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The Lion’s share of Apple’s problems

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11 months ago
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You can say what you want about Steve Jobs, but the man likes his icons IN ROWS.

Did you ever wonder why Macs and other Apple products attract so much attention from both the tech and mainstream press, even though Mac users only account for 12% of the U.S. computer owning population?

Here’s the secret: it’s because most of those journalists and bloggers…studied journalism.

Apple basically invented desktop publishing with the Macintosh. Sure, in the early 1990′s you could get Photoshop or PageMaker for a PC. But Windows 3.1 just didn’t stack up to System 7 when it came to graphic design More >

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DVR by the numbers: How much does owning a DVR really cost?

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2 years ago
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Between my Western Digital external hard drive failing right outside of warranty, my frustration with TiVo’s decade-old interface, and service provider DVRs coming-up short, I’ve been thinking a lot about the personal TV choices available to me. And when I think about something a lot, it frequently leads to charts. Especially when money is involved.

So, during the process of sorting-out if I’m going to keep TiVo or ditch it for Moxi, or even a Vista CableCard Home Theater PC, I ran some numbers and came to some interesting conclusions. I compared the overall cost of ownership of different More >

 

Thoughts on big breasted women with swords and the importance of data backups

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3 years ago
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Warning: incomprehensible nerdish ahead.  Translation follows after the next two paragraphs.

This seems an impractical choice of attire for a swordfight.

While browsing Digg just the other day, my monitor started to display all sorts of strange artifacts.  Being the sensible, computer-literate type, I decided to reboot to attempt to fix the problem.  Not only was I greeted with more strange dots and artifacts upon boot (never a good sign), Windows failed to boot and mumbled something about video driver issues and memory dump while exposing me to a bright blue screen.  The next time I powered More >

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