Free iPod may not be a scam

Everyone knows about the get a free iPod nonsense. Most of the claims are fake but the Electronic Playground has found two that we have tried out and found out was real. Our new iPod came 5 days later:

(The link is under the video)

The link that is to the right of the video

www.xpango.com-ref=91503480

The products we ordered where brand new, came with warrantee, official documents and the companies seal was not damaged.  The web site offers High Definition Televisions, Cell Phones, iPods, mp3 players, Playstation 3, Xbox 360, PSP, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo Wii. So go ahead and get your free stuff

Free iPod may not be a scam

Everyone knows about the get a free iPod nonsense. Most of the claims are fake but the Electronic Playground has found two that we have tried out and found out was real. Our new iPod came 5 days later:

(The link is under the video)

The link that is to the right of the video

www.xpango.com-ref=91503480

The products we ordered where brand new, came with warrantee, official documents and the companies seal was not damaged.  The web site offers High Definition Televisions, Cell Phones, iPods, mp3 players, Playstation 3, Xbox 360, PSP, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo Wii. So go ahead and get your free stuff

Mac vs Windows

v Mac V Vista which one to pick. Well first how safe is it. Well look at these Graph:

Well this was a easy one mac is more safe. Sorry I mean Windows Vista is.

The next thing I looked at was it’s ease of use. This one was difficult. For someone who is familiar with a mac will think mac is easy to use. But for someone like me who is familiar with a pc  I would say Vista is was more easy to use. So it depends who you are. But Vista is easy to use with a laptop because it has flip 3-d to switch windows instead of having to use a small annoying mouse pad to get to switch programs. Mac has something like that called expose or something like that but you still have to use the mouse pad.

Now we have to look at the amount of programs. Windows has 10 times more programs so rock on windows. But that also means more viruses.

Now how many games do mac and windows have. Well for some reasion the amount of games for a mac is low really low and it seems to be decresing eventhough it’s growing popularity the amount of games is going down. It is now time to find out how much entertanment program is incluidedwith the os. Apple wins that competitoin.

Now we are going to look at the gui here are some photos:

Mac:

Windows:

Personally I like the way windows locks. You get bored of the Mac one after about 2 weeks.Personally I prefer Windows

Thin Air

The arrival of the MacBook Pro and the MacBook in 2006 meant the demise of the 12-inch Power-Book G4. Since that, fans of small, light laptops have been hoping that one day Apple would come out with a Mac that is lighter and smaller than the 13-inch MacBook. Apple has fulfilled those hopes with the release of the MacBook Air.

Making a laptop that measures less than an inch thick and weighs three pounds requires a compromise. What makes  MacBook Air different than other thin-and-light notebooks is what Apple has chosen to compromise. The Electronic Playground will answer your questions about the MacBook Air .

 

What will hapen in the next 12 months?

After, weeks of research and thinking I have finally came out with my technology forecast. Personally I think the most difficult thing to predict is games. Gamers are changing their minds all of the time about what are “killer games”

 

 

Things are looking good for Sony for the next twelve months, but not so good for Nintendo and Microsoft. Due to expected price cuts for the Playstation 3 I’m expecting a huge increase in Playstation 3 sales. I also expect lots more games to come out for the console. You can expect Wii sales to decrease due to less games going to come out for the Wii and because people are finding better consoles for the Wii. The Xbox 360 will have sales starting to drop because of the amount of problems with the console and very little desirability right now. PSP sales will continue to increase, due to price cuts and lots of games said to be coming out. Nintendo Ds sales will just simply drop by June because of NO good games planed for the console. Playstation 2 sales will drop because of not many good games coming out for the console. Sadly 2008 may be he last year of life for the Playstation 2. All good things must sadly come to an end.

 

Mac os x Leopard sales will increase just because Leopard is a great operating system. Vista sales will slowly increase because just about all the bugs have been fixed. The reason Vista sales will be slowly increasing because some people will be waiting for Windows 7 that may come out in late 2008 or early 2009. I also expect more viruses to be made for Leopard because so much people are using it.

 

I expect iPhone sales to increase because of huge demand and because it will come out in Canada before the end of 2008.

