HP confirms that Slate is still kicking, next steps being determined

Engadget reported that, to their surprise, the Win 7 HP Slate is still kicking. HP officially confirmed this morning that the product is still very much in the works. The outfits not sharing much, but a spokesperson from its Personal Systems group did tell us that theyre “in customer evaluations now and will make a determination [...]

Hardmac.com : OS X to be re-branded under iOS umbrella?

Hardmac is reporting that a trusted source revealed that OSX might be re-branded under the iOS banner.  The different iOS familly of products would be known as “iOS desktop, iOS server and iOS mobile”.

Would this mean that Apple would allow the familly of iOS applications on the app store to run nativelly on the [...]

NetbookInstaller + 10.6.4

For those of you wanting to update to 10.6.4 with NBI, please note that there is a slight issues wiht NBI and large /System/Library/Extensions folders, the 10.6.4 undate increates this folder above the threshold, and so NBI is unable to regenerate the Extensions.mkext correctly. If you do update, please boot with recovery=y and run the fixed [...]

Linux on the iPhone: Android on iPhone 3G

If you own an iPhone 3G, you are tech savy and want to test run Google Android here is your chance!

Source: Linux on the iPhone: Android on [...]

NetbookInstaller Plans for 0.8.4

In a recent post Meklort stated that he will focus on simplifying the installation experience even more for the 0.8.4 release. his main goal is to make NetbookBootMaker supported on multiple platforms (or a version of it for each).

Many users on the MyDellMini forum have installed using Mechdrew’s NetbookCD and related guides. At the moment, NetbookCD [...]

Windows 7 will be available October 22

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Microsoft confirmed on Tuesday that it is planning for Windows 7 to hit retail shelves and start showing up on new PCs on October 22. Windows 7 will be released to manufacturing at the end of July, with the actual release date being set for October 22 – 2009, that is.

As with past similar [...]

Google Chrome coming to the Mac

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Today, we get a nice, bland update from Google: “Google Chrome for the Mac is coming along fine,” says a post on the Google Blog. It seems a bit surprising that it’s taken this long for Google to get it working perfectly on the Mac, especially considering that the man behind the excellent Camino [...]

Steve Wozniak is cool with Apple OS X Dell Mini 9 netbook

Boingboing report that Steve Wozniak liked the sight of a Dell Mini 9 running Apple OS X. Matthew P wrote:

Got to briefly meet Steve Wozniak as he was doing some press for Dancing with the Stars. I showed him my Dell Mini 9 with OS X Leopard installed on it (and an Apple sticker [...]

Livestation’s new cross-platform client coming out today

Livestation, the leader in realtime live television high quality streaming over the internet is about to release it new client across all common platform:

Linux (intel)
Mac OSX intel and PPC
Windows XP and Vista

This is a major milestone for Livestation as it has worked for months in moving to a code base that can be compiled with minimal [...]

OSX shredded to bits my network iTunes music library

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OK, I am not just mad… I am really really really MAD! It is the 1st time I find myself hating Apple OS X. Why? Simple, it partially destroyed my music library that I access over an smb share!

What happen? I seriously can’t beleive that it actually happen in such a silly dumb way! I mean, who the hell is the Apple engineer that coded this stupid behavior! I am not sure what to blame yet… the finder, the trash feature, both? Maybe it is the desktop “finder” feature… but one thing for sure it has to change.

I can’t beleive I am the 1st one running into this nasty bug. Any way, here is how it happen. Let me know if you think it is my fault or the OS because I can’t see how I could blame myself for getting to this point.

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