Category: 686: Save Your SMS!, 13″ MacBook Pro Unibody Glass Removal Videos, Icon Previews, Widgets

Very often as a parent, I get to be a kid again. One of the things I enjoyed most when I was younger is Legos; I had numerous sets of the little bricks and often combined them to build wild monstrous creations and full-bodied cars with what was a pretty limited number of bricks. I…

Dashboard is a feature of Mac OS X that I’ve never felt I really used to it’s fullest capability. That said, every now and again I decide to plunge into the widgets section of the Apple downloads page and surface with a couple of new gems. I recently found two widgets that have been great…

One of my favorite features in Mac OS X is that certain icons themselves are a “preview” of the file’s contents. A photo’s icon is a tiny version of the photo itself, making browsing through a packed-full folder in the Finder less of a chore than it might be otherwise. A customer came in yesterday…

As much as I adore the design, durability and power of the unibody MacBook and MacBook Pros, as a technician one of the most frustrating things has been trying to figure out how to safely remove the glass panel that is glued to the display assembly. Apple’s repair strategy for cracked glass or damaged/defective LCDs…

Happy Tuesday, It’s always exciting to get my hands on new stuff. I had my first look today at the new white MacBooks, and even mostly disassembled one. They’re much easier to disassemble than the previous-generation MacBook, have much improved battery life, and an efficient, evolutionary design that brings Apple’s entry-level portable offering up to…