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Adobe Says, “Sorry” For The Bug
Feb 12th
With Adobe’s latest crasher bug going on two years after being discovered, Adobe finally released a statement saying they in fact dropped the ball during software development of Adobe Flash 10.
Did Adobe just ignore a well known and significant flaw in their software and in turn ship a degraded Flash player out to the masses?
The Mac Experience
Apr 28th
A quick couple of months have passed since I migrated from a Microsoft Windows environment to Apple’s OS X — the experience so far has turned out to be nothing shy of rapturous.
I’m still grounded in Microsoft at work, but have no complaints doing so — it keeps me unbiased.
I’ll say this about Mac-
Are Desktop Email Clients a Dying Breed?
Apr 8th
Although the current generation of Internet users may not believe it, email has not always been web-based like it is today. Desktop email clients used to be the only method for accessing email. One of the more popular free email clients from back in the day was Mozilla’s Mail and News. After Firefox was spun off of Mozilla, the Mail and News app followed suit and Thunderbird was born. Given the widespread use of web-based email these days, are desktop email clients a dying breed?
Is Anti-Virus Software Required On Mac OS X?
Apr 1st
The hoopla surrounding the Conficker worm has taken the computer security world by storm. Headlines predict doom and gloom on April 1 because researchers believe attackers will activate the worm, gaining control of millions of zombie personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system. Conficker is a moot point with both a patched Windows and anti-virus software. What about those who have opted for Apple computers running the OS X operating system? Everyone knows anti-virus software is obligatory on Windows but is it even worth the hassle on OS X?
iPhone OS 3.0 Announcement Roundup
Mar 18th
Apple’s announcement and presentation of the forthcoming iPhone OS 3.0 features was far more evolutionary than revolutionary. There was really no earth-shattering reveal – in reality, many of the features Apple displayed should have been included in the iPhone OS at the 2.0 mark. Nonetheless, Apple definitely has us salivating for iPhone OS 3.0 because of a few features we previously discussed and some we had not thought of at all. Here we roundup the new features in iPhone OS 3.0 we predicted as well as some additional thoughts.
iPhone OS 3.0 Predictions
Mar 17th
In a little less than 4 hours from now Apple will unveil iPhone OS 3.0 to the world. For months the tech world has speculated on what Apple might be working on adding to the next version of the iPhone OS, with predictions ranging from the entirely plausible to completely out of this world. Let’s discuss some of the various predictions, their plausibility and whether they would be welcome additions to the greatest mobile device ever conceived.
Adobe Installs and Updates on OS X Suck
Mar 12th
Adobe makes some of the best software products available for OS X, most notably Photoshop and Acrobat. While the products are top notch quality, for some reason Adobe has trouble programming efficient installation and software update routines. A simple Adobe Acrobat update weighing in at roughly 30MB lasted approximately 20 minutes to install on my 2.4Ghz MacBook Pro with 4GB of RAM and a 320GB 7200RPM HDD. If that is not the epitome of inefficiency then I do not know what is!
Apple’s Stovepipe Monopoly
Mar 7th
Apple makes some of the most fascinating and design savvy hardware on the personal computer market. Apple also produces award-winning operating systems that offer a proven and stable user experience.
But is Apple’s coupling of hardware and software creating a significantly unfair environment for hardware vendors who want to put Mac OS X onto a different set of hardware specs?
Apple’s Safari 4 Beta Is Blindingly Fast!
Feb 28th
If you do not live under a rock then surely you know that earlier this week Apple surprised the world and released an early beta of Safari 4, packing a major interface change, speed enhancements and a few other nifty features. Rather than report on the actual release of the browser itself, I thought it would be more beneficial to use Safari 4 for a couple days and write-up my thoughts on such usage. So without further ado, here is what the miso soup lovers found over the course of the past few days.
New No-Cost Security From Microsoft?
Jan 3rd
Come off it Microsoft — you know your own platform like no one else. I would have expected you to offer a ‘free’ security solution for your operating systems starting back in the Windows 3.1 day.
Well, in the latter half of 2009 [as reported by Redmond on their PressPass site] the software giant will finally launch their no-cost comprehensive protection software for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. And Microsoft offered these shocking words in their news release-:
“To address the growing need for a PC security solution…..
Growing need? This tells me that the folks at Microsoft don’t yet get security.
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