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Many Mac OS Up-to-Date Customers Go To Bed Without Mac OS X Mountain Lion

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Anxious and loyal Apple customers seeking to upgrade their new computers to Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion are telling us that they are going to bed without. No supper…errr Mac OS X update for you kids.

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Mountain Lion Break Fix – Restoring Apps Open In Specific Desktops Feature

We encountered a small problem with several Macs which were upgraded to Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion this afternoon. The problem manifested itself when we noticed that applications we launched previously didn’t remember the desktop they opened on last. We are avid fans of Mission Control and we love to use multiple desktops so this was a bit disheartening. Luckily the fix was an easy one.

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Shot Up Houston Apple Store Displays Temporary Facade

Here is a gallery of the Highland Village shopping centers Apple Store in Houston, Texas. The front facade of the building is sporting some serious band-aids.

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Apple Investigating Quirky Wiring Kinks In New MagSafe 2 Power Adapters [Updated]

Last week we discovered odd kinks forming in the thin cable of the MagSafe 2 power adapter that shipped with the mid-2012 11-inch MacBook Air we purchased. You can see them in the photo above. We went to a local Genius Bar and Apple replaced the adapter with one off of the store shelves.

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Nest Responds To Apple Retail Mystery Query

Here’s the initial response from Nest regarding the availability of their thermostat in Apple brick and mortar retail stores:

So far we haven’t received a response from Apple.

Apple’s New MagSafe 2 Adapters Display Quirky Wiring Kinks

I picked up a new MacBook Air mid-2012 11-inch notebook last week and although I’m enjoying the heck out of it I noted a weird anomaly with the MagSafe 2 adapter that shipped with the new computer. The anomaly appears after you start to wrap the adapters thin power cord which ends in the new MagSafe 2 connection around the prongs that are integrated into the power brick.

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Apple Pulls Nest Thermostat From Brick And Mortar Stores [Mysteries]

Apple has pulled the Nest thermostat from their brick and mortar stores. We discovered this little bit of news last week end while shopping at a local Apple Store in Houston.

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Did A Product Sold By Ikea Inspire The Nest Thermostat Design?

A friend of mine finally dragged me into a local Ikea store to look around for some inspiration in home decorating. Although I saw a lot of nice goodies one item in particular caught my eye because it looked so much like a Nest Thermostat.

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Another iOS 6 Map App Partner Appears Unexpectedly

It looks like the number of partners tied into Apple’s new iOS 6 mapping solution is growing. We were sent this little tidbit from a user with access to the iOS 6 beta release. They were using the new Map application at WWDC today when it crashed and this little tidbit was revealed:

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Parallels Desktop 7 And Mac OS X Mountain Lion Preview 3 Install Fix

Mac OS X Mountain Lion Preview 3 was released recently and anxious developers who are trying to use it with Parallels Desktop 7 are running into a problem that prevents the Mac OS X installer from launching. Luckily the fix is easy.

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