Category: iMac

Apple Updates iMac Graphics Firmware

A.P.P.L.E.
Posted by: A.P.P.L.E. Date: March 4, 2012
0 Likes 173 Views

Apple has released an update for the Graphics Firmware on the iMac.   Version 3.0 of the Graphics Firmware targets an issue that causes the iMac to hang.   You can download the firmware update through the Software Update function under the Apple Menu or from the Apple Support Page at: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1444

Apple Updates EFI Firmware on 2010 iMacs

A.P.P.L.E.
Posted by: A.P.P.L.E. Date: February 8, 2012
0 Likes 111 Views

Apple Inc. has posted an update to the EFI firmware in the mid-2010 models of the iMac.  Version 1.8 of the iMac EFI Firmware allows Lion Recovery from a network connection.  You can download the update from the Apple website at: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1493  

Google Maps Plugin 2.4 — An A.P.P.L.E. Review

Bill Martens
Posted by: Bill Martens Date: June 2, 2006
0 Likes 118 Views

The latest version of the Google Maps Plugin for Mac OS X is now available from the Google Map Plugin site.  We decided that since we use Google Maps quite often, we would download and install the package on an iBook that we had sitting around. While most packages are take a lot to install, these plugins are about as easy as it gets.  Just unpack the zip file from the download.  Copy the plugin files from the Google Maps…

Mathematica – The Most Appropriate Application for Arithmetical Computations Yet

A.P.P.L.E.
Posted by: A.P.P.L.E. Date: November 15, 1990
0 Likes 113 Views

by Jim Flanagan The computer, if I remember my history lesson correctly in this, our baroque age of computing, was born of a need to do arithmetic computations at high speeds — speeds which are affable by contemporary measure. Today, while computers are able to fit upon our desktop, they are still far too large, while they are orders of magnitude faster, they are still too slow, and while they store compar- atively incredible amounts of data, it is not enough….