Category: Apple
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Strong iPhone 3G-S sales
Steve Jobs is rejoicing: It seems that Apple already sold more than 1 million iPhone 3G-S (the new Apple mobile phone) in the first 5 days after its launch.
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Safari 4, fast new browser
Apple is not only delivering sleek computer designs and nice little mobile phones. They are also producing a good web browser: Safari. It’s new version, Safari 4, is just out. Faster, still as good and powerful, but Apple is now claiming the crown for the “fastest” web browser. It could well be possible when Snow…
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Your OS passwords are not safe
You choose your passwords as the most sophisticated and the strongest as you understand the importance to protect your computer. But did you know that this is nearly useless? A few commands and here is your safe password replaced or removed by a mere user, by your youngest nephew. On Windows, it’s enough to use…
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10 things Linux does better than Windows
I found this nice article of the same title (“10 things Linux does better than Windows“) on TechRepublic.com. I found it interesting because I could not really find all 10 of them. Will you be able to list all of them? TCO (Total Cost of Ownership): Linux is less expensive in an enterprise because of…
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Wallpapers: Quality photos
It is always more pleasant to work with a nice wall paper on your PC (or Mac) desktop. Here are two interesting source sof beautiful wallpapers based on photographic quality images: dozens of nature-oriented images (including some cartoons) on UsingMac.com; ligthning and storms (15 images). Downright spectacular.
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OpenOffice.org 3.0: Your free replacement for MS-Office 2007
OpenOffice.org 3.0 arrives and this is important. As a matter of fact, the free desktop suite (as interesting as the MS-Office suite) shift in high gear. The new features are quite noticeable: Support of MS-Office 2007 format for documents OOo 3.0 is now compatible with Mac OS X New multi-page mode in Writer Several users…
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Photoshop CS4 vs. The Gimp v2.6
Newsrooms are full of weird coincidences. For example, we just learned that two products often presented as direct competition were launched this Fall. To my right, here is Adobe with its boxing champion, Photoshop, loaded up to version CS4. To my left, Linux and its community of free developpers pushing the challenger on the ring,…
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Chrome is not a browser
How could we ignore the launch of Chrome, the new browser from Google? Every is babbling about it, everybody tried it (it can be downloaded here). But after one test run, I believe that I should explain something. Yes, this is a marvellous browser because it takes most of the good things from FireFox, Opera…
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36-hour autonomy for the iPhone
or how to ensure the best possible battery autonomy of an iPhone: 36 hours of operation. As a matter of fact, the iPhone battery seems to be its weak point as it seems. But Guy Kawasaki explains us that -for the best part- it comes from some options that eat a lot of power (WiFi,…