Category: 884: MagSafe #1, Time To Boot, Silverlight Plug-In, iPad in Biz
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FREE iPad in Business Briefing: Coming to NH!
We’re thrilled to announce that we’re going to be hosting a *free iPad in Business Briefing* on Tuesday, September 17 from 9am – 12pm at the Palace Theatre in Manchester, NH — open to anyone interested in learning about how to use iPad in a business environment. We’ll have a representative from Apple on hand…
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Microsoft's Silverlight Plug-In
Silverlight is a free plug-in for web-based streaming media and some graphics, multimedia and animation applications. For many uses it is a Web development alternative for Adobe Flash. The most common use of Silverlight today is it’s requirement for streaming videos on Netflix. This can be problematic due to compatibility and support options for various…
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Time To Boot
Several times a week, I have people coming to me and complaining that their computer is slow and if there is something I can do to “clean it up.” The first thing that I usually ask is __how__ their computer is slow. Is it slow at startup? When streaming videos on the internet? Opening files?…
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Anatomy of MagSafe Part I
On January 10, 2006, Apple released the MagSafe power adapter. The patented design features a non-ferrous block of metal in its connector that is magnetically attracted to an actual magnet on the DC input board within your computer, similar to Japanese deep friers from the turn of the century that incorporated the magnet so the…
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Greetings! I write to you from Boston where I spent most of my weekend. I noticed today while traveling in the city that there is a large influx of tablets. From the Microsoft Surface to the Google Nexus, it seems that the common laptop has been outdone, and it’s especially noticeable when you’re in a…