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Microsoft Courier Tablet: or, back to the future

by Aaron Kraus on Sep 24, 2009 at 11:37 AM

Gizmodo broke a story about a Microsoft dual-screen, multitouch table currently in the “late-prototype” development phases, dubbed “Courier”. This means that the prototypes are working and being refined, and the design concept is now being shared with other agencies who might have a hand in development, such as third party… Continue Reading »

Microsoft fails with pre-roll ads for Zune applications

by Josh Holat on Sep 18, 2009 at 10:35 AM

Microsoft has opened their own version of Apple’s App Store. These “Apps,” which can be downloaded from the “Marketplace,” are all free, professionally designed and coded by Microsoft for their store, and available for their new Zune HD media device. However, free is the key word in this phrase. Microsoft… Continue Reading »

Snow Leopard sales double Leopard sales

by Josh Holat on Sep 17, 2009 at 07:52 PM

NPD, a market research company, is reporting that Apple’s Mac OS X Snow Leopard has been doing extremely well since its launch, even when compared to Leopard sales. For example, they have said that Snow Leopard has sold more than twice as many copies as Leopard during the first two… Continue Reading »

Apple releases OS X 10.6.1

by Jake Gaecke on Sep 10, 2009 at 09:30 PM

That was fast. Seems Apple was quick to respond to issues found with the first version of Snow Leopard, seeing that it was released only two weeks ago. Issues addressed in this update include all the usual—fixes for some printer problems you may have been experiencing, and an update to… Continue Reading »

Slick Cats - Snow Leopard is Here!

by Aaron Kraus on Sep 5, 2009 at 08:38 PM

Slick. Speedy. Sexy. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. You could easily replace the word “snow” in “Snow Leopard” with any other “s” adjective and still describe it accurately. Snow Leopard, by Apple’s own admission, is “The worlds most advanced operating system [Leopard]. Finely tuned.” It is, however, a truly unique experience for Mac users.… Continue Reading »

Snow Leopard as we go; the first week

by Josh Holat on Sep 4, 2009 at 12:18 PM

Well, we are about a week or so into Apple’s new operating system release, Snow Leopard, and all we’ve gotten are wallpapers and disk space. It certainly has been an interesting announcement and release, as people on the Internet have been discussing the price and whether it even constitutes a… Continue Reading »

Snow Leopard as we go; incompatible software

by Ed Parry on Sep 3, 2009 at 11:01 AM

In general, the upgrade to Snow Leopard has been quite a smooth one. There have been the usual annoyances of wiped data and lost settings, but most upgrades appear to have been successful. One thing you may have noticed, however, is that some software may no longer operate correctly or… Continue Reading »

Snow Leopard as we go; disk space

by Kirk Hiner on Aug 29, 2009 at 11:29 AM

Part of Apple’s claim with Snow Leopard is that it’ll be a leaner system. This is nice to hear in a keynote, but it doesn’t always work out that way in the real word. Now that I’ve purchased and installed Snow Leopard, I was finally able to put that claim… Continue Reading »

Snow Leopard marks domain over RTF; here’s how to reclaim your territory

by Kirk Hiner on Aug 28, 2009 at 11:06 AM

Looks like Snow Leopard is an alpha male, at least when it comes to the RTF document format. If you use a word processor that saves to RTF by default, you’ll notice quite quickly that Snow Leopard is going to take control of all of your files, forcing them to… Continue Reading »

Snow Leopard: 64 bits explained

by Ed Parry on Aug 28, 2009 at 05:35 AM

Today sees the release of Mac OS X Snow Leopard, the latest update to Apple’s ever-popular operating system. There’s so much talk of the speed boosts and enhancements that what you’ll actually get may not seem so clear, so here’s what you can expect from Snow Leopard regarding 64 bit… Continue Reading »

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