Take Control of Snow Leopard
Two new books, Take Control of Upgrading to Snow Leopard and Take Control of Exploring & Customizing Snow Leopard, can help you get your machine up and running with Snow Leopard. Both titles are available as either PDF downloads or as printed books.
Skype Doubles Connection Fees For Some International Calls
Skype is the largest international phone company, so maybe they aren’t worried about losing customers as they prepare to double their rates to non-Skype lines.
Cyber Bullying Case Officially Dismissed for Vagueness
Lori Drew was convicted of “cyber bullying” when prosecutors argued that she had violated a website’s terms of service. U.S. District Judge George Wu felt the definition was too broad and would make millions of people criminals.
EnGenius Technologies Introduces 802.11n Wireless Router and USB Wireless Adapter
EnGenius Technologies released the ESR-9752, a long range wireless router, and the EUB-9706, a corresponding USB wireless adapter, built with 802.11n technology to handle busy home network traffic.
Sony to distribute Google browser
Sony’s Vaio PCs will include the Chrome browser under a new deal between Google and Sony.
Wikipedia Color-Codes for Credibility
Wikipedia is beginning to assign values to longevity. Authors/editors deemed to be more reliable, their edits have garnered fewer re-edits, will have their entries posted in different color from those deemed less reliable.
Toshiba U505-S2930 Laptop
While neither thin nor light-weight, this 13.3-inch laptop boasts a four-hour battery life while running the optical drive continuously engaged. Otherwise it has a 2-GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 4G of RAM, and screen resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels.
O’Reilly Webcast – Palm webOS: Application Basics
This is a free, hour-long webcast covering basic webOS application structures and including a demo of the core SDK developer tools presented by Mitch Allen, author of Palm webOS: The Insider’s Guide to Developing Applications in JavaScript using the Palm Mojo Framework.
Snow Leopard Users’ 4 Biggest Gripes
No operating system is without its issues. Snow Leopard, released Friday, has produced four major gripes including, if you’ve tinkered with your Mac’s hardware, Snow Leopard will find it.
New article: What to do if you’re overwhelmed by too much Yahoo Groups email
A number of our readers have written in, telling us that they love their Yahoo group, but when they looked at their email inboxes they were like…whoa! Too much email!
Read this Computing Unplugged article.
