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I was all set to take my Macbook back to the Apple Store in Meadowhall this evening. For the last couple of months it’s had a really annoying ‘flickering’ problem which gets especially bad when I turn the screen brightness down. I need to do this in the evenings, otherwise I find I get lots of glare from the screen. Must be my old age…

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Posted: January 16th, 2008
Categories: Technology
Tags: Apple, JungleDisk, Leopard, Lexmark, Mac, Macbook, NAS, OSX, Tiger, Time Machine
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When I was at school my teachers used to tell me that I would go one step too far and ruin my work. Although I was never great at art and tech, they would (quite rightly) point out that the useless mess in front of me was the result of just going beyond the point at which I should have been satisfied and stopped. It would seem that impulse to tinker hasn’t left me…

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Posted: June 13th, 2007
Categories: Technology
Tags: AppleTV, modchip, NAS, problem, Xbox
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