Archive for November, 2009

What does Gates think about Steve at Apple?

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett recently met with students at Columbia Executive Business School. A student asked Bill Gates what he thought of what Steve Jobs had done at Apple since his return.

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FLO TV

I just saw an article that says that FLO TV is already being sold by Best Buy and Amazon. Soon it will be at a RadioShack (A.K.A. The Shack) near you.

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United State of Pool – New Billiards Game

Mac Games and More has announced the release of a new Mac game called United States of Pool, which is a set of billiards game that allows you to travel across American stopping off in various cities to play a match of 9-Ball pool and more. In order to advance to the next city, players are required to earn a minimum number of points and win the game against their opponent.

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10 must have iPhone motorcycle apps

It really becoming interesting to see how many ways you can slice and dice iPhone apps. This list gives a quick review of each of the 10 apps that you “must have” if you ride a bike.

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Windows 7

I saw Windows 7 today as part of a presentation over lunch at my full time job. It has several features that look nice and a few that look familiar.

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Phishing & Spam Report

This week we revisit the Facebook vs. Wallace case; get a 100-million report from the FBI, and see the Anti-Phishing game now available as courseware. Stay tuned to online crime and protect yourself!

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Keep mobile devices close

Thanksgiving Shopping Period is the worst time for leaving your mobile devices in the back of Cabs – warn NY Cab Drivers, as 30,000 mobile phones are left in New York taxis every six months Continue reading »

New Cancer Treatment

Not all technology is computer, I want to highlight some of the tech that is helping to improve lives. Tom Foremski posted this article on ZDNet. I have been a beneficiary of a heart catheter a few times. i found it amazing what today’s medicine can do without cutting into you.

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iMac and MacBook Touchscreen

Ok, these aren’t from Apple, but there has long been touchscreen systems for Macs. I remember working on a client’s machine in the mid ’90s that had a touch screen and even remember some used at local malls as a kiosk.

However, Troll Touch of Valencia, CA announced last week, that their touchscreen systems for the new 21.5 inch and 27 inch Apple iMacs and the 13 inch Unibody MacBook laptop are now available. All systems feature analog resistive touchscreen technology and 12 bit touchscreen resolution. Standard warranty is one year, extendable to three years. The iMac systems are available as both a fully integrated, Troll factory installed internal package or a user-Installable, external “SlipCOVER” touchscreen system.

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Total Snow Leopard Superguide

This past week, Macworld released the Total Snow Leopard Superguide, the latest installment in its popular series of tutorial books. Macworld’s team of experts take you inside Apple’s latest update to the popular Mac OS X operating system: Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6. Snow Leopard is an OS X update unlike any in recent memory. Inside these pages you’ll find all the information you need to install Snow Leopard smoothly and get started with its most important new features.

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9 Tips for iTunes 9

This site has a number of tips for Mac, thus its name Mac OS X Tips.  It is in the UK, so some of the spellings seem a little strange to us yanks.  This one is about using iTunes 9.

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Apple Snow Leopard Server

Performance inside performance
Perhaps as a consequence of the now-removed PowerPC support, MacOS 10.6 can take advantage of differing memory models (64-bit) which we believe helped in our SPECjbb2005 test.   SPEC’s JBB test is an emulation of a business application using Java that delivers a result in Business Operations per Second (BOP).
In an apples-to-apples comparison, Snow Leopard is 4% faster than Leopard.   Add in the ability to use large memory pages, and the figure is 21% more BOPs.   When we lowered the available total memory but increased the number of Java Virtual Machines servicing SPECjbb2005, the large memory size helped but it didn’t appear as though the new GCD helped performance in this benchmark.
There is no reason not to retrofit Snow Leopard into an existing Leopard-based environment.   The price at $499 is reasonable ($29 if upgrading from Leopard), but made more expensive by captivity to Apple’s comparatively pricey server hardware.   As a plug-and-play combination, Apple’s controlled Snow Leopard environment provides a seamless experience.
This article in Network World really seems to praise Snow Leopard as a server platform.

Kiss your DVD … goodbye

In an article with the above title, Dwight Silverman shows that Apple is not the only one looking at the possibilities of selling media that can be played on any of your devices.

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Task Timer gets better

Task Timer is an easy-to-use project management tool that allows users to track time spent on an unlimited number of projects and tasks. Now it’s been upgraded with major changes for Mac OS X and Windows Continue reading »

SecretBox Locks your secrets

In these days of all kinds of cybercrime, and even in-office data theft, you need to be more careful than ever. SecretBox allows you to keep your secrets in a safe place. It uses the industry standard 256-bit AES encryption to protect your data. Check it out

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