Garbage In Garbage Out

Today Parallels released a new beta version of their Parallels Desktop for Mac virtual machine environment. The folks over at Parallels haven’t been resting on their laurels, as evidenced by a) the multiple upgrades (both bug fixes and feature enhancements) since first releasing Parallels; b) the radical feature set of their latest beta (build 3036); [...]

Are you a Mac transplant? Perhaps you’re new to the Mac after spending time in the Windows world? Whatever the case may be, you may find the keyboard characteristics on the Mac confusing, or you may just prefer how certain keys function in Windows. For example, do you like how pressing the Home and End [...]

One of the big selling points of Microsoft’s rebranded Toshiba Gigabeat, called “Zune” by the Microsoft marketing wunderkinds, is its ability to create “community” by allowing Zune users to share their music wirelessly between each other.

Here’s a quick way to resize a large number of photos using a built-in feature of Mac OS X, that also generates a web page while it’s at it for an easy photo album.

Here is a technique whereby a QuickTime movie, stored on and delivered by my web server uses your Mac’s iSight camera and microphone to create a movie with a reflective interface containing the local video stream and a logo that is resized by the user’s voice (all in real time). This demonstration makes use of Apple’s Quartz technology.

All to often I hear people tossing about performance specs they’ve read off peripheral packaging, as if it were gospel. In particular, in my professional role dealing with media creation, I continually run into people claiming USB 2.0 is “faster” because the marketing-speak from Intel claims theoretical throughput greater than that of Firewire. Well, tune in and I’ll demonstrate why that just isn’t true and why Firewire is the choice of professional video editors.

After all but abandoning Internet Explorer since releasing version 6 on August 27, 2001, Microsoft is readying an October launch of Internet Explorer 7. As this article details, the problem is, it’s not ready for prime time, and they’re making it an automatic download. Heck, the video actually demonstrates a rendering bug right under their noses — on the IE7 development team’s blog, no less. Support centers — brace yourselves!

Who’s running the ship over there in Redmond? The lurid tale of software hijinks, hardware foibles, and back-of-the-napkin business plans.

New research prototype with 80 cores detailed by Intel CEO, who promises production versions within 5 years.

Internet chatter (mere speculation) regarding Apple’s cell phone plans is fascinating, evolving from “Will Apple release an iTunes-enabled phone?” to “When will Apple release and iTunes-enabled phone?”