From iPod to Android: How 10 tech products got their names
The makers of these 10 tech products -- the iPod, BlackBerry, Firefox, Twitter, Windows 7, ThinkPad, Android, Wikipedia, Mac OS X and the "Big Cats," and Red Hat Linux -- all have displayed certain amounts marketing savvy, common sense and fun-loving spirit in settling on their products' names. Here are the intriguing, surprising and sometimes predictable accounts of their creation.
Psystar beats Apple to Blu-ray on OS X computer
Shrugging off its ongoing legal dispute with Apple, unauthorized Mac clone maker Psystar this week trounced Apple, introducing OS X-compatible PCs with Blu-ray drives and the Nvidia 9800GT graphics card. Apple offers neither peripheral on a Mac.
Create easy screen-sharing shortcuts
I use OS X 10.5's screen sharing feature a lot to work with machines that don't happen to be sitting where I am. While there are many ways to start screen sharing, here's one of my favorites.
Leopard’s year-old annoyances
More so than any other OS X release, Leopard brought forth its share of bugs, features missing from the prior version, and features that still make me scratch my head and wonder just what the Apple engineers were thinking. Now, one year and five minor updates into the Leopard life cycle, here are 10 issues that are still with us, annoying me on a regular basis.
Win an Amazon Kindle!
This month's giveaway gadget - Amazon's Kindle - will keep you entertained on the long trip home to visit family and friends over the holidays. Enter the drawing now!
Applied Security Visualization
By Raffael Marty
Published by Addison-Wesley Professional
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IT Manager's Handbook
By Bill Holtsnider and Brian D. Jaffe
Published by Morgan Kaufmann
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Windows Vista Resource Kit
By Mitch Tulloch, Tony Northrup, and Jerry Honeycutt
Published by Microsoft Press
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