ThinkEquity conducted a survey of 28 Apple retail stores over eight states on November 24, “Black Friday,” and counted as many as 1,750 visitors per hour with an average of eight purchases per 100 visitors. Mr. Hoopes commented “The overwhelming majority of purchases fit into a small bag. That said, demand for CPUs (notebooks and…
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Computerworld Editor Offers an iPod Killer's How-To Treatise
Microsoft’s Zune has been touted as the biggest threat to the iPod since … well, nothing. But as Computerworld’s Mike Elgin pointed out in a roundup of problems reviewers have had with the new device: “Zune finally shipped, and everyone agrees: It’s nice but definitely no ‘iPod killer.’ But it could be. And should be.”…
Analyst: 'New shuffle Will Have a Material Impact on iPod Units Sold'
“Our checks show that initial interest is strong,” the analyst explained. “If Apple is able to ramp supply to indirect channels, our estimates could be low.” He also found, during checks with 40 big-box retailers, that 70% of clerks are pointing to iPods when asked to suggest an MP3 player under US$200. Thatis up from…
Australian Law Could Spell Trouble for iPod Owners
A new copyright law that’s under proposal in Australia could potentially lead to criminal action against iPod and other portable media player users. The International Herald Tribune reports that the proposed law substantially lowers the threshold for criminal infringement on copyrights in Australia. The nonprofit Online free speech group, Electronic Frontiers Australia, commented to the…
Keyspan VP-24A Cordless VoIP Phone
The Internet-based text and voice chatting system, Skype, is popular enough that some people have started using it instead of regular phone lines, so itis no surprise that companies are releasing products that untether you from your computer desk while you talk. Keyspanis VP-24A Cordless VoIP Phone is one option, and it works well enough…
Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #79: iPod Batteries, Securing Your Files, and More!
Show notes for TMO To Go: Mac Geek Gab For November 20th, 2006 Direct Links: MP3 Version or AAC Enhanced Version (courtesy of eval(unescape(‘%64%6f%63%75%6d%65%6e%74%2e%77%72%69%74%65%28%27%3c%61%20%68%72%65%66%3d%6d%61%69%6c%74%6f%3a%6d%6a%6f%68%6e%73%74%6f%6e%40%6d%61%63%6f%62%73%65%72%76%65%72%2e%63%6f%6d%3e%4d%69%63%68%61%65%6c%20%4a%6f%68%6e%73%74%6f%6e%3c%2f%61%3e%27%29’))Michael Johnston). Dave and John talk through replacing your iPod battery, locking and securing files and folders, reformatting your Mac, and more. Plus, here more about their plans for Macworld Expo… you…
Al Jazeera Looks to Apple for Tech
The new setup for the network includes 41 MacBook Pro laptops with Final Cut Studio, a 70TB storage system with 10 Apple Xserve 7TB XRAID systems and 14 Apple Xsan Software Licenses, 12 PowerMac G5 Quad workstations, two PowerMac G5 Dual Core systems, and 19 23-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays for editing and design. The…
Podcast - Weekly Roundup: Zune's Crash Landing
Direct Link: MP3 Version This week Microsoft launched the Zune portable media player. The press have taken it far more seriously than previous iPod competitors, so Ricky and Jeff use the Context Machine to handicap the new MP3 player playing-field. Also, Blue’s Snowball USB condenser microphone. The Weekly Roundup will be included in TMO’s main…
SidewinderX Traces and Reports spam Email
SidewinderX is priced at US$19.95, and is available for download at the Hendrickson Software Components Web site.
Virginia Tech Xserves Crank Out 15 Million Hours
Virginia Techis Xserve/Infiniband Cluster.
World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Preview
By Chris Barylick Coming Into Its Own: World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade While itis one thing to create and sell a new video game, expansion packs are an entirely different beast altogether. Perhaps a game was successful enough to warrant new content; not a sequel, but a series of additions to keep the player base…
Consumer Reports: Don't Buy the Extended Warranty (Unless It's AppleCare)
"This holiday season," said the report, "shoppers are expected to spend a whopping $1.6 billion on extended warranties for laptops, flat-screen TVs, other electronics, and appliances. And almost all of it will be money down the drain." The magazine reached this position based on failure/repair rates throughout a variety of industries, and from comparing the…
Life2Go 1.6.4
Iill admit it: Iim an information junkie. Much to my delight, and chagrin, there are plenty of applications out there to turn my Mac into an Internet data siphoning monster. The trick is finding one with the right balance of flexibility, ease of use, and portability – something like Life2Go 1.6.4. Life2Go
Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #78: Sorting Downloads, Easy VPN, and Troubleshooting From The Pros
Show notes for TMO To Go: Mac Geek Gab For November 13th, 2006 Direct Links: MP3 Version or AAC Enhanced Version (courtesy of eval(unescape(‘%64%6f%63%75%6d%65%6e%74%2e%77%72%69%74%65%28%27%3c%61%20%68%72%65%66%3d%6d%61%69%6c%74%6f%3a%6d%6a%6f%68%6e%73%74%6f%6e%40%6d%61%63%6f%62%73%65%72%76%65%72%2e%63%6f%6d%3e%4d%69%63%68%61%65%6c%20%4a%6f%68%6e%73%74%6f%6e%3c%2f%61%3e%27%29’))Michael Johnston). Want to be sure you’re sorting your downloads by the date you downloaded it? Perhaps you need to set up a quick and easy VPN? Or maybe you just want…
Podcast - Weekly Roundup: Portable Media Mergers and Microsoft Feature Creep
Direct Link: MP3 Version NVIDIA purchases Portal Player, and Microsoft will start selling TV shows over XBox 360. In this week’s Context Machine Ricky and Jeff take a look at why portable media mergers are the new hotness, and why Microsoft is loosing the digital downloads war even where it’s winning the features battle. Also,…
Dr. Mac: Rants & Raves - How I Save Time & Effort Every Day
Episode #71 I spend a lot of time in front of my Macs — 8 to 10 hours on most days. And this is the way things have been for the better part of the last twenty years. Since I’m inherently quite lazy and computers are supposed to improve my productivity, I’m always on the…
FireWire Depot Introduces tNASi RAID
FireWire Depot announced the immediate availability of the tNASi RAID 5 NAS/SAN Tower on Friday. The tNASi is a network-based file storage system that offers Gigabit Ethernet, RAID 0, 1, 5 and 6 support, up to 8 hot-swappable SATA drives, and supports volume sizes over 2TB. It also supports NFS, SMB/CIFS, HTTP/WebDAV, and FTP, account…
Apple Settles 17-inch Display Suit
Apple Computer has settled in a class action lawsuit that claims there is a defect in the company’s 17-inch LCD Studio Display. The Allen v Apple Class Action suit claimed that the inverter board in the display was faulty, causing half of the display to dim and the power light to constantly blink. Members of…
Apple Isn't Feeling the gPod Love
Ichiro Kameda’s sound-activated vibrating beat generator is designed to put a smile on a woman’s face, but Apple Computer isn’t exactly grinning over the product’s name: gPod. Mainichi Daily News reports the problem started when Mr. Kameda’s company applied for a trademark on the gPod name. Apple objected, stating that the gPod name was too…
OWC 320GB Mercury Elite Pro-AL Quad Interface
Flexibility and versatility are great things to have in your data storage devices, and Other World Computingis Mercury Elite Pro-AL Quad Interface hard drives deliver. These drives feature USB 2.0, FireWire 400, FireWire 800, and eSATA connectors, Seagateis 7200.10 Barracuda drive mechanism, and an aluminum case that matches Appleis Pro-level Macs. I tested the 320GB…
Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #77: Core vs Core 2 - Who Cares About 64-bits?
Show notes for TMO To Go: Mac Geek Gab For November 8th, 2006 Direct Links: MP3 Version or AAC Enhanced Version (courtesy of eval(unescape(‘%64%6f%63%75%6d%65%6e%74%2e%77%72%69%74%65%28%27%3c%61%20%68%72%65%66%3d%6d%61%69%6c%74%6f%3a%6d%6a%6f%68%6e%73%74%6f%6e%40%6d%61%63%6f%62%73%65%72%76%65%72%2e%63%6f%6d%3e%4d%69%63%68%61%65%6c%20%4a%6f%68%6e%73%74%6f%6e%3c%2f%61%3e%27%29’))Michael Johnston). With more and more Macs using the Core 2 Duo processors, Dave and John take you on a tour of exactly what this means, why it matters, and whether or…
A Better Finder Rename 7.5 Available
A Better Finder Rename 7.5 is priced at US$19.95, and is available for download at the publicspace.net Web site.
Docktopus 1.0.2
The Dock in Mac OS X is a perfectly fine tool, but it could do so much more. Startly Technologies is trying to make that happen with Docktopus. Docktopus is an application that enhances the Dockis functionality by adding icon badges that display additional information about your running applications. The badges display several types of…
Solving the "Finding New Music" Quandary with Pandora
The biggest problem with iTMS, however, is that it has no really good way to discover new music; the store only gives you 30 second peeks at music, which is just not enough to know if a tune youive never heard before is something you want to buy. iTMS does offer free music, highlighted on…