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The Apple Blog, published by and for the day-to-day Apple user, is a prominent source for news, reviews, walkthroughs, and real life application of all Apple products.
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Leopard's Green Tint
Separate from the BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death - it’s generally a Windows term, if you’re somehow unaware…) that some folks experienced after upgrading to Leopard, there’s word of a new bluish, or greenish tint that’s occurring on some user’s screens. Up until now I’ve been familiar with the bluish tint that results from Fast User Switching, but the symptoms I’ve heard of from Leopard are much different.

A friend’s MacBook Pro seemed to progressively get worse as the operating system’s uptime increases. Over that time, the tint to his screen got greener and greener - similar to the way an old CRT would look when it lost one of its color channels. A reboot fixed the issue, but it wasn’t a one time thing - nor does it seem to be predictable.

There doesn’t seem to be much in the way of similar occurrences found around the internet, thus, little else to point you toward at this time. If you’ve experienced this issue, we’d love to hear about your experience - what happened leading up to the tinting? How many times has it happened? Is there any rhyme or reason to when it occurs? Or maybe my friend’s MacBook Pro is just going south…Help us shed some light on this problem!

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Mail 3.0: Links in subject now clickable
So either no one has emailed me with a URL in the subject line since I’ve been a Mac user (a little over 3 years), or Leopards Mail 3.0 has a new “feature” (if you want to call it that).

No, I don’t send emails to myself. Someone emailed me and in the subject they had a full link, which I then in turn noticed was now clickable when you view the message. It isn’t clickable in the listing of messages…just when you are actually viewing the email.

I haven’t fully made up my mind on if this is annoying or convenient. For some reason the first that that popped in to my head is how PR folks are going to start included URLs in the their subject to try to get you to click through to the site more…a negative thing.

Your thoughts? Or is this something that’s existed for a while and I’ve just apparently been oblivious to it all this time?

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Spaces Review
I’ve been using multiple virtual desktops for years, in just about every operating system imaginable. Since sometime in 2004 I’ve used them in OS X, generally in the form of the now-mostly-defunct Desktop Manager. It’s a fairly good program, but lately I kept noticing an error reading: “<Error>: The function `CGSUniqueCString' is obsolete and will be removed in an upcoming update. Unfortunately, this application, or a library it uses, is using this obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation of system performance. Please use `CFSTR' instead.” Troubling.

As I mentioned, Desktop Manager is dead, for all intents - still downloadable, but no one’s really expecting any further updates, and the Softpedia link to the latest update, 0.5.4, is really a link to 0.5.3. I’m not expecting the error to go away, so I was looking for another virtual desktop application. I went through a number of others, and just as I was about to give up - Apple announced Spaces. So, more than most other things, I was looking forward to Spaces.

Sadly, it’s not nearly the beauty I’d hoped. Yes, it does have all of Apple’s usual flash, but in many ways, it’s sadly lacking.
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JLab MiniBlaster

I’m not the biggest fan of Apple’s ear buds, or headphones of any kind for that matter, so when I received JLab’s MiniBlaster to review, I was pretty stoked, but, I was pretty sure I’d be disappointed. These speakers are small (about the size of 4 old nanos one on top of the other) and I didn’t hold out much hope that they’d sound much better than the original tape deck in a ‘82 Ford Fiesta. But, I promptly loaded up 4 AAA batteries, slipped my Nano into it, cranked up the volume (how loud could these things be?), queued up a track, and hit play.

One word: Wow.

Now, one caveat, I’m not an audiophile and these things aren’t B W Nautilus series, but they rock. I am very impressed. They aren’t going to make your review mirror vibrate in your car, but if you’re looking for some speakers to play music in a meeting, or listen to your iPod while you’re studying, or play some music in the hotel room on vacation, these will definitely do the trick.

The package says 5 hours of battery life at max volume, which, in my brief testing, seemed to hold true. This isn’t the greatest, but it does include a charger

The only major flaw I see is that you must use the included iPod nano case (the one that came to review was white). It’s purpose, from what I can see, is to secure the iPod in the speakers, which it does well. But, if you LOVE your current case, or white won’t work for you, you’re going to need to look for something else. I however, haven’t used a case in the past and don’t mind the one that comes with the speakers.

Would I recommend these speakers? Well, if you’re in the market for sub-compact speakers, then I’d defiantly recommend them. If you’re looking for something to replace your home hi-fi system, these aren’t the speakers you’re looking for, plain and simple.

They are available here for around $50.

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Community Activity: November 5, 2007
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