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Microsoft Teaches 133t5p33k

Microsoft: “While it’s important to respect your children’s privacy, understanding what your teenager’s online slang means and how to decipher could be important in certain situations and as you help guide their online experience. While it has many nicknames, information-age slang is commonly referred to as leetspeek, or leet for short. Leet (a vernacular form […]

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Apple Releases 10.4.1 update for OS X

Today Apple released 10.4.1 update for OS X. (37MB stand alone installer) It includes improvements for: – File sharing using AFP and SMB/CIFS network file services – Using DHCP in wireless networks – User login when accessing LDAP and Active Directory servers – Core graphics including updated ATI and NVIDIA graphics drivers – Synchronization with […]

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Next for Apple: iChat for Windows

In the past few months, Apple have made available a number of pieces to a puzzle that I believe show Apple’s hand. The topic of this article first struck me a few months ago when Apple made iTunes (and the associated Rendezvous Music Sharing) available for Windows. It was further confirmed recently with the release […]

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Shoebox Organizes Photo Collections

Shoebox is a Mac OS X application for organizing digital photos by content. Shoebox helps you manage your collection and find the photos that you’re looking for, even if you have thousands of photos. Search for “london new year’s fireworks” and Shoebox immediately shows you all photos of fireworks taken in London on New Year’s […]

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MCE Ships 8X Double-Layer SuperDrive for iBook G4

MCE Technologies, LLC (MCE) today announced an 8X DVD-Recordable slot-loading internal SuperDrive upgrade for both the 12-inch and 14-inch Apple iBook G4. In addition to recording to both DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW media at up to 8X speed, the MCE 8X SuperDrive includes Double Layer (also called Dual Layer) support and can record up to 8.5GB […]