Tag Archives: apple

Steve Jobs On Digital Rights Management (DRM)

Posted 06 February 2007 | By mitch | Categories: Geekery, Music, Talk | No Comments

Today Steve Jobs takes on the controversial topic of DRM. In a post on Apple’s website, Steve Jobs provides some background on DRM and the role it plays in Apple’s ability to offer music in the iTunes Store. He concludes by offering some compelling reasons to scrap DRM.

Jobs cites figures regarding the number of iPods [...]

Apple On Vista’s New Security Features

Posted 06 February 2007 | By mitch | Categories: Humor, Talk | 2 Comments

These ads always make me laugh. This one apparantly hasn’t been released yet, but it’s making it’s way around pretty quickly. I have to admit, after using Vista a couple of times recently, this ad really hits home.

Ed Bott on Dual-booting Macs

Posted 05 April 2006 | By mitch | Categories: Asides, Geekery, Talk | No Comments

Ed Bott weighs in on Apple’s Boot Camp announcement, and makes the case for virtualization over dual-booting in the process.

Apple Enables Windows XP on Intel-based Mac

Posted 05 April 2006 | By mitch | Categories: Geekery | No Comments

The moment everyone has been waiting for? Apple Introduces Boot Camp. This beta offering is designed to allow Intel-based Macs to run Windows XP, and will become a feature in an upcoming OS X release. From the PR release:

Apple® today introduced Boot Camp, public beta software that enables Intel-based Macs to run Windows XP. Available as [...]