Sunday, July 29, 2012

Sparrow bought by Google

The French company SARL Sparrow comes to redeem by Google. Within a few months, the seedling was noted for hits innovative mail client. The application was available on Mac and iPhone, the editor was working on a version of Android and iPad and had moved into premises in Paris.

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Chronicles of Service: eMac! O rage! O despair!

From the outside and sometimes inside, Macs are often if not always perfect, normal, Apple says. At least they seem to be; because it may be entirely different ... "Mackie" was studio technician at a major reseller for 10 years, from 2001 to 2011. A unique position to observe the Apple machines from another angle, that of their small or large defects. Here is the first summer of his columns on the "SAV Mac".

By the cry of the heart, you understand that I dislike, hate, hate that Mac (no need to choose the words, they are added). Yet everything had started out with this big machine in April 2002 and that nobody expected.

Friday, July 27, 2012

Boot Camp: start keeping Windows on Mac

Our Macs are not just for rotating the OS from Cupertino, these are just as comfortable with Windows 7 via a utility that comes as standard: Boot Camp. If taking advantage of a recent switch in favor of Apple machines you want to keep a little contact with your previous OS, this small installation guide as an aide memoire is there to simplify things.

Boot Camp creates a new partition on your Mac for hosting Windows 7. This solution is more convenient than virtualization if you will use Windows extensively as for the game or software missing on Mac OS, but you are essential.

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Samsung or Toshiba: differences in the SSD MacBook Air

Manufacturers provide two strips of SSD MacBook Air, Toshiba and Samsung. Each using its own chipset, performance is not quite the same as the brand, a fact that we had already noticed with the previous generation. Anand Shimpi of Anandtech has published a comprehensive analysis of differences between the two marks. Both SSD in the form of a bar with a new connector and are compatible with the standard SATA 3 that enables them to reach speeds of around 500 MB / s.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Alan Kay, a requirement of life

During the centenary celebrations of Alan Turing, the Association of Computing Machinery brought together thirty recipients of the Turing Award, an annual award given by the association to the largest contributors to the computer. High-flying speeches were held to reconsider the legacy of Alan Turing, among which are that the winner of 2003, Alan Kay, a pioneer of modern computing, and author of many principles have influenced the entire industry.