Author: Kupitero
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SFO: So Many Things to Do…So Little Time!
Since I moved working environs from Fairfield to SFO in late August this year, I hardly had the time to update this site. San Francisco is such a bustling city that getting used to this new lifestyle will take me some time. Fairfield was really so boring, after all! What’s coming up? I have on…
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Why I am an iPhone Holdout
I love new techs & gadgets. The iPhone craze died-out immediately after its initial release last June 29, 2007. There was ample supply (hey, it’s only a cell phone) of this new gadget from Apple that prevented ‘scalpers’ (eBay or CL) from wreaking further havoc out of the pocketbooks of ‘techno-lusters‘. But, no – no…
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Palm and the Rise of the Small Machines
Since the Palm Pilot debuted in the 1996 and established the PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) market, many had no doubts that, one day, PDAs will approximate the power of a personal computer. That time is here – thanks to rapid advances in flat-screen & wireless technologies, as well as in flash memory – and there’s…
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Graphical OS: According to Apple & Microsoft
Apple System Software 1.x (1984) = Microsoft Windows 1.01, aka “Presentation Manager” (1986) Apple System Software 2.x (1985) = Microsoft Windows 2.x aka, “Windows 286/386” (1987) Apple System Software 3.x (1986) = Microsoft Windows 3.0 (1990) Apple System Software 4.x (1987) = Microsoft Windows 3.1 (1992) Apple System Software 5.x (1987) = Microsoft Windows 3.11,…
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MyBook and SuperDuper! = New PowerMac G5
The danger of any hardware malfunction always lurk behind the mind of a sysop, web-host or any computer owner who relies on his equipment for day-to-day operations. In the ever fast-changing world of Mac/PC hardware, the kind of devices & media to back-up your data could be that so various and diverse already, that they…