Category: Laptops & PCs
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Article Explains Why the Mac Platform is Growing at the Expense of Windows
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ars Technica published a terrific article by Peter Bright that illustrates why the Mac platform is growing at the expense of Windows. According to the article: Windows is dying, Windows applications suck, and Microsoft is too blinkered to fix any of it—that’s the argument. The truth is that Windows is hampered…
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Tax Day Finding: Safari Not Supported By Some Important Tax Authorities and Service Providers
Reading Time: 3 minutes Today is April 15, a date that quite a few different tax authorities in the United States have picked as the deadline for filing annual tax returns. I had to file several returns today, including: U.S. Federal Income Tax for my wife and me Pennsylvania State Income Tax for my wife…
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How to Create iPhone Ringtones from TV Show Soundtracks Using Audio Hijack Pro and GarageBand ’08
Reading Time: 3 minutes The other day I was looking forward to watching NHL playoff games, and started thinking about how much fun it would be to watch Hockey Night in Canada on the CBC instead of Versus. I went over to CBC.ca and watched the HNIC Playoff Preview Show on the CBC Sports Video…
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Gadget Links: Old Granddad Edition
Reading Time: 2 minutes For the Phinney Family, a Dream and a Challenge on NYTimes.com: This story came out last week, right before Taylor Phinney raced in the Individual Pursuits at the Track Cycling World Championships. Taylor finished eighth. His father, Davis, is a legendary U.S. cycling champ who has struggled with Parkinson’s Disease in…
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How to Get a Finder Window to Appear in All Spaces on Leopard
Reading Time: 2 minutes I started using Spaces the other day for the first time. This is an application for Mac OS X Leopard that allows you to set up four or more virtual screens, known as spaces. You can also dedicate the windows from specific applications to a specific spaces. So far Spaces has…
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“Blogger Bob” from the TSA On Testing the MacBook Air
Reading Time: < 1 minute Until I listened to this week’s edition of This Week in Tech I had no idea that the Transportation Safety Administration had a blog called Evolution of Security, that Blogger Bob was one of the authors, or that they had posted a reassuring video of the process they used to…
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MacBook Air Costs as Much as a Four-Door Car in India
Reading Time: 2 minutes I made reference to an article called Reliance Digital to Open 60 iStores Across India yesterday in a Gadget Links post. One thing I noticed, but didn’t have time to mention was the cost of a MacBook Air in India: Among the products offered at iStore is MacBook Air, the world’s…
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Gadget Links: Not What We Expected Edition
Reading Time: 2 minutes Mac Automation: listen to a text document on TUAW: “Don’t have time to read that Word, Pages, or TextEdit document at your desk? Why not listen to it on your iPod instead? In this Automator how-to, I am going to show you how to create an audio file using text that…
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Check Out Alltop.com
Reading Time: < 1 minute Guy Kawaski, Will Mayall, and the rest of the folks at Nononina have built a new topic-based RSS aggregator called Alltop. There idea is to display the latest five stories from thirty or more blogs in each topic area. You can drill down to the topic areas that you are…