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Macintosh Snow Leopard OS X Installation Disk

Apple’s latest Macintosh OS X will be released on August 28th, which is available for pre-order already.  For Leopard users you get to upgrade your OS X for a petite $29 dollars, with free shipping to boot. If you’ve recently purchased a Mac then you can get a discount to the already low price for the upgrade. If your purchase was made between June 8th to December 26th ‘09 then you can benefit from the Up-to-Date program that lets you upgrade your new mac for $9.95!! (continue reading…)

Once again, it’s time to start some marketing for the Zune. Every once in a while rivals companies Microsoft and Macintosh will release some ad’s for their magical  music playing devices,Microsoft Zune and the Apple iPod. While the iPod has the solid color/technicolor crazy moving background with moving silhouettes dancing around to some new hit single type of commercials, the Zune commercials really only have random spots showing off the product with different people.

Lets be honest here, how far has that taken them? (continue reading…)

Who want’s some good news regarding Windows 7??? (We do!)

Today, the big news surrounding Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is the release date. The Microsoft Corp. announced that Windows 7 will be released some time around the holiday season of 2009, anywhere between the middle of November or early December. (continue reading…)

While looking around Youtube today, I found two videos that made me forget that it is almost  impossible for me to get my own youtube channel off the ground.

The first video involves Apple slapping Windows around with an internet ad. It’s just like the TV ad’s, but only for your computer.

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A few days ago, Microsoft announced once Window’s 7 comes out, they will not be giving Vista the old heave-hoe. What was said by a spokeswomen was that “We have not made any final end-of-sales decisions for Windows Vista”. What was made clear was that once an operating system released, it is company policy to keep an OS in distribution for at least for years after its debut. So, since Vista was released back in January of 2007, it means that Vista will stick around until 2011. (continue reading…)

Hey guys, its my first blog post so I though I’d make it interesting ;). Apple has just released some info on their new OS X, Snow Leopard. At first looks it seems as if it’s just an addition to there current OS X, Leopard. Does the name hint at the future of it? I would have to say so. Snow Leopard isn’t getting all fancy-smanchy like with the jump from tiger to Leopard but instead will refine what great material they already have in front of them. (continue reading…)

Tux, The linux mascot

Many people really don’t know what Linux is but you will be surprised to know what it’s used for.  If you have TIVO you have used a specially written Linux kernel.  Roughly 75% of the internet websites that you visit use a Linux kernel as their operating system, In fact if you are reading this you are viewing this page on a server that is running CENTOS as it’s operating system.

Google is one of the largest websites that is known to use linux servers, everyone that is reading I’m sure has used google one time or another if it’s their email service or their web search engine, you have used google which is operated on linux servers. Linux has many uses other than just TIVO and websites It’s also used for many small devices that you use like your cell phone. The google GI smart phone is a well known device that is running a Linux kernel (Android) for a list of cell phones that are running linux click here.

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