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What you see right now is the product of several weeks of brainstorming, tinkering around in Photoshop, staying up late with SubEthaEdit and a significant amount of trial and error. I had planned to get this done by spring break, but it took much longer than I expected. Thanks for everyone that gave me feedback on my works in progress, whether it be from flickr, the K2 or 9rules forums.
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Okay so first it was the Core Solo to Core Duo CPU swap that was all the rage. Now it appears as though Intel’s upcoming mobile processor, codenamed Merom, works in the Intel Mac Mini flawlessly and boasts up to a 19 percent speed increase over the 2.16GHz T2600 Core Duo (keep in mind, the Core Duo Minis that Apple sells only sport the 1.66GHz model). My friend and roommate for next year, Chris Morrell, has the rest of the story on his site.
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Apple Computer has recently joined the ranks of BAPCo, the Windows benchmarking consortium. While still only speculation, Gearlog seems to think that this means Apple will now concentrate on Windows drivers to help the benchmark scores of Windows XP loaded on Apple’s Intel-based computers. From other news I have read, I can support their stance. Other rumors indicate OS X 10.5, dubbed Leopard, will feature Virtualization Technology or VT, as I talked about a while ago. [click to continue…]
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Today I will be looking at a set of iPod accessories from the so-called experts in iPod connectivity, the German company Sendstation. They specialize in small and affordable products that are all about convenience and functionality as we will see shortly. There are the PocketDocks, which as the name leads you to believe, are small, portable adapters you can use to connect your iPod to any computer via standard USB and Firewire cables that any geek should have lying around whether at home or work. Then we have my favorite of the bunch, earBuddy. Simply stated, it is a safe home for your treasured iPod earbuds. [click to continue…]
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A little while ago, I had mentioned that Sprint had invited me to be a member of their Ambassador program. Well today, the Samsung A920 phone had finally arrived. So what is the Ambassador program all about? To the best of my knowledge it is Sprint’s attempt at guerrilla marketing, targetting the real news makers, bloggers themselves. They equip tech bloggers with a Samsung A920 and unlimited Power Vision (Sprint’s net/media bundle) service for 6 months and only ask for simple feedback in return. [click to continue…]
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As hard drive storage has started to dramatically increase, now with up to 500GB on a single drive, manufacturers have had to research alternative methods of storage to yield these outcomes. Traditionally more storage meant more platters, and not touching the platters’ density. Take for example my favorite hard drive, the Western Digital Raptor. It first debuted as a single platter 36.7GB 10,000RPM disk. Then a few months later, a 73.4GB Raptor was released. How do you think they did that? They added an extra platter. Now just recently, a 150GB raptor was released. You get the idea; this one had four platters. [click to continue…]
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One of Adobe’s employees, Scott Byer, maintains an Adobe blog named Living Photoshop. Yesterday he discussed some of the reasons why there will not be any current versions of Adobe software released or patched to be a Universal Binary to run natively and therefore faster on Intel Macs. Scott brings up some good points that I had not thought about before, such as the fact that they use development environments that are more advanced than Apple’s Xcode currently is. To get the application to be a UB, it has [click to continue…]
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Browsing MacUpdate late last night for some universal binary goodies, I ran across a rather neat application. Bye Bye Dashboard lets you disable the dashboard, which is notorious for being a system resources hog. I can see this type of thing coming in handy for the IT guy that wants to make all the Macs he rolls out as efficient as possible. A company boss might also find this handy to get rid of time-wasters [click to continue…]
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