Archive for April, 2007

Ballmer: ‘No chance Apple iPhone will get any significant marketshare”

April 30, 2007

Monday, April 30, 2007 – 10:42 AM EDTMicrosoft CEO Steve Ballmer was interviewed by USA Today’s David Lieberman at the sixth USA TODAY CEO Forum, in conjunction with the University of Washington Business School. The interview took place in front of an audience.

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The soul of an iPod vending machine

April 30, 2007

Sure, lots of retail kiosk applications use XP, but c’mon — for an iPod sales system, shouldn’t Mac OS X be the first choice?

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Is your MacBook battery not working well? You are not the only one!!!

April 30, 2007

Apple has said that “some batteries” in its range of MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops have “performance issues”.

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10 Unexpected Uses of the iPod

April 30, 2007

New technologies often have unintended uses. Take the Ipod as a case in point. It was developed with the intention of playing music (and later videos), but its applications now go well beyond that. Here are 10 surprising uses, some of which involve fighting crime, saving lives, and throwing meaner curve balls.

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Top 30 mistakes made by new Mac users

April 29, 2007

Having switched a little less than a year ago, I learned most of these things on my own. This list would have probably saved me a lot of time and hassle.

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Put a RAID 0 in your MacBook, PowerBook, or MacBook Pr

April 29, 2007

If that 60GB-200GB drive that came with your Mac laptop just isn’t cutting it these days…here’s a cool solution by outfitting your MacBook Pro with a RAID 0 setup using two 320GB 5400 rpm drives like Eric Cheng did.

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Steve Jobs never said NO to ‘Movie’ Subscriptions…Next iTunes Feature?

April 29, 2007

Reuters asked Steve Jobs whether the iTunes store would ever adopt a subscription based approach to music…“Never say never, but customers don’t seem to be interested in it,” Jobs said. “The subscription model has failed so far.” Quite right. However there can be no doubt that a “renting” model has worked for decades…the home video business

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First Photos from Apple iPhone?

April 29, 2007

An unusual story has popped up on MobileGuerilla claiming to have found the first photos from an Apple iPhone on the web.The search method seemed rather primitive… they simply searched for “taken with an Apple iPhone” on Google and found a set of Flickr images (now removed) tagged with the phr…

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Special Report: Third Manhattan Apple store to dwarf them all

April 28, 2007

“New information confirmed about Apple Inc.’s third flagship outlet in the city not only pinpoints the store’s coveted location in a fashionable district — it shows the electronics maker at its most ambitious with a shop that promises to eclipse the size of all other Apple Stores in the region.”

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Shootout: 8-core Mac Pro versus 4-core Mac Pro (UPDATED)

April 28, 2007

After Effects 7 CS3 was over 25% faster! Quicktime export to iPod format was 38% faster using SIX streams at the same time!

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