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Apple's new 13" MacBook is a good buy, but in specific cases

Depending on where Google or your favorite search engine takes you when youre looking for more information on Apples latest notebook MacBook offerings, youre likely to get a different opinion on whether its worth a looksie. What makes the latest round of MacBooks different (Ill refrain from using the word...

Tags: General, Personal Technology, Hardware Infrastructure, Wired & Wireless, Mobile, Berlind, Apple, Apples, Apple MacBook, Intel Core 2 Duo

Blog posts 2006-11-17

Boot Camp: Apple's education edge?

Christopher Dawson has an interesting post on why his school district users are voting for PCs over Macs, a contention that bucks conventional wisdom. One of Dawsons primary conclusions is that Apples OS X just looks different and that makes users wary. Some of these folks were used to OS...

Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, Apple, Education, Apples, Company, education market

Blog posts 2006-11-16

With DeCSS behind him, "DVD Jon" turns his attention to Apple's Fairplay

Robert Levine of Fortune reports:When he was 15, [Jon Lech] Johansen got frustrated when his DVDs didnt work the way he wanted them to. "I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it," that is, on a PC that ran...

Tags: Apples, Johansen, DoubleTwist

Blog posts 2006-10-23

iPod turns 5. Competitors turn stomachs. And Apple's just gettin' warmed up

I was contacted by a public radio reporter today to comment on the fifth anniversary of Apples iPod and here is basically what I said:In the longstanding tradition of the Mac, Apple has done an absolutely brilliant job demystifying what is otherwise a complex technical process. It is only in...

Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Apples

Blog posts 2006-10-20

Congratulations, Apple

Apple has experienced record sales of its Macintosh computers according to recent reports, posting the best sales figures in the 22 year history of the product. Good job, Apple. Apples strong results reinforces the notion that people at the Cupertino-based company understand things about human...

Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Apples

Blog posts 2006-10-20

Additional Resources

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Best luxe Mac accessories

What do you get for that special person on your list already owns a Mac, iPod and a nice digital camera? Accessories! Here are my picks for the Best Luxe accessories ($200 and up) that are perfect for the Mac user with everything. Don't forget...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Accessory, Video, Blu-ray, Camera, FlipShare Software, 7xx-series, Desktops, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Best Apple iPhone, iPod touch apps

Just about everyone seems to have either an iPhone or iPod touch these days and the companion App Store is chock full of over 5,000 great gift ideas. From powerful databases to file storage to music, this list has something for you. Can't decide? Give your special someone...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Database, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple iPod Touch, Apple iTunes, US$5, BeatMaker iPhone, Intua, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-26

News to know: Ubuntu; New Macbook; BlackBerry Storm; Google layoffs

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Christopher Dawson: Are you sure you don't just want to use Ubuntu? Netbooks + Ubuntu: OS solid but... Robin...

Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Layoff, Apple MacBook, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Notebooks, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-11-25

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Mid-range Apples that won't break the bank

If you've got a couple extra bucks in your budget this year there are a couple of middle priced (US$100-300) gifts that up that I want to recommend. If this isn't quite your price range, feel free to check out my list of Mac-related gift ideas under $100...

Tags: Bank, Apple iPhone, Battery, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Chumby, Novatel USB727, FastMac U-Charge Battery Charger, 3G, Engineering, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-24

A guide to cutting IT costs

Reduction of spending in the IT department is more art than science. Metri consultant Paul Michaels offers some advice on how to get it right. For the past few months everyone was hoping the IT industry might be saved the worst of the credit crunch fallout, on the...

Tags: CIO, Benchmarking, Information Technology, IT Cost, Paul Michaels, Conundrum, Strategy, Management, IT management, costs, cutbacks, staffing, Paul Michaels silicon.com

News items 2008-11-21

News to know: Dell; Army bans USB drives; Salesforce; Microsoft

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Cost cutting pays off for Dell; IT spending, demand 'challenging' Sam Diaz: Salesforce bucks trend for Q3; shares rising. Unsealed court filing: HP's Hurd...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., USB Flash Drive, Internet, Open Source

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Bargain Apples

Apple is undoubtedly one of the hottest tech and consumer brands in the world and they should easily sell more than 2 million Macs and 20 million iPods in the upcoming holiday quarter. With all the Mac gear out there it's sometimes hard to choose. Here are...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Apple iPod, Battery, Richard Solo 1800 mAh Battery, Inserts, NewerTech Voyager, Engineering, 3G, Digital Music, Digital Media, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-20

Help Steve Jobs (Or GM) Design The iCar

The discussion of whether Steve Jobs could revitalize the auto industry by working with GM on an iCar (Steve Jobs For President. Of GM?) has been lively. But the bottom line question remains: What should that iCar be? Let's leave aside what the...

Tags: Steve Jobs, General Motors Corp., iCar, RSS, Digital Music, Digital Media, Internet, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-11-13

Speculation on Papermaster's "huh?": IBM, Apple, and Freescale

Speculation on Papermaster's "huh?": IBM, Apple, and FreescalePaul-the-pseudonym is probably rightFor a long time, Apple has been managing its supply chain as a lean, JIT organization with a good deal of outsourcing. Their strategy: We are the best at design, let's increasingly move manufacturing and integration to subcontractors willing to...

Tags: Processors, Apple Inc., IBM Corp., PPC

Discussion threads 2008-11-04

Can Drupal beat Wordpress?

Has Drupal overtaken WordPress? That's hard to do, in either politics or business, and maybe we're comparing apples to oranges. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Drupal, Wordpress, Dana Blankenhorn, Content Management System, Dries, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software

Blog posts 2008-11-03

Microsoft: Third party apps killing our security

Microsoft: Third party apps killing our securityI use Youtube oftenand what they did is good. I really disliked the whole real player thing as well.It was a horrid thing. Aside from which platform it was run on.Tell That To Some Web SeminarsI had to attend one last week, one of...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital media, Digital music, Construction, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Microsoft Windows Vista, security

Discussion threads 2008-11-03

Fun with IBM's Z10 numbers

Fun with IBM's Z10 numbersI just don't believe the IBM numbersin terms of real-world workloads and comparing Linux-to-Linux implementations. Maybe if you are doing some kind of multi-dimensional modeling you might get some advantage from the z10, but for work-a-day web hosting?RE: Fun with IBM's Z10 numbersSo... we're looking at...

Tags: Linux, Mainframes, Data centers, Servers, Storage, Z10, IBM Corp., Z10 number

Discussion threads 2008-10-29

Google Android vulnerable to drive-by browser exploit

Google Android vulnerable to drive-by browser exploit"somewhat limited"?[i]A successful attacker will have access to any information the browser may use, such as cookies used for accessing sites, .....However, they can not control other, unrelated aspects of the phone, such as dialing the phone directly[/i]At least if my phone was dialing,...

Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, Ryan, Google Inc., browser exploit, Google Android, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-27

How long until Apple is bigger than Microsoft?

How long until Apple is bigger than Microsoft?Looks like ol' Fr0thy's been sharing Bong Loads with Linux Geek again... ntn/t"You are the imaginative one, are you not?" - Warped is better - ntntLOL - yes but the numb-skull made me a lot of money today -I bet he would...

Tags: Operational accounting, Digital media, Digital music, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., revenue

Discussion threads 2008-10-26

OS X versus Vista, RAM division

OS X versus Vista, RAM divisionWhy must we try to compare apples to oranges?Two different OSes. Two different ways of managing memory.Period.b .bu..but, everybody knows Vista is sluggishThe Apple ads say so, the army of valley tech bloggers keep repeating it, so it must be true - just like the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Memory, Operating systems, RAM, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Mac OS X, Vista RAM, Vista RAM division, Apple MacBook

Discussion threads 2008-10-24