In 2002, Blake Krikorian and his brother Jason were beside themselves. Their beloved San Francisco Giants were in a pennant race, yet Blake and Jason, two Silicon Valley engineers, were traveling so much that they missed many of the games on television.
Desperate, they signed up for a service that offered live audio and video of […]

Meeting with users has helped Intuit Canada develop the needed features for its latest edition of QuickBooks small business accounting software, according to Gary Meeberg, director of QuickBooks payroll services.
Reviewing how customers are using the product has helped the company channel the feedback into the next product cycle, he said.
“Our one-year upgrades work well in […]

If digital-music veteran Rob Lord wanted to court controversy with his new open-source start-up, he probably couldn’t have done much better than to compare Apple Computer’s iTunes software to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser.
Lord’s new five-person company, the ambitiously named Pioneers of the Inevitable, is building a piece of digital-music software called “Songbird,” based on […]

Hard Disk Recovery can be an extremely stressfull time. All of your information, in there somewhere, and you can not get to it. You think it may be gone forever, but it is not. There are companies out there specializing in hard disk data recovery. But make sure you choose a reputable company. This article […]

Today Microsoft published its December list of security bulletins.
There are two, one of which is ranked Critical by Microsoft; the otheris labeled Important. The most critical flaw announced today affectsversions of Microsoft Internet Explorer found on most Windows machines,versions Windows 98 through XP. The Important flaw affects the Windowskernel. Patches are available via Microsoft Update. […]

Sneakernet, while a clever name, is a slow and outdated method of moving and sharing files. Enter networked hard drives: simply plug in one of these external hard drives to an available Ethernet port on your router and voilà, centralized storage for everyone on your network. Network-attached storage devices range from the most basic (hard […]

I found a comparable Dell system, from a spec standpoint, and I stand corrected. It will not come down to price, as the iMac and the following Dell PC are pretty even.
To get a comparable system to the iMac, I added 128 mb for video, increased the hard drive from 80 GB to 160 […]

I am still undecided as to the Mac or PC. The Mac is a nice system, for $1299. It has everything in one. Some of the specs are:
17-inch widescreen LCD1.9GHz PowerPC G5512MB memory (533MHz DDR2 SDRAM)160GB Serial ATA hard driveSlot-load 8x double-layer SuperDriveATI Radeon X600 Pro with 128MB DDR video memory
In addition, the iMac G5 […]

I was just writing about data recovery the other other day. And the best way to prevent needing data recovery is to have your data backed up already. Just a simple piece of hardware, like an external hard drive, connected by a firewire IEEE 1394 can make the worries go away.
The Automatic Backup System Plus […]

Microsoft has released their latest update for Windows XP: Service Pack 3. I strongly recommend this update. I have been running pretty smooth since I installed it about a week ago. I don’t pretend to know everything it fixes, or improves. I just know the computer is working a little faster. Just go to Microsofts […]