Apple’s Tuesday event came and went but for all the talk about low-cost 800$ laptops, we got nothing. Yes, the entry level MacBook (now called “MacBook White”) saw a token price-drop of 100$ but it is unlikely to amount to much in India given how low the Ruppee has hit against the dollar (practically speaking, [...]

Mac OS X Leopard has decent support for Indian scripts and languages. Out of the box, Leopard comes with fonts and keyboards for Devnagri, Gujarati, Gurmukhi and Tamil.
Reading Indian language text:
There is nothing that you need to install to be able to correctly view data in these scripts. For example, if you visit the BBC’s [...]

I bought my first Mac a few months ago. Having been a dyed-in-wool Windows user (and a former Microsoft employee) meant that I was apprehensive about my ability to be productive with Mac OS. The fact that Macs can now run Windows (both natively under Boot Camp and virtualized), made the decision easy – I [...]

1. VLC media player | Screenshot
The Swiss army knife of media players.
The default media player which comes with OSX is Quicktime Player and it plays, well, just Quicktime. For your vast media collection including Mpeg, DivX, DV, WMV, MKV etc. VLC is the answer. You can control VLC with the Apple remote so if you [...]

I recently lost my MacBook power adapter. None of the Apple resellers in Bangalore had one, and it would’ve taken them as long as 2 weeks to procure one for me. They all had MacBook Pro adapters though.

A day later I found out that the MacBook Pro adapter (model A1172) works for MacBook too. The [...]