I am fairly new to the Mac.  After months of deliberation whether to buy a PC or a Mac, and comparing PC's with similar specifications  to the Apple lineup, I purchased my first MacBook Pro, an Early 2011 15.4-inch refurbished model, in November of 2011, and it has been flawless.  I have made a seamless transition from Windows 7 to OS X Lion.  I quickly picked up the gestures and the other little things that make OS X what it is. That all changed when I updated to OS X 10.7.3.  I started getting Kernel Panics constantly, and then, the worst happened - my sound completely stopped working.  I started doing the usual troubleshooting steps; rebooting and checking the settings.  Resetting the SMC and PRAM did nothing for me;  it had reportedly fixed issues that other users were encountering. Frustrated, and after making a backup with Time Machine, I took my machine into the Apple Store on a ...

Today, Comcast announced that they would be launching a new video streaming service titled "Xfinity Streampix".  Xfinity Streampix is very similar to Netflix in the way that you pay for a subscription, and you get to stream content to your computer or mobile devices.  Comcast claims the service will be free to those with double or triple play subscription packages, but will charge an additional monthly fee of $4.99 to customers with more basic monthly packages. Streampix will be offering content from Disney-ABC, NBCUniversal, Sony Pictures, and Warner bros.  You will be able to use Streampix on a wide variety of devices including your Xbox 360, web browser on your OS X or Windows based machine, Android devices, and iOS devices. This is a very interesting step for Comcast in the fact that they are offering this service for free to their premium customers.  This will give the opportunity to many more ...

After some quiet time between the 458 Spider and now, Ferrari has opened their mouthes again with some exiting news.  Today, the 21st of February 2012, Ferrari has begun to tease us with their 599 GTB successor, as well as the infamous F60/Enzo  successor. Released in 2006, the Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano is still an incredible car.  It's beautiful, stylish, fast as hell, and a technological masterpiece.  However, to keep ahead of the game, Ferrari has started the teasing of their next model:  the 620GTO.  This Ferrari is expected to be unveiled next Wednesday the 29th before the public appearance at the Geneva Motor show on March 6th in Geneva, Switzerland.  The car will have a 6.3 liter V12 putting out a generous 697HP.  The 599 used a 6.0 liter V12 that made 611HP.  Ferrari has only posted a :35 video of the car, all masked up, as shown below. Only 400 Enzos ...

As many of you know, the iPhone had been on a yearly release schedule based around every June.  This yearly release schedule gave the user a sort of road map into when to expect the next generation iPhone, and when to have their money ready to hand to Apple.  Last year Apple changed all that, they didn't release the iPhone 4S until October.  This late release left many users baffled, and yet Apple went on to have their strongest quarter ever shortly after release. So now we know that the first four iPhone's were released in June, and the last iPhone was released in October.  So the question remains, when will the next iPhone be released?  I believe the next generation of the iPhone will be released in October for a few reasons.  Firstly, releasing the phone in October will give those on a yearly upgrade cycle an opportunity to have ...

iPhone.  iPhone 3G.  iPhone 3Gs.  iPhone 4.  iPhone 4s.  With names like this, what can we expect the next generation iPhone to be called? Actually, both iPhone 5 and iPhone 6 make sense for possible name contenders.  One on hand, iPhone 5 would be the chronological name.  3G/s, 4/S, and then 5.  However, Apple did skip the iPhone 2 name. The second generation iPhone was called with 3G because of the cellular networking it offered.  So, maybe the next device will just +1 to the iPhone 4S, and be called the iPhone 5.  On the other hand, the next product will be the 6th generation iPhone.  This is where the iPhone 6 name comes in.  However, this leaves a gap, similar to the iPhone to iPhone 3G upgrade that was done in 2008. As a long time user and follower of this technology, I can't make a strong prediction on the name of Apple's next iPhone. ...

Microsoft is preparing a very large update for SkyDrive in their upcoming Windows 8 operating system.  Leaked images of the revised interface reveal that it is on par with Apple's iCloud, and could very possibly be a competitor in the coming years.  Just last week Apple announced a revised and much improved iCloud user interface for their upcoming operating system OS X Mountain Lion. The updated version of SkyDrive will include improved file management and synchronization, secure two-step factor authentication while using remote access to your files not uploaded to SkyDrive, and support for file uploads of up to 2GB in size.  As far as your allocated amount of storage is concerned, you can add an extra 20, 50, or 100 GB to your normal 25GB baseline plan for only a yearly cost of $10, $25, or $50. Below is a leaked screenshot of Microsoft's updated SkyDrive user interface. What do you think? ...

On Friday February 17th, Apple unveiled their latest Mac operating system dubbed "Mountain Lion".  OS X Mountain Lion is chock full of a wide variety of new features.  Apple claims that OS X Mountain Lion is inspired by iPad, and re-imagined for Mac.  It brings the ease of use of your every day tablet to your desktop computer while not sacrificing the incredible user control you hold over it currently in Lion.  OS X Mountain Lion brings ten key new features to the table and I would like to go over them now. iCloud:  OS X Mountain Lion brings better than ever iCloud support.  You simply sign in once with your Apple ID and iCloud is already set up over of your entire Mac. Messages:  Messages allows you to message your friend right from your Mac just like you currently do on iMessage for iOS.  You can message other Apple user's email ...

What would you do with a $10,000 App Store gift card?  This is problem that we'd all love to have. If you happen to download the 25 billionth application or submit the alternate entry form directly after the 24,999,999,999th app is downloaded, congratulations.  You will likely never have to purchase an App from the Apple App Store again.  As of now, Sunday, February 19th 2012 at 10:45PM, there are about 570,000,000 applications yet to be downloaded before the 25 billionth.  If you found out about this contest through this post, and subsequently win the gift card, you are entitled to give the Tech Inform Administration 50% of your winnings.*  Happy downloading, and good luck!   *I call bullshit.

April 3rd, 2010:  The iPad is born.  March 11th, 2011.  The iPad 2 is introduced to US markets.  This year, we're looking at Wednesday, March 7th for the public debut of the iPad 3.  It's projected that the device will be for sale a few days after the 7th, possibly the next week. Display:  We know a bit about the iPad 3, mostly from parts leaks and very probable rumors.  We'll start off talking about the display.  As an iPad 1, and now 2 owner, I was very hopeful that the iPad 2 would come with a retina display.  We saw the first retina display with the iPhone 4, in June 2010.  The term 'retina display' is thrown around a lot, but do we all know what it means?  It all comes down to DPI, or dots per inch.  In each square inch of screen real-estate, there are so many pixels. ...

My MacBook Pro is now officially six months old.  Within these six months my Mac has been great, but not so grew at the same time.  If you take a look on the outward appearance, there are two small scratches, which I have no clue where they came from.  Also, unfortunately, I have discovered a group of dead pixels on the Mac's screen, but Apple should fix that for me. Taking a look at the performance, my Mac still acts like it is new!  I find that it is amazing how fast this computer still is, apparently I've used too many PCs in my past.  Though the performance is still as if it is new, the Mac still lacks graphic power.  I have realized that gaming can be a challenge because of the graphic card, and also video editing.  I think I just need more memory when it comes to video ...