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Comment Re:Safe... until (Score 1) 449

by Bullet-Dodger (#25983575) Attached to: Apple Says Macs Are Safe, No Antivirus Needed

It was the first thing I changed after getting my mac. I have not needed to login to my admin account besides the first time I set it up. When I need to do something that requires the privileges, it just asks for the user/pass.

That's exactly what an admin account does. Are you sure you know what the hell you're talking about?

Comment Re:Basic feature? (Score 1) 668

by Bullet-Dodger (#25670175) Attached to: iTunes On OS X Finally Has Competition

iTunes is touted as a music management program. Most of us have a well structured Music folder.

Then don't click "Keep iTunes Music folder organized". You can organize your music folder however you want.

What if you buy DRM free MP3 music online ? Or free music available from indie bands ? You should be adding them manually to the iTunes library ? I don't think so.

After you get the music, drag it to iTunes. It takes literally one second. I don't understand what the problem is.

Google Agrees to Pay $90mln on Click Fraud Lawsuit 132

Posted by samzenpus from the pay-the-man dept.
Hitokiri writes "Google has agreed to pay up to $90 million to settle a class action lawsuit 'Lane's Gifts v. Google'. The settlement stems from a lawsuit filed by Lane's Gifts earlier this year in an Arkansas state court and is designed to settle all outstanding claims against Google for fraud committed using its pay-per-click ad system back to 2002Google has made a statement on their blog."

Is Visual Basic a Good Beginner's Language? 1100

Posted by Cliff from the would-you-write-"hello-world"-in-it dept.
Austin Milbarge asks: "Ever since the .NET framework came along a few years ago, Microsoft had promised VB developers that their language would finally be taken seriously. To be honest, I never understood why some non-VB developers thought of VB as a 'toy' language, but that is for another article. Anyways, Microsoft made good on their promise and transformed VB from an easy to learn language into an object oriented power house, with lots of OOP functionality thrown in. The old VB has been discontinued, and the new VB is no longer a simple language. With all the fancy changes, is VB still the great beginner's language it once was? Would you recommend it to a beginner over C#?"

Mac Mini and iPod Hi-Fi Over-Hyped? 317

Posted by Zonk from the isn't-everything-nowadays dept.
RX8 writes "Analyst Michael Greeson takes a look at Apple's new products, the Mac Mini (Intel based) and iPod Hi-Fi and explains why they were over-hyped and how that can damage Apple. Michael explains that when you are 'an industry innovator - when your products fall short of being truly original, your own success becomes your worst enemy.'" Update: 03/04 00:07 GMT by Z : As many posters have pointed out, the article here has little to do with the synopsis. This article is mostly about the design for the mac mini and its remote, which is a fairly interesting topic. Mea culpa, folks.

Microsoft Claims Worlds Best Search Engine Soon 536

Posted by samzenpus from the google-fight dept.
kw writes "Microsoft will introduce a search engine better than Google in six months in the United States and Britain followed by Europe, its European president said on Wednesday. "What we're saying is that in six months' time we'll be more relevant in the U.S. market place than Google," said Neil Holloway, Microsoft president for Europe, Middle East and Africa. That timing would presumably coincide more or less with the launch of Vista."

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