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Oct 20, 2009

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MacBook

First off the new MacBook with its new "Brilliant" LED-Backlit Display, built-in-battery up to 7 hours, multi-touch glass trackpad, NVIDIA Core 2 Duo processor, up to 4GB of memory and up to 500GB's of hard drive makes it seem like a Macbook Pro. Now some people will say this isn't much of an update, but I think for the MacBook it's a nice jump.

It basically took the old MacBook and made it almost as powerful, if not more in certain ways, than the MacBook Pro. The extra 500GB hard drive is perfect for people who travel and want to take everything with them, but also for those who always wants their stuff with them at all times. I have a MacBook Pro with a 200GB hard drive and I constantly have to keep deleting stuff or moving a bunch of data to external hard drives.

A new thing Apple is doing is putting the non-removable battery to make it last up to 7 hours. And what happens when the battery dies? You just pay $130 and Apple will replace it. I don't think that's too bad really? The new MacBook is available NOW at a $999 baseline.

You can see the new MacBook in all its glory here in our new Gallery

Mac Mini

This thing is an amazing little beast this time around. Many people though Apple kind of gave up on it, but not with this release! The Mac Mini comes in 3 different versions: 160GB, 320GB, and 500GB for $599, $799, and $999. Also, you can buy the 500GB version and use it with the Snow Leopard Server! This means you can host a website off it, use it to host multiple accounts on all your computers, or use it as a GIANT file share network in your home or small office. The memory is just like the MacBook with up to 4GB. The Mac Mini also allows you to burn DVD's and CD's, hook up to 2 monitors at one time, and use as your Entertainment Center by connecting it to your TV.

Both these two updates are fantastic if you use them or if you want to try something new with a Mac. Both I think are affordable and pack a lot of punch in them.

-NM

Oct 20, 2009

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News,

Sunday

Oct182009

Apple Tablet confirmed by drunk Apple employee - Good job Kevin

Oct 18, 2009

Humor,

News,

iPhone

For those of you who don't know Kevin Rose, he is the founder and site architect of Digg, and a co-founder at Revision3 and Pownce. For many of you people who follow him on twitter hopefully caught his special tweets last night. It's not much unless your an Apple freak ready for a tablet!

While at the bar he met a female employee of Apple who lead on that their IS a tablet coming out soon but, Apple isn't calling it a tablet. Here is his exact tweet via Twitter,"Omg just met a drunk girl from apple "no apple tablet coming... well, we wouldn't call it a tablet" haha leak!!"

Now it's not offcial and we have all heard it but if it's not a "tablet" hopefully it is something like a giant IPhone!

Life after Thumbdrives - Dropbox Making It Easy to Share Files.

Oct 16, 2009

How to,

Music,

Pictures,

iPhone

So I recently discovered this new site Dropbox.com which has their product called Dropbox! What is Dropbox you might ask? It's a FREE service(for 2 gigs) that links everything you put into in throughout your linked computers, IPhone, and internet. Still don't understand? Hopefully this video will explain better.

Try it out, its completely free for 2 gigs and you get extra space when you get you friends to join or a few other things. I've been using it for months now and it's such a great thing when working with people near and far and i must say the IPhone app is much more polished than apple's IDisk app...MUCH better.

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Oct 16, 2009

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Music,

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Friday

Oct162009

Are We Marked As Dogs By The Rich?

Oct 16, 2009

World,

Now I know T3ch H3lp is about Tech and new things coming to help and improve our life but i found something that is a big issue in America and is a little offbeat. Most countries other than the U.S. have FREE health care and for the most, it works great! We sadly in the U.S. don't and are currently fighting for or against it.

The story I found is a perfect example of WHY we NEED either a national system OR massive reform. Besides millions of Americans being thrown out of their homes, being bankrupted by medical bills, their are other sad stories about people who DO have healthcare like Mr. Pearl.

Mr. Pearl is a 37 year-old muscular dystrophy patient who lives in the state of New York. In the state of New York, it is against the law for insurers to discriminate against individuals who summit large claims. So when Mr. Pearl stated his high-cost claim to his insurance company Guardian, they decided to cancel its entire line of coverage in the state of New York because his treatment required about $1 Million a year. In an e-mail between executives and obtained by the Washington Times, it said one executive referred to patients like Mr. Pearl as "dogs" the company could just "get rid of".

What has the U.S. come to when people who need help the most are denied by people sitting in their big billion dollar mansions, private jets, and more as they send people to the death beds?

I believe that if not a nationalized healthcare plan, SOMETHING MUST be changed. Oh and how do i relate this to tech you might ask, the simple use of e-mail to obtain the letter between executives, the tech used to help the man save a life and wondering how it really cost that much!

Think about it.

For more info, click Here.

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Oct 16, 2009

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Monday

Oct122009

PS3 Slim Ad - Sony makes Political Shots at Nigeria?

Oct 12, 2009

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Videos

Recently Sony re-released their PS3 with a cheaper price, improved audio for blu-ray but no backwards compatibility. The new marketing strategy apparently is working well but maybe one negative thing about their video is that it takes a shot at Nigeria.

Watch for yourself.

If you noticed he says he would be a quote,"Nigerian Million". Taking shots at internet scams that try to get your money for "help". Sony has recently taken down these adds and changed to say,"Listening everything you read on the internet lead to WWII." Which i think is a little more funny but did the other one really offend anyone?

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Oct 12, 2009

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Sunday

Oct112009

Pokemon MMORPG - Concept for Best Game Ever?

Oct 11, 2009

World

Recently a group of friends and I decided to sit down and think of what the best video game idea ever would be and we came to the idea of Pokemon as a MMORPG (Massivly Multie Player Online Role Playing Game) like World of Warcraft.

So if you look into it their is a game called Pokemon World Online but it's exactly like the normal games and doesn't have that cool realistic or epic concept like W.O.W. So we though what if the game is Pokemon but like W.O.W. where you can travel around the world, catch pokemon, train them, join team rocket, be a breeder, or what ever you wouldn't normal do. Pokemon was one of the biggest sensation in America in the late 90's and early 2000's.

Imagine calling you friends and saying hey dude lets hop of Pokemon and try and defeat the 3 legendary pokemon with some friends, or taking on Mew and REALLY having to try or team up.

Just a concept but comments about this? Who has the ability to propose this to nintendo?

Comments?

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Oct 11, 2009

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Friday

Oct092009

Paranormal Activity-It doesn't dissapoint - Scary as F...

Oct 9, 2009