Archive for November, 2011
How to Set Up iTunes Match on All Your Computers and iOS Devices
Apple finally released iTunes Match, which lets iTunes check all the music you have on your computer and then lets you access it from iCloud for a yearly fee. Setup isn’t complicated, but I want to show you the steps and warn of a snag or two, so you can take full advantage of the [...]
Best Buy Tries To Charge $50 For Creating Recovery Discs On A Netbook I Hadn’t Yet Bought
Earlier today I went to Best Buy with a friend of mine to buy a netbook. She wanted a new one and I gave her my expert advice. We found a Samsung model I liked for $249 on the website, looked up where it might be in stock, and set out to see it in [...]
New Lion Installations Down According to Web Stats
After a quick surge in the initial weeks after Apple’s new Mac OS X 10.7 Lion operating system appeared in the Mac App Store, the numbers of new Lion installations have slowed a little bit, according to numbers from ad firm Chikita. The number of visitors that the online advertiser sees in sites displaying their [...]
Dragon Express Brings Dictation To Your Mac for $50
If you want to talk to your computer instead of type, but you don’t want to spend the full price for Dragon Dictate 2.0 for Mac, Nuance has a new app you should check out. The Dragon Express app is a new Mac app that brings dictation to your Mac for just $50. This new [...]
Notebook Gift Guide: The Best Notebooks, Netbooks and Ultrabooks to Give in 2011
Notebooks are an expensive item to add to a holiday wishlist, but for recipients who need a laptop for school or for a small business, this can be a very practical gift. It’s perfect for gift giving from a group of family members. This year’s gift guide includes the best notebooks, netbooks and ultrabooks we [...]
Alienware M17x Review
The new Alienware M17x has been revamped for 2011 with a new processor, a new look and other new technology that form an out of this world experience. As far as gaming notebooks go, there is rarely a time when we could turn up the settings even further to make a game look better, but [...]
Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 & Premiere Elements 10 in Mac App Store
The popular Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 and Premiere Elements 10 photo and video editing apps for consumers showed up in the Mac App Store this week for $79.99 each. That’s the going upgrade retail price for each app when purchased individually either at stores or from Adobe. However, if you buy them both in the [...]
Acer Giving Away Aspire S3 Ultrabook Every Day Until 2012
Do you like ultrabooks? Do you like Acer? Are you on Facebook? Then this is your lucky day (one of many). This week Acer started a new sweepstakes in which they’re giving away one of their new Aspire S3 ultrabooks to one person every day until December 31st. All you have to do is Like [...]
Why Apple Mac App Sandboxing is a Good Thing for Users
Apple announced that starting next March developers will have to sandbox their apps in order to get them into the Mac App Store. The concept of sandboxing means the app runs with only limited access to other parts of the operating system or other apps. In order to make it into the app store the [...]
HP 3115m Notebook is the Pavilion dm1 in Business Clothes
Though HP’s ProBooks and EliteBooks dominate the company’s business line, they also sometimes recast consumer notebooks for the enterprise set. The latest release is the HP 3115m, which is essentially the HP Pavilion dm1. The only major difference is that the 3115m has fewer configuration options. It’ll start at $429 and is available on November [...]
