Add Another Computer or Laptop as Additional Monitor

Do you have a second computer, Mac or PC, with a good display that you wish you could use as another display on your Mac? I have an old Flat Panel iMac that has a fantastic display but there is no way to access the display to use it with the extended display feature of my MacBook Pro.

I found a great program that allows you to do just that. It’s called ScreenRecyler. Use your old iMac as a second screen for your new iMac as pictured. You can even use an old Windows PC. It’s easy to setup and is surprisingly fast. Try it out!

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5 on the ScreenRecycler computer.

Apple readying “media pad” and “iPhone lite” for launch soon

Apple is preparing to launch not one, but two new devices according to a new rumor, one of which could be coming as early as this summer. The sources claim that one device is a smaller, cheaper iPhone while the other is a “media pad” that could let users watch HD video, listen to music, and do other fun, touchscreeny things.

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Apple Says Some MacBook Pros Affected by Faulty Nvidia Chips

Apple said this week some of its more recent MacBook Pro models may contain faulty Nvidia graphics chips that produce distorted video or fail completely. The company is offering free repairs and refunds for customers who may have already paid for a repair on their own. Apple is not happy with Nvidia, who initially denied a problem existed.

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Apple’s has a Revolutionary Aluminum Manufacturing Process?

9to5Mac finally puts an end to ‘Brick’ speculation and claims that ‘Brick’ refers to the new manufacturing process for MacBooks.The MacBook manufacturing process up to this point has been outsourced to Chinese or Taiwanese manufacturers like Foxconn. Now Apple is in charge. The company has spent t…

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Adobe releases Creative Suite 4

Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, and companion tools cooperate better with Creative Suite 4’s evolutionary step forward. Now all you have to do is decide whether forking over the cash to upgrade is worth it!

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Blu-ray Support in Mac OS X 10.5.6?

After last week’s release of the iPod Nano, iPod Touch and iTunes 8, we neglected to post our traditional rumor wrap up. In the end, however, our pre-event rumor roundup accurately spelled out the major releases.

The bulk of the information came from Kevin Rose who detailed a number of the chan…

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Network Accounts Not Available After Security Update 2008-006 Mac OSX Server

After installing the Mac OS X Server Security Update 2008-06 on a PPC Xserve running Tiger Server 10.4.11, I had a Tiger 10.4.11 client that would not recognize network accounts. After checking the physical network connections, everything was fine. The problem was that the binding to the Open Directory server got corrupted somehow. I had to unbind the client using the Directory Access utility and then remove the computer account from the Open Ditectory Master Server with Workgroup Manager. I then just had to rebind the client and the network accounts where available again. I tried rebinding without deleting the computer account on the sever, but that didn’t help, it even asked if I wanted to “Replace the existing computer account”. This was also a good time to remove old computer accounts on the server.