Archive for October, 2010

Samsung Galaxy Tab for $600 on November 11 from Verizon

Samsung Galaxy Tab for $600 on November 11 from Verizon

| October 20, 2010 | 0 Comments

There has been a lot of anticipation over the Samsung Galaxy Tab, an Android tablet with a 7-inch touch screen display and 1GHz processor. We now finally have a date and initial price information from Samsung and Verizon Wireless. November 11 the Tab will be available for $599 without a contract making it $100 more [...]

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Apple Back to the Mac Event Announcements: New MacBook Air, OSX 10.7, iLife & Mac App Store

Apple Back to the Mac Event Announcements: New MacBook Air, OSX 10.7, iLife & Mac App Store

| October 20, 2010 | 2 Comments

Today at Apple’s Back to the Mac event the popular consumer electronics company announced a collection of new hardware and software products for the holiday season and for the coming year. Apple kicked off the event with a State of the Mac address, given by Tim Cook, Apple covered how the Mac is doing with [...]

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Apple State of the Mac: 1 in 5 New PCs is a Mac

Apple State of the Mac: 1 in 5 New PCs is a Mac

| October 20, 2010 | 3 Comments

At today’s Back to the Mac press event, Apple’s Tim Cook led off the vent with a “State of the Mac” address giving the most recent stats related tot he Mac. Cook said that one out of every five new computer sold is a Mac. That’s  20.7 percent of the market this year. The total [...]

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Apple Announces New MacBook Air Notebooks, 13.3″ and 11.6″ Models with Flash Storage

Apple Announces New MacBook Air Notebooks, 13.3″ and 11.6″ Models with Flash Storage

| October 20, 2010 | 2 Comments

At the end of the Back to the Mac event Steve Jobs pulled his famous “one more thing” and introduced a pair of new MacBook Air notebooks with flash memory, high resolution screens and more. The 11.6″ MacBook Air and the 13.3″ MacBook Air devices are available today starting at just $999. The new MacBook Air notebooks [...]

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FaceTime Now Connects with Mac Users

FaceTime Now Connects with Mac Users

| October 20, 2010 | 1 Comment

Steve Jobs said at Apple’s Back to the Mac press event that the number one request for FaceTime was the ability to make FaceTime calls with people who use a Mac. Now, thanks to a beta release of FaceTime for Mac available at Apple, they can interact with the “tens of millions” of Mac, iPhone [...]

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iMovie ’11 Brings Audio Editing, One Step Effects, People Finder and Movie Trailers

iMovie ’11 Brings Audio Editing, One Step Effects, People Finder and Movie Trailers

| October 20, 2010 | 1 Comment

As part of the iLife 11 suite introduced today Apple let loose a new version of iMovie that comes with many new features aimed at making it even easier to use iMovie to create and share your movies with friends, in cool formats. New iMovie ’11 features: Better audio editing One Step Effects People Finder [...]

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Microsoft Office 365 Brings Productivity Suit to the Cloud

Microsoft Office 365 Brings Productivity Suit to the Cloud

| October 20, 2010 | 2 Comments

Not to be outdone by Google’s Docs and other online collaboration tools, Microsoft announced today a new service called Office 365, a cloud service that puts Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online all exactly where the names suggest online. The benefit is that the varying services are always the latest release build of [...]

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How to determine if your Windows installation is Genuine

How to determine if your Windows installation is Genuine

| October 20, 2010 | 0 Comments

Buying and using pirated software is a dangerous game to play for many reasons. If you’ve purchased Windows from an auction site or some other non-retail location you may not have a genuine version of Windows. Thankfully Microsoft has made it pretty easy to find out if you have a real copy of Windows. This [...]

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Back to the Mac Apple Event Predictions – MacBook Air, OSX 10.7 and More

Back to the Mac Apple Event Predictions – MacBook Air, OSX 10.7 and More

| October 20, 2010 | 0 Comments

Later today Steve Jobs will take the stage at Apple’s Back to Mac event where we expect to hear about a new MacBook Air and updates to OSX. Here are a collection of rumors that are likely to be confirmed at today’s event. Update to the 13.3″ MacBook Air model with an SSD and new design. Announcement [...]

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How to Download YouTube Videos

How to Download YouTube Videos

| October 20, 2010 | 3 Comments

If after watching a great YouTube video, you find yourself wanting to save it for some reason, there are a few different sites that help facilitate this. YouTube doesn’t make it easy but Downloadtube.org and Keepvid.com are two services that work well for this purpose. First, remember that saving someone else’s video might be a [...]

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