Archive for April, 2008

After a few comments, and a few ideas… tonight I picked up an Eee PC from Best Buy.
I should note that they are currently clearancing the Init 10-inch DVD case for $9.99, and it makes an excellent tote bag for the laptop and any accessories (like, a mouse). It’s available in-store and online for that [...]

While I wrote that Apple didn’t need to fix the Mozilla Objection (where Apple began offering up Safari to users via Apple Software Update on Windows)… it appears they went ahead and fixed it anyways.
Under the new version, released alongside Safari 3.1.1, Apple Software Update 2.1 for Windows now separates new software and updates.
As you’ll see [...]

I don’t know why Sun has such as slow pace of Java releases. You go to one page, and they say Java 6 Update 5 is the latest. But, do a bit more digging, and I found Update 6.
So, go to this page, and scroll down to the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) download (there are [...]

I could provide a lot of benchmarks, commentary, analysis, maybe even pull a few new tips and tricks with an Eee.
But, it would take time to do… and the only way Asus will front me one is if I wait for the WiMAX-enabled Eee. That means a $400 hole in my wallet.
So, with that in [...]

There’s one feature that Apple, I’ve learned, really regrets scrapping from Leopard.
Originally, Time Machine had a lot of additional features which didn’t make the final cut. One of the features was to use the free disk space on the boot drive as shadow copy storage. This mimicked a feature from Vista that does the same [...]

One of the nice things about the new MacBook Pros (and technically the previous revision) is their GeForce 8600GT Go graphics.
Which, after running through Halo 3 for the n-th time, gave me an idea… MacSoft was really hyping how their version of Halo was the most refined, so why not put it to the test?
And [...]

Come June, iPhone users will be able to use exchange. Great. With a Mail2Web free account, you’ll be able to sync your world of devices on Exchange. Your calendar, address book, and device info can all freely flow to your Windows Mobile phone, all your PCs, your iPhone, even your iPod touch.
But what about Mac?
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Darren over at ProBlogger raised the interesting topic of name association today.
Note: PhoneNews.com is not a blog. However, PhoneNews.com is one of those media sites that does blur the line between typical journalism and typical blogging… we like to stay in that fuzziness.
So, today, you’ll notice that the Editor-in-Chief’s Blog widget has been added to [...]

Okay, so you know my position on AirPort Disk & Time Machine by now… rather than simply saying the configuration is unsupported (after announcing, touting, hindering, neutering, and ultimately enabling a buggy fix… you get the idea, I could link to prior posts for each, but searching works too).
Anyways, I realized it’s really a bug [...]

If Apple TV gets a Take Two, I at least get a second blog post on DVD going HD, right?
I was wrong about adding HD tracks to the DVD disc. While viable, there’s a better path of less resistance: Who said HDi could only deliver supplemental material? What in the world is stopping HDi from [...]