As the result of a new bill passed by Governor Jerry Brown in California, Amazon will be terminating its service contracts for all Amazon Associates members residing in California. The new bill, which requires that taxes be collected on all sales by online retailers, extends its reach to “California-based marketing affiliates” which includes the referral […]
Month: June 2011
When in doubt about a new piece of hardware, take it apart and study it. Once again, the guys at iFixIt performed a full teardown of a new Apple item, this time dissecting Apple’s just-released $49 Thunderbolt cable to reveal an “active cable” with transceiver chips on each end. iFixit took apart the new cable […]
A newly published series of test results from the cool cats at AnandTech shows Apple’s newly adopted Thunderbolt technology blows FireWire 800 out of the water with data transfer speeds to an external RAID system at 700MB/s. After the release of Apple’s Thunderbolt cable on Tuesday, early impressions have begun to surface on the Web. […]
Parallels Desktop, the popular virtualization application that allows users to run the Windows and Linux operating systems simultaneously alongside Mac OS X, reached version 6.0.12090.660720 on Wednesday. The new version, a 211 megabyte download, available here and includes the following major fixes and changes: – Improves compatibility with Mac OS X 10.6.8. – Resolves an […]
It’s the rumors that keep life interesting. And “Gossip Girl” still on the air (for better or for worse). Per the cool cats at 9to5 Mac, a new series of rumors has narrowed down the expected ship date of the next-generation MacBook Air, complete with Thunderbolt and Sandy Bridge architecture, to mid-July. The tip emphasized […]