When Should I Turn Off My Computer? – wcco.com

More than half of the computers at offices in the United States run all the time, including overnight, wasting potentially billions of dollars in energy costs. But many of us have been told to leave those computers on so the machines can update at night. So should we keep our computers on or off?

via Good Question: When Should I Turn Off My Computer?

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TweetDeck v0.24.1 Pre-Release: Facebook Integration – TweetDeck’s posterous

I just upgraded my TweetDeck to the newest beta with Facebook integration. Here is an except from the post at TweetDeck’s posterous:

As the title suggests, v0.24.1 includes the first elements of Facebook integration into TweetDeck. This integration consists of two elements.

Firstly you can click on the Facebook icon at the top and, once you have signed into Facebook and given TweetDeck authorisation, this will add a new column full of each of your friends most recent status update which updates automatically once a minute.

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FireWire 400 reaches the end of the line | Networking | Editors’ Notes | Macworld

Rob Griffiths writes for Macworld

As I looked through the specs for the new Mac Pro, iMac, and Mac mini lineup, one thing struck me: FireWire 400 appears to be essentially dead—at least as far as Apple is concerned. With the release of these new Macs, Apple sells just one machine with a FireWire 400 port—the low-end white MacBook.

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SIM City: Saga of an iPhone SIM lockup

I spent most of my day, Saturday, driving to the Orlando Apple Store and back in an effort to revive my iPhone. The problem began on Friday. I was heading over to my Father-in-law’s home to help with a small remodeling project. I decided to leave my iPhone at the home where we are staying rather than bring it along.

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Book Review: iPhone Fully Loaded by Andy Ihnatko

Not your ordinary iPhone “How to” iPhone book

 I read the iPhone: The Missing Manual: Covers the iPhone 3G by David Pogue and it served as a “user guide” to most things iPhone. I recently bought Andy Ihnatko’s 2nd Edition of iPhone Fully Loaded expecting it to be a tool to fill in some missing holes but mostly a repeat of the information in Pogue’s book.

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Andy Ihnatko puts iMovie ’09 stabilization to the test

Andy Ihnatko, technology free lance writer, posted this YouTube video demonstrating the new stabilization features of iMovie ’09, part of  iLife ’09. He used a Flip Video MinoHD Camcorder to shoot the video. Amazing stuff!

I had very similar results with a video I shot from my Canon SD1000 digicam.
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Reading the day’s newspaper on your home computer circa 1981

“Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee, turning on your home computer to see the day’s newspaper. Well, it’s not as far-fetched as it may seem.”

Thanks to TechCrunch for the link to this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5WCTn4FljUQ

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Lilfehacker: Gmail Adds New Move To and Labels Drop-Downs, Autocomplete

From the lifehacker blog:

Today Gmail will begin rolling out a new feature to improve your email labeling workflow and mitigate folder-vs.-label confusion with two new drop-down menus: Move to and Labels. Even better: Keyboard shortcuts and auto complete are baked in.

Gmail: Gmail Adds New Move To and Labels Drop-Downs, Autocomplete.

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HowTo: Installing Windows 7 on a Mac

Christina Warren from TUAW has an article at Download Squad on installing Windows 7 beta on a Mac:

Although Intel Macs can run Windows 7 in Boot Camp, for most users, the easiest and most hassle-free method will be to use virtualization. This way, you can test out all the features of Windows 7, without having to dual-boot.

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