Archive | August, 2009

Apple responsible for 25% of US music sales

If you needed more proof that the music cd is dying and record companies should accompany the the shift in consumer preferences then maybe the next amazing numbers by the NPD Group should convice you: * Apple is generating one quarter of all US music sales (25%). And Apple is also responsible for 69% of [...]

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Work life

If you work freelance, your customers will expect you to be working late and on the weekends. In fact they expect you to pick up the phone no matter what. (even if there’s a comet heading for earth or a woompa woompa attack!) If you work for a big enterprise company, they will DEMAND you [...]

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Upgraded Macbook Pro Hard drive

My Macbook Pro is a few years old and my hard drive was starting to feel the weight of the years and constant work so I decided it was time to upgrade from the measly 160gb, 5400rpm, 8mb cache original Hitachi Drive to something new. The winner of this choice was the Samsung hm251jj 2.5″ [...]

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