Author Archive: Amy
HP ProBook 6455B: Business Notebook for the Smart Commuter
The HP ProBook 6455B business notebook is part of the HP ProBook B series spring refresh which brings many new features to make it more user friendly; billing the ProBook 6455B as a “Smart Commuter” notebook. Essentially, HP is working to make our business lives on a notebook as easy as working on our home PCs. [...]
HP Teams up with AMD on New Notebooks
Several of the new HP ProBook, Envy, Pavilion and Compaq notebooks announced today will feature AMD technology. Fourteen of the new consumer and business notebooks will be available with AMD processors. HP’s chosen high-end ATI GPUs with switchable graphics and Eyefinity for its premium Envy notebooks. We’re used to seeing AMD processors offered as an option in [...]
Adobe CEO fires back on Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs wrote an open letter yesterday explaining his thoughts on Adobe Flash. The bottom line? Flash crashes Macs. ”Flash was created during the PC era for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about [...]
Counterpoint: Microsoft Sticks with HTML 5 vs Flash
We have been watching the ever escalating war between Adobe and Apple over using Adobe Flash vs HTML5. Right now, its looking like Apple is winning their argument, and the world is shifting to HTML5 as a video viewing standard. Web sits across the board, including Facebook and YouTube, are already converting their videos. And [...]
Gadgets for Mother’s Day
With Mother’s Day just around the corner, its time once again to answer that age old question your father asks, ” What should I get your mother for Mother’s Day this year?” I think every child goes through this year after year. What is worse than this? Well, what if you are a techie and [...]
WinX DVD Ripper- free Mac version, plus Platinum version giveway
We have turned into a multimedia consuming public. We cant wait to get our hands on music, video, and books. So much so, that we tend to create our own digital versions of DVDs when its not available on YouTube, Hulu, or Netflix. We “rip” our own movie DVDs for us to consume on all [...]
AMD announces Phenom II X6
This week, AMD announced their new Phenom II X6 CPU, 890FX Chipset, and ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series video cards. What makes this next generation of processor and video cards a cut above the rest? A new 6 core CPU, a first for consumers from AMD. The new processor is a 6 core CPU that [...]
Preview for Adobe Flash Player 10.1 for Mac OS X available
Christmas has come early for Mac users. Adobe wants you to see what Adobe Flash Player 10.1 looks like on your Mac. According to Mac Rumors, Adobe has released a preview release of the 10.1 Flash Player for Mac OS X that supports H.264 video hardware decoding on Mac OS X 10.6.3. Hardware video decoding allows [...]
Mac OS X v 10.7 will not have an App Store
Right now, Apple developers are testing version 10.6.4 of the Mac OS X operating system. But, there is already a lot of discussion about version 10.7, not due out until sometime next year. The biggest speculation was the idea of a Mac App store being built into the operating system, which would only allow the [...]
Facebook transcodes video for iPad
Flash is just not doing well when it comes to Apple. With no Flash support in site, there was lots of speculation on what would happen with Facebook. There are LOTs of videos on the popular social networking site, so how was anyone going to view them, especially if they wanted to use their new [...]
