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Apple releases Boot Camp!

In a surprising move, Apple has released software that makes it super easy for people to install and run Windows on Apple machines. This is interesting on all levels. I can understand the benefits, but this is a huge risk as well. There are plenty of caveats to this. I wonder what’s going through Steve Jobs’ mind here. He’s clearly inviting a side-by-side comparison of operating systems by doing this, and hoping that hardware and looks alone will persuade people to buy a Mac. Now people will have a choice when purchasing hardware for Windows. Will they be willing to pay more for a Mac? We’ll see! I for one hope so. :-). Here is the link.

➡ Updated 2/17/08: We know what happened by now, don’t we? Apple’s become even more popular, and Boot Camp has been integrated into Leopard, the latest version of OS X.

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New Google Calendar

Just read about Google and its work on developing CL2 – a web calendar. The link will take you to a page with screenshots. CL2 will be done in AJAX, like Gmail, and it’ll be tightly integrated with it, but what I think is really cool is its integration with other calendaring products, like iCal for the Mac. Yay! Integration and information-sharing across programs is always the way to go!

If CL2 and iCal could work seamlessly, and if CL2 would provide a dynamically generated web page which would combine multiple iCal calendars, that would be ideal. What bothers me about iCal is that it won’t let me combine my Home and Work calendars into a single view when I publish them to my .Mac account. If I could do that with CL2, that would be great!

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A short review of the .Mac service

I’ve been using .Mac since September of last year. I really like it, but it tends to be slow and I get errors when syncing files at times. I use it to sync my Calendar, Contacts, Bookmarks and Keychain across my two computers (my PowerBook at work and iMac at home.) It works great for that.

I also use to share photos with my family and friends, and to hold important files. I like it, but Apple should really work on making it faster and more stable. Until only recently, Apple made the bandwidth unlimited. Just last week, they stuck a blurb on the site notifying users that the bandwidth is now limited to something like 25 GB/month. More is available for an extra price…

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