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Apple Hardware

Wonderful Apple tech support

Nov 29th, 2007 - How often is it that we hear stories from people who work as tech support about the stupid people they have to deal with? Indeed, it seems as though working as tech support could potentially be an extremely entertaining profession, provided that you have a good sense of humor. Of course, it could... (Read More)

Apple breaks the 100 million iPods barrier

Apr 10th, 2007 - Today, Apple announced that they have now sold over 100 million iPods, which comes after they had released the first iPod 5-and-a-half years ago. Grammy award winner John Mayer said about the iPod: "Without the iPod, the digital music age would have been defined by files and folders instead of... (Read More)

Apple breaks the 100 million iPods barrier

Apr 10th, 2007 - Today, Apple announced that they have now sold over 100 million iPods, which comes after they had released the first iPod 5-and-a-half years ago. Grammy award winner John Mayer said about the iPod: "Without the iPod, the digital music age would have been defined by files and folders instead of... (Read More)

iPod (comes close to) saving soldier's life

Apr 9th, 2007 - What better use of an iPod than to save a soldier's life by stopping a bullet? This photo appears to prove it, although the actual story was that the iPod alerted the soldier to the fact that he had been shot, but it was his armor that actually stopped the bullet. The story goes something like... (Read More)

Mac Pro now 8-core capable

Apr 5th, 2007 - Without further ado, Apple has added a new build-to-order option to their Mac Pro that allows 2 Quad Xeon processors instead of the previous 1, promised to run at 3 Ghz, and making the Mac Pro the first 8-core Mac. The upgrade doesn't seem like a huge one, as all they're doing is putting 2... (Read More)

Apple planning to sell non-DRM'ed music

Apr 2nd, 2007 - It seems like Apple is nearing a day we'd never think would come. This time it seems official. According to the reports, Apple and EMI have formed a deal that would not only allow Apple to sell EMI's music on their store (quite possibly The Beatles), but "large portions of these would be without... (Read More)
Novell

Dell teams up with Novell and Microsoft

May 7th, 2007 - Add SuSE to the list of operating systems going to be offered by Dell as they ally with Novell and Microsoft to sell their server software. Planning on selling both SuSE SLES (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server) and Microsoft's Windows Server, Dell broadens their offering of solutions, hoping to... (Read More)
Internet Marketing Job Offers

Freedom for army bloggers once again

May 6th, 2007 - The constant worry of soldiers leaking top-secret information onto the internet via blogs had forced the commanders to approve every blog entry that a soldier wrote before they could post it onto the world wide web. Fortunately for them it's called off, at least for now. Just 3 days ago, a fact... (Read More)

Pandora waves goodbye to the rest of the world

May 3rd, 2007 - If you like listening to Pandora but are not living in the United States at the moment, you may want to enjoy it while you can, because Pandora has announced that they're going to block non-US visitors in short order. Why? You guessed it: licensing problems. Previously, Pandora had only claimed... (Read More)
Graphics and Multimedia

Dell's Flash laptops narrowly aimed at the wealthy

Apr 26th, 2007 - Since recent years, we've come to appreciate the speed and usability of Flash drives. The fact that sudden motion makes no difference to its accessibility makes Flash drives an intriguing prospect for laptop manufacturers. Especially Dell, which is going to offer a configuration option with its... (Read More)
Windows Software

Google Apps, move over for Gravity Zoo

Apr 24th, 2007 - Yesterday, an email was sent to the OpenOffice developers that proclaimed the development of a new version of OpenOffice -- one that's going to be available via the web. Using a technology that's been in development for 3 years already, Gravity Zoo Framework, a special programming library aimed at... (Read More)

Is Google Apps beginning to challenge Microsoft?

Apr 19th, 2007 - Following Google's announcement just yesterday that they are going to develop a full office suite for the web, they've just recently added a new feature to Google Spreadsheets: charts. This isn't quite your regular spreadsheet program, as it's still quite basic and was not much more than a portable... (Read More)

Mobile web browser "Deepfish" no longer requires modified websites

Mar 31st, 2007 - Microsoft is aiming to broaden your web surfing horizons with their new "Deepfish" software available for the next version of Windows Mobile. Among other large improvements over the previous browsers used on the PDAs, this one includes a thumbnail view, which will allow you to view content in a... (Read More)
Mac Rumors and Reports

Does MySpace News have a target audience?

Apr 20th, 2007 - The social networking site MySpace has added a new feature that brings MySpace into the journalism world: MySpace News Beta. It has a system very similar to Digg, that is, it allows users to rate and promote content to the front page. With over 160 million users, a feature like this surely does not... (Read More)
PCI and Add-In Cards

New media player software released by Adobe

Apr 17th, 2007 - The software giant Adobe has made another move to expand its reaches by unveiling a new media player program called "Adobe Media Player". And no, Adobe hasn't just created *another* video format for streaming, they're using an existing technology that they already own to handle the video:... (Read More)
Domains and DNS

New security threats as DNS flaw is uncovered

Apr 16th, 2007 - If you're visiting a known site such as Google.com, you're perfectly safe, right? Wrong. New DNS vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Windows 2000 and 2003 severs could potentially allow a DNS server to get hijacked, and redirect a user to a completely different site than they expected to see. The... (Read More)
Linux Servers and Apache

Palm broadens their horizons by moving to Linux

Apr 14th, 2007 - Last Tuesday, Palm announced that they're developing a new operating system. Not surprising, especially since the current one that they've got needs a revamp. The huge news here is that this new operating system is going to use the Linux kernel as the base of the operating system, freeing them from... (Read More)

OpenBSD developers pirating Linux source code

Apr 7th, 2007 - Open source means that it's not possible to pirate the software, right? Well, somehow OpenBSD developers have found out exactly how you can do that, by copying sections of some Linux wireless drivers (released under the GPL of course) and then releasing them under OpenBSD's less-restrictive... (Read More)
OS X

Leopard is delayed; who cares

Apr 13th, 2007 - Somewhat surprisingly, Apple has admitted that they can no longer stick to the Leopard schedule that had previously planned this spring of 2007 as the release for the new operating system being brewed by the developers of Apple, and so you should expect it 4 months later, says Apple. Reasons... (Read More)
Game Development

Windows Live Messenger released for Xbox 360

Apr 10th, 2007 - Microsoft has just announced the release of a Windows Live instant messaging client for its Xbox 360 game console, giving gamers the capability of chatting to their PC friends. There was already a video and voice chat feature via Xbox Live, but this feature enables players to connect with up to... (Read More)

Your new Xbox 360 is already "outdated"

Mar 30th, 2007 - Microsoft has already created a new "version" or "model" of their Xbox 360 console, dubbed "Elite". Aside from its black color and matching headset and wireless controller, it's not that much different, but it has a few important upgrades: They've upgraded the hard drive to make it a whole 120... (Read More)
Web Browsers

Social networking features to be added to Firefox?

Apr 7th, 2007 - In an effort to bring Firefox users closer together, Mozilla has released a conceptual design dubbed "Coop" that would give Firefox the ability to share "photos, news stories, links" with other users, reports Computerworld. Mozilla of course, says that this is purely conceptual, and that this is as... (Read More)
Windows Vista and Windows 7

Vista attacked for "misleading" customers

Apr 4th, 2007 - The latest lawsuit against Vista, so it seems, is now attacking the marketing methods that Microsoft used to sell PCs. The prosecutors claim that Microsoft mislead customers by allowing PC manufacturers to place stickers on the machine that said "Vista capable", when in fact many of the PCs sold... (Read More)

Rumors swirling about the 20 million licenses of Vista

Mar 29th, 2007 - Since Microsoft announced that they had reached the 20 million mark of Windows Vista licenses, people have been criticizing the numbers, and rumors have been swirling that the numbers are straight-out made up. Recently, PCMag published an article stating how the numbers did not add up with Vista... (Read More)
Ad Space for Sale

What does Yahoo define as "infinity"?

Mar 28th, 2007 - Starting May 2007, Yahoo is going to offer unlimited inbox storage. That's right, to celebrate their 10th anniversary, there will be absolutely no limit on the number of messages you can hold in your mailbox. This is obviously to compete with Google's Gmail and other similar providers, which are... (Read More)


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