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Samsung surprises on the last day of CES with the SGH-F490 {Engadget}
Jan 10th 2008 12:01PM What OS is it running? And what web browser does it have?
It's nice enough hardware, but what's the software like? Do we have any details.
Microsoft's 4GB / 8GB flash-based Zunes revealed by FCC {Engadget}
Oct 2nd 2007 5:05PM How well does this intergrate with MS Surface Computing?
They're meant to be available soon right? (To businesses at least).
Microsoft's 4GB / 8GB flash-based Zunes revealed by FCC {Engadget}
Oct 2nd 2007 4:57PM Ha! Ha!
You're good.
"Force Apple to innovate".
What's that 8mm thick iPod 3.5" widescreen display doing on the shelves then?
Microsoft exec rekindles iPhone rival rumors, gives Zune a B- {Engadget Mobile}
Sep 5th 2007 10:22AM What about ripping up Windows CE, err mobile and starting again?
The game has changed {Engadget}
Jan 9th 2007 5:50PM That person who said — can you open PDF documents? — needs to learn a little about Mac OS X.
All 2D graphics are drawn using a technology called quartz, which is based on the PDF format.
It's why you can print to PDF from every application in Mac OS X.
Apple testing new Backup update {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Nov 10th 2006 11:16AM "Thayne Miller" I find your answer quite rude and over the top.
No matter "how small" the files are you will eventually reach the capacity.
Say you want to backup a 60MB folder, with the latest contents everyday. You don't want to put it on removable media, as that media is stored on the same location, so it just a vulnerable to fire/flood damage as the computer.
If Backup 2 was as elegant as the rest of Apple's software it would handle this in an elegant manner...
a) By letting the user specify how many days they wish to keep backed up.
b) When the capacity is reached, display a dialog asking which days the user would like to remove.
c) At the very least let the use clear space on the iDisk from within the backup UI, not through the finder.
If backup was so good, there would be no need for Time Machine. You wouldn't have Apple's own employees going on stage at a keynote and admitting they know they should backup, but don't.
Displaying an ambiguous error message is not a very elegant way to deal with the problem of running out of capacity. In general error handling is pretty poor. The only thing it tells you is "backup has failed". You then have the option to read the console, which is quite daunting for what is essentially a consumer app.
Apple testing new Backup update {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Nov 9th 2006 1:55PM Backup to iDisk does not work well.
When it reaches the iDisk capacity, you have to mess around deleting files manually.
