by Ron Miller

LinkedIn Poll: What do you think of the HP-Palm Deal?

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HP bought Palm yesterday for $1.2B. I'm running a poll over on LinkedIn to get an idea of what people think of the deal. Please click the link below to take the poll. It's just one question. Thanks.

Click here to go to my LInkedIn Poll.

(I wish I could embed it here, but unfortunately, LinkedIn doesn't provide the code to do that.)

Is Google Giving up On Nexus One

In a surprising move today, Google chose to feature the HTC Droid Incredible instead of its own Nexus One on Verizon. Could