The idea of an Apple Tax is expressed in many ways from the traditional “z0mg!! MacBook costs $300 more than HP!!1!1!!” to cost analyses of the components going into each machine. The Apple Tax is often seen as an arbitrary price increase on hardware bought from Apple. The tax rate has fluctuated over recent years [...]
As you may or may not know Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6) was released on August 28th. Windows 7 is due out officially on October 22. both of these operating systems are marketed as “fixing” or “refining” their predecessors. Snow Leopard is introducing new technologies that will propel Mac OS further to 10.7 and possibly [...]
With August behind us it’s time to look forward to September and new opportunities. Before we do that let’s take a look back at what August brought.
August was a rather quiet month on Runescape. Our first article was on the new quest Fur ‘n’ Seek which is the sequel to the Rag and Boneman quest. [...]
an-ti-trust – of, relating to, or being legislation against or opposition to trusts or combinations; specifically : consisting of laws to protect trade and commerce from unlawful restraints and monopolies or unfair business practices – Merriam-Webster
When the first generation of the iPhone was announced in January 2007 it was stated that there would be no [...]
As you may remember in part 1 of this experiment I outlined the general purpose and my expectations. With that said if you’ve not read it please go back and do so. This part will cover the post-experiment review and also compare Windows 7 to Leopard.
Using Windows 7 full time was hard, at [...]
Almost a month ago the Windows 7 Release Candidate was released, we won’t be talking about that today. If you want to find out more about Windows 7 in general check out Paul’s article. What we will be doing is a nifty little experiment that will make all Windows fanboys giggle as if [...]
Most of you know that Mac OS X can only be run on an Intel Chip Based Macintosh (AKA ICBM) or the older PowerPC variants. There is a way around this restriction that allows OS X to be run on any computer that has the necessary hardware requirements. Before we get any further [...]
From the title of this article you may have gathered that this might be about locking an Apple in your house and forgetting the key… However, that is not the case this is a look at how Apple has been able to retain a tight lock on many of their products and not yet have [...]
Up Up In The Clouds
Cloud computing is the future. But before we get to swept away with what’s coming in the next few years, lets take a look and see what it actually is. First off let me start by asking you, have you used a cloud computing application? Well the answer [...]
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