A review of the Power Support Anti-Glare Screen Protector which I bought for my iPad 2 to see how much difference it made to reading an iPad 2 in direct sunlight in Florida. In short, it’s amazing and worth every penny.

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Quick post showing how to stress test (max out) your CPU in OS X for an extended period of time.

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I bought my MacPro (MacPro 1,1) in September 2006 and nearly 5 years down the line it’s still going strong, or at least it was. Some recent projects I’ve been involved in have required some serious processing power to render gigapixel images and the original 2xDual Core XEONs weren’t up to it. I found a [...]

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Strange and unexplained behaviour from Lion’s Safari which seems to be adding [SP] at the end of all page titles.

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If you’ve read my review of the Elago S4 Breathe iPhone 4 case you’ll know that I’m not a fan of cases on  aesthetically pleasing Apple products but here I go again with a review of the Cool Bananas SmartShell iPad2 case. I bought my iPad 2 on launch day along with a basic grey Smart [...]

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