Hilarious, old Apple commercial

Hilarious, old Apple commercial
This old Apple ad is just great - showing the differences between PC and Apple laptops back in the days (DOS vs monochrome but graphical interface) set on an airport. Gotta love the line "I know seven languages but I don't understand this!".

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Moto exec has hissyfit over iPhone question

Moto exec has hissyfit over iPhone question
Motorola's European marketing director Simon Thompson is bored of the iPhone question. Alert the media!

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VirtueDesktop -- The End :-(

VirtueDesktop -- The End :-(
Well, the developer is stopping development for now.
All I have to say is that he did a great job - hope someone takes over the project.

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Hardening OS X - A more secure OS X before Leopard.

Hardening OS X - A more secure OS X before Leopard.
I've made a how-to from tips by Jay Beale on the last DEFCON Security conference and some own security tweaks to improve the overall security of your OS X. Make sure some default settings that can allow for vulnerabilities are set properly, and tune your firewall rules. A more advanced follow-up is coming soon.

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Apple may have trouble selling 10 million Phones in 2008

Apple may have trouble selling 10 million Phones in 2008
According to Forbes, it may not be as easy to sell ten million iPhones in 2008 as Apple hopes, both because of Apple's strategy and because the market it has to compete in isn't as large as Steve Jobs alluded to in his January keynote.

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Free UC Berkeley Courses via Video and Podcast (Essential Classes)

Free UC Berkeley Courses via Video and Podcast (Essential Classes)
UC Berkeley has made available great courses (some by streamed video, others by podcast) that you can access for free. You'll find here many essential/core courses: Physics for Future Presidents, US History, General Psychology, Intro to Computers, General Biology, Intro to Statistics, European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present, etc

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Where OS X 'Big Cat' code names REALLY come from

Where OS X 'Big Cat' code names REALLY come from
OK, so imagine this: You're Apple Computer, Inc. and it's December 1997. You've just blocked British Mac-clone maker Shaye from licensing Mac OS 8, thereby putting it pretty much out of luck for new products. Still, there's something kind of catchy about Shaye's branding... something vaguely feline: Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard...

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