admin @ December 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Before you rush out and start spending, it’s well worth weighing up the pros and cons of upgrading versus buying a new Mac.
This will depend on what you really want to get out of your upgrade. If you have a G4 tower, for example, and are really struggling to run the software you want, [...]
admin @ December 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Apple likes to think it’s the oracle of technology; rays of light shining forth from its Cupertino offices, Steve Jobs with a halo around his head.
But oddly, while its products are angelic, its press office is more secretive than the USA’s Homeland Security.
Apple has a strict policy, which it repeats ad infinitum: it won’t discuss [...]
admin @ December 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Technology is a wonderful thing. It’s given us electricity, the car, the mobile phone and the George Foreman deep fat fryer.
But it’s also brought us a host of inventions that, while they might have seemed like a good idea at the time, we’d be better off without.
Here’s our run-down of 10 annoying and deadly [...]
admin @ November 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The idea of a netbook isn’t exactly new. Microsoft first touted the concept of a small laptop-style device with a long battery life as far back as the late 1990s. Back then it was pushing its Windows CE Professional operating system.
This was a lightweight OS that belonged to the same family of products that [...]
admin @ October 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Forget the fact for a minute that the new MacBook and MacBook Pros are the best-looking, most darn powerful laptops Apple has ever made. Wonder instead about how – and why – they made them look that way.
To address power, performance, environmental concerns and good looks, Apple decided to come up with an entirely new [...]
admin @ October 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Apple promised big things for the launch of iTunes 8 last September, and what did we get? A music recommendation engine and another layer of UI glossiness in the Grid view. Genius? Not really.
What we really hoped for and expected was a complete ground-up revamp that prepped iTunes for the future. Why?
Because iTunes, as we’ve [...]
admin @ September 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Love them or hate them, social networking sites are here to stay. Facebook and MySpace are among the most popular destinations on the web. And even though they can be extremely annoying, there is one inescapable fact: the most irritating thing about Facebook is the 100m-strong army of people who use it.
When was the last [...]
admin @ April 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The new Asus Eee PC 900 has hit the shelves. But is it worthy of your cash? To help you make your mind up, we’ve got together two of our writers who vehemently disagree about the usefulness of the sub-notebook. So sit back and let the fireworks begin. Should you buy an Asus Eee PC?
“YES,” [...]