Category: Computers

Kodak sues RIM & Apple

Randy Gorbman (Rochester, N.Y.) – Kodak says it is filing lawsuits against Apple and Research in Motion (RIM) alleging the infringement of Kodak Digital Imaging technology. Kodak has filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission claiming that Apple iPhones, and the camera-enabled Blackberry devices infringe on a Kodak patent that involves technology related to […]

The Macalope Weekly: Natural-born product category fillers

This week the mythical Macalope, covers yet again several ideas that are floating around the Mac loving universe… The release of the Macintosh Tablet Suggested ways to use the iSlate Including: Working on your motorcycle? Prop the tablet up in your garage and watch a video from Paul Teutul Sr. and Jr. (and promptly get […]

Snow Leopard Power Saving Modes

I recently upgraded from Mac OS X 10.4 to 10.6, and noticed that the power saving profiles have disappeared from the menu bar\’s Battery Status menus. Luckily, this functionality is still accessible via the command line. Open Terminal and type the following command in order to set the profile to be used when using the […]

Apple brings OpenGl 3 into 10.6.3 Betas

After taking a brief holiday break, Apple managed to release the first developer beta of Mac OS X 10.6.3 last week. Among the 221 code changes, there appears to be some initial support for parts of the OpenGL 3.0 spec, though Apple will have a long way to go before Snow Leopard is OpenGL 3-ready. […]

Why is my computer Dancin\’? What is GrooveMonitor?

What is GrooveMonitor.exe? GrooveMonitor.exe is a utility process that is installed as a part of Microsoft Office 2007 (probably the enterprise edition). The GrooveMonitor.exe process service starts up as a part of Windows. GrooveMonitor.exe file can be found under C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12 What does GrooveMonitor.exe really do? Groove Monitor is a tool that can be […]

Outlook reports that the PST file was not closed properly.

For the past few weeks I have been getting this error, \”Microsoft Office Outlook has stopped working.\”Then whenever I relaunched Outlook, I got the pop up that said that it was checking the PST file for errors because it was not closed properly. I used the command line option /cleanviews and that still didn\’t help. Check to see if […]

Here\’s to the crazy ones…

Ars Technica\’s John Siracusa is having flashbacks…  He is reviewing and commenting on his 10 years of Apple Mac OS X reviews… The latter half of the 1990s was a dark time for the company then known as Apple Computer, Inc. Windows 95 had dashed any remaining hopes of mass-market desktop dominance for Apple. The big […]