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The Best Free and Open Source Apps for Mac Users and Mac Switchers

A couple of days ago, I met an old friend of mine who just got his hands on a brand new Mac and, after about half an hour of showing the ins and outs of the machine, he asked me why the Mac community has so few free applications. If he had known that I would start writing down every piece of free and/or open source s...

31 July 2008
11:14 GMT

How Touch Switches Work

Most of the switches used today in electronic devices are flipped through a mechanical action. Even the almighty digital computer is still relying on one. Mechanically activated switches however have the disadvantage that they are easily damaged by dirt, excessive moisture or physical mistreatment. So in the last two...

12 June 2008
09:26 GMT

Developer Drawn to Mac After 18 Years of Using Windows

I wrote a piece a while ago entitled "Once an Apple Fan, Always an Apple Fan." Here's something to back that up. The MacDailyNews tells a story about a "Longtime Microsoft Windows developer" who "switched to Apple Mac." And for good reason(s) too. Check it out!"I have been a Windows user and software developer s...

8 April 2008
08:47 GMT

D-Link's Green Switches Know How Long the Network Cables Are

D-Link has announced a "green" update to its small- and medium-business Gigabit Ethernet technology that comes with reduced power requirements. The energy efficiency is due to an intelligent algorithm of cutting down on power output levels at no compromise on operational performance and functionality. The D-Link DGS-...

29 February 2008
11:36 GMT

Fulcrum Brings 10 Gb Ethernet Speed

More and more chipset manufacturers include at least one Ethernet connection to go with a trendy motherboard. This is not much more expensive than a regular 10/100 Mbps card and, if necessary, it can be purchased separately should you need more than your motherboard can offer. Nvidia and Intel are only two of the pla...

30 November 2007
10:10 GMT

D-Link's Green Ethernet Switches

D-Link announced the launch of a new range of end-to-end networking products that are aimed at being more environmentally friendly while providing a high quality of service. The D-Link's Green Ethernet desktop switches are intended to be used by home users and small businesses and offices and they offer importan...

28 September 2007
08:27 GMT

Top 3 Reasons Why Most Vista Users Won't Switch to Linux

You've just installed Vista OS on your PC that came equipped with 1 or 1,5 GB of RAM a year ago and you noticed your system isn't running as fast as it was when it ran the XP version of Windows. What can you do? The thing that every Vista user out there has done at least once: you go to the store and buy yo...

31 August 2007
16:42 GMT

Broadcom's Next Generation of Network Switches

Broadcom Corporation announced the launch of a new generation of wired networking devices, the Gigabit Ethernet switches that are built using the 65 nanometer fabrication process based on a CMOS compatible technology. The networking equipment manufacturing company developed the StrataXGS 200 series which is intended ...

30 August 2007
08:47 GMT

A Computer Geek's Dream

There are some computer users out there (unfortunately I am not one of them) that have at their disposal multiple computer systems for a variety of reasons. Most of them find it really hard to jump from one workstation to the next, especially since the more machines you have, the more of a problem becomes the space t...

28 July 2007
03:49 GMT

Making the Switch from XP to Vista

These are the questions that popped up into my mind from the very moment I had my first encounter with Microsoft's new operating system: 'Why should I use Vista instead of XP?' 'Is there something that makes it better than the previous Microsoft OS?'Until a few days ago, I have never wanted t...

27 July 2007
11:38 GMT

Switch or Router?

Browsing the network forums on the Internet I came across lots of stupid questions and even more stupid answers. At one point a "networkly retarded" guy (these are his own words) was asking for some help for choosing between a hub, a switch or a router in order to connect the two computers he had to the Internet with...

28 April 2007
08:38 GMT

An Entire Californian School District Is Saying 'Good-Bye Windows, Hello Linux!'

The Windsor Unified School District in Northern California will switch their servers and desktops from Microsoft Windows to Novell SUSE Linux. By this summer, all 5,000 students and 250 teachers will be working off of a Linux-based thin client running OpenOffice.org, while the majority of the Californian district...

3 March 2007
00:53 GMT

Daily, 9,000 People Go Mac. Will You Be Among Them?

At the moment, the global IT market is PC-dominated, and probably will stay this way a long time from now. However, Apple has made substantial progress by providing customers with high-quality hardware and software products that challenge quite a bit the competition. However, numbers are a huge draw-back for the Cup...

2 March 2007
10:47 GMT




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