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When you spend most of your working day in front of a computer (an Apple Macbook for me) it’s very important to get the most out of your time. Effectiveness, speed, efficiency must be the most important ingredients which make your work as better as you can.

In this perspective, there are some applications and services which are an integral part of your daily life and for this reason you must choose them carefully and those must be the best in class in order to make your job easier. 

So, what are the best? I know this is subjective, but getting different opinions could be very useful. The categories? Email client, Browser, Twitter client (yes, it means business for me…). Please leave a comment with the reason why you give the vote to a certain application, thanks! Remember, Mac only!

Let’s start with the browser! Vote!

UPDATE: the previous version of this post had problems, please re-vote! Thanks.

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Yesterday I posted the following Tweet:

I immediately received a response and gave a look at the Apple “Old Stuff” online store.

Ok, you can find some interesting deals and discounted old Macbooks and Macbook Pros (together with iPods and so on) but a question arises: is it worth it?

I mean, you pay $400 less for a previous generation Macbook Pro, for example, but you what you are getting is much less than the new generation.

You get a worse and heavier case, no multitouch, worse display, worse graphics and many other improvements introduced with the new Macbook Pro are not available in the previous version.

So what? I would buy it if I could save not less than $800. Sell it in the range $1000 - $1200 and it works. Otherwise, I would definitely go for the new version.

What do you think? Is the price for “clearance items” fair? Leave your comments.

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Today was the Apple day. All the main technology blogs are reporting the announcements made by Steve Jobs during today’s Apple event. New Macbook, bew Macbook Pro, an updated MacBook Air and the new 24” Apple Cinema Display.

Aside from the great innovations introduced with these new products, far ahead from the competition, it’s pretty clear that Apple computers are still targeted to a niche, not for everyone.

Despite the reduction of the entry price for the Macbook line, $999 Is still a lot of money if compared to the entry level models from other brands (priced in the range $400-$600).

Moreover, the new stunning 24” Cinema Display is priced twice a direct competitor, like models from HP, Dell or Acer, undoubtely great monitors as well.

So what? Is Apple still not for everyone? Well, from a certain standpoint (price) I would say it’s not for everyone. On the other hand, Apple is a marketing leader and innovator. People are willing to spend that amount of money for Apple products because Apple is a king in telling you why their products are better than the competition. For example, today Jobs has been (as usual) a marketing guru by explaining why Apple’s notebooks are better and why consumers should choose them in place of other available alternatives.

In conclusion, despite it is evident to everyone that Apple is definitely MORE expensive than the competition, the truth is that their products are better, they are presented as MUCH better than any other product coming from the competition and consumers FEEL they are really better.

The result? They are worth their price. Period.

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Sometimes I have a problem with my Apple Macbook. If I close it so that I switch it to the “Stop” status, sometimes when I open it again I see a black screen and the spinning wait cursor but I don’t get the login screen. Sometimes I have to turn it off and on again or if have the time to wait, once it took more than 10 minutes to appear. Other times it didn’t appear at all.

It’s not something that I can easily reproduce, sometimes happens, sometime doesn’t. But what I know for sure is that it’s terribly annoying. I noticed that on my wife’s Macbook this doesn’t happen, but she doesn’t have a password protection at Login.

Any idea? Is anyone experiencing something similar? I really would like to solve this problem once for all.

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