I used to have a mutifunction HP printer. It did everything: Print, scan, copy, fax, iron the underwear. It worked pretty well, but after a while I grew annoyed with the print driver. It was a bit too fussy for my tastes. The bundled software wasn’t very impressive. I didn’t use the fax function at [...]
It seems Apple took some necessary resources away from the Leopard (OS X 10.5) team in order to get the eagerly-awaited iPhone ready for prime time. Now the official word from Apple is that the next version of OS X won’t hit the streets until October. I’d rather Apple get Leopard right, rather than ship [...]
Wall Street Journal tech journalist Walt Mossberg has called attention to the annoying “craplets” that many PC manufacturers install on their computers. Craplets are swarming, gnat-like trialware and adware applications that bring system startup to a crawl as they load. Mossberg noted that his new Sony Vaio came with 24 craplets installed. As you can [...]
This is of interest primarily to non-students, because we lucky students already get a 40% discount.
Circus Ponies is holding a one-day sale on NoteBook, which Scott Palmer reviewed here in September. If you’ve been hankerin’ to buy NoteBook, but are operating on a shoestring budget, today might be the day to take the plunge. To [...]
My first final of the spring semester arrives in a month. Yipes! Something tells me I’ll be studying into the wee hours quite a bit for the next six weeks. I prefer to study at home rather than in the library most of the time. While there are fewer distractions in the library, there’s also [...]
