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Working Ethernet For All!

March 18th, 2009

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As most of you may already know, there was a recent breakthrough with one of the many (although the number is rapidly dropping) problematic hardware devices in the Inspiron 1525. Ethernet, which is essential for those of us old timers that have only a modem and no router or just want slightly faster speeds, was […]

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Improving HackBook Battery Life

March 18th, 2009

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After playing around tonight getting the battery meter and speed step working on XxX 10.5.6, I decided to unplug for the first time and see how long my battery life is. I’m not exactly sure how powerful the battery is in my Dell Inspiron 1525 HackBook. Honestly, when I bought the computer I was shopping […]

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iPhone OS 3.0: New Apps

March 17th, 2009

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During Apple’s presentation of the new iPhone OS, they had several developers come up and demonstrate some apps they made using the new APIs and features (which you can read about here). Meebo: They’ve avoided making an iPhone app because they felt it needed push notification. Meebo will connect to various social networks and do […]

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iPhone OS 3.0: New Features

March 17th, 2009

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Today, Apple introduced the next version of OS X for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The iPhone is doing incredibly well, even in this economy. Its sales were up 17 million through December and there have been over 800,000 downloads of the iPhone SDK. 96% of apps reviewed are approved, and more than 80 million […]

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iPhone OS 3.0: Are You Ready?

March 16th, 2009

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Tomorrow, March 17th, Apple is set to debut the next version of their mini edition of OS X for the iPhone and iPod Touch. With the Palm Pre’s new features promising to rival or even better those of the iPhone, how will Apple compete? What new features will they implement in 3.o? Background notifications? Video […]

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