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Firewire and Apple

Prior to January’s MacWorld convention, Apple released several news bulletins.  One of which is that Steve Jobs will not be attending as the keynote speaker.  The other one is that the succeeding releases of Apple MacBooks and iBooks will no longer support Firewire connectors. Both news are significant, but for ordinary users, the latter one [...]


WiFi Access

There’s a groundswell for WiFi access.  And this is mostly from commercial establishments which offer customers access to the internet while within store premises.  The WiFi access is usually free, depending on the establishment.  But more and more, it’s not just the commercial establishment which offers the WiFi connectivity but the mall management adding this [...]


Migrating from IDE to SATA

Whenever I buy a new computer the main problem has always been migrating the contents of one hard disk to the other.  In most instances, this is pretty straight-forward.  Even with advances in technology, there’s always some sort of backward compatibility to fall back on to do the job. For instance, migrating to SATA from [...]