Tag: LAPTOPS

Apple has issued a software update that targets the EFI on the new MacBook Air laptops to fix some issues that it has never publicly acknowledged, but which have been widely reported. The problem caused MacBook Air notebooks to boot or resume from sleep into a black screen or become unresponsive. There have also been reports of horizontal lines sometimes appearing on the display or the display ...

I recently wrote about a utility called Keyboard Leds which puts a small icon in your system tray showing keyboard LED status, for systems which do not have actual keyboards LEDs (or have tiny ones). Commenter Lonnie McClure pointed out a very handy built-in Windows accessibility feature, which does the same job, but uses sound instead of images. It's called Toggle Keys, and it makes a short ...

I almost (not quite, but almost) feel bad for Adobe right now. Apple has been unceremoniously dumping on Flash in a big way since the iPad announcement, and all Adobe can do is claim they don't ship known-buggy Flash releases and announce how much better Flash will perform on Macs when Flash 10.1 is released. Flash still has critical mass adoption among traditional computing devices (desktops and ...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting on an emerging trend of coffee shops covering up outlets, banning laptops, or pushing out people who sit for too long. Although the article suggests this might be a bigger phenomenon in New York than, say, San Francisco, the conclusion seems to be based entirely on anecdotal evidence. Sources include a couple of coffee shop owners in NYC and a laptop user who ...