Okay, TigerDirect's parent, Systemax, is buying alot of CompUSA assets. Systemax said on January 6th, that it agreed to buy up to 16 stores from CompUSA, as well as its brand, trademarks and e-commerce business (web site). Systemax expects the direct costs of the acquisition to come to about $30 million. Then there are the legal fees. Check out the web sites similarity;TigerDirect's mouseCompUSA's mouse
There have been rumors circulating around Tokyo about Apple's interest in high end Penryn processors for their upcoming Mac Pros for months. According to these rumors, Apple has "pre-booked" most of the top 3.2 GHz Penryns for this year, leaving only "minimum quantities" for others. The 3.2GHz Penryn Xeon "Harpertown" processors offer a faster 1600 MHz bus and 12 MB of L2 cache. The current Mac Pro has not seen major upgrades since August of 2006. Apple did introduce the 8-core Mac Pro in April of 2007, but the other lower models just got speed bumps.Apple could increase the top speed Mac Pro to 3.2GHz with a 1600 MHz front side bus (up from 1333 MHz).
Hello everyone I'm back. I'm guessing you are wondering where I was though. I was at Air Force basic Training for the MN Air National Guard. I spent 6 weeks there and now I am at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi. For all intensive purposes it is a geeks paradise if you are an electronics nerd. I'll be here till March 25th doing my training for my job in the guard which is ground radio. I should be able to put up articles on a semi regular basis as soon as I get my PowerBook back to me. On the term of a lot of changes I could not believe what I saw when I first came upon the Apple site the first time in 6 weeks. All I can say as a friend of mine who is an Apple Campus rep in Moorhead MN is Apple is kicking but and taking names. The first touch screen music player that is as practical as the original iPod and still has no learning curve, a new Nano that still is one of the smallest in it's class and plays video, and a Mac Mini that is one of the most powerful in it's class against other comparable machines that run windows. I think this is going to be a very good year for Apple from here on out. I still have a lot of catching up to do. I have limited internet access till I get my laptop, so the next article may not be out till I get it. So I just thought I would get a quick "I'm back" article up. So if there are those of you who like reading what I usually write just be patient and I'll have some stuff coming your way.
This free program allows you to do more with your iPhone. It does not allow you to choose your phone company. That said, we can move on with what it is. It is now GUI and works with PPC Macs.Earlier versions only worked with Intel Macs and required getting into the terminal a bit. The people that tried it liked it. There is a forum or two that offer support and I was an avid reader of one such forum, http://www.iphonealley.com is my haunt. With the release of version 3 that worked with the IBM based Macs, http://www.iphonealley.com crashed. Looks like quite a following eh? The home page is still up and you can still download the program from there and other sites like Macenstein, but Macenstein's forum is down too.
I was feeling a bit nostalgic the other day when I was reading about the iPhone and seeing all the hype about it. It made me think about when I got my first cell phone. It was back in my freshman year of college at Moorhead State. I had the choice of the using the dorm plan of 30 cents a minute for long distance or an alternative. So I chose an alternative, I decided to get a cell phone. It was 40 bucks for 400 minutes per month and unlimited nights and weekends. My phone was a Nokia 252. It was a pretty nice phone back in the day and was considered small (this was before the time of the small flip phones). It was through a company called AirTouch Cellular which ended up being bought up by the then fledgling wireless division of Verizon. At that time I was a rarity among college students to have a cell phone. At that time most students were content to pay through the nose for the dorm plan, Usually because their parents paid for it. The phone itself did all the basic things a phone should do. Compare it to the iPhone and it's a dinosaur. That was only 7 years ago and the rate at which phone technology has went has been faster than computer technology. Till the advent of the new multi-core chips that have just recently came out the advancement of computer technology as a whole had been pretty much in a rut. Yet when I think about it though the fastest processor out there was the 400Mhz G3 from Apple. I had one in my iMac that I had bought brand new that Dec. The thing is with Apple is that it the machine is still quite current compared to the phone I had. The phone I had is obsolete but the iMac is still quite usable. My guess is though Leopard will be the last OS Apple will make that will run on it without a helper such as XPostFacto.
Tonight I was treated to a sneak preview of the new live action Transformers movie. As a young boy, I was utterly entranced by the Transformers. Not only were they the coolest cars of the day, but I could actually transform them into a robot! It seems pretty elementary by today's standards, but keep in mind that Nintendo was still a ways off, and Legos had not yet developed Mindspring. I would rush home every afternoon and hit the couch just in time to catch the opening credits of the original animated series. It was an addiction,Over the years, I have watched as the Transformers franchise has faded and resurfaced. I gleefully watched the first episodes of the new CGI animated series, only to find disappointment after just a few.
