The Apple department in select Best Buy stores is bad for Apple and even bad for Best Buy. Staffing, shelving and the overall retail experience is just bad. Plus, Best Buy can not be adding to their balance sheet with Apple computers.
Apple is putting the final touches (no pun intended) on the new and improved iPhone and iPod Touch to be released soon. The new iPhone will likely bring substantial performance and capacity increases. Here is a short guide to its likely components.
Microsoft has sued Tom Tom, the GPS navigation company, for various patent violations, including unlicensed use of Microsoft’s File Allocation Table, also known as FAT. However, Microsoft is unlikely to prevail. So what is the Redmond software developer’s real motivation?
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Apple’s new 24″ LED Cinema Display is a great piece of equipment. It’s silver-clad, svelte, and you can’t deny its good looks. But it has a couple of shortcomings, namely price and a little something called DisplayPort. After looking at a lot of other LCD displays, I was surprised to find that the relatively inexpensive HP w2408h is actually a great alternative to the Apple LED Display. It even looks a a lot like it.
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Webdesigner Depot asked me to provide photos of my home-office work area as part of an article they are running about designers’ workstations. Read the rest of this entry »
Microsoft announced that it has plans to open its very own retail stores in direct competition with Apple, Best Buy, Home Depot, and The Gap. Here are some tips for Microsoft, free of charge, to help them succeed in this bold and innovative endeavor.
Do you want to remotely control a PC with a Mac? There are many commercial software packages and online services available. However, most of them are simply re-brandings of the open source VNC remote control system. Plus, you may find their performance to be lacking. I’ve been using VNC between Windows, Mac and Linux systems for a long time. With the resurgence in Mac interest, a lot of people ask me how they can access their existing Windows PC from their new Mac. Here is a quick and easy guide to getting a remote control system up and running using VNC. And by the way, its free. Read the rest of this entry »
Apple’s upcoming release of OS X “Snow Leopard” has performance enhancements across the board for desktop users. Snow Leopard promises a more complete transition to 64 bit plus the ability to use graphics chips for traditional CPU operations. However, the server version of Snow Leopard also looks to provide huge performance gains and optimizations. Email, that basic service that every real server needs to offer, gets a huge leg up in Snow Leopard courtesy of a little open source project called Dovecot. Read the rest of this entry »
With the demise of Circuit City, a funny thing has happened. Radio Shack, one of the very first electronics retailers, is now poised for a comeback. Read the rest of this entry »
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