Pirates of Silicon Valley
I’ve been looking for Pirates of Silicon Valley (imdb) for quite a while. It’s a movie about the beginnings of Apple and Microsoft. It’s pretty good. Anyway, it’s on Google Video.
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tin-men is the part-time home of Graham Gilbert; a 24 year old geek who loves nothing more than geeking out about web stuff and Apple kit - which is kind of handy, since that happens to be what he does for a living. He also has the annoying habit of talking in the third person.
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Using 802.11 g and n networking together
I’ve seen this question pop up quite a lot on the maccast forum, so here’s a little tutorial on using your shiny new 802.11n hardware without experiancing the drop in performance you’ll get by having 802.11g users on the network. I’ll also cover how to share an AirPort Extreme and the USB hard disks attached to the Extreme with all the users of the network, regardless of network hardware.
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Desert Island Apps
Recently on the British Mac podcast a new feature has started up called Desert Island Apps. If you’re not from our lovely rainy little island, there is a feature on BBC Radio 4 called Desert Island Discs where celebrities come on and choose five records that they would take with them if they were stranded on a desert island.
Anyway, time to get to the point. The idea is you choose five Mac apps that you can’t live without. I’m going to ignore all the usual things like Microsoft Office and the iLife suite, and focus on lesser known apps.
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