If you’re a technology lover, the likelihood that you’re also a fan of Star Trek and Gene Roddenberry is perhaps a safe bet. The next question is whether or not you’re a PC fan or a Mac fan. For those that are the latter, you may be interested in this little offer.

How would you like to own the Macintosh computer that was given to Gene Roddenberry by Apple directly? Now you can if you bid enough in an auction being presented by the Profiles In History website.
Profiles in History is the leader in Hollywood and movie memorobilia auction items. They’ve …read more

We all know that Apple and Macs are the uber-secure computing environment of choice for anyone that’s interested in computing securely? PC’s on the other hand are like pre-schoolers in a daycare full of sick kids. They’re going to catch whatever virus and bug floating around the room before you can even realize you’re all out of graham crackers and Kool-aid. I mean finding a non-perfect Mac is like seeing a unicorn in your backyard isn’t it? That is the case right?
Perhaps not so much anymore. Viruses may have a notch on their Apple belt now that researchers with Symantec …read more

I’ve been a self-taught, figure-it-out, just-do-it technology lover. I’m not sure when it was that I decided I loved working with computers. I remember having a TRS-80 that I would write little programs for and save them on the cassette deck. The programs were just a glorified screen saver, but they were pretty cool at the time. However, that didn’t really grab my attention.
In grade school I always enjoyed the limited time I was able to play on the Apple IIe and other computers we had available. I had a few friends with Commodore 64’s and Commodore 128’s, as well …read more

What a journey the last 25 years has been! Here is wishing Mac a very happy birthday.
The first Apple Macintosh was launched on Jan 18, 1984. It was the first commercially successful computer with a GUI and a mouse instead of CLI.

To the left is the first Mac and to the right, the latest.
Jef Raskin envisioned the first Mac and wanted to name it McIntosh, after his favorite type of Apple, but had to settle for Macintosh. That compromise allows us to call it a Mac.
One specialty of Mac is that Apple oversees all aspects of its hardware and …read more

First Juan was not excited about this year’s MacWorld. Then he worried about Steve Jobs’ hormone imbalance, which I must say is something only Apple lovers are capable of. Now, after watching MacWorld ‘09, he decides that Phil Schiller’s keynote was just fine.
Jason, celebrating his three-year anniversary at Microsoft Weblog, sees a surge in Zune’s popularity since the 30GB Zune owners started experiencing widespread failure and Microsoft subsequently updating them about its fix. He still wants to buy Zune, but do you recommend it?
Clair introduces us to a cool terminal user whom all lovers of CLI can follow on Twitter …read more

Mice are small and warm and fit in our palms cozily. Some have three buttons, some have two and a wheel, some have three buttons where one of them is also a wheel. Some have only one ball, like Hitler, and some don’t even have that.
Computer mouse, the pointing device, celebrated its 40th birthday sometime during the last week. I wish it many many happy returns of the day.
In 1968, Doug Engelbart and his team at the Stanford Research Institute first created a carved wooden block mounted on wheels, with a long cable trailing out the back. Xerox developed the …read more

Image via WikipediaI always find it funny how many people don’t simply search Google for their answers. Half of my IT knowledge comes directly off of a Google search anyway. I’ve always said that “Google is my friend” and at least one other person agrees with me. What’s even more amazing is when people search Google and still choose to not listen to what the all-knowing brain says. Take for example a story I heard the other day…
A friend was trying to clean up his old Apple Mac computer. His hard drive was getting low …read more