Month: October 2007
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Mac OS 10.5
Another Apple Review? Leopard arrived on my doorstep (along with some new hard drives) Friday morning. While I won’t be giving a full review, I will share some of my observations after a few days of use. For an excellent full review, check out Ars Technica. Installation I installed 10.5 on two of the three Macs…
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Review: iPod Touch
What is it? A 16 GB iPod with the touch screen interface from the iPhone (without the terrible Edge cellular connection or the somewhat obligatory AT&T contract). Oh, and I have Cingular/AT&T mobile service, but the iPhone data/voice plans are ridiculously expensive. What else? It plays h.264 video (high quality), it is an iPhoto viewer, it…
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Windows Repair and Microsoft’s “Stealth” Update
A few weeks ago Microsoft forced the install of an unadvertised and undocumented update via Windows Update (WU). Aside from installing software without the consent of user/owner, the update seriously breaks a Windows install after a Windows repair. I had another partially related issue with Internet Explorer. IE 7 was installed prior to the repair;…