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This would be the second Belkin Media Reader-Writer ExpressCard Adapter that I purchased. The first one does not support SDHC cards as opposed to the new one.
I’m in the process of writing about the product right now.
The third installment of Futurama Movie is scheduled for release on November 04th, 2008. “Bender’s Game” will be released in DVD and Blu-ray format.
Yes, it’ll be available in Blu-ray. That means it will be in High-Definition if it’s not “Beyond High-Definition”.
For more fun, visit ILoveBender.com or send Bender an email (bender@ilovebender.com).
Stuffit 2009 is out.
Windows Task Manager is disabled.
Mozilla Firefox Failed Chrome Registrations (in Windows Vista).
I’ve got a call a few days ago about networking problems in Windows Vista. For some reasons, most network traffics are available with the exceptions of the important TCP ports. No port 80, no port 110, no port 587, etc. I could ping the computer but the computer can’t connect to any sites or any mail servers.
I’ll be working on the computer tomorrow, and I’ll try documenting this problem in details.
Apple is expected to release new Mac models for the next few weeks. This October would be three years to the last PowerBook G4 model released before the switch to Intel processors. The first Intel-based Macs were announced in January at MacWorld San Francisco 2006, and the first batch of MacBook Pros were shipped a month after.
We are getting close for the first Intel iMac and MacBook Pro AppleCare to expire. That would be sometimes in January/February 2009. Since its introductions, the Intel iMac has gone through one significant design. Gone are the plastic fronts, replaced with Aluminum and Glass. Meanwhile, the Macbook Pro design still borrows a lot from the Aluminum Powerbook G4. The 15-inch MacBook Pro resembles the 17″ PowerBook G4 than its 15″ counterpart.
Apple has been looking into the redesign for its Macbook and MacBook Pro line. Rumors have been circulating and loudly whispering that the next MacBook will clad Aluminum enclosures instead of Polycarbonate. If so, what would the MacBook Pro new design be?
Based on the incoherent chatters, Apple’s patent applications and many others, The new MacBook Pro would have an easily accessible hard drive bay, tapered bezel, and Intel’s new Quad-Core mobile CPU. This is the necessary upgrade that Mac users have been waiting for. A few months back, we received some unconfirmed information regarding the struggles that Apple engineers were facing with thermal issues. There is no denying that the MacBook Pros can get really hot. Thanks to the CPU, GPU, power supply and its heat-conducting Aluminum body. We will see what kind of design Apple engineers would use for the new MacBook Pro line.
Meanwhile, on the iMac front there wouldn’t be any major changes with the body design, but it will sport Intel’s Quad-Core CPU.
Mac mini might see a major redesign, since the current model is a little bit underpowered by comparisons. Apple should reconsider the “lower-end” market, and price the Mac mini more competitively. Even better if Apple would release an intermediate Mac desktop, larger than Mac mini and definitely smaller than the Mac Pro. A “consumer” Mac with upgradeable hard-drive, optical drive, etc. It will still have the same Mac core, but priced competitively with the rest of PC-market. A sub $1,000 Mac desktop that is still powerful. Apple could see a huge boost in Mac adoptions if they’d release such model.
Mac Pro models should see more powerful CPU, GPU, faster hard drive and higher capacity optical storage option. It might not see a new design anytime soon unless Apple has the need to do so.
All in all Apple must refresh their product line with some new innovations. In the time when most if not all technology pundits think that computers have reach its maturity, companies must innovate and improve their products.
What in the world Leo Laporte is thinking? He had been warned before, way before the first “Windows Weekly” podcast. Yes, “PODCAST” not the lame “netcast” term Laporte is trying to push.
Originally Laporte asked his audience if Paul Thurrott would be good for his Microsoft-centric podcast. Despite of the opinions against Thurrott, Laporte proceeded with the Original Microsoft Defender an produce the auditory abomination known as “Windows Weekly”.
Paul Thurrott, also known as the unofficial Microsoft P.R. Machine and the Original Microsoft Defender, has been making a living writing anything about Microsoft. He’s been showing his true color of disliking anything that is nt from Microsoft. Who in their right minds think that Microsoft Zune is a great product. (Pardon me for using the following term) Only Microsoft Sheep do, and that includes one of the biggest of them all, namely Paul Thurrott. Thurrott praises XBox 360 and look down upon Nintendo Wii. Despite of Wii’s triumph over XBox 360, Thurrott calls Nintendo Wii as a “joke” and a novelty console.
As for the Wii, I’m going to have to disagree with the consensus and call it as I see it: Unless you have very young kids with no video game experience at all, skip out on this console. The Wii is a joke, a novelty console that doesn’t offer much staying power.
It must have pained Thurrott greatly to call Sony Playstation 3 an XBox 360 equal. Let’s face it, XBox 360 sees the highest failure rate in the recent video game console history. I for one have seen containers full of defective XBox 360 ready to be shipped to China for “repairs”. They all are suffering from the same problems that is called the red ring of death.
In the recent auditory abortion called “Windows Weekly”, Thurrott tried to explain the whole Microsoft $300 Million campaign. Despite of the poor perceptions from the technology crowd, Thurrott steps in as the Microsoft P.R. and defend the campaign. Thurrott implies that he has the inside knowledge of the campaign and keep interrupting Leo Laporte on the subject. Thurrott also thinks that “Mojave Experiment” is such a success of sticking it to Apple and their “Get A Mac” ad campaign.
It is clear that Thurrott is being Passive-Aggressive and Defensive about the subject.
If only Thurrott would shed the “I’m an unbiased tech-enthusiast” and admit that he is a Microsoft Fanboy, then there would be no problems at all. After all, I also listen to Laporte’s “Macbreak Weekly” podcast. At least the people in “Macbreak Weekly” admit that they are huge Apple fans.
If you could be objective and have the patience to listen to the droning voice of Thurrott, you can find all the self-contradicting statements Thurrott made in “Windows Weekly podcast. One of the recent one he’s made is about bloat-ware. In “Windows Weekly” 74, Thurrott takes a stab at iTunes 8 and essentially call it as a bloated software. In “Windows Weekly” 66, Thurrott defends Microsoft Windows, and says that it is OK for being bloated because the hardware now can support the software. Thurrott would do the technology world a favor by keeping his opinion (if he has any, it’s all Microsoft P.R. materials anyway) to himself.
“Windows Weekly” is in need of a good panel to discuss the world of Microsoft. It is tiring to listen to Thurrott alone spewing Microsoft propaganda, ad garbage about everything non-Microsoft. It is possible that Leo Laporte couldn’t find anyone who would work with Thurrott on the podcast. At one time Laporte let people call in and contribute to the podcast. Definitely there were a few people callrd on Thurrott’s lies.
Paul Thurrott calls himself as a non-partisan tech-enthusiast just like Fox News call themselves as “Fair and Balanced”.
Thanks to “WordPress Automatic Upgrade” by Keith Dsouza, upgrading WordPress is a lot easier and faster now. I can spend more time downloading por….. errr I meant downloading Porky Pig vs. Bugs Bunny videos from the internet.
