Or: How to stop doing it wrong. How to Reformat a New External Hard Disk over at TidBITS is one of the more useful and surprising technical articles I've seen in a while; it seems that the simple way many of us have been reformatting drives with Disk Utility is not the ideal way to go about it. Take a read and get educated.

And if you're not a regular reader of TidBITS, you should be!

What mobile phone tops the list for customer satisfaction in Japan? It certainly can't be the iPhone; after all, it was just this February that WIRED Magazine declared "the Japanese hate the iPhone", right?

So who took the #1 mobile phone customer satisfaction spot in Japan last year? And just how poorly did the iPhone rank? 

Er, it looks like five words answer both questions: The iPhone was number one.  Read more »

The According to Forbes, the cost to get your DNA sequenced is down to $48,000 (from $350,000 just a year and a half ago) – and to sweeten the deal, San Diego biotech company Illumina will toss in a Mac and appropriate software for viewing your genetic code. (No detail at present on whether that gets you an iMac, MacBook Pro, or what.)

Amazing stuff, even if nobody's quite sure yet what the owner of one's own genome data will do with it. (However, I can guess what some Internet wags will do with this particular news story: "$48,000? Haw, that must be $1000 for the sequencing, $47,000 for the Mac!")

Back with a fresh look. Fresh and incomplete; still lots of changes to make, but better rough edges than an "under construction" sign.

With the latest version of this CMS, the Wacky Mac image galleries (TAM and iBook) are proving problematic, with tricky navigation and no thumbnails adorning the main gallery overviews. The galleries work, just not smoothly. They'll shortly be polished to brushed aluminum-like perfection.

There are a lot of new articles underway as well. Please subscribe to the RSS feed or visit again!

Attention fans of Mac collectibles: One collector is liquidating a giant hoard of posters, pamphlets, stickers, and much more, to raise some much-needed money. I don't know how long these pages will stay up; take a look now for some nostalgic and rare items from days of yore - and maybe just the thing you need for your collection.

http://www.saldanah.com/applesale/