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Multitouch on Unibody MacBooks. FingerMgt is a lovely little app that illustrates quite how sensitive the touchpad on modern MacBooks is —it can track up to 11 touch points and measure pressure as well as location.

# 6th November 2009, 2:44 pm / multitouch, macbook, macbookpro, apple

Battery Statistics. Run “ioreg -w0 -l | grep Capacity” on a MacBook or MacBook Pro to find out the DesignCapacity (original) and MaxCapacity (current) of your laptop’s battery.

# 27th July 2008, 11:05 am / power, macbook, macbookpro, battery, corstencurdt, capacity

Poorly Macbook, ineffective error message design. Nat’s MacBook died the other day, throwing out some impressively meaningless error symbols. How exactly are you meant to Google for a circle with a line through it?

# 13th January 2008, 11:31 pm / google, macbook, apple, usability, natalie-downe, errors, searchability