Sep 5, 2007 | Apple, audio, hardware, Microsoft, video
Apple demonstrated again today that it can run circles around everyone else with its handheld devices. There will be lots of news coverage of the updates to the iPod line – here’s one article, here’s photos, and here’s an exhaustive rundown of...
Aug 15, 2007 | backup, broadband, hardware, network
Very small businesses frequently depend on computer systems with several potential failure points, where a single failure can cause the network to go down for an uncomfortable length of time.Many small businesses – many of my clients – depend on a single...
Jul 4, 2007 | hardware, software
You’ve heard me complain about things that don’t work – programs that are badly written, hardware that breaks, things that conflict in mysterious, unreproducible ways, USB devices that suddenly aren’t recognized, devices that work on one...
Apr 26, 2007 | backup, computers, hardware, Home_Server, Microsoft, network
I’ve mentioned Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Home Server appliance before, but it bears repeating – this has the potential to define a new category of home appliance that will be more interesting than you expect. It’s hard for you to imagine why...
Apr 23, 2007 | hardware, software
Here’s a blog item that we can all sympathize with, written by a Microsoft employee. “Why can’t it ‘just work’?… “(subtitled – Isn’t technology supposed to be making our lives easier? Simpler? Less complicated?)...
Apr 10, 2007 | hardware, video
Here’s an article that describes the struggle to involve a computer in the living room, delivering photos, music and movies. The struggle is not going well. Hewlett Packard just announced that it is ending development of its Digital Entertainment Center line of...
