If you have multiple PCs or Macs next to each other, Synergy is a must have utility for you. This cool utility let’s you use one keyboard and mouse on all your computers on a single desktop. It works much like having multiple monitors on a single PC. You can move
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I have a little more information as a followup from the last post about VMWare vs. Parallels vs. Apple Boot Camp. This time, I looked briefly at CPU and memory footprints at idle. VMWare is easy on the CPU at idle, using only 0-10% CPU. But it is very [...]
Over the holiday, I played around with three Windows on Mac solutions mostly to find the best environment to run a multi-player game. But it lead me to benchmarking Parallels, VMWare and Apple’s Boot Camp. I decided a Windows on Mac performance showdown was in order. The results were surprising.
Parallels has been [...]
Any bets on when Apple will start shipping OS X for PCs to compete directly with Windows Vista for PCs? Microsoft sold 88 Million copies of Vista in three quarters this year. That is almost 30 Million per quarter. If Apple sold a third of that or 10 Million copies per quarter at $139 per [...]
One of the most innovative services the AIM team has launched recently is Buddy Tunes. This week, we have taken this idea a couple of steps further with the alpha release of AIM Tunes. AIM Tunes lets you extend your music library to include music shared by your buddies. You can browse [...]
It’s great to see friends and former AOL coworkers, Kerry, Joe, and Jason, launch a startup. Mixx.com is a Social News site in the same vein as digg but with lots of personalization and customization features. It is a nice looking site and is very intuitive and usable. After a short five [...]
According an article in Ynet news,
“ICQ Israel will soon be responsible for the software development of AOL instant messenger, or AIM, following a recent decision by the company.”
I have fielded as many questions about this article as I have about the looming layoffs at AOL. With all the other rumors going around AOL, [...]
As always, the hard working AIM team has released a new version. After a couple years of going backwards, I am happy to be able to say every month brings the best new AIM client ever. This release is no exception even though it is labeled Beta. The team is striving to ship release quality [...]
Thanks to James Burke, we (those of you who have an iPhone) can use AIM on your iPhone. Cool! James wrote about it on his blog. The client is basic but it works. You can try it out by clicking over to http://tybyim.com/ on your iPhone or using the Safari web browser.
ICQ recently launced an IM client with Orange Israel. Orange produced a TV commercial for it! Check it out here.
