Apple’s Free iPod Promotion Ends on September 15th: It’s a Good Idea to Wait

If you are looking to take advantage of Apple’s annual back to school promotion, here is a friendly reminder that September 15th is your last chance to score a free 8GB nano, 8GB iPod touch (after rebate) or a discount on a Mac. Just remember, we don’t know what is coming on September 9th, so it might be a good idea to hold out just in case a miracle occurs and the updates are part of the deal. [MacBlogz]

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Apple’s Free iPod Promotion Ends on September 15th: It’s a Good Idea to Wait

If you are looking to take advantage of Apple’s annual back to school promotion, here is a friendly reminder that September 15th is your last chance to score a free 8GB nano, 8GB iPod touch or a discount on a Mac. Just remember, we don’t know what is coming on September 9th, so it is definitely a good idea to hold out until all is revealed. [MacBlogz]

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DIY MacBook upgrade

Yeah, so that black MacBook you bought a couple of years ago with an 80 GB hard drive isn’t lookin’ so hot now, is it? You know things are bad when you have to delete your pr0n videos to make room for incoming email. You’d like to swap out the hard drive, but your tech skills are sucky. What do you do?

Go to Instructables! They’re always doing something fun over there, like showing how to install Tiger on a PC. There’s also a recent post (surprise!) about how to upgrade your measly MacBook hard drive and preserve your existing data. Afterwards, you’ll be doin’ the happy dance, too!

Advance note to commenters: yeah, we know this isn’t exactly rocket science, but for those who might be a little squeamish about actually yanking the hard drive out of their MacBooks, these step-by-step instructions should put their minds at ease. [Read]

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Apple MagSafe Replacements Are Now Free

In our anecdotal experience, Apple has been pretty good about replacing clearly faulty MagSafe power adapters—the ones that split or fray from faulty manufacture. But now they are making their replacement policy official and offering free MagSafe replacements for the MacBook (13-inch Late 2006), MacBook (13-inch), MacBook Pro (15-inch Glossy), MacBook Pro (17-inch). (We read that as all models that use the MagSafe power adapter). Bring in your bad MagSafes to any Apple retailer and they’ll take care of you. [Apple via Cult of Mac]

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Mac Icons: 50+ Free High Quality iMac, Macbook Icon Sets

Free icons are great, they are better when they are in high quality and comes in variety of different formats. Thanks to a great number of generous designers out there, we are enjoying what they are distributing for free. Here in this post, we’ve gathered more than 50 high quality Apple Mac related icon sets. What’s included are icon sets of Macbook, Macbook Pro, Macbook Air, iMac, Apple TVs and more.

Here’s a little note. These icon sets are fine for personal usage, but you might not use them for commercial projects. So please check with the authors or check with the disclaimer if you intend to use them on commercial projects.

Here’s more great icon sets you might want to check out.
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