Windows Archive

  • Safari for Windows?!

    Safari for Windows?!

    Looks like we’ve got another browser to choose from.  Today at the WWDC conference in San Francisco Steve Jobs announced Safari 3.0 for Windows.  Check out the Apple store for the browser and other cool Mac stuff (did I mention that the new MacBook and [...]

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  • Origami UMPC Coming to Best Buy

    Origami UMPC Coming to Best Buy

    In a press release today Samsung announced that it will be selling the Q1 Minitablet PC at Best Buy stores one week from today (May 7, 06) at a price of $1099. The actual page at Best Buys site will be www.bestbuy.com/ultramobilepc but that [...]

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  • Try Yahoo Go! DVR and get back to us

    Try Yahoo Go! DVR and get back to us

    It seems like such a no-brainer: Yahoo released Yahoo Go! DVR software free today. If you have the right hardware installed on your machine and also the right cables to hook your PC to your TV, this DVR software look like it could take [...]

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  • MacBook Pro has underclocked graphics

    MacBook Pro has underclocked graphics

    It looks like the Apple has under-clocked the graphics adapter in the MacBook Pro a bunch. French Mac site Hardmac has a story that talks about a couple of people who have used PC utilities (under Windows) to identify and change hardware settings on [...]

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  • Windows on a Mac – Implications

    Windows on a Mac – Implications

    After yesterday’s discussion about the Apple Boot Camp project allowing a Mac to booth either Windows XP to OS X we (and others) were left contemplating the implications. These are a few major ideas that we’ve run across (and our response): Third-party application developers will [...]

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  • Apple Boot Camp: Windows on a Mac – Revolutionary or Cool Trick?

    Apple Boot Camp: Windows on a Mac – Revolutionary or Cool Trick?

    Apple stunned the world today by announcing a beta program called “Boot Camp”. Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing states: “Apple has no desire or plan to sell or support Windows, but many customers have expressed their interest to run [...]

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  • Microsoft’s two-front war with Google and Apple

    Microsoft’s two-front war with Google and Apple

    After years of not really being challenged all of the sudden Microsoft has to fight a war on two fronts. Apple’s Mac OS X is arguably a better desktop operating system than than Windows XP (and maybe Vista) and Google is currently better online [...]

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  • Is Microsoft Taking on iTunes?

    Is Microsoft Taking on iTunes?

    ABC News is running a story called, “Is Microsoft taking on iTunes?” referring to a new deal between Microsoft and Epic Records. In the story Aaron Greenberg is quoted saying: “Our ambitious goal here is to build Xbox Live into an online entertainment network,” said [...]

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  • What is Web 2.0?

    What is Web 2.0?

    And why should the Gizmonation care? It seems that everyone is using the term Web 2.0 to describe something different on the web many of which have no idea what that reference means. These are the recent popular uses of the phrase: Reference to the state [...]

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  • My Reply to CNET’s story “Reality check for the much-hyped Origami PC”

    My Reply to CNET’s story “Reality check for the much-hyped Origami PC”

    As you’ve probably seen Microsoft officially released details of their Origami Project today. CNET posted a story relating to this entitled Reality check for the much-hyped Origami PC. I tried to stay quiet but couldn’t – this is my response to their story: I [...]

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