Sven LL Rafferty

Ever wonder if that cool slot that sucks in your CD or DVD on you Mac (or car stereo) gets dirty? Think about it. Where does all the oil and dirt from your hand that gets transfered to your disc go when you slip it in into the slot? Good question and [...]

Apple goofed and released its first movie, High School Musical, for a mere $1.99 and then yanked it quicker than anyone could have watched the entire 1 hour and 39 movie off of the iTunes Music Store. Then it was back…for $9.99. It seems the original price was incorrect.
The question is, [...]

Hey, the DiVX guys have gone Universal and thus FrontRow will now play your collection of videos you may have amassed in the past few years. Reports on the forums is that all of the player is not Universal, so some Intel folks are stating a 30% increase of CPU consumption when compared to [...]

While I can not confirm if this is true, since both Safari and Firefox won’t display the video, it’s being reported that the hacker, Narf2006, that got XP to run on an Intel iMac has put up video showing the Mac boot into XP. Again, I can’t get this to work on my Mac [...]

Everyone’s been asking and John C. Dvork as even said it straight out, “Apple will run Windows,” soon. Well it looks like Microsoft is listening and is even eager to welcome Apple to its fold of OEM’s releasing the statement:

‘Just like all Microsoft’s OEM’s, Apple can build industry-standard hardware that’s compatible with Windows; Microsoft [...]

Saturday, we posted our take on the MacBook Pro and now have a readers take on the very same notebook we have come to love in just a short week. So, here’s what James thinks about his MacBook Pro.
I’ve had mine for about a week but then I ordered it on February 3(the release [...]

In search for a good screen capture tool for my MacBook Pro (SnapNDrag is the one I went with,) I found a great site called Pure Mac. Since it had done such a great job helping me find a screen capture utility, I figured I’d browse. Guess what else I found? Mmm-hmm, a [...]

With every new Intel Mac, lucky users now get the infamous Apple remote. Infamous because it works with the new FrontRow software that comes with the Mac. But GNUHAUS has found more uses for your Apple remote that will broaden the horizons of it’s use.
Much like the Griffin Technology’s AirClick remote, [...]

With less then a month of shipping the first Intel Mac that is a notebook, I by the grace of God got mine only two weeks after Apple started sending them out to Mac-heads everywhere. Sparring you the details on how I got it, I won’t skimp on what I’ve learned in my first [...]

One of my our favorite OS X utilities here at SvenOnTech is MenuMeters by Raging Menace. A freeware system tool that sits in your menu bar, MenuMeters helps you identify how much CPU use is occurring, what is your used and available amounts of memory are, as well as other pieces of system information [...]

Call them crazy or brilliant, but either way, a bunch of IT students at Carrol College have successfully created possibly the first 13 floppy drive striped RAID drive.
They first tried using a Windows XP machine, but that old technology must have been just too advanced for Microsoft’s easy operating system to handle so the IT [...]

No Windows for you! That’s what the Vista Nazi will be saying to all you iMac, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini users with those Intel chips in them. Yes, it seems that the development manager at Microsoft, Andrew Ritz, spit the bad news out at the Intel Developer Forum this week at Moscone [...]

Apple announced nearly two weeks ago that the MacBook Pros were shipping “this week”. We’ve all seen the un-boxing ceremonies here and there but the real question is, “Where are the MacBook Pros?”
SvenOnTech called nearly every Apple Store in the Bay Area from San Jose to San Francisco to the East Bay [...]

Steve Wozniak just recently let some of his thoughts be known on what he thinks about all this crazy Apple stuff going on. While “the other Steve” lays out some tid bits on Apple going Intel and the iPod distracting from the company’s original goal, it’s what Woz says at the end of the [...]

It seems business - the downloading business - is good for Apple. So good in fact that it went out and bought a Tier IV data center that was once made for MCI in 2001. With the telecom’s problems and all, the data center was never used and at what usually costs $1,200 [...]

Was it all in Steve Jobs plan from the beginning when he allowed Disney to buy Pixar? Did the master of saving ailing companies see an opportunity to nab an under valued Hollywood studio from the clutches of Tinsel-town? Maybe. According to analyst Christopher Whalen, of New York-based managing director of Institutional [...]

How you handle bad things in front of a large audience filled with the press determines what kind of ring leader you are at that circus. Steve Jobs is well known for his charisma, but how does he do when Macs lockup, web sites error out, and cameras don’t turn on? Well take [...]

It’s not often I get too excited about web browsers, but man, I just found one that looks to be an amazing one. Based on Mozilla, like Firefox, Flock takes a different approach from the other browsers available. Concentrating on the blog and image sharing space that has become so popular in the [...]

The first MacBook Pros are making their way into the wild and outside of the PowerBrick power adapter that’s bigger then the state of Road Island, the big topic of discussion is its battery power being in the range of 2.5 hours for “normal” use. Ouch! Add a DVD spinning into that equation [...]

Sonos has gone Universal. Releasing news today that the Santa Barbra-based company is now supporting both PowerPC and Intel based Macs, it proudly informed the SvenOnTech today that, “By providing this new support, those Mac users lucky enough to get their hands on the new Intel-based Mac models will be able to continue to [...]