Bonjour – Be a Printer God!
Plugging printers or plotters into an existing network usually requires giving a printer an IP address, just as you would any computer. This requires a certain amount of skill once the printer is unwrapped. Yawn. But years ago, Apple released a technology that allows anyone that can manage the unboxing of a printer to set it up on a network, have both PCs (since 2005) and Macs connect to it and...
Read MoreComprehensive File-sharing Site list (Updated)
Email is a terrible way to exchange large files; the technology was never meant to be a file exchange service. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is. But FTP is not always as convenient or accessible as using a simple browser interface. I was recently asked by a client to recommend a simple, fast way to share files. Over the past year or two, many file-sharing sites have popped up. They allow you to...
Read MoreiTunes HD offerings: reason for no Blu-ray Support? AMEX Digital Corp says: “Whatever dude.”
Steve Jobs, et. al. announced on Tues. Oct. 14th, Apple’s newly designed notebooks. Conspicuously absent from the announcement was integrated support for Blu-ray, the recent winner of the next generation of optical storage and HD mobile cinema market. Clearly, this was top on the list of expected technological adaptations by many in the industry. Apple has in the past usually been early in...
Read MoreNew MacBook and MacBook Pro Don’t Have FireWire 400 Ports
With the release of Apple’s latest laptop lineup, Apple has quietly removed FireWire 400 ports from their lineup. Released in 1995, FireWire has long been the preferred standard for attaching external hard drives, high-speed card readers, camcorders, and other devices. Even the mighty iPod once used FireWire to connect to the computer. The advantages included faster speeds, and increased...
Read MoreWashington D.C. shoots Goo over the bow of Microsoft
Washington DC has recently decided to hang up the keys to the Microsoft Upgrade Closet and adopt Google Apps for its city employees. The choice Washington DC has made will help to cut their budget by $3.5 million in software licensing fees alone. That looks good for taxpayers; not for Microsoft. Of course this doesn’t necessarily spell doom for Redmond, but it doesn’t necessarily look fab...
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