 

 

That’s all I have to predict about 2008 and like all years it will be a exciting year for all computer users.

Introuducing Windows Vista…the worlds most secure o.s.

No, you are not reading wrong. Windows Vista has been rated the worlds most secure operating system by the most respected tech geeks, Microsoft, Norton and even Apple. You are probably wondering if Windows Vista has so many viruses how is it the worlds most secure operating system? I have a very good explanation. Windows Vista has more market share than all mac’s combined. Wouldn’t it be more pleasing than to attack Windows Vista. If Mac’s had most of the market share wouldn’t it be more pleasurable to attack a mac. You must be getting the point. Lets look at things on the mac side now. The new operating system, Os x Leopard has the firewall dissabled by default (that’s the dummist thing i’ve heard since a little kid told me the sky was falling) which leaves the system with the same level of protection that Windows xp 2p1 gave you. But, even with the firewall on you only get a Windows xp sp2 level of protection. Norton says Leopard was a downgrade in security. Norton also warned mac users to be careful on the web. With the increase of mac, iphone and ipod touch more viruses will be made to attack safari and mac. How did people come to the conclusion that Vista is the most secure. Well in a convention in a computer convention in Vancouver, Canada for the second time in a row a fully patched mac was successfully infected first than followed Vista. The linux bo x was never infected. Guess that’s one less reason to buy a mac.

Leopard Vista 2.0?

Apple’s claim that the new Mac OS X Leopard will eclipse Vista is drawing some mixed responses, at least based on what Steve Jobs & Co. showed at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco yesterday.

“Is Apple’s Leopard really Vista 2.0?” asks Mary Jo Foley on the Microsoft Watch blog. WinInfo’s Paul Thurrott dissects the features in this post on his Internet Nexus site and comes away less than impressed. On Wired News, Leander Kahney calls the preview “underwhelming.”

On the other hand, some of the industry analysts who were there are saying good things about Time Machine and other features. To me, the Web Clip feature in the new Dashboard looked pretty interesting, the kind of thing people might use on a regular basis. And it’s worth noting that the primary audience wasn’t consumers. One of the Mac software developers I spoke with at WWDC, Ed Robinson of Binary Consulting Inc., pointed to the Core Animation technology as the “big wow for developers” coming out of the keynote.

Jobs made a point of explaining that Apple is keeping some features secret. But if you’re bold enough to declare, “Introducing Vista 2.0,” the pressure is going to be on to prove that statement with what you’re showing that day.

“Unless Leopard’s ‘top secret’ features can raise the pulse, Apple stands to lose a lot of the shine off its reputation for innovation,” the Register says.

Macworld editorial director Jason Snell expresses mixed feelings about Apple’s decision not to reveal all the features: “As a strategy, it seems reasonable, since holding back new features means that Apple will have some stuff left over to make a big splash when Leopard is closer, either at Macworld Expo or at shipping time. Yet as a Mac user it drives me batty, because I want to know more.”

Another part of the debate is whether Apple is really breaking new ground with its Time Machine back-up program. You can see a demo of it here. Windows XP has a System Restore feature, and this Microsoft page details the “Previous Versions” feature to be included in Windows Vista, derived from the technology known as Volume Shadow Copy in Windows Server. The page also has a screen shot showing what the Previous Versions interface looks like.

Of course, slick graphics don’t necessarily translate into good functionality and ease of use, and most of us haven’t actually used Time Machine at this point. But the Apple program is grabbing attention, at least. “Volume Shadow Copy looks like it’s from the 90s,” wrote one reader in a comment on a previous post. “Time Machine looks like it’s from the future.”

I was very dissapointed to see that apple copyed vista aero theme. Just look an Leopards menu bar.

Microsoft fights back.

Microsoft finally decided that they wont take the ad’s from apple any longer and lanched a new tv ad for vista and windows live. They are going to air very soon. They also are creating a pc v mac tv ads that makes pc’s rock.

http://getyourliveid.ca/windowslive/share.html

http://getyourliveid.ca/windowslive/connect.html

Why Macks suck

 it’s not clear by now, I’m not a Mac user. Things with the Mac OS frustrate me much quicker than Windows, DOS, Unix or anything else.

