Tag: OS
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Apple Watch Event “Spring Forward”
Just like almost everyone in the technology world and beyond, I spent time watching the liveblog of the Apple Watch event a few days ago. First things first, the new 12″ MacBook looks great. It fits in great with the current product line, and it will be a great replacement for my MacBook Pro 17,…
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HTC First Facebook Home Android Smartphone: Facebook All the Time!
After a long period of speculation, we finally know about the “Facebook phone”. In fact, it’s not really a dedicated Facebook phone at all, but a custom build of Android which has a special Facebook home screen. While I’m no power-Facebook user, I can imagine that people using Facebook a lot will enjoy this new offering. Read…
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StormFly – A Bootable Operating System in a Wristband
If you don’t like dragging your laptop around, because of the weight or just because it’s too big, then StormFly offers you a stylish alternative. StormFly is supposed to have a bootable OS built-into this wristband, so that users can have an entire OS without disturbing the settings of others. Read more @ GeekAlerts
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Keon Firefox OS Smartphone: Orange Phone, Freshly Squeezed
While Chrome is fast and stable, I like using Firefox because of some of the specific extensions and plugins that work with it. If you still love Firefox, then you’ll love the fact that Mozilla has just announced a Developer Preview Phone that will come with the lightweight Firefox OS, which is still being developed.…
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Why This Mac User Is Excited About Windows 8
There’s been a lot of chatter about Windows 8 in the last two weeks, even though Microsoft hasn’t yet announced the official release date of their next OS (current tech insider information predicts a Q4 2012 release). If you’re wondering what all the hoopla is all about (and even this Mac user is feeling anticipation…
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OS X Lion Coming to a USB Drive Near You
I have been playing around with OS X Lion on my MacBook Pro for the last few days, and naturally I also upgraded my wife’s computer to the latest edition. But for the people who don’t or can’t download OS X Lion from the Mac App Store, there’s good news, as it will be coming…
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Xi3 ChromiumPC Runs Chrome OS in a Tiny Box
From some reason, I like small desktop computers, not that I have one, but I find the concept useful and want to have them everywhere so that I can slave them into some kind of personal mini-botnet. The ChromiumPC is a modular computer and is the first “desktop” designed to run Google’s Chrome OS. Read…
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Fringe Os S03E16 (Fox)
It’s fitting that this show will premiere on Fox, since this was the network of the X-Files. Fringe has got much in common with the X-Files, yet it is different. Fringe is the latest show of wunderkind J.J. Abrams. Like most new shows, the pilot was leaked on the internet a few weeks ago. Just…