Apple

Last week I was presented with a choice - I needed to get a new computer to replace one that had recently broken and I had a little over a thousand dollars to spend on it.  Windows 7 had just come out a few days prior and it was getting largely good reviews.  I had [...]

I read that IBM had decided to drop Microsoft Office from their corporate offices in favor of their OpenOffice based word processing system. They were moving towards the open document format and away from the Microsoft based .doc system. Having read that, I was curious to give the software a try. I [...]

Microsoft recently stopped production on the first and second generation Zune players; it will focus entirely on the Zune HD from here on out.  The early reviews for the Zune HD are positive - it has a nice screen and the touch features work well.  The sound quality is good and it will have some [...]

Focus Booster claims to be a productivity boosting piece of software which helps you to accomplish your goals through the principles of the Pomodoro Technique.  The company’s website, http://www.focusboosterapp.com/ , says that the product will change colors as time goes by and that it is fully customizable with alarms and time settings.  Essentially it is [...]

It doesn’t seem to have been widely documented or reported on, but Apple’s new QuickTime player in OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard includes a screen recorder.  You can access the feature through the file menu.  You can select whether you want to use no microphone, the built-in mic, or an external microphone as well as [...]

In what is sure to be a waste of time, Psystar has decided to file an antitrust suit against Apple because they can’t violate Apple’s end user licensing agreement by running OS 10.6 on their computers.  Psystar’s lawsuit claims that “By tying its operating system to Apple-branded hardware, Apple restrains trade in personal computers that [...]

The OS X operating system is pretty solid, it very rarely crashes, and it has an outstanding lineup of creative software to make everything from home movies to music.  It has very few problems with malware or spyware and it is great for content creation.  It is the choice of artists, writers, teachers, and people [...]

I get the 3G part of the iPhone’s name, but where does the S come into it?  I know they say it is for speed - as in this new iPhone is much faster than the old 3G model - but I don’t buy it.  I think the Apple iPhone 3GS got its name because [...]

I downloaded the latest build of the Chrome browser for OS X tonight and gave it a quick once over to see how it compared to other browsers on the Macintosh.  The first thing you notice, and I’m sure they will fix this before the final release, is the massive font they use for the [...]

Microsoft Web Slices are a new feature in IE 8, according to the WinSuperSite blog, that allows you to take a slice of a Web site and create a quick link to that slice while in IE 8.
For example, if you wanted to just check the top news stories on CNN.com, you could create a [...]