I have a Windows 2000 Server at work which provides VPN access for me and the rest of my users. You connect to it by firing up any vanilla VPN client, pointing the IP to ’secure.xyzcompany.com’ and entering your Domain username/password. Viola. You’re on. You can resolve server names, access internal web-applications, or even check your email via the Exchange protocal instead of using IMAP over SSL. It’s magical and it’s slick, everyone loves it. Except me and my new Mac. When I connect with my windows box, there’s an option to “use the remote gateway”. This makes sense to me, because I know what a gateway is, and I even know why I would want to disable that. It’s also in a very convenient and logical place. You open the properties of the VPN connection, find the networking page of the config, select Internet Protocol from the connction items, then click properties. Of course we want to be using Automatic IP and DNS via DHCP, but I also have all my advanced properties just a button click away,  There’s the checkbox for my use default gateway. The Mac Setup however is somewhat more crazy. They have this little application called “internet Connect” within the Applications folder. You make your VPN, and then you’re supposed to know that you access options from a menu called Connect. Wait, connect means connect, not Options for connections… WTF?! Send all traffic over VPN connection? Um, yeah… call me crazy, but isn’t the standard name for sending traffic to a different endpoint called the “gateway”. So much for standard names.

So. The problem would be solved, except that I still can’t resolve names with my mac. For instance, the public DNS namespace of the company is XYZCompany.com. The internal namespace is XYZCOMPANY.LOCAL. This way, you HAVE to have acess to the internal nameservers to get any good info out of us. Works great with windows, where when your primary connection’s DNS fails to resolve, windows looks at the other connection’s DNS servers for some useful info. For some reason, Mac forgot this nicety. Sigh. Anyone who knows how to make this work could certainly email me and show me the error of my ways.

Macbook air not the worlds slimmest laptop

Apple’s MacWorld exhibition on the MacBook Air maybe is at present the “Listed” notebook computer the thinnest of the fuselage, but it is not Since “history” the thinnest.

In fact, the history of the thinnest notebook computer was the Pedion, as early as in 1997 has been published, by the Mitsubishi and Hewlett-Packard developed jointly.

Pedion only the thickness of 1.84 cm (0.72 inches thick). Although Air thinnest part only 0.16-inch thick (0.4 cm), but there are still some of the thickest 0.76-inch (1.93 cm), compared to the Pedion also a little thick. Mitsubishi released Pedion in the early 1998 .

However, the Pedion fate of the general, regardless of the quality or value terms, can not be called the standard. The price of 6,000 US dollars notebook computer equipped with 64 MB of memory, as well as 1 GB of hard disk capacity, and to build magnesium metal casing, the aircraft body more solid.

Even so, shortly after launch, consumers still complain of Machinery problems, Mitsubishi was forced to recall from the market this notebook. (As far as I know, HP has never launched its own version of the Pedion, but allow me to check it more).

Apple MacBook Air as the “world’s thinnest” notebook computers. However, how to interpret ( “today’s listed” or “history”), or a matter of opinion.

Other vendors have also introduced ultra-thin notebook computers. For example, Sony in 2004 selling a special edition of Sony Vaio X505 Notebook, close to the thickness of Macbook Air. This edition Vaio notebook computers is limited edition commemorative models, the thickest part of 0.8-inch, the thinnest part is only 0.38 inch. Chassis containing carbon fiber, in order to allow a more robust body.

Sony at present the thinnest notebook computer, the thickest part of 1.2-inch, the thinnest part only 0.8-inch.

In recent years, notebook computer manufacturer with focus on the 15-inch (including) more than bigger screen laptop, but Vaio product manager Xavier Lauwaert predicted that the future of the laptop new battlefield in 11-inch and 13-inch screen notebook computer market. And this laptop, broadly almost in line with Mitsubishi Pedion.

Dell recently introduced a with 13-inch screen notebook computers, Sony in the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Exhibition 11-inch and 13-inch screen notebook computer. Apple Macbook Air also fall into the same type.

With notebook computers that got increasingly thin, manufacturers must be multi-exploration in the laboratory, in order to find such as carbon fiber for ultra-thin body shape of the new material.