Microsoft’s latest licensing salvo on Vista means you pay more for the same experience.
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Day: October 16, 2006
How the two tech giants watched each other for ideas to copy and failures to avoid. Busts the “Myth of Expensive Macs” and the “Apple could have been Microsoft Myth”. Plus the $10,000 computers of 1990, and how both provide value with integrated products. Read More… Contributed by: Daniel Eran, RDM
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Why the World Went Windows
How Microsoft combined savvy marketing, fortunate events, and fraudulent marketing to take the tech world by storm, displace terminals and Unix workstations, challenge the Macintosh, and build an empire. Read More… Contributed by: Daniel Eran, RDM
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Nokia’s Aeon Concept Phone
Nokia has released images of Aeon, a concept phone that combines two touch-sensitive panels mounted on a fuel-cell power pack. Each of the panels are capable of being used independently. The touch-screen displays man that all ‘buttons’ are virtual, so in one situation one panel could operate as the display, the other as the keypad. […]
Last Monday I reported that it was possible to adjust the speed of the MacBook Pro’s fans via the command line. The hack involves modifying the plist files in AppleBlower.ktext and AppleFan.ktext. Essentially editing the speed values for both fans so they kick on a little sooner and run a bit faster.