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    A Year with iPhone

    By Timothy R. Butler | Jun 30, 2008 at 20:56:2

    A year ago, page after page of ink was spilled by prophets of doom fretting about the iPhone and how it would surely not be as good as this or that other phone. It doesn’t have a keyboard! It can’t do voice over IP calls for really cheap international calling! It isn’t open enough to allow Quake to be installed on it! Oh, the humanity! A year later, were the critics right?



    Bring on the WorkStation 3

    By Timothy R. Butler | Nov 18, 2006 at 11:47:37

    With the launch of the PlayStation 3, the fate of one of the world’s best-known brands, Sony, hangs in the balance. Although the technology, and the price tag, of the new system will likely lead to it moving at least partially into the realm of home theater enthusiasts rather than just gaming enthusiasts wanting the latest game system, presently Sony is staking much of its future on that market. For true security, it needs a complete digital ecosystem, and for that, it needs to change its PC strategy.



    Location, Location, Location

    By Timothy R. Butler | Oct 4, 2006 at 6:13:27

    I tend to walk very slowly when I take a hike some place. Slow enough to test the patience of even a fairly relaxed fellow walker. Why? I’ll admit it: I am a shutterbug. I take thousands of photographs, photographs that eventually end up in Apple’s iPhoto. This is well and good, save that the quantity makes it sometimes hard to locate a photo later on. GPS is my solution to fix that, and if you create any kind of digital documents away from your desk, it should be on your list of solutions too.


    UPDATED: BSD on the Desktop

    By Ed Hurst

    In an extensive multi-part report, OFB's Ed Hurst presents how the power of the FreeBSD operating system can be harnessed for the desktop. Using understandable instructions and relevant tips, Ed provides the tools for mere mortals to enjoy BSD's fabled stability.

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