Archive for April, 2006

Boot Camp and a Windows Exodus

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

Ah, the quality journalism that is USA Today. Andrew Kantor writes a column for USA Today under the name “CyberSpeak” as if he’s the lone guy who still believes in the promise of The Lawnmower Man. In this particular column, he puts forth the idea that Boot Camp, beta software released by Apple to allow [...]

Xara Xtreme Graphics App Linux Source Released!

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

Xara, a kickass graphics application previously covered by slashdot, has gone open source and has just recently released their source code. Go over and grab the Linux bits and check out how fast and impressive this early port is. I’m still very much convinced that Xara will become the premiere vector application for Linux users. [...]

Apple’s Boot Camp Will Turn Gamers Into Switchers

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

Apple’s release of Boot Camp, which allows you to run Windows XP on Intel Macs, has a lot of people excited, but none more than gamers. Over the years, I’ve seen a lot of people make the jump from Windows to Mac and been extremely happy in doing so, but gamers as a group are [...]

When Companies Find Design Religion:
The Belkin Flip

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

There’s no shortage of companies in the computer industry that make ugly products. Belkin, which makes wifi routers and quite a bit more, was clearly in the plain to ugly category with most of it’s hardware in varying shades of grey and forms that couldn’t really be discerned from the competition. But, with the release [...]