Posted by Aaron Nelsen on Oct 5, 2007 in
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Apple AppleInsider is reporting that Apple may be shipping it’s latest installment of OS X this month on the 26th.
While sources have requested that we not go into detail regarding the specific measures being put into place, they say the announcements are likely to arrive any time between the 22nd and 27th of the month.
Obviously, such a timeframe would coincide with Apple’s self-imposed release schedule for Mac OS X Leopard, which the company — after having delayed the software once — has promised for “October.”
As of Wednesday evening, the source code to Leopard had not yet been frozen and a Gold Master had not yet been declared. However, the operating system in recent weeks has inched closer to this status with the last full builds including only one known issue.
Historically, Apple has tapped the final Friday of the month to roll out its major operating system overhauls. For instance, it launched Mac OS X Tiger on the eve of Friday, April 29, 2005.
Sources have yet to rule out the possibility that Leopard would be accompanied by additional announcements from the Cupertino-based company.
You can pre-order a copy over on Amazon.com for $129
Posted by Aaron Nelsen on Oct 5, 2007 in
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How-to In a few shorts steps you can add a calendar like the one below to your desktop (OS X only).
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Posted by Aaron Nelsen on Oct 5, 2007 in
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Entertainment Here’s a quick break down of major TV networks that allow users to stream (with commercial interruption) their TV shows. So now you can legally catch up on your favorite TV shows.
Of course on the not so legal side of things, you have such resources as…
But you didn’t hear that from me.
Posted by Aaron Nelsen on Oct 4, 2007 in
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How-to David Peralty over at GeeksAreSexy has a nifty how to for making a wireless adapter for your Xbox 360.
Parts Needed:
- Xbox 360, any version
- Three Feet or more of Cat 5e Cable (Ethernet Cable)
- Wireless Router
- DD-WRT firmware
It’s pretty simple looking, full details can be found here.
Posted by Aaron Nelsen on Oct 4, 2007 in
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Technology While it may not be the companies themselves that are complete morons and rather their employees, they still hired them and should be held responsible.
CBC Marketplace conducted a sting of 10 different computer companies and found that only three of them correctly diagnosed the problem.
In the interview a former employee of a large computer repair company states that they were always encouraged to sell upgrades, I used to work for a local computer repair company, and I can vouch for this… my boss wanted me to “up sell” every appointment by $200… which is ridiculous when their problem is as simple as plugging their computer back in, or disabling a startup item. He even went as far as to recommend that if I fixed the problem in under in hour, that I should continue to pretend the problem was still their until after the second hour started (since his company billed for an hour even if you were only 15 minutes into the hour). Needless to say, I didn’t work there long.
Video and link after the jump…
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Posted by Aaron Nelsen on Oct 1, 2007 in
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Finance The Dow closed at 14,087.55 today, which is a smashing start to the month of October. But will it stay above 14,000 for long? I highly doubt it. Even if you don’t follow the market you’ll probably remember the buzz the Dow generated when it touched on 14,000 briefly in July, only to drop below 13,000 during August. And now the housing market is in shambles, banks are facing huge declines in earnings, and we’re quickly approaching the 20th anniversary of the market crash of 1987.
Interestingly, on the day that investors are celebrating the surging Dow, people are remembering the 20th anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash. People, though, shouldn’t avoid the markets just because times are uncertain. MarketWatch points out that “$10,000 invested in the Dow on Friday, Oct. 16, the last trading day before the crash, and held until the present would still have more than quintupled.”
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said in an interview that there was less than a 50-50 chance that the US economy would slip into a recession, he also believes that the current credit slump may be ending.
Is the worst behind us, or is it yet to come? Thoughts, anyone?