Well, tonight is the big night! Who's excited? Common, don't act like you're not. Tonight at midnight, Microsoft will begin to sell its new and improved Windows XP SP3! Finally! Oh, wait... I'm sorry, I meant to say Apple OS X, bah! Sorry, I mean Windows Vista. It seems there are a lot of Freudian slips today, like the one good ol'Bill Gates did on the NBC Today's show where he stated that they have "5 million people testing Apple". Very funny stuff!With all this excitement of the new release tonight, you would think that there would be some really great articles pumping people up for the WOW! You would think that there would be many great reviews of this new product from Redmond. There isn't. So far, everything I've read tells me to run away, run away! This is for a good reason, too. The problem is that Windows Vista really isn't all that much to get excited about, even for loyal Windows users. How can you get so excited about some long outdated features and some eye candy? There's an old saying that has been ringing in my head now for a few days" "you can't polish a turd".
I just saw a new commercial on 60 Minutes and at the end it gave the June 29th date.Update.http://www.macrumors.com/2007/06/03/atandt-television-ad-says-iphone-on-june-29th/
Indeed yes. Apple just announced upgraded MacBook Pro line with faster processors, 802.11n, and beefier video cards. I know I was drooling over the last release of the pro laptops, but now they are becoming even more appetizing.
Has anyone checked out QuickSilver yet? With the stroke of a couple keys, I can find anything on my computer. I will admit that I'm smarter now in my naming conventions, but I'm lazier too. My best stuff has been written in the past, but filed stupidly. I can now find those great lost articles, forms, letters and whatnots with the help of QuickSilver. I can even start programs with it. This is much faster than clicking through the file structure.Me. . . I'm easily impressed with gadgets, but QuickSilver is beyond a gadget, it's a NECESSITY!
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates -- on stage together?This will be truly worth watching. I recently got back from San Diego, and wish I would've waited around to go to D5. This conference covers technology in the digital arena, and this year looks to be the most historical of all. For the first time in 20 years, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates will be on stage together to discuss where technology is headed for the future.Even though the "conversation" will be unscripted and unrehearsed, I think Steve Jobs will have the advantage. I've seen all his Keynotes as well as several of Gates'... and I think Steve is a better public speaker.
Hello FolksMe here again. I came across an article on MacWorld of the 30 greatest Apple products. I'm not sure how they decided the list but all of them deserve a spot on the list. Some of them were duds but like any dud in a company like Apple a dud teaches them what they did wrong. Personally I own or have used 20 of the 30 on the list. I own number one on the list and having used it and dug into it it's an amazing piece of history. In my humble opinion it deserves a place in the Smithsonion if one is not there already along with it's big brothers the Apple I and Apple II. They are history in technology and pop culture all in one shot. They are primary history in the formal sense in that they represent landmarks that historians use to set a time, place and date to show where culture and technology were at that period of time. They are pop culture in the fact that Apple is a part of pop culture with the Apple Rainbow logo and the familiar "Happy Mac" face that adorns all OS start-ups till 10.3. We can't forget the impact of Apple on pop culture with the iPod and iMac as well. You can't watch a TV show or movie made in the late 90's without and iMac popping up in one. It is almost impossible to go somewhere without seeing the familiar white wires of the Apple ear-buds. Each of the computers I mentioned is a landmark in computing history as well. The Apple I shows the early days of computing history when the garage hackers and HomeBrew guys were at possibly their zenith. Then comes the Apple II, the full refinement of the Woz and his genius. Finally the original Mac, it set the world on it collective ear and set forth the familiar image of a computer everyone knows. What is even more amazing is how familair OS 1 and Finder 1 work like every OS that came after it till OS 9.2.2 . I don't think MS can make that claim and with the latest incarnation of Windows they are sure to lose the battle of ease of use and simplicity.
Bob Zitter of HBO said DRM should be called Digital Consumer Enablement, or DCE, because it better reflects the technology (i.e. restrictions).How might this affect Apple's next operating system release of Leopard? Microsoft sold out to digital copyright holders with the release of Vista; so where does that leave Apple and their newest OS release? Are we going to see digital copyright restrictions placed on the new Macs when they arrive with Leopard, or will Apple "stick it to them" and show the producers that we just want content how, when, and where we want it; and not with the strangling restrictions they have been coming with.
I've recently started playing around with GarageBand more, and found these great loops from the folks over at MacJams.com. This 40MB download has some great loops, beats, and great sounds to add to your next great song.-Justus
Apple may credit your single purchase towards the purchase of the entire album. Apple, in consultation with several labels, has been planning to offer iTunes users credit for songs they have already purchased if they then choose to buy the associated album in a certain period of time, according to insiders involved in the negotiations. This is because album sales are humble to say the least and single sales are HOT. Record Labels are listening to thoughts like this with earnest. Which label will be first?