Monday, January 31, 2005

New Apple PowerBooks!

Apple today unveils newer, more affordable PowerBooks! If your business needs some great laptops for the money, take a look at the Apple PowerBooks.

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Saturday, January 29, 2005

Does your business Skype?

Telecommunications cost is often a major expense in small businesses. After all, immediate communication offer greater efficiency, especially for a small biz. If you have workers who travel a lot, there's a totally free VOIP (voice-over-IP) software for everybody to stay in touch: Skype.

It will run on Windows and Macs, so don't worry if you have a mixed-platform environment. It works relatively well even over a dial-up connection. Furthermore, it offers built-in encryption for instant messages and voice calls.

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Friday, January 28, 2005

Apple creates IT Pro site

Now there's an IT Pro site within Apple.com for IT professionals. Apple already has sites dedicated to educators, media professionals, businesses, and developers. Looks like the company wants to attract enterprise IT departments to its solutions (hardware and software). The Xserve has very good reviews from many people, but changing the Windows-influenced company culture is another story...

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Thursday, January 20, 2005

Printer sharing between Win2K & WinXP

It seems that Windows XP Home and Windows 2000 Professional systems don't quite like sharing printers with each other. A Canon MF5550 printer was installed on a XP Home machine ( USB connection ), and printer sharing was turned on. The shared printer was installed on a Windows 2000 Pro machine by browsing for a network printer. No errors occured during install, but explorer.exe would generate an error and crash whenever the 2000 Pro machine tried to print.

The same problem occured ( except for the error message ) when the printer was installed on the 2000 Pro machine and added to the XP Home machine.

A quick fix was to change the security settings for the shared printer on Windows 200 Pro; allowing full rights for everyone.

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Tuesday, January 11, 2005

MWSF Keynote - Steve Jobs (LIVE!)

Steve Jobs takes the stage, noting HP's projection system.

The London retail store is featured.

The iMac is Apple's best selling computer, also earning praises from tech journalists.

Panther is on schedule to ship in first half of 2005.

Spotlight search is featured and demo'd; integrates with Finder (smart folders) and System Preferences.

Mail upgrade to include Spotlight integration, slideshow, smart mailboxes, and iPhoto.

QuickTime 7 (H.264 protocol), scalable from cell phones to HD. Demo'd with "House of Flying Daggers."

Dashboard widgets demo'd. Weather, stocks, flight tracker, translation, dictionary, ... (Possibilities are endless!)

iChat demo'd with Danika, Phil, and Scott. Uses H.264 compression.

"The year of high definition." Introduces Final Cut Express HD for $299, available in February.

iLife '05 - iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, and iTunes.

iPhoto upgrade: better organizing & searching, supports MPEG4 and RAW, powerful editing, advanced slideshow, new books & book designs (hardcover, softcover, album, pocketbook).

iMovie upgrade: faster, non-destructive trimming, more transitions/effects, MPEG4 video, Magic iMovie, HD support.

Sony prosumer HDV FX1 videocamera for $3499. Introduces President of SONY, Mr. Kunitake Ando. Reiteration of Sony and Apple close relationship.

iDVD upgrade: 15 new themes, animated drop zones, OneStep DVD creation, supports all formats (-R, +R, -RW, +RW).

GarageBand upgrade: new Jam Pack (orchestral instruments), up to 8 track recording, real-time music notation, pitch & timing fixing, create own loops, vocal transformer, recorded tracks now more flexible. John Mayer joins the presentation.

iLife '05 at $79, on Jan. 27. Free on new Macs.

New product: iWork, successor to AppleWorks. Contains Keynote 2 & Pages. Jobs uses Keynote 2 during the presentation. Pages has 20 Apple-designed templates and all the advanced word processing features. Phil Schiller does the Pages demo.

Mac mini is announced! (The rumors are TRUE!) The size of a small box. Comes with Panther and iLife 05, low end model priced at $499, higher end at $599. Available Jan. 22.

iTunes continues to hold 70% market share in music sales. iTunes Essentials is re-tooled.

4.5M iPods sold over the holiday quarter.

iPod + cars: Working with BMW and others to offer iPod adapters for cars: Nissan, Mercedes, Scion, and Volvo; Alpha Romeo and Ferrari in Europe.

iPod + cell phones: Motorola's iTunes integration with new cell phones.

"One more thing..." Flash-based iPod Shuffle, thinner than a pack of gum and lighter than four quarters. USB 2 connector at the bottom, rechargeable battery. 512MB at $99 or 1GB at $149. Shipping today! Four accesories made by Apple: arm band, battery extender, sports case, and dock.

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MacWorld Expo - San Francisco!

We are at MWSF to provide you the latest news in the world of Mac computing. It's wet and cold in San Francisco this evening, but conference attendees like us are still filled with excitement!

Steve Jobs' keynote is Tuesday morning, and everybody's wondering what will be announced? Stay tuned...

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Monday, January 10, 2005

Windows XP SP2 "Limited or No Connectivity" Bug

Recently we've run noticed a bug on some Windows XP systems that have Service Pack 2 installed. The bug causes the computer to not be able to acquire an IP address via DHCP. In systems with static IP addresses, ping packets get through, but full network connectivity is not available. The error message this bug generates is:

"This connection has limited or no connectivity. You might not be able to access the Internet or some network resources."

A description of the bug and a fix are available at PCHell.com:
http://www.pchell.com/support/limitedconnectivity.shtml

The bug is listed in Microsoft's Knowledge Base as well: KB884020

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