Archive for the 'Computers' Category

New MacBook — Pretty

Apple just recently release an updated MacBook and it is very nice.

Durable unibody enclosure.
A mere 1.08 inches thin and even lighter at 4.7 pounds,1 the sleek new MacBook cuts a slim profile on any desk (or in any backpack or briefcase). It features a new seamless, more durable unibody enclosure with rounded contours that make [...]

New phishing scam hits Facebook

To all the folks that there that are on Facebook …. there is scam a foot.
A new phishing scam is hitting Facebook users on Thursday that, like others in recent weeks, sends them to a Web site designed to steal their log-in information.
Facebook users reportedly are receiving messages from friends with a subject line of [...]

Netflix Movie to Straight to Your TV

This is going to be very cool. For those who get Netflix today, you may not know that you can stream movies to your home PC already, this is going to make that awesome. It will allow you to hook up a setup top box, made my LG, to your TV and stream movies from [...]

Return of the startup factory

Humm … I just need some good ideas …

Startup incubators turned into cash incinerators during the dotcom bubble and burst. Now they’re back, and Business 2.0 looks at whether they’re any better at breeding the next Google.
Naval Ravikant is a classic Silicon Valley entrepreneur: He never stops moving. In the past decade, he’s helped launch [...]

Vonage is going to die!

Here you have a neat idea to make phone service work on the Internet. You put out some television commercials, dumb ones I think, and them get you a whole slew of customers.
Then it comes to light that you really stole/used/infringed on some patents and your life is going downhill fast. This little [...]

The Top PCs of 1982

Popular Mechanics was definitely ahead of the curve when it came recognizing the fact that copy protection can stifle innovation:
It used to be that programs were easy to copy and change. But manufacturers began to lose money as many people made copies of software and gave them to their friends.
Now, many manufacturers have figured out [...]

iPhone

Has Apple done it again? The buzz seems to think they have. Their stock went up 4% the day after the iPhone was unleashed at MacWorld.

Two Words:
Really Cool

We all need a terabyte hard drive

I know a few people that will be wanting a couple of these …

Hitachi announced yesterday, just before the start of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, that it will be shipping a 1TB hard drive by the end of the first quarter in 2007.
The 3.5″ Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 will run at 7200 [...]

Goodbye TV, Hello Broadband

Are you ready? Could you “cut” the cable or knock down your dish and rely on the Internet for all of your watching?

It was the ultimate challenge for any lifelong TV watcher. Wired News asked me to cut the coax cable snaking into my HD-ready television, and for 30 days rely solely [...]

Get DUN on Your MacBook via Your Verizon XV6700

Thanks to SvenOnTech for this very helpful information. I have broken his work out into a more of a step by step.
You can connect your Mac to Verizon’s high speed EVDO network via Bluetooth Dial Up networking. This is called DUN. You Mac can be either a iBook, PowerMac, MacBook or MacBook Pro. I have [...]

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