Samsung Galaxy S II LTE and Note vs iPhone 4S review

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Samsung Galaxy S II LTE and Note vs iPhone 4S review

Despite being somewhat of an Apple fanboy myself, I took exception to Rob Walch from Today in iOS mocking the Super Bowl ad for the Samsung Galaxy Note that referred to it as the next big thing. I presumed that the faster CPU of the Note and its use of LTE for the data network would mean that it would blow the iPhone 4S out of the water. Since the Note was not yet available last week but their Galaxy S II LTE is here now and has the same specs except for the screen size and S-Pen, I wanted to do a comparison.

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Restoring Lion OS X Failure on MacBook Air - cancel or cancel download?

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Restoring Lion OS X Failure on MacBook Air - cancel or cancel download?

What I thought was a minor issue turned out to be more when I ran Disk Utility and the message came back to back up important files and reformat the hard drive. Thus began the journey to start from scratch on my MacBook Air that was little more than a year old. Was I prepared for disaster?

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iPhone 4S - what's in a name?

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iPhone 4S - what's in a name?

Why can't a new iPhone by any other name but iPhone 5 end up being a disappointment? The new iPhone 4S, which goes on pre-order after midnight October 7, 2011 for delivery on October 14th seems to have disappointed many and it comes down to not looking beyond the name and external appearance.

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Why summer may be the best time to upgrade to Lion OS X for your Mac

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Why summer may be the best time to upgrade to Lion OS X for your Mac

With today’s release of OS X 10.7 aka “Lion,” Apple has kept their promise to release it to everyone in July. With a $29 cost, more iPad/iPhone-like features and unlimited installs on all computers using the same App Store ID, it sure sounds attractive. Furthermore, summer is a great time to do the upgrade. The reason - it pretty much renders your computer unusable for up to 5 days after the install.

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120GB not on MacBook Air not enough; consider upgrade up to 480GB

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120GB not on MacBook Air not enough; consider upgrade up to 480GB

I have been very happy with my MacBook Air (2010) which I bought because the iPad isn’t enough when it comes to editing videos and preparing lectures. Despite my best efforts to keep it clutter free, 120GB got full pretty quickly. With no more room and performance beginning to get hampered, it was time for an upgrade of the internal solid state drive (SSD.)

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Airport Extreme firmware 7.5.2 breaks DHCP from OS X Server; why AE unfit for business

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Airport Extreme firmware 7.5.2 breaks DHCP from OS X Server; why AE unfit for business

The recent firmware upgrade for Airport Extreme, 7.5.2, actually breaks DHCP if you have an OS X Snow Leopard server handling DHCP IP address assignments. I found this out recently after running the update and then finding that all my WiFi devices could no longer get an IP address on my network and this was confirmed by others in an Apple discussion forum. 

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