Computer Hardware
May 7th, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Computer Hardware, Podcasting Hardware
Other World Computing announced today the availability of 802.11n WiFi Adapters that promise to let any Macintosh computer upgrade to 802.11n wireless connectivity via USB, PCMCIA, or PCI card options.
With 802.11n, indoor ranges of up to 220 feet (outdoor up to 500 feet) and performance of up to 300Mbps are possible — or up to [...]
Tags: Other World Computing, WiFi, wireless
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May 3rd, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Audio Podcasting, Computer Hardware, General, Podcasting Hardware
In the last year or so, everybody and their mother seems to have taken time off from the social media fad of the day to blog that podcasting is dead:
Information Week says podcasting is dead.
John Dvorak says podcasting is dead.
The Bioscience Education Journal says podcasting is dead.
PodShow thinks podcasting is dead, so it changed its [...]
Tags: Audio Podcasting, headphones, Podcasting, podcasting gear, podcasting mic
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Apr 28th, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Computer Hardware
Apple today updated iMac line with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors and the most powerful graphics ever available in an iMac.
The iMac now includes faster processors with 6MB L2 cache and a faster 1066 MHz front-side bus across the entire line, and 2GB of memory standard in most models. The 24-inch iMac now [...]
Tags: Apple, iMac
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Apr 11th, 2008 |
By Elisabeth Lewin |
Category: Computer Hardware, General, iPods & Portable Media Players
In a paper published in today’s issue of Science, a team at IBM’s research centre in San Jose, California, said they have developed a new type of digital storage which would enable a device such as an MP3 player to store about half a million songs - or 3,500 films - and cost far less [...]
Tags: flash, hard drive, IBM, iPod, mobile devices, MP3, racetrack memory, Science
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Mar 10th, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Computer Hardware, Digital Movie Store, Digital Music, Digital Video Downloads, Internet TV, Video
Much as the movie industry would like to avoid having Apple becoming the dominant digital vendor for digital movies as it has in the world of digital music, Apple is doing it anyway.
While the movie and television industry experiments with a bunch of incompatible standards and technologies, Apple has been inexorably putting together a video [...]
Tags: digital movie downloads, iTunes, Lionsgate, the future of cinema
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Mar 5th, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Computer Hardware
Rain Recording has introduced a new Windows digital audio workstation, Solstice Spider Edition.
Rain’s new audio + gaming workstation includes an AMD Phenom 9000 Series quad-core processor, the ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series GPU, and the AMD 7-Series chipset.
“Rain has seen the convergence of our audio workstations for the purpose of not only music production, but [...]
Tags: digital audio workstation, Podcasting Hardware, rain
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Feb 26th, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Computer Hardware
Apple today updated its MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook lines with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors, larger hard drives and 2GB of memory standard in most models. In addition, MacBook Pro includes the latest NVIDIA graphics processors, now with up to 512MB of video memory, and Apple’s Multi-Touch trackpad, first introduced in MacBook [...]
Tags: Apple, Computer Hardware, MacBook, Macbook Pro, Podcasting Hardware
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Jan 30th, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Computer Hardware, Digital Movie Store, Digital Video Downloads, Internet TV, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs
Apple today announced that MacBook Air is now shipping.
Apple also announced that the new Apple TV software update, which lets you rent high definition movies directly from your widescreen TV, is not quite finished. Apple now plans to make the free software download available in another week or two.
The update to Apple TV repositions the [...]
Tags: Apple, Apple TV, Internet video, iTunes, Macbook Air, movie downloads, the future of television
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Jan 15th, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Computer Hardware
Apple today introduced Time Capsule, a backup appliance that automatically and wirelessly backs up everything on one or more Macs running Leopard, the latest release of Apple’s Mac OS X operating system.
Time Capsule combines an 802.11n base station with a server grade hard disk in one small package. Time Capsule offers the benefits of a [...]
Tags: Airport Extreme, Apple, backup, Time Capsule, Time Machine, wireless
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Jan 15th, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Computer Hardware, General
Apple today unveiled MacBook Air at Macworld, which they describe as the world’s thinnest notebook.
MacBook Air measures 0.16-inches at its thinnest point, while its maximum height of 0.76-inches is less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks. MacBook Air has a 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen display, a full-size and backlit keyboard, a built-in iSight video camera [...]
Tags: Apple, Macbook Air, MacWorld, Macworld keynote, Steve Jobs
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