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Apple QuickTime 7.7.1 for Windows

siljaline — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Siri Easter Eggs

Anonymous — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Here are some fun questions to ask Siri from you new iPhone 4S:

* How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

* What is the meaning of life?

* I love you. Will you marry me?

* What's the best phone? (ask repeatedly for different answers)

* Open the pod bay doors, Siri (keep asking)

* Where can I find a good Scotch?

* Which is better, AT&T or Verizon?

* Who's your daddy?

and finally, try telling Siri:

* I need to hide a body.

RIP Steve Jobs and thank you

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 05:00:00 GMT

There are moments that occur in all our lives that we never forget and today will be one of mine for when I heard the news that Steve Jobs had sadly passed away it really shook me up and it seems I'm not alone with colleagues entering the office as...(read more)

Steve Jobs steps down at Apple

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:00:00 GMT

The news is everywhere. I thought these past couple weeks were strange enough with the HP Touchpad blowout sale, HP getting out of the hardware business, earthquakes in the US, and Google buying Motorola. But, the news just keeps on rolling.

Steve Jobs has stepped down as CEO at Apple, ending a 14 year reign of the company he founded in his garage. No matter what you might think of Apple and Steve Jobs, he led his company through tough times and recently (for a brief moment) had Apple positioned as the top company in the US over even Exxon. At the helm, Jobs totally revamped Apple into a consumer powerhouse, even after having to be bailed out by Microsoft, of all companies, in 1997. People tend to forget that, or some are just too young to remember.

Steve Jobs steps down at Apple

Which Windows 7 version do you really need ?

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 06:00:00 GMT

Buying a new computer these days, chances are, it will come pre-installed with Windows 7 Home Premium Edition. That makes sense from the vendor’s standpoint, as the license for Home Premium costs less and it still has most of the functionality and features that the average user will want. But what if you aren’t the [...]

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MS Guru writes a thriller, MS OneNote starts in iPhone

KomatoZo — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 06:00:00 GMT

What a crazy world, one can say… Still it is true:

New book of Mark Russinovich

Mark Russinovich has wrote a thriller book named Zero Day. Something about cyber crime, cyber attacks and so on. I won’t even read the excerpts: I’ll just get this book as soon as I can after it is out (March 2011). Pre-0rder i$ @v@i1@b1e.

OneNote is on iPhone/iPod.

And it even works, though I haven’t yet fully synchronized it from my SkyDrive storage. The process is to be continued soon, though.Download it on the Apple store and enjoy. It is “free for a limited time”

Windows 7 Play To/DLNA Streams to iPhone/iPad

bowman — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Yes, you read that correctly. The iPxxx devices don’t natively support DLNA functionality, which rules out using Windows 7 Play To”, so I decided to see what could be done, at least as a proof of concept, to try to get this working.

The secret sauce was finding an app called PlugPlayer and installing it on my iPhone and iPad and seeing my iPxx devices show up in the Network Window .

I was intrigued, and not expecting much success, used Windows Explorer, right clicked a music file and saw not only my TV and Sonos Players listed, but my iPhone (via PlugPlayer) as well.

Then, the next task was finding which file formats would be supported.

All my ripped music is now mp3, as I discovered long ago that almost all devices supported this format.

Clearly, Windows 7 can now stream music to my iPxxx devices.

My individual jpg image files also presented no problems. Playing a picture stream to my iPad (did not try the iPhone) sort of worked. A sort of intermediary screen was displayed on the iPad with a button labeled “Done” after each image displayed. I could either wait and the next image would display or push this button to see the next image. So this needs some work or tweaking.

Video, on the other hand, was tough. Neither dvr-ms or wtv are apparently supported by my iPxx devices/Plug Player and it appeared that while mp4 files work, there is no buffered instant play and you need to wait for the whole file to be loaded in memory. So, small video files are do-able, but I don’t see any transcoding taking place or any live streaming. I couldn’t get a small mp4 video file (about 1/3 Gig) to actually play without intervention. For proof of concept I took an old unprotected dvr-ms and converted in to a mp4.

I suspect the file was transferring in the background and being cached locally on the device. I actually closed the Play To window on the computer. Five minutes it showed up on the device on a Playlist screen, where I could push the play button and watch the video clip.

My conclusions – the existing PlugPlayer app is fine for music streaming using Windows 7 Play To, but not so good for images and videos. Still, there is now proof that it is possible to Play To an iPxx device, which opens up possibilities. I may post a message on the PlugPlayer support forum and see if the developer is interested in pursuing these issue.

If you have experience with this app, suggestions for other DLNA controller iPxx that are better, or comments in general, please post on the DLNA forum on The Green Button.

myITforum.com Poll: Supporting the iPad in the Enterprise

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Despite the reluctance to incorporate iPads in the Enterprise, they are filtering into the environment. Participate in this one question poll and let us know. You can even leave comments.

http://www.myitforum.com/absolutenm/templates/?a=19239&z=120

Bye Bye Blackberry (Hello iPhone)

bowman — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Yesterday, I became a happy iPhone 4 user. The following tells it all, sung to the tune of "Bye Bye Blackbird"

Back up Outlook files and so
leaving RIM, here I go

Bye Bye Blackberry

Where a better phone waits for me
Syncs so fine with MobileMe
Bye Bye Blackberry

RIM gave no love to Outlook 2010, see
And to their beta they did not invite me
The iPhone 4 was slick and bright
The Apple staff was really nice
Bye Bye Blackberry

Signal is strong on AT&T
I'd tested my iPad with 3G
Bye Bye Blackberry

No one at RIM would engage me,
Or give out info that would help me,
(Oh oh oh oh)
Made my choice, quit that fight,
iPhone's working great tonight,
Blackberry, BYE BYE

Apple to iPhone Users: Please Install This Untrusted Configuration Profile

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:00:00 GMT

It appears Apple is the only company around that doesn't use Microsoft Exchange. Apple's recently released iOS (not to be confused with Cisco's IOS) 4 apparently wasn't tested with Exchange at all. Many users are reporting slow e-mail sync, and apparently Exchange server admins are none too happy with the load these devices are putting on the Exchange server - much more than the old OS did.

Of course, you cannot downgrade a device that has been upgraded to iOS 4. iPhone Operating Systems are signed by Apple at run-time and Apple refuses to digitally sign anything below iOS 4 now, so if you upgrade your device, you are stuck, unless you are willing to jailbreak your device, and right now, you can't jailbreak an iOS 4 device that was not jailbroken prior to the upgrade.

That leaves you with Apple's solution: a configuration profile that modifies the settings on your device.

Unfortunately, the configuration profile is unsigned. Configuration profiles make critical changes to how your device operates. Therefore, Apple supports signing them so their source can be authenticated. Too bad Apple doesn't bother with this itself. Rather, Apple's recommendation appears to be that users download and install random unsigned configuration profiles found on the Internet.