Apple released three “new” computers today: Mac mini iMac Mac Pro Here’s the first paragraph of their product release statement: CUPERTINO, California—March 3, 2009—Apple® today announced updates to its iMac® and Mac® mini desktop lines, including a 24-inch iMac that is priced more affordably than ever before and a Mac mini with powerful new integrated graphics. For the same $1,499 …
Facebook knows they made a mistake
Facebook seems to have realized that they went overboard with their recent “Terms of Use” changes and has decided to revert back to their previous version. According to Mark Zuckerberg (their CEO & Founder) they have acknowledged and took ownership of this mistake. His exact words were (quoted from FB blog): A lot of the language in our terms is …
Facebook Terms of Use
Facebook has revised their Terms of Use recently and most notable changes basically state that they own all of your content from now until perpetuity. Under “Licenses” heading they state the following: You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform …
How to make your computer perform better
Here are some basic tips on how to maintain your computer (PC or Mac) and make it perform better for a longer period of time. These are tips that everyone can do on their own. If you are interested in more detailed, technical info please let me know. Also, if you have any tips or suggestions to share please feel …
Progress is a beautiful thing
Photo Source: Edupics.com Earlier today I attended a meeting with two very intelligent individuals who have significantly improved their respective areas with every day they have spent here. One of them used to work on my team, but has since moved onto bigger and “better” 😉 things at a different department and has made significant strides towards increasing their productivity …
LogMeIn in production
It’s been in testing for a couple of months now, most of us on our team have used it years ago, but as of today, we are deploying LogMeIn to all of our college machines (with a big push beginning on Monday) in order to improve responsiveness and support levels to our clients. This application will be installed on all …
MacRumorsLive stream compromised
I have been following MacRumorsLive for a while now when it comes to Macworld and other Apple related events, but today they seems to be experiencing difficulties. Their AJAX way of updating readers with text and photos seems to have been compromised as you can see in the above photo. Few minutes later, things started to get worse. As I …
Google Reader
Somehow over the past few years I have settled on Feedreader as my RSS aggregator of choice. Overall, it’s a good application, it had its minor issues along the way, but it was doing its job quite well. Throughout the years of my RSS subscription mania I have accumulated hundreds of feeds which became rather unmanageable and would generate thousands …