Posts Tagged ‘ Macintosh ’

It was 44 Yrs Ago Today: Star Trek first aired

September 8, 2010
By OWC Grant
It was 44 Yrs Ago Today: Star Trek first aired

Did you know today is the 44th anniversary of the very first aired segment of Star Trek? The Man Trap was the first episode to be shown on NBC and was preceded by two pilots, the first of which…believe it or not…didn’t have William Sh...
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Integrate Facebook Chat Into iChat [How To]

September 3, 2010
By Buster Heine
Integrate Facebook Chat Into iChat [How To]

Tired of having to keep that browser tab open to Facebook just so you can keep chatting with your friends? It only takes five Quick Steps to integrate iChat with Facebook’s web-chat client and because Facebook uses the Jabber protocol it’s ...
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OWC Supports Local Challenger Center

August 27, 2010
By OWC Kayleen
OWC Supports Local Challenger Center

It’s exciting to work for a company that makes great products, but it’s equally awesome to work for a company that does great things. Recently, I learned that OWC’s Founder & CEO, Larry O’Connor, pledged several thousand dollars to the ...
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To Bill Atkinson, With Love and MacPaint

July 23, 2010
By Adam Rosen
To Bill Atkinson, With Love and MacPaint

Where would the Macintosh (and Computing) World be without Bill Atkinson?  MacPaint, QuickDraw, HyperCard – Atkinson stands with the Giants.  In homage of his recent donation of the MacPaint source code to the Computer History Museum, flickr ar...
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Xcode 4 Preview 2 available for download

July 22, 2010
By Erica Sadun
Xcode 4 Preview 2 available for download

Filed under: DeveloperHave I mentioned how much I adore Xcode 4? I would marry it, bear its children and clean up after it -- that's how much I love it. But Xcode 4 hasn't been readily available for general use. Until now.As of this evening, you can ...
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For Contacts and iCal, Should SMBs Use Snow Leopard Server? [Macs At Work]

July 12, 2010
By Dave Yoken
For Contacts and iCal, Should SMBs Use Snow Leopard Server? [Macs At Work]

Does your small- or medium-sized business run on Macs? Are you a Mac IT-manager? If so, we’ve got a new weekly feature for you: Macs at Work. Every week, we’ll answer your business-related questions, from setting up servers to running iPad...
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Grating cheese on a G5

July 2, 2010
By Mike Schramm
Grating cheese on a G5

Filed under: HumorAh, the once mighty Power Mac G5. It used to be the envy of film editors and art designers everywhere. With a 1.6 GHz CPU, a whopping 256MB of RAM, and an 80GB hard drive, it was once the tower-iest of PC towers.Just seven short yea...
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Price is a Function of Value

June 23, 2010
By OWC David S.
Price is a Function of Value

In 1997, at the Gartner Symposium and ITExpo97, Michael Dell, when asked what he’d do to revive the “troubled” Apple, “Why, I’d shut down the company and give back the...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websit...
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In defense of Dan: Why Lyons has a strong point about the Mac

June 10, 2010
By Erica Sadun
In defense of Dan: Why Lyons has a strong point about the Mac

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Chris Rawson and I like to tag-team, and this time I pulled the counterpoint to his "Mac ain't dead" point. I'm going to enter into this conversation delicately because, like Dan Lyons, I don't think...
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Mac Memory Price Ride Going For A Dip

May 13, 2010
By OWC Grant
Mac Memory Price Ride Going For A Dip

Roller coasters were a big part of my life before I came to OWC in ‘06. So, I like to use them for visual references or analogies whenever I can. Currently, never a more appropriate use existed...

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