Category: News
8 Things I Hate About Windows 8
I installed Windows 8 Consumer Preview today and tested it out on my MacBook Pro via Parallels. If you own Parallels you can easily do the same by creating a new machine in the Parallels wizard. It includes the Windows 8 Consumer Preview as one of the optional operating systems. After using the consumer preview [...]
moshi iGlaze MacBook Air Hardshell Case Review: My New Favorite
The moshi iGlaze hardshell MacBook Air cover is my new favorite MacBook Air case. While moshi isn’t a household name, the iGlaze is a great case and the company makes many cases for Apple and other notebooks. The moshi iGlaze hardshell MacBook Air cover looks really nice, adds almost no weight or thickness and protects [...]
WaterField Designs CitySlicker Case for Protects MacBook Air With Distressed Leather
WaterField Designs came out with a new Apple MacBook Air case called CitySlicker. This urban MacBook Air case offers a nice custom distressed leather flap in one of four colors that covers the top of their signature ballistic nylon fabric. The case doesn’t just look nice, with that old-world frontier look, it protects the MacBook [...]
AMD Trinity A-Series APU Boasts Power and Battery Life
AMD’s second-generation APU called Trinity, is the company’s new take on low-power high-performance processors. Trinity will make its first appearance in the HP SleekBook and other sleek and slim notebooks. You won’t find the AMD Trinity APU inside an Ultrabook, as that trademark is owned by Intel, but sleek & slim notebooks are starting to [...]
ThinkPad X1 Carbon: 14 inch Ultrabook for Business
The new ThinkPad X1 Carbon takes the design of the ThinkPad X1, which we loved, and bumps the screen up to a mainstream 14-inch. The X1 Carbon might possibly be the best business notebook we’ve seen so far as it addresses many of the tradeoffs users must typically make when trading in a typical business [...]
Samsung Series 7 CHRONOS 17-inch Desktop Replacement Launches
The Samsung Series 7 CHRONOS notebook marries a 17-inch monitor and the latest 3rd generation Intel Core i7 processor and the NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M GPU for a desktop replacement notebook that doesn’t break your back, though it might put a pain in your wallet. The new Samsung Series 7 CHRONOS notebook has a 17.3 inch 1080P [...]
MacBook Pro Ivy Bridge Benchmarks Leak, Point to Coming Refresh
If you’ve waited for a new MacBook Pro refresh to ship, then the wait could get shorter if a pair of benchmarks and a rumor about thinner machines prove legitimate. According to “trusted sources in Apple’s supply chain” the refreshed MacBook Pro models will include a thinner chassis and higher resolution displays, not to mention [...]
New Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Available on Mac App Store
Adobe released the new Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4, its popular and newly updated photo editing and organizing tool, in the Mac App Store. They released their consumer focused Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements at a nice $20 discount over the retail box price of those two apps, but this time around the Mac App Store version [...]
Apple Beefs Up Security in OS X and Safari with Updates
Apple introduced a security flaw in OS X 10.7.3, but a new software update being pushed out over Software Update fixes this flaw. The new OS X 10.7.4 update is available as a free update to all OS X Lion users. Apple also shipped a new version of their web browser Safari that now checks your [...]
Microsoft Updates Office for Windows and Mac with Important Security Fixes
Microsoft just patched their Word 2003 and 2007 for Windows and Office 2008 for Mac and Office 2012 for Mac to fix what they called “extremely important issues”. These security patches will bring your version of Office for Mac 2008 to 12.3.3 or Office for Mac 2011 to 14.2.2. Microsoft explained that the security flaw [...]
