Archive for 'Apple'
Why Mac OS isn’t the best OS Around
When I recently explained one of the many reasons why I prefer desktop Linux to Windows, even over my favorite desktop Windows, XP SP3, I got a lot of people telling me I was full of hooey because I barely even mentioned Mac OS X.
Good enough, here’s my take on Apple’s Mac OS X.
First, I [...]
Posted: May 14th, 2008 under Apple, Desktop, Linux, Mac OS X, Operating System, Unix, Windows.
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Sex and the Apple TV
It’s official. HBO and Apple have signed a deal that will bring six of HBO’s most popular shows to the iTunes store, which means they’re also available on your Apple TV..
The series are: Sex in the City: $1.99 per episode; The Wire: $1.99; Deadwood: $2.99; Flight of the Conchords: $1.99; Rome: $2.99; and The Sopranos: [...]
Posted: May 13th, 2008 under Apple, Entertainment, Media Extender.
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Apple TV keeps getting better
With a tweak here and a bit of tuning there, the Apple TV is going from the best available media extender to becoming to movie watching what the iPod is to music: the device that defines a category.
First, you can now rent and buy movies for Apple TV on the same day that they’re [...]
Posted: May 6th, 2008 under Apple, Entertainment, Media Extender.
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You can build your own Mac, but do you really want to?
Psystar claims it can make Mac clones for cheap. There’s reason to doubt however that anyone will ever actually own a Psystar $399 Open Computer running Mac OS X. Funny, though, as Jason Perlow points out in his ZDNet blog, it’s really not that much trouble to build a Hackintosh.
Perlow explains that “Well, along with [...]
Posted: April 21st, 2008 under Apple, Desktop, Infrastructure, Mac OS X.
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Apple TV 2.02: The 2.01 Bugs Debugged
When last we left Apple TV, it had just received its Apple TV 2.01 ‘upgrade.’ Unfortunately, this improved version also came with some problems. Now, with the just released Apple 2.02, the Apple TV gets the 2.01 improvements without the 2.01 bugs.
Posted: April 15th, 2008 under Apple, Entertainment, Media Extender.
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