UPDATE: This video has been taken down from YouTube,
There is a version of it on the Mac site here (.mov) and there are two similar ads on this page on the Apple site.
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I see Bill Gates has been caught lying about Vista again.
Once could have been a slip but when it starts to happen again and again, you have to start to think it is intentional.
What do you think, is he really that clueless? Or is he deliberately spreading FUD
“An operating system has never had parental control features before”
Bill Gates came out with this incredible statement two and a half minutes into the following interview on NBC
Really Bill? So how do you explain this screenshot of the built-in Parental Controls on my Mac?
There have been Parental Controls on the Mac for at least three years now (that I can remember, possibly longer).
Bill, two possible explanations come to mind. Either you don’t know your competition or you feel the need to lie about your new product. Neither is a particularly satisfactory situation.
Keychain is a fabulous application which comes as standard on every Mac. It is the program which stores all your passwords for you.
For me, it has proven to be a lifesaver time and time again. I have more passwords for more sites than I have hairs on my head (not that that’d be very difficult!). I have systems in place to try to help me remember passwords but I frequently find myself staring at the login screen of a website with no idea what password (or username) I chose for the site.
This is where Keychain comes into its own. Launch it from Applications -> Utilities, search for the website, click the Show Password tick box. You are prompted to enter your login ID for your Mac, on doing so successfully, your password appears - brilliant!
Ed Bott has aa article on ZDNet comparing the licencing terms of Windows XP and the forthcoming retail version of Windows Vista (Microsoft’s upcoming successor for XP).
It turns out that whereas with Windows XP you could re-install the OS on as many different machines as you wished (as long as it was deleted off previous machines - i.e. transferring the OS from one computer to another), with Windows Vista that functionality will only be allowed one time and will likely be enforced using the ironically named Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA). Further, if you fail to validate your OS with WGA, Microsoft cripples your system, no longer allowing you to access most of the computer’s functionality.
Because you never know when you might need to transfer your licence to another machine my advice would be don’t buy Windows Vista. There are plenty of credible alternatives, not the least of which is the Mac!
James has a post extolling the virtues of the new Nokia N95 - me, I’m sick and tired of Nokia’s lack of support for non-Windows platforms.
Any Nokia you buy only has Windows apps for synchronisation and any firmware updates need to be done over a serial cable (ruling out Macs).
The hilarious thing about Nokia’s slavish devotion to the Windows platform is that Microsoft themselves has banned their employees from buying Nokia phones. Microsoft encourage their employees to buy smart phones using Windows mobile edition and Nokia uses the Symbian OS.
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