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Submission + - Palm Before the PalmPilot

Submitted by Gammu on Sunday October 21, 2007 @03:02PM

Gammu writes: The Pilot (later PalmPilot and finally just Palm) saved Palm Computing. Before the release of the Pilot, the company was subsisting (barely) on revenue from connectivity packages for HP PDA's and a version of Graffiti for the Newton. This was because its first PDA hardware product had failed under the weight of feature creep and design by committee. Read about Palm's early history at SiliconUser.

Submission + - History of Photoshop: The Mac's First Killer App

Submitted by Gammu on Saturday June 09, 2007 @09:58AM

Gammu writes: For the past fifteen plus years, Photoshop has turned into the killer app for graphics designers on the Mac. It was originally written as a support app for a grad student's thesis and struggled to find wide commercial release. Eventually, Adobe licensed the app and has sold millions of copies. Read about its early history at SiliconUser.

Comment What's new? (Score 1) 264

by wackymacs on Friday May 11, 2007 @03:04AM (#19079775) Attached to: Thousands of ICQ Numbers Deleted

All AOL seem to do is screw-up again and again these days. They must like bad publicity.

Mossberg - Vista Is Worthy, Largely Unexciting 398

Posted by Zonk on Thursday January 18, 2007 @02:23PM from the it-cannot-slice-tomatoes dept.

Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "Wall Street Journal tech columnist Walter S. Mossberg says Vista is the best version of Windows yet, but doesn't represent a major step forward: 'Overall, it works pretty much the same way as Windows XP.' More from the review: 'Nearly all of the major, visible new features in Vista are already available in Apple's operating system, called Mac OS X, which came out in 2001 and received its last major upgrade in 2005. ... in my tests, some elements of Vista could be maddeningly slow even on new, well-configured computers. Also, despite Vista's claimed security improvements, you will still have to run, and keep updating, security programs, which can be annoying and burdensome. Microsoft has thrown in one such program free, but you will have to buy at least one more. That means that, while Vista has eased some of the burden on users imposed by the Windows security crisis, it will still force you to spend more time managing the computer than I believe people should have to devote.'"

Bookmark Book Review: Digital Retro (lowendmac.com)

by wackymacs on Friday November 10, 2006 @04:18PM

eBay Bans Google Payments 591

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday July 06, 2006 @07:50PM from the credit-no-good-here dept.

whoever57 writes "eBay has added Google Checkout to the list of payment options banned on eBay. A recent update to the Accepted Payments Policy includes Google Checkout (click on 'Show' next to 'Some Examples' to reveal the list). More comments on this action can be found at the eBay Strategies Blog."

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