By Rachel Hoyer So, you’ve just taken the world’s most adorable picture of your dog on your iPhone. If you want to text it to your friends, you’re out of luck. You’ll have to email it to them. iPhone enthusiasts everywhere have bemoaned the lack of MMS support on the handset. MMS is the protocol […]
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By Rachel Hoyer Who hasn’t seen the ubiquitous Microsoft “laptop hunters” and Apple’s “get a Mac” commercials? Each ad campaign attempts to convince the audience that savvy consumers purchase their brand. Microsoft uses documentary-style commercials where they offer “real” consumers (who are actually actors) a certain amount of money to purchase a new computer. Not […]
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Regarding Yesterday
As you may have noticed, there was no news yesterday. Not that there wasn’t news, per se. Things happened, software was updated and announcements were made and covered. From my end, I spent a fair amount of the day at a local glass repair location since someone had decided to put a rock through my […]
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Labor Day: 30 Years of Not-Quite-Wisdom
Welcome to Labor Day, 2007, here on the PowerPage. The puppy in the picture has nothing to do with the iPhone. With the rest of the country going through a national holiday, we’ve decided to do the same and queue up stories for tomorrow. Or at least use the opportunity to form a crude shanty […]
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Why Lock DVD Players to a Single Region?
My MacTracker shows that I have owned 11 different models starting with the 128k original in 1984. Four are in the house with me right now (PB G3, PB G4, iMac G5 and MBP Core 2 Duo). I have dealt with the upgrades to System 7, 8, 9 and OS X as well as the […]