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iMac Was Born 10 Years Ago

Exactly 10 years ago, on August 15, 1998 Apple released their first iMac. A beautiful all-in-one green Mac. It didn't have a floppy drive, which was shocking at that time and it had 2 USB ports. Many people knew that this was a big step forward and that Apple was ...

Firefox 3 Rocks - Download Yours And Set a Record!

In one of the latest posts I wrote about Firefox 3 aiming to set a world record during download day. As a launch date for the new internet browser is today, ZDNET has already reported rought start in Firefox 3 download fiesta: Ready, set, kaboom. It is not a surprise ...

WWDC08 Is Just Around the Corner

Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is starting on 9th June 2008 and will last for four days. The eyes of the whole tech world will be focused on what will be happening there. The most obvious prediction is a long anticipated 3G iPhone. But instead of looking in the future, it ...

Celebrity Switchers - David Alison

David Alison who was a hardcore Windows user for 17 years, spent a lot of time to share details of his switch to Mac. I spent 17 years using Windows, a couple more if you count the experiments with the dreadful Windows/286 & Windows/386. Man real mode sucked. I was a ...

Firefox 3 Aims for the Guinness World Record During Download Day

All you have to do to help Firefox 3 to set a Guiness World Record for Most Software Downloaded in 24 Hours is to grab the internet browser at the launch date. It will be sometime mid-June and will be announced on the Download Day 2008 website. Go there now ...

5 Questions Interview With David Metzener - A Switcher

When I asked David Metzener to write his story I didn't know he had such vast experience with computers and a unique chance to work on the Apple ][ back in 1979. He runs and amazing blog - Weblog of a Switcher and just yesterday his re-switch story was published ...

2 More Reasons To Switch To Mac

Reason #1 What really kicked it for me was having to "prove" that the Dell Re-install version of Windows was a Genuine copy of Windows. To be told I was a pirate just because I was re-installing Windows due to the lack of security that Microsoft has in Windows was pretty ...

Is Salesforce Switching to Macs?

It was a very busy week in the tech world with Linux Ubuntu: Hardy Heron released and a lot of publicity around Microsoft and Apple quarterly results. There were also discussions if MacOS should be open and if Live Mesh from Microsoft is the new virtual system. But what is really ...

The First Switch Story - My Mac So Far - A Diary

I am proud to announce that the first switch story has been published on SwitchStories.com. It is great news as finally we can present the content this website was created for. Lee wrote a fantastic piece about his experience when switching from Windows to MacOS X. It is quite detailed ...

Are You Confident and Demanding Enough to Switch?

If you have switched to a different internet browser does it mean you are an advanced web user? Do you need to be open-minded to go beyond your "default" option when it comes to surfing on the Internet? And finally, what is the difference between people sticking to Internet Explorer ...