PC Weenies Interview
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An Interview with Krishna M. Sadasivam
Cartoonist, “The PC Weenies”
March 28, 2006
March 27, 2006
A Special Widget Gift for my Listeners
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Folks Paul Stamatiou from www.paulstamatiou.com programmed a super cool Widget that I want to give all of you. This widget will let you see my blog entries, subscribe to the podcast and even vote on on Podcast Alley
I hope you enjoy it and use it often. Thanks to Paul for programming this for me. Click on the picture to download the zip file. Enjoy it
March 22, 2006
Apple MacBook Pro Fastest Core Duo Laptop on the Market
The Register recently released some benchmarks showing that a 2.16 GHz Core Duo MacBook Pro is the fastest Core Duo laptop currently available.
“The site measured the 2.16GHz Core Duo-based MacBook Pro running through a series of Windows XP-native Photoshop CS2 scripts in 1m 10s - better than a 1.66GHz Core Duo-based Mac Mini (1m 56s) and a 2GHz Core Duo-based iMac (1m 25s). You’d expect that kind of difference given the different CPU speed grades.However, the site links to a set of tests carried out by PC Magazine on an array of Wintel Core Duo notebooks from Dell, Lenovo, Acer and Gateway. Only one came close: the Acer, with a score of 1m 11s; the others generated scores of 1m 52s to 1m 55s, all slower than the iMac.”
So this show that Apple knows what they’re doing when it comes to the hardware.
Read More here
Contributing Editor: Steven Goetz
March 21, 2006
Tom Bihn Bag Review
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Mary Reviews Tom Bihn Bags
Links Mentioned during the show
March 19, 2006
Altun Ha Sound Scene Tour
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Links Mentioned During the Show
You can see pictures from the Altun-Ha Pyamids in my Flckr page
The Foto Maya Site where the music you heard (Maplas Sojuel) came from
Here is a link to the Muir Woods Sounc Scene Tour I did last year.
March 18, 2006
You can boot Windows XP on a Mac
Blanka and Narf have won the prize of $13,854 for figuring out how to boot Windows XP on a iMac Core Duo. People have successfully installed and booted Windows on all Intel Macs available on the market.
This could be a great tool for those people who would like to use OS X, but still need to run the odd Windows application.
The next step will be what’s called virtualization, which would be able to run Windows apps inside of OSX without very much of a speed hit. The holy grail would be the ability to run Windows Apps seamlessly inside Mac OS X. Like used to happen with Classic apps inside OS X.
For more information check out http://onmac.net
Contributing Editor: Steven Goetz
Frappr Spam, This is a new Low
Well it was bound to happen. Today I got an email with the tittle Stripper wants to join your Frappr Friend Map
Sure enough I went to the Frppr site to see who this “Stripper was” (see picture below). Sure enough it said she was a college student “Web Developer.” Her Frappr Map was full of her “Friends,” all were porno site and pictures.
Believe me I’m no prude, but dam. . .Is nothing sacred
March 14, 2006
How Do You Like Them Apples
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Links Mentioned during the show
iSlayer’s great iStat Pro Widget
Paul Stamatiou Blog and Widget
March 7, 2006
I’m Back!
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Links Mentioned
Kevin Devin and In The Trenches
Chuckchat Technorama
Mark Sheppard’s email addres marksheppard11@gmail.com
Teleport
Captain FTP
Cyber Duck
March 1, 2006
Apple announces new products
On February 28th 2006 Apple announced three new products, two of them were iPod related and the third was a updated Macintosh.
First, the Mac Mini was updated to include the new Intel platform.
The Specs:
For $599
- 1.5GHz Intel Core Solo processor
- 2MB L2 Cache
- 667MHz Frontside Bus
- 512MB memory (667MHz DDR2 SDRAM)
- 60GB Serial ATA hard drive
- Combo drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW)
- Built-in AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth 2.0
- Apple Remote
For $799
- 1.66GHz Intel Core Duo processor
- 2MB L2 Cache
- 667MHz Frontside Bus
- 512MB memory (667MHz DDR2 SDRAM)
- 80GB Serial ATA hard drive
- Double-layer SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
- Built-in AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth 2.0
- Apple Remote
They also released the iPod Hi-Fi
It’s basically a speaker system for your iPod. It will retail with $349. Alot of after market accesories manufacturers (like Bose) might be a little angry about this.
Lastly,
they announced new leather cases for the 5G iPod and the iPod Nano. they are $99 which frankly, I think is far too expensive for a simple case.
they announced new leather cases for the 5G iPod and the iPod Nano. they are $99 which frankly, I think is far too expensive for a simple case.
Contributing Editor: Steven Goetz
