"A business user would find that completely unacceptable," longtime Apple analyst Roger Kay told the media outlet. "Most of the people I know who travel a lot carry multiple batteries." He also acknowledged, though, that the Air, "is a great design statement. Itis very elegant." Apple has stressed from the beginning that it was design…
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Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #142: Geek Advice, Hybrid Wireless Networks, & Syncing Macs
Show notes for Mac Geek Gab Podcast For February 18, 2008 Direct Links: MP3 Version or AAC Version (courtesy of Michael Johnston of iPhone Alley). First John and Dave start off with some general advice to help keep your geek status in good standing. Then it’s off to creating and managing your Mac on more…
IW: Time to Dump Windows?
InfoWorldis Galen Gruman asked the questions on Sunday: Can it be done? Is this the right time? He explored what it would take to make the switch to Mac OS X or Linux. For those who donit savor the switch from XP to Vista, many InfoWorld readers are talking about switching to Mac OS X…
Takahashi: Apple Keeps Moving Forward, Microsoft Backward
The new MacBook Air emphasizes the important fact that Apple keeps moving forward. However, Microsoft took a step backward with Vista, according to Dean Takahashi at the Mercury News on Monday. Mr. Takahashi hasnit been a consistent Mac user. Heis a game player, and that required him to use PCs for decades. Neither has he…
MCE Unveils QuickStream Portable DV Hard Drive
The QuickStream is available in 6 hour/80GB and 9 hour/120GB configurations, can play back footage to through the camerais built-in display, includes a hot shoe mount, 4-pin to 6-pin and 6-pin to 6-pin FireWire cables, and an AC power adapter. The QuickStream DV/HDV is priced at US$799 for the 6 hour model, and $999 for…
Mozilla Unveils Firefox 3 Beta 3
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Apple Unveils Aperture 2, Lowers Price
Apple announced the immediate availability of Aperture 2 on Tuesday. The new version of the digital photo editing and management application sports a redesigned interface, a new image processing engine, and a price drop down to US$199. Aperture 2 gained new imaging tools for highlight recovery, color vibrancy, local contrast definition, soft-edged retouching, vignetting and…
Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #141: 10.5.2 and Network Special with WiFi, Sharing, Printing, and More
Show notes for Mac Geek Gab Podcast For February 11, 2008 Direct Links: MP3 Version or AAC Version (courtesy of Michael Johnston of iPhone Alley). This week’s episode starts with a 10.5.2 discussion. Then John and Dave are on to lots of networking questions for you, but they also throw in some other stuff just…
BW: Steve Ballmer Should Focus -- Like the Other Steve
Big mergers in the high-tech industry have been colossal failures, and the same can be expected of Microsoft and Yahoo. Steve Ballmer, who appears to be anxious to make his mark on his company should stop trying to be all things to all people, according to Arik Heseldahl at BusinessWeek on Friday. Instead, Microsoft should…
Apple Drops Out of NAB Show
Apple has announced that it will not have a booth at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show in April, according to TVTechnology on Thursday. According to the report, Apple is cutting down on its trade show participation. “Apple is participating in fewer trade shows this year” said Anuj Nayar, senior manager of PR at…
Dictionary's Power Reference Tools
Front/Back Matter is loaded with useful reference materials including a lists of the countries of the world, all of the U.S. presidents, all of the states in the U.S., clich?s (including which ones to avoid), and punctuation guides. It also includes the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, weights and measurements conversions, and more. Finding…
Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #140: War Stories, Storage, and CPUs
Show notes for Mac Geek Gab Podcast For February 4, 2008 Direct Links: MP3 Version or AAC Version (courtesy of Michael Johnston of iPhone Alley). John and Dave both bring war stories from their own computers and networks to share, along with some advice so hopefully you don’t have to live through the same problems…
Podcast - Apple Weekly Report #114 2008-02-04: Mega-Mergers, iPhone Security, & Pacemakers
Direct Link: MP3 Version Audible.com agreed to an Amazon buy out while Microsoft made a bid for Yahoo in an effort to hold off search giant Google. U.S. courts added another two years to Microsoft’s antitrust follow up, iPods turned out to be safer for heart patients than previously thought, and a new iPhone security…
Microsoft Makes $44.6B Bid for Yahoo
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer stated “We have great respect for Yahoo, and together we can offer an increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers and advertisers while becoming better positioned to compete in the online services market.” Googleis strong position in the online search and advertising market has left Microsoft and Yahoo in the…
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Parallels Webcast Will Share Company Products and Vision
The Parallels CEO, Serguei Beloussov, will hold a keynote Webcast on Thursday, January 31, 2008 in which heill take a deep dive into the companyis virtualization technology, new products, vision and roadmap. Joining Mr. Beloussov will be executives from leading Fortune 500 companies to share their own perspective on virtualization. Participating will be: Diane M.…
Thomson Financial Sees AAPL Turnaround Signs
Thomson Financialis Squawk Box, (TSB) a source of commentary and intelligence on market-moving activity, said on Monday that they see early turnaround signs for AAPL based on three separate timing indicators. They reported that the risk-reward for AAPL now favors buyers. In the report, carried by Forbes, Thomsonis sequential timing indicators flashed a reversal signal…
DVD Format War Officially a Draw
The format war for recordable DVDs, DVD-R and DVD+R, is officially over. Last week, the DVD6C consortium added DVD+R and DVD+RW to its list of licensable products, according to The Register on Monday. The wide availability of dual format DVD players/writers, in practice, terminated the war long ago. Ten years ago, Pioneer developed the DVD-R…
Microsoft Offers Workaround for Office 2008 Security Flaw
Microsoftis Erik Schwiebert stated on the mactopia blog that the “issue is that our installer is incorrectly granting ownership of the files to a particular local user as it installs them, so that if your Mac actually has a second local user and that user is not an administrator on your Mac, they could modify…
An Introduction to Twitter: TMO Announces New Twitter Feeds
Twitter is a free online service where people write short messages that are published in the useris personal timeline. Anyone that cares to follow your timeline gets to see the messages, or tweets, that you post. Twitter
Analyst: Mac, iPod Likely Driving Strong Quarter
Apple is due to report its December quarter earnings later on Tuesday, and American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu expects the company to once again beat its own guidance. “Based on our supply chain analysis, we continue to expect Apple to beat its guidance substantially (US$9.2 billion in revenue and $1.42 in EPS). We are…
Mindset Media Finds Mac Users More "Open Minded"
Mindset Media surveyed 7,500 people and found that people who are highly open minded are 60 percent more likely than people in the general population to have purchased a Mac. Mindset Media, which operates an online ad network that enables brand advertisers to reach millions of people with the personality traits that fit their brands,…
Parallels and equinux Partner for IPsec VPN
Parallels and equinux announced at Macworld that they have partnered to allow business professionals with Parallels Desktop for Mac to securely connect to their remote networks using VPN Tracker 5, equinuxis IPsec-based VPN client. The result is that users with the Parallels VM can now easily integrate with the equinux VPN Tracker 5. “Itis no…
Just a Thought - Macworld Keynote: Getting Down To Business?
It’s that time of year again when everyone has a prediction of what Apple CEO and industry keystone, Steve Jobs, will talk about come the Macworld Keynote tomorrow. I’m not different, I’ve got an opinion of what the major announcement will be, though my opinion has little to do with movies, though I do think…