posted by macguider on March-27-2010 Add Comments

Alfred: intuitive workflow optimizing app

I am sure that some of you or maybe all are trying to optimize your time when sitting in front of your computer, but going to the right directory to open program or document, waiting sites to load and then search for a specific thing and wait again is sometimes frustrating and time consuming. It seems that Ollie Kavanagh, Andrew and Vero Pepperrell had the same problems and thus they created the Alfred App.
Alfred is a tiny simple program which is speeding your interaction with the computer and increases the satisfaction and pleasure of using it and best of all its Free.
So in few words, what exactly Alfred do?

After the install (the usual drag and drop to the Application folder), you can open Alfred at any place and time, just hit the hotkey (by default its Alt + Space) and small window with input will be shown.

Posted by macguider on March-16-2010 2 Commented

5 ways to get yourself a free iPad

Few days after Apple started the iPad pre-order, a bunch of sites announced iPad giveaways, here I have selected few which I think are the easiest or have the least “spammy” rules

1. Crunchyroll
Giveaway details

Giving away: the Apple iPad Wi-Fi, 16GB, $499 version
End date: March 31
Rules: become fan of the Crunchyroll Facebook page and be a Premium member ($11.95/month, which is not necessary, you can also use the free trial ) on 31 March(Pacific time)
Who: anybody can participate, no residence or age restrictions
More after the break –>>