Archives for June 2009

Remember Sony’s Walkman? 25 years ago it was the cat’s meow. I started a commercial audio recording business lugging around a Walkman so customers could hear what I could do. That was then and this is now. The BBC invited 13 year old Scott Campbell to swap his iPod for a Sony Walkman for... Read More »

Technomedia reports tell us that a large percentage of Windows PCs malware—viruses, trojans, worms—come from Eastern Europe, specifically Russia. Even though there are no in-the-wild viruses on the Mac, from Russia with love comes the cure for the virus plague that doesn’t exist.Now... Read More »

iPhone competitor Palm announced dismal revenue figures and big losses for last quarter. What of the new Palm Pre?It’s unlikely the Pre will catch up to Apple’s iPhone anytime soon, analysts are predicting a heavy volume of sales. Some say that the company could sell about 100,000 handsets... Read More »

Mac OS X Leopard will cost $29. Only the server version has a different price. By my count, Microsoft’s Windows 7 has about 10 different price tags, depending on the version.Unlike Vista, every edition of Windows 7 is a superset of the previous edition, so you will not lose any features when... Read More »

In addition to erase and partition, your Mac has four Secure Erase Options in the Disk Utility. Don’t Erase Data. Zero Out Data. 7-Pass Erase. 35-Pass Erase. 7-Pass Erase meets the US Department of Defense 5220-22 standard to wipe a hard drive. If that’s not good enough, try Chris Breen’s... Read More »

The Federal Trade Commission plans to crack down on 21st century payola—paying blog writers for good reviews of products.The FTC will actively go after bloggers who fail to disclose if they’re being compensated for their words. The FTC could then order violators to stop and pay restitution... Read More »

Palm’s new Pre gets good reviews, even when compared to Apple’s hot-selling iPhone. The smartphone market segment continues rapid growth in users and phones. There’s RIM’s BlackBerry, Google’s Android, Apple’s iPhone, Microsoft’s upcoming WinMob 7, and many others.... Read More »

The Little App Factory’s Evom converts and transfers movies from your computer and the web. On the not-so-good side, in my tests, it converted small QuickTime movies into large QuickTime movies, increasing file size, while decreasing quality. On the good side, Evom makes it a breeze to move movies... Read More »

There was a time when Netscape Navigator was the only real browser, Mac or Windows PC. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer destroyed Netscape and dominated the browser landscape. Today, most browsers are better at rendering web pages than Internet Explorer. My favorites? Safari for beauty and speed,... Read More »