Posts tagged pc

HP to Keep PC Division

On Thursday, HP announced that it had completed its evaluation of strategic alternatives for its Personal Systems Group (PSG) and decided that the unit will not be spun off from the company. Continue reading »

WOW-Keys

I Stumbled upon this product web site. It was released May 24th. The Qwerty keyboard that has a docking station for an iPod touch or an iPhone built into it. Continue reading »

Emulation Wiki

I have long known that there are a lot of emulators available to run on the Mac. That is the area I found the most interesting on the Emulation Wiki. However there are also sections for PC DOS/Windows, PC Linux, Other Computers, Consoles and Handhelds.
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Get A Mac, The Complete Campaign

AdWeek, a trade journal for the advertising industry has published all 66 of the “Get A Mac” advertisements. Now they are saying it is complete, because they don’t make sense stacked against Windows 7.
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UGNN Salutes CEBug

Yes, it’s the Computer Erie Bay Users Group — a group that has been listed in UGN for nearly a decade… same great group, new web site …

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How to Automatically Sync Contacts & Calendar

The full title to this article is: “How to Automatically Sync Your Contacts & Calendar Between a Nokia Phone, iPhone, Gmail and Outlook / Mac iCalendar / Address Book on multiple computers.” Isn’t that a mouthful? I don’t have all of that, but I bet that it will have a lot of information about sync that will be useful in smaller doses as well. Continue reading »

Screen Recycler

I have been enjoying having a second monitor on my desk at work. Unfortunately, it is a PC. But it would be nice to have a second monitor here at home. Many Mac users have a hard time throwing out an old Mac. Wouldn’t it be great if you could use that old iMac or eMac as a second screen? Continue reading »

UK gov’t offers free PCs to disadvantaged kids

The UK government is giving 20,000 disadvantaged kids in Suffolk and Oldham free PCs. The ‘Next Generation Learning’ plan aims to spend £300m on children 7 to 18 years of age. Besides the purchase of a PC, there will be software purchased and one year of broadband access along with three years of technical help. Continue reading »

Graphic Calculator

By now you have probably heard one story or other about how a couple of guys wrote Graphic Calculator for the PowerMac when the PowerMac was underdevelopment at Apple. Continue reading »

Google caught, denies involvement

For the last week, we’ve been tracking one set of cybercriminals who successfuly elude spam traps and filtering software. It’s NOT a pretty picture, and the hot trail leads straight to Google… Continue reading »

Hillary or Obama? Mac or PC?

You can bet we can always depend on Del Missier to send in links to items that are sure to inform, entertain and amuse. This is the case with this link Del sends with the simple comment : “FYI” Continue reading »

Best Buy To Sell Dell

Once they hit Wal-Mart/Sams and Staples, you know it had to happen. According to CE industry trade journal, TWICE, Best Buy will start carrying Dell computers and notebooks in January. Best Buy will now carry the 5 most popular brands in the U.S. Continue reading »

Uncovered: Mac OS X could run Windows apps soon

In the above titled article ArsTechnica points out that there is an undocumented loader in Leopard for Portable Executables. Portable Executables is a type of file used in 32-bit and 64 bit versions of Windows. Continue reading »

Microsoft Updates Computers Again Without Permission

The Register has reported that Microsoft updated a search utility on PCs and Servers that administrators had locked down. The problem became apparent when the computers bogged down when indexing the hard drives. Continue reading »