Archive for January, 2008

Vista Home Basic and Home Premium users can finally run their operating systems legitimately in Parallels and in VMWare, as well as any other virtualized environment. Microsoft claims the “time is right” to do it.
The time was right when Vista came out. The time was right when people had already paid for Vista, intending to [...]

The iPod touch is a great device, unfortunately, Apple neutered it in a few ways to push iPhone sales. One of which that really bugs me is the lack of a speaker.
With the February SDK about to be released, iPod touch is primed and ready to be a first-class PDA. Problem is, it lacks a [...]

Back from Macworld, unfortunately most of my systems are down for updating. In fact, all of them are. From Vista SP1 RC2 (or, RC Refresh as it has been titled), to all the Mac OS updates released at Macworld… the coverage is coming, but everything has to get “faster and more reliable” first.
Just to reminder [...]

Unfortunately, this suggestion may have to wait for a major upgrade to Mac OS X, I hope though that it doesn’t.
To push RSS, developers got together and designed something called a “link rel”, which is a line of code telling the internet where the RSS feed is for a web page. The user typically sees [...]

One flaw with Vista that really irks me is when Activation goes awry. It seems to penalize users for their expertise.
When Vista has an Activation failure goes into Reduced Functionality Mode, it provides you with a web browser window. This is so that you can buy a new Windows product key, to quickly re-activate your [...]

Microsoft just sent out an email to me, which I found quite a bit disturbing.
The email that was sent out addressed the backorder with my Office 2008 for Mac upgrade. I participated in the “Office Best. Friday. Deal” where Microsoft offered a $100 rebate on Office 2004, and combined that with the ongoing upgrade offer [...]

I figured I’d chime in on MacBook Air. To be honest, it’s not what I hoped for. And, no, it’s not because it doesn’t have WiMAX (though, that’s a letdown too).
The real reason that I am not happy is because Apple is still missing out on the market that wants to be small on size, [...]

Unfortunately, I am exhausted, and I’m not going to spend added exhaustion on rushing out Macworld news. Sleep hasn’t come much this year, I’ve been running on less than five hours of sleep both days. It’s coming, but it will come Friday and into the weekend after the show. I will not be at the [...]

Live coverage of the Macworld Keynote is over here at PhoneNews.com
Major products, wireless gear, iPhone, etc will be covered over there.
The Mac-specific stuff will also be covered over here.
Stay tuned to both all this week, it’s that simple. Enjoy!

The latest Carmax TV ad is certainly worth a good laugh, though the quality is not up to snuff for me to pull from my DVR onto the web. Plus, I’m packing for Macworld right now…
Anyways, the ad bascially has some goof in glasses acting like Steve Jobs, touting the Carmax web site. Even pulled [...]