New 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...
Read MoreComputing 101: Leave it on or turn it off?
I’m still asked this question frequently. And I used to have a pretty long-winded answer about the pros and cons of each choice; it involved power, hardware wear-and-tear and time vs. productivity and, well, so on. Now the advent of cheap RAM has caused me to re-evaluate my opinion on the matter, which is: unless a frustratingly long computer startup effects your productivity in the morning,...
Read MoreArcSource <3 Yelp
I’m proud to announce that ArcSource has a Yelp page!! If you’re a Yelp user, please do stop by and say hi? There is a huge variety of amazingly useful Web 2.0 services that ArcSource depends on for our business. We keep in touch throughout the day with Twitter.com, we keep track of useful web sites using del.icio.us. Our work life depends on these resources on a daily basis....
Read MoreAdobe Adopts Microsoft’s Drunk Thinking
Well now this is just stupid. Taking a chapter right out of Microsoft’s intrusive “We’ll block everything for you until you say it’s ok” Vista book, Adobe has suddenly and annoyingly decided to block every flash file from trying to play on your computer without warning or explanation. Great idea on paper maybe, but as a well-crafted Apple ad points out, it’s ultimately just pointless...
Read MoreMandatory Mobility: Do or Die
Peer to you: pick up your phone or else The advent of the internet brought the world to you. Information that once required you to go out into the world and hunt down is now as easy as clicking an “I’m Feeling Lucky” button where ever you happen to be standing at the time. The whole of the knowledge of mankind is at our disposal. In contrast to that, could you imagine journeying an entire...
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