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Getting to view IE only sites on OS X

If you are currently in the market for a job, which I am, you may find that some companies and agencies will only allow you to access their online job application and job search system through Window’s Internet Explorer.  I ran into this when trying to access the Texas Health and Human Services website. It [...]

Microsoft copying Apple a bit too much

At first it was copying the OS X interface look with Vista, then it was copying the OS X dock by placing a version of it in the new “Super Bar” in Windows 7 and copying the way OS X handles wireless connections through an easy to use drop down menu in the task bar. [...]

Game Review: Finger Football for the iPhone/iPod Touch

Finger Football is a freeware game for the iPhone and iPod Touch,  there is a premium version that you can buy from within the program itself but this review will focus on the free version.  It is exactly what it sounds like, it is the old game of paper football that people are already very [...]

Game Review: AirPort Mania for the Macintosh

This shareware game has a simple concept; you run an airport and you have to take care of the planes and make sure they land and take off on time.  You do this by clicking on the planes while they are in mid-air and then clicking on the runway you want them to land on.  [...]

Pirated copies of iWork 2009 carrying malicious software

According to MacRumors.com, there has been a security alert issued concerning pirated copies of Apple’s iWork ’09 software that has been in circulation around the bit torrent sites.  The trojan, OSX.Trojan.iServices.A, allows an unwelcome user to connect to the infected computer and do things such as control certain functions on the computer as well as download [...]

DRM Free iTunes Music Store To Be A Boon For Third Party Music Players?

With Apple’s announcement at Macworld this year that all music on the iTunes Music Store would be free of digital rights management comes a real chance for third party media players to finally compete against the iPod.  Many have attributed the iPod’s success to the high quality feel and ease of use of the iTunes [...]

Can’t connect your Nintendo DS to an Apple AirPort Network?

It came to my attention recently that the Nintendo DS seems to have some problems connecting to networks that use a security protocol known as WEP Transitional, they can’t cope with WPA at all.  When you try to browse for networks the DS will tell you that the network has an unsupported security type.  The [...]

Microsoft’s Windows 7 Still Bloated

According to the system requirements, which many are touting as progress because they have not gone up over what Vista requires, in order to run Windows 7 you will have to have a 1Ghz processor, a gigabyte of RAM, and a 128MB graphics card just to run an operating system.  I had the idea that [...]

Would you trade your replaceable 4 hour battery for an 8 hour non-replaceable one?

The new 17 inch MacBook Pro supposedly has an internal battery that will last a full 8 hours on a charge and can be recharged a thousand times before it starts to really degrade.  There are a lot of people that are unhappy about that, preferring instead to have removable batteries with the idea that [...]

RealPlayer causing wireless network issues on Macs only

If you have a Mac and have recently installed RealPlayer and found that your network connection speed on your computer has slowed to a crawl, the two might be related.  This has been popping up quite a bit I am told, someone with a Mac will suddenly find themselves unable to get to websites or [...]

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