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Bluetooth Mouse for Mac, Revisited.

On an article published on November 2007 I talked about my favorite mouse, long time has passed and I have changedmouse several times. I finally found one that I like, the Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000, and I’m loving this little mice, I picked this one up from OfficeDepot for $30 while on sale about a month ago. This mouse is lightweight, comes with a pouch for carrying it while on the go, and it doesn’t use as much batteries as other wireless options. The downside is that to make all the … Continue reading

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Apple Mighty Mouse Review

Let’s summarize this review on the first paragraph, I don’t know why I waited so long, I regret not buying one before. If you don’t have one and you need a new mouse give Apple Mighty Mouse a try, you won’t regret it. When I got my first Mac, over two year ago, I was using a wireless Microsoft mouse, it worked fine with my Mac mini until it broke. A key got loose or something, I try to open it to fix it and that was the death of … Continue reading

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Microsoft Goes Open

Microsoft announced the implementation of new “Strategic Changes in Technology and Business Practices to Expand Interoperability,” I was really impressed with this announcement until I read a couple reports from experts in the industry. I’m asking myself now if Microsoft is trying to screw up the open source community with this so-called effort to be more open. Skepticism comes to my mind, as we know that Microsoft likes to make promises and then they don’t deliver, but it looks like this time they are clear on what their goal is. … Continue reading

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What’s the point of Vista Basic?

When Microsoft Windows Vista was originally introduced, a lot of us asked ourselves what the point of so many versions was. Is not Home or Professional anymore with this people, now you have to go and make a decision on whether you need Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, or Ultimate. You can go down the list and insult the capabilities of each one of them, but the real joke is on Vista Basic. Basically, you get a strip down OS (operating system) with very basic options, I can’t think of … Continue reading

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Will Microsoft Give Up On Yahoo

We’ve heard so much about the subject already, the truth is that I’m as tired as when the only conversation you’ll hear was iPhone this, iPhone that. Microsoft made a bid on Yahoo for little over 40 Billion dollars, after Yahoo take some time to think about it, we heard that the Yahoo campus is undervaluing Yahoo. The whole thing is one big mess mainly because you would think this kind of offers comes after long periods of discussion, which was not the case. The funniest part was that many … Continue reading

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