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02 May, 2008

Logic Express 8 for Mac

Posted by: Jason Burns In: Mac| Music

I have been recording music for a long time. If I trace my roots it goes back to trying to write stuff on an old 486 with a Roland MT-32, recording it to a tape deck in a home stereo, then using split cables and another stereo to bounce tracks together.
When I first [...]

Correct me if I am wrong, but every human has an innate ability to estimate the worth of a ham sandwich. I mean, if someone handed you one, and you were from Albania, and had been here for two days……even with your sketchy idea of the conversion rate, you probably wouldn’t think it costs $12. [...]

18 Apr, 2008

Safari, the browser hijacker?

Posted by: Jason Burns In: Mac| Tech News| Windows

I know I posted this before, but I was leaving a comment on an article today and I feel compelled to blog my comment…
@MasterofOpera.. you WANT Quicktime? Wow…. I blogged about this awhile back, now admittedly, I work for Microsoft, so I will probably get smacked for being totally uncredible, but I do carry a [...]

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07 Apr, 2008

Mac users give Mac a bad name….

Posted by: Jason Burns In: Mac

Net4Mac.com, a new social networking site for Mac users (as if that wasn’t a bad enough business model as it is, decided that supporting IE at all is just pointless.
Now I don’t know if it’s not supported because their web devs are too lazy to make it happen, unable to manage it from a tech [...]

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06 Apr, 2008

Microsoft vs. Apple: The Zero-Days Patch Showdown?

Posted by: Jason Burns In: Computing| Mac| Windows

My co-worker Steve sent me this tonight and I wanted to scrape some of it to display, I think this is just way too important to let get looked over because it’s not running on MSNBC.com or something….
Computerworld.com: Microsoft vs. Apple: Who patches zero-days faster?
Excerpt:
Apple’s teasing commercials that imply its software is safer than Microsoft’s [...]

On my main machine I had installed Safari for Windows for testing purposes. Knowing that, I was not surprised when Apple’s update software alerted me that 3.1 was available for download. I updated and all was right with the world.
I saw update pop up on my wife’s machine this week and noticed Safari in the [...]

So you just plopped down $1,000+ on one of the latest hip digital SLR cameras. You got hooked on taking photos and on your next trip to the camera store, or bhphotovideo.com if you are smart, and burned up your plastic for another $1,000 in a nicer lens, tripod and flash. You ate up [...]



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