We’ve been fiddling with Time Capsule since it arrived this AM, and so far it works as billed, clean and easy. The new AirPort Utility software comes with some neat tricks for the network-phobic, and we’re learning the ins and outs of adding external drives, using networked printers, and setting up that potentially nasty initial data dump.
Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 March 2008, the company has said.
A Mozilla developer has discovered undocumented Mac OS X framework APIs that are being used in Safari. This discovery has led some to question if Apple is giving itself an unfair advantage, with some pointing out that if Microsoft was caught doing this it might find itself in front of a judge.
These parents deserve to burn in hell!
AMD and Intel both now support open-source video drivers and release their programming specifications to the OSS community. Let’s get NVIDIA to do this too!
Think Vista is overpriced? Well, maybe you’ll like the new prices better. Vista Ultimate has dropped from $299 to $219. Home Premium went from $159 to $129. Windows marketing VP Brad Brooks said they’d make more money by dropping prices rather than keeping them higher and selling less. Maybe there won’t be as much reason to pirate anymore… or not
There are some photography techniques that really give me the goose bumps, but the good ones. HDR is one of those techniques… and you’ll probably love these as much as I do.
A sobering (and funny) tale of online security.
Attempting to ride a wave of corporate and judicial disenchantment with aspects of the current patent system, a new project was unveiled Thursday designed to, as its name bluntly indicates, End Software Patents.
Toshiba finally mercy-killed its HD-DVD format last week, ending a drawn-out fight with Sony’s Blu-ray for high-definition disc supremacy. The format’s demise has brought HD-DVD owners untold humiliation…
Shareholders certainly have shared in Apple’s success over the years. The stock topped out at $199.83 on Dec. 28, an almost 19-fold increase over five years. Yet the growth in the company’s cash hoard is starting to make people wonder, What exactly will Apple do with all that money?
We don’t mean to influence the “Worst Company In America” voting, but check this out: if you call Comcast and ask them to stop sending you anything other than your bill, they’ll agree but quietly slap you with a $1.99 “change of service” fee.
