Despite Microsoft abandoning sales of its wireless networking gear, it looks like they’ve been enhanced a bit under Windows Vista. First, no more need to install some extrememly-unnecessary junkware in order to get the drivers… Vista just auto-installs them. That was expected however. What was unexpected, was my MN-720 suddenly (and finally) started talking to […]
It happens sooner or later to everyone in the tech industry. They find one laptop or another that they really, really like. If you’ve stumbled onto actively-updated web sites dedicated to really old laptops… you’ve seen a case of this. Even happens on desktop systems, the Macintosh Color Classic being the most common in Japan. […]
Apple today started posting their first support documents for Boot Camp 2.0. Boot Camp was in beta before the release of Leopard, so Apple only posted minimal documentation. Now that Boot Camp is fully supported, Apple has embraced documenting all most known issues. In doing so, Apple addressed a graphics issue with Nvidia systems. Apple […]
The MacBook will be updated today, depending on the moment, the Apple Store Online may already be listing it. It’s a minor bump spec-wise from first glance, but on the inside… things get much better for the MacBook. The three main changes are: The Santa Rosa platform (800 MHz Front Side Bus), Dual-layer SuperDrive, and […]
Thanks to a few WordPress plug-ins, we’ve done it. We have PhoneNews.com running on WordPress. It took 5 hours to do the job. Oh, did I mention we preserved legacy backlinks as well? No, it isn’t online yet… we have to get the look-and-feel up, and then find a nice 48 hour period where all […]
Let’s review the iMovie HD Way: 1) Take iMovie ’08 2) Replace with iMovie HD 3) Integrate iMovie ’08 features into next version Here’s how Apple can fix the Leopard Firewall: 1) Take Tiger Firewall 2) Release to Leopard Users 3) Slipstream into future builds Leopard’s firewall takes steps back for no good reason… Tiger’s […]
Leopard, by default, enables Secure Virtual Memory. This was done after criticism that Tiger, which also included Secure VM, left it off by default. Some felt that securing virtual memory was necessary to be a modern OS, regardless of computing environment. Now, I’m all for secure computing. But, to be honest, most Macs are in […]
Dell has released a new BIOS for the XPS 410 and Dimension 9200, which they have marked as Urgent (in big bold and red-colored text). BIOS 2.5.2 corrects problems the system was having when in Gigabit Ethernet environments. It’s not clear if this also applies to systems with a 10/100 controller… or what else Dell […]
While I’m sure in the coming hours your feed reader will get submerged in pluggings for the new iPod touch ad (the student-project that hit YouTube and got picked up by Apple), it’s now available in the broadcast-version. Kudos to Apple and ChiatDay for not “touching” the ad. Music: Music Is My Hot, Hot Sex […]
This blog is a bit new, but Google is finally ranking it, and that’s supposed to be good, right? But, here’s the better news, as I announced a few hours ago, PhoneNews.com is switching to WordPress in a couple of months. This site was serving as a bit of a test-type for the potential transition […]