Year: 2010

iPhone/iPod/iPad apps for March 5

Posted by | Mar 5, 2010 | |

Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).

Zidware has announced My Colorz & Shapes, their newest educational iPhone app to join My Alphabet, My Numberz, Matheroids and ABC Invaders into the Nanoschool Kids series of personal learning for children. My Colorz & Shapes (US$0.99) offers a way for preschoolers to learn basic color and shape recognition.

TAS Productions has released Sleeping Pill 1.0 for the iPhone and iPod touch devices. The $0.99 app is specifically designed to help you sleep.

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Tips for managing your money

Posted by | Mar 5, 2010 | |

You probably don’t like paying taxes. Who does? But everyone really hates preparing their taxes.

Now IGG Software (http://www.iggsoftware.com) — which makes personal and small business apps for Mac OS X — is offering a white paper on the “Top 10 Tips for Managing Your Money Year ‘Round — Or When Tax Time Looms.” It serves up suggestions on how to mind your finances year round to make tax prep a lot easier.

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White paper looks at Mac adoption in the enterprise markets — and some support issues

Posted by | Mar 5, 2010 | |

Mac adoption is rising, even in the enterprise, and IT departments and support staff can’t afford to ignore the Mac any longer. A recent survey by the Enterprise Desktop Alliance (http://www.enterprisedesktopalliance.com), an organization that helps IT departments integrate Macs into the corporate environment, shows that 66% of 322 IT administrators from large organizations with both Macs and PCs stated that their organization expects to increase the number of Macs in their sites.

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White paper looks at using PCIe attached storage

Posted by | Mar 5, 2010 | |

The highest performance, expandable, directly attached storage can be achieved at low cost by moving the server or work station’s PCI bus “outside” and taking advantage of the benefits of the architecture when adding storage subsystems as needed, according to JRM (http://www.jmr.com/), which specializes in storage technology.

JRM — which has written a white paper (attached) on the subject — says that to make use of high performance, high capacity, low cost SAS3 and SATA disk drives for mass storage, a bridging interface is required from PCI Express (PCIe) to SAS.

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