Today Apple, Inc. released a brand new addition to their MacBook product line dubbed “MacBook Air”. This beautiful laptop is being toted as “the worlds thinest notebook” computer and is, like all of Apple’s products, an absolutely beautiful machine. Unfortunately, while I can see why people would want to own this machine, I can’t understand why anyone in their right mind would purchase it over it’s equivalently priced companion the MacBook. Click here to read more »

It’s no secret that I’m no a fan of Microsoft. In fact, I’d go as far as to say that I hate the company. And it’s not just because I’m an Apple Fanboy. Oh no, I hated the company before I saw the light and switched to Macs. It just seems to me like they do everything wrong. Everything except their gaming devision, which has somehow managed to turn the Xbox 360 into the only next-gen console I’ve purchased or even care about purchasing. I recently had an epiphany that changed my original opinion of the consoles lack of out-of-the-box HD-DVD support.

I’m as big a fan of HD content as the next geek, but I don’t own an HD television. Because I do not, I wasn’t super disappointed long ago when it was announced the the Xbox 360 Click here to read more »

Have you ever been driving in your car, listening to the radio, or watching a movie and heard a song you really liked, but had no clue what the artist or song title was? Well, if you had a jailbroken iPhone you wouldn’t have to wonder. Thanks to a new iPhone application released today called “Listen”, it would only take about 5 seconds to figure it out.

The idea of the application is simple. Hear a song that you’d like identified, launch the application and hold your phone up to the audio source, a little abracadabra, and out pops the track information for the playing song.

I’ve heard of similar services offered in other phones, but this if the first time I’ve had the opportunity to see it in action. I’ve tested it out on a few tracks and it works really well. Though I don’t have a whole lot of use for the service, it is pretty fun to play around with. Click here to read more »

I am, and have been,  a huge fan of the concept behind the Netflix service. I love the ability to pay a reasonable fee every month to be able to watch as many movies as I’d like. The problem for me is that I don’t truly have access to the 90,000 titles that are offered. I really only have access to the three movies delivered from the top of my queue. This all may change with the introduction of the Netflix set-top box.

If I was hanging out alone every night I might be able to jump through my queue without any hiccups, however, I spend most of my time with my girlfriend or hanging out with Click here to read more »

Once upon a time, I was the proud owner of a legacy PowerMac G5. The machine was my baby and I loved it. Unfortunately, one morning it exploded (and I mean literally shot flames out of it’s back) and I had to replace it with an Intel Mac mini. Now while I love the little guy, I bought it while a little strapped for cash and decided to opt for only one gig of ram.

While that may be enough ram for day to day usage, it was hardly adequate for doing work that heavily relied on Photoshop and other resource intensive applications. A guy can only take so many 3 second hands from clicking the Text tool in photoshop before he starts to go mad. I decided that after the holidays were over I was going to upgrade. I shared the plan with Anita, the girl I’ve been seeing, and she awesomely decided to surprise me with a 2GB Mac Mini ram kit as an early Christmas present. Click here to read more »