SAN FRANCISCO–NBC Universal would like to have its TV shows distributed once again through Apple’s iTunes service, a top executive said Wednesday, but he called for antipiracy measures to help protect his business’ revenue.
George Kliavkoff, chief digital officer at NBC Universal, didn’t specifically mention Apple by name in his request, but it was clear he [...]
Send free text messages to any phone with Jaxtr
VoIP company Jaxtr has added a new module that lets uses send free text messages to any cellphone from their Jaxtr homepage. There’s no fee for sending the message, but if the recipient has to pay per message, you might want to think twice before sending dozens [...]
“Arrange in Front” in Safari!
A great tip:
This is a hidden feature from Safari’s “Window” menu. By default, it is “Bring All to Front”, but when you hold down “Option”, it switches to “Arrange in Front”. What it seems to do is align all Safari windows in an ordered manner.
(Via A New [...]
Safari 3.1.1 released
Safari 3.1.1 is now available for both Windows and OS X. According to Apple, this update “includes improvements to stability, compatibility and security.”
On the security front, this security bulletin outlines the changes. It appears as if a vulnerability existed that could allow malicious sites to spoof URL headers or execute arbitrary code. There [...]
Geek Tip: Maximize Your Mac With Spotlight
Maybe you know everything that Spotlight does already, and maybe you’ve never really thought about the little magnifying glass icon in the top right hand corner of your Mac’s screen.
f you’re in the latter category, then I have some tips that will make your life easier. You may [...]
Microsoft may be putting together an “entertainment marketplace” tentatively named Zune VideoX, ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley reported Wednesday. In other words, it’s yet another digital content store trying to take a bite out of Apple’s iTunes.
Joe Belfiore, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Devices and Entertainment eHome division, is reportedly spearheading the project. But it goes [...]
IBM Employees To Use Macs
IBM has just launched an internal pilot program that will see its employees move onto the Mac platform - which is pretty funny if you ask me. The first phase of the pilot program has started since October 2007 till January 2008, where two dozen MacBook Pros were distributed to [...]
Panasonic brings Wi-Fi LUMIX camera stateside
Panasonic topped off its LUMIX cameras today via the new TZ50. The 9.1-megapixel camera is Panasonic’s first Wi-Fi model in the country and draws on its wireless linkup to share photos without the memory card leaving the camera: Internet access allows the camera to send individual or batch photos [...]
IT Business reviews Apple iWork ‘08 Pages: ‘Equal to or better than Microsoft Word’
Is Apple’s iWork a viable alternative to Microsoft Office? To find out, IT Business asked Jeffrey Battersby–our go-to expert on word processing programs–to use Word 2008 and Pages ‘08 to create the same project, progressing from the basics (text entry and formatting) [...]
Popular Mechanics has conducted a Apple Mac vs. Microsoft Windows PC smackdown and, unsurprisingly to Mac users, Apple Mac swept the contest, winning both the desktop and notebook categories.
Glenn Derene reports for Popular Mechanics, “We tested two all-in-one desktops and two laptops—one Mac and one PC per category—and assembled a panel of testers with a [...]
