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When does your day start, before or after coffee? There’s no better gift than a great way to begin your dad or grad’s day. Starbucks, in addition to offering a world class selection of sustainably harvested and traded coffees, also …
The battle for the entry-level image and video editing markets is hot and Adobe, faced with able sub-$50 competitors, is staying in the fight with big discounts on Photoshop Elements, Premiere Elements or a bundle of the two. However you …
Google Search is useful and many of us it dozens of times a day. Whereas search results are generally spot on, clicking or copying one of those links doesn’t get you the true URL, but rather an indirect one generated …
Suitable for digital framing and/or a place of pride on your coffee table. What exactly does one do with a digital only version of a special commemorative magazine? Dad used to hide memorable editions of the newspaper in the storage …
Increasingly, hotels and conference centers only offer wifi internet connectivity. That is certainly good vis-a-vis convenience until you run into the all-too-common one device per connection limit. Yes, hotels et al will be glad to charge you again and again …
Why did hackers create the Flashback trojan and systematically seek out and infect more than 600,000 Macs? Of course, they did it for profit and it was speculated hackers could be making $10,000 a day from the resulting botnet. Intentions, …
Like a lot of Apple decisions, dropping the open source SMB (a.k.a. Samba) for its own proprietary SMBX has produced a mixed bag of loathing and love. Yes, SMB was being moved to the restrictive GPL 3 license, obviating it …
As Perian begins its slow farewell comes news that world’s best loved open-source media player has hit an important milestone — one billion downloads. The odd things about the story is that VideoLAN, the group behind VLC Media Player, didn’t …
Can you imagine Steve Jobs chatting with US Houser Speaker John Boehner? How about being photographed with the nation’s top Republican? I can’t quite get my head around the idea, though current CEO Tim Cook did just that on Tuesday …
