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Customizing Your MacBook’s Glowing Apple Logo

For just $4 and a little work on your part, you can make your MacBook/PowerBook/iBook’s Apple logo stand out amongst a crowd of Apple fanboys. iColours.ca is selling colored sheets that you can put over the Apple logo to customize it into a variety of colors and designs. The tricky part is the installation, which can [...]

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Exploding PowerBook. Not Battery’s Fault But Cable’s.

The next time a technician visits your house, make sure he knows his cable ABC. A mistake as simple as plugging a power line into the wrong port of a signal amplifier could cause your gadgets and stuffs to go BOOM. That’s exactly what happened to a Comcast customer. Everything on the desk was blackened with [...]

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Laser-Etching an Apple PowerBook

This is the kind of cool things that an Epilog Laser Engraver can do. Celtic knot was designed in Adobe Photoshop, and later transferred to the laser system by hooking up it up to a Windows box running Corel Draw. Of course, dry runs were conducted on a piece of paper to make sure the [...]

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