On Monday, hard drive manufacturer Western Digital announced that the company has started shipping its 250 gigabyte Scorpio SATA drive for laptop systems. According to Macworld News, the 2.5″ hard features a 12 millisecond seek time and spins at 5,400 RPM with a 1.5 gigabyte per second transfer rate and eight megabytes of cache built […]
Month: May 2007
A class-action lawsuit being brought against Apple claims that the company’s current laptop displays are not capable of displaying millions of colors, despite Apple’s advertising claims. The claim, according to an article over on Dailytech, states that Apple knowingly shipped displays that did not meet its original claims. The document then goes on to point […]
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QuickTime’s Understated Sidekick: Perian
Sometimes your friends open up a network port on their Macs and let you see some of what you’ve been missing. And no matter how savvy or cool you think you are with your shareware, workarounds and free programs, they demonstrate something that blows you away. Recently, a friend showed me Perian, a set of […]
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Adium X Updated to Version 1.0.4
Adium, the free multiple-protocol chat client with support for environments such as AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk and Novell Groupwise, has been updated to version 1.0.4 and includes bells and whistles such as tabbed messaging and encrypted chat modes for privacy. The new version, a 13.2 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and […]
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PowerPage Podcast Episode 43
Episode 43 of the PowerPage Podcast is now available. You can either download it from the iTunes Store or directly (01:01’42, 21.9MB, AAC). Your panel: Jason O’Grady, Rob Parker, Chuck Freedman and Youngmoo Kim. Topics include: new MacBooks, notebook HDDs and subnotebook rumors. Subscribe to the PowerPage Podcast directly in iTunes or add the Podcast […]