by DAN CALLOWAY
Published 29 January 2010 @ 15:05 UTC
MUNICH, GERMANY -- Here is a video of Hitler’s reaction after learning that the Apple iPad would not be able to multitask, but would only be able to run one application at at time.
by DONALD CALLOWAY
Published Oct 6, 2009 by Barry Collins of PC Pro
Source: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/352213/im-a-mac-and-im-also-a-pc
CLARKSBURG, WV — More than eight out of ten Mac
owners also own a PC, according to a new piece of research.
The NPD survey found that 12% of US computer-owning households have a Mac. However, 85% of those also own a Windows PC, suggesting that the Mac/PC divide is not as clear cut as both Apple and Microsoft suggest.
Apple’s “I’m a Mac” advertising campaign pokes fun at Windows PC owners, portraying them as middle-aged nerds compared to the suave, young Mac owner. Now it appears the company has been taking the rise out of the majority of its own customers.
Mac owners are also far more likely to have multiple computers in the house. Two thirds of Mac owners have three or more computers in the home, while only 29% of PC owners have two or more PCs.
“While Apple owners tend to own more computers and more electronics devices, there is also a high correlation among Apple owners and more affluent consumer households,” explains Stephen Baker, NPD’s vice president of industry analysis. “With a higher household income, though, it’s not a surprise that those consumers are making more electronics purchases.”
by DONALD CALLOWAY
Posted September 26, 2009; The Chronicler’s Web
CLARKSBURG, WV — I’ve been using the Clickfree Model HD225 Automatic Backup storage device from Storage Appliance Corp. for a couple of years now and just love the convenience of being able to simply plug in the device to my Windows PCs’ USB port and let the device take care of the backing up all my important files on all my computers running Windows Vista Home Premium. It couldn’t be easier using the device to safely store over 400 different file types, including emails and photos, for retrieval and reloading in the event of a dreaded system hard drive crash.
All was well until about 5 months ago when my Clickfree device suddenly and inexplicably stopped functioning as expected when I plugged it in to one of my desktop PCs. Instead of booting up automatically and starting the search for files to backup as usual, the device merely presented a Windows explorer view of the devices storage and system drives used to perform the backup. For months I tried in vain to figure out on my own why my Clickfree worked just fine on all my other PCs except my desktop with the problem. After getting nowhere, I enlisted the help of a Clickfree support technician. He worked with me on the phone for over an hour, telling me that I must have a problem with my PC. An interesting aspect of the issue I was having was the Clickfree technician had me execute a Disk Management view of my system with the Clickfree device plugged in and was baffled as to why my Clickfree system drive properties showed it as an HFS file system rather than the usual CDFS file system. Incidentally, the HFS file system is used by linux systems and the Mac from Apple Macintosh. Frustrated even further, I enlisted the help of my brother who is a computer technician with a master’s degree in IT. He asked if I had ever dual-booted Linux on my PC with the problem, and I told him that I had. He suspected the problem may be due to the linux partition still residing on the hard drive. He suspected the Clickfree device (which can backup both PCs and Mac’s) might be seeing that partition and defaulting to Mac rather than PC backup mode. So, I deleted the linux partition and incorporated the unallocated disk space to my system’s C:/ drive, and finally fixed the Vista boot image. All that work turned out for naught as the problem still persisted. (more…)
by DAN CALLOWAY
Published September 3, 2009; The Chronicler’s Web
WEAVERVILLE, NC – I do a lot of Web surfing on the Internet and have tried many Web browsers over the years. Among the things I look for in a good Web browser are speed, tabbed browsing capability, browser scalability, browser stability, and the ability to change the appearance of the Web browser in viewing the sites I visit most often. Needless to say, if a Web browser doesn’t meet up to my standards, I eventually ditch it and move on.
The very first Web browser that was developed after the advent of the Internet (or the W3) was the Mosiac Web Browser. It didn’t have the capability to handle graphics, just text, but it was an extremely functional and no-nonsense and Web usable Web browser. Well, Web browsers have advanced quite a bit from the first Mosiac Web Browser, with the ability to handle graphics, the development of plug-ins that perform additional functions that enhance browser functionality and improve the user experience, and incorporation of the Java platform into the Web browser.
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The most popular Web browser in use today is still Microsoft Internet Explorer. Their latest version is IE 9. And, despite the claims from Microsoft that you can uninstall this Web browser on the computer and the Operating System won’t be affected, don’t believe it. Try uninstalling IE–if you can–and see what happens to MS Windows XP, or Vista. The OS will become unstable. That’s by design. So, it goes without saying, this is my least favorite Web browser and one that I haven’t used in ages even though I run MS Windows XP or Pro on all of my home PCs and laptops. So, it also goes without saying, my least favorite Web browser is Internet Explorer.
Some of the other Web browsers I’ve tried over the years are: Opera, Netscape (which is now deprecated and no longer supported), Avant, Callico (developed by my brother and an author of The Chronlicler’s Web, Donald Calloway), Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox to name only a few. Of all these Web browsers, the one that I have enjoyed using the most is Firefox. (more…)
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