Toshiba Satellite 5005… The Saga Continues

Toshiba Satellite 5005... The Saga Continues

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 Embraces Nvidia ForceWare Drivers

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 […]

MacBook Gets Non-horrible Graphics

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 […]

How to Fix Leopard’s Firewall, the iMovie HD Way

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 Secure VM… Slowdown?

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 […]

Yes, Another Plug for the iPod touch Ad

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 […]

Well on its way…

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 […]

Leopard Preview Does Instant Alpha

Leopard Preview Does Instant Alpha

One of the major irkers about iWork ’08 is that it doesn’t allow you to save those great instant-alpha channel images you can whip up in Keynote and Pages. But, here’s the good news, Preview in Leopard has the same Instant Alpha tools… and actually, they’re even improved from what was in iWork ’08. And […]