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 [...]
If you are on any Windows operating system, there is one thing that I can almost guarantee you’ve thought of – viruses. Previously, you have had to go out and trust free software solutions, or trust a pay solution that usually had a yearly fee. Well, no more my friends! Microsoft has released their own free solution that promises to crush the competition.
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 [...]
July 2009: Mobilising Armies, Curse of Arrav, and Virtualisation
posted by Shane on 1st August 2009, at 8:31pm | No Comments
July was kicked off with the much anticipated Mobilising Armies which also spurred another Tips of The Trade article on the subject. Jason released an article categorizing Special Attacks and analysing them. Next up was Faruq’s Tools for Games and some controversial bounty world changes. Alex started building a catalogue of all available foods in [...]
What is Virtualization?
The most common use of the word virtual for most people is “virtual environment” or “virtual world.” Expanding to the realm of computers also expands the areas in which “virtual” objects can be used. Before we move any further it’s important to state that hardware will be defined as the physical technology used [...]
June 2009: Running Around With Agility, Games, and Windows 7
posted by Shane on 1st July 2009, at 9:25pm | No Comments
Welcome once again to July, the first full month of summer!
This month we started of with What’cha wearing? Part 4 courtesy of Jason. Part 5 was also published later in the month. Next up was The Hunt for Red Raktuber, the continuation of the Penguin story line courtesy of Kirby. June also brought us the [...]
With the upcoming release of Windows 7 this October I’ve been facing a flurry of questions about what version to choose. Ultimately 95% of you will want to stick with Home Premium, this is half of the battle. The other half of the decision is deciding which architecture you will use, 64-bit or 32-bit. Most [...]
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 [...]
Project Natal is what Microsoft believes will revolutionise gaming. In essence Microsoft is trying to capture what the Wii does best, and better it. The ways they are doing it are quite experimental and could make or break the casual market for the 360. The controller will be completely eliminated, effectively breaking the barrier of [...]
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