Saturday, October 24, 2009

Psystar sells $50 software hack to run Snow Leopard on PCs

Any PC with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, i7 or Xeon Nehalem processor installed can take advantage of Psystar's Rebel EFI software hack to run Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Microsoft Issues eBook on Windows 7 Installation

This is pretty neat. It is geared for enterprise but still has some useful info for tech-minded home users. The fact that it is free is sweet.

If you don't already know (and I know you do), tomorrow is the big day.

Update: Here is a link directly to Microsoft courtesy of Earl: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?SID=1053596-2-0-ARTICLE-0&familyid=EE2A1D38-88A9-43B3-95BC-7E962F0B6030&displaylang=en

Athlon II X3 435: AMD's Three-Core, 2.9 GHz, $87

Athlon II X3 435: AMD's Three-Core, 2.9 GHz, $87 Triple-Threat
Today AMD introduces what might turn out to be the ideal budget CPU, with three cores for multi-threading, a relatively high 2.9 GHz clock speed,

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Apple Updates MacBook, iMac, Mac Mini and Introduces Magic Mouse

Apple, already on top of the world, after announcing revenues that blew past analyst predictions, updates its MacBook, iMac and Mac mini and introduces the super Magic Mouse.

Monday, October 19, 2009

Sorry, The Cloud Ate Your Data!

How Microsoft and T-Mobile betrayed over a million users of the Sidekick smartphone.On October 1st literally every user of the Sidekick data service lost the private personal records – emails, notes, calendar entries, contacts, etc. — they had stored on the system.
Note - MS now says most users will get their data back - Microsoft & T-Mobile says lost Sidekick data to be restored‎
Apple-Insider's excellent analysis of what happened with insider info.

Sunday, October 18, 2009