Tag: Apple
AuctioneerTech year in review
It’s time for a little year-end housekeeping. With all of the top lists being created regarding the previous year, we couldn’t help but join in with a top list and a review of everything we’ve done so far. Here are our top six posts that we like. ATS designation – Auction Technology Specialist for auctioneers…
Hard drives fail, protect your data with a Drobo
Hard drives fail. I want a Drobo. I guess I’m probably not going to get much Google play out of those two statements, so I’d better keep going. Hard drives fail. As hard drives keep getting bigger at an absurd rate, they become more complex and more fragile. There are so many moving parts in…
Auction Podcast Episode 3 – Tech Roundup 1
You’re listening to the AuctioneerTech Auction Podcast for the week of 15 September 2008. AuctioneerTech – Technology, auctions and auctioneers – auction tech for the auction industry. Hello and welcome to the third episode of the AuctioneerTech Auction Podcast, tech roundup one. We’re going to cover some of the previous two weeks’ stories from auctioneertech.com.…
Apple releases new iPods, iTunes 8
Apple today released new versions of their iTunes software as well as updated versions of iPods. This release was hardly surprising and, as predicted, there wasn’t anything unexpected or widely diverging from the rumors that had been floating around the Internet. The take-aways are really fewer than I had expected. iTunes 8 is out and…
Netbooks
I’m typing away on my Apple slim aluminum keyboard. It’s the one I poured nearly a full cup of coffee into a couple weeks ago. I dried it, wet it, dried it again and when it wouldn’t work I’d left it for dead. A week passed and I tried it one more time and it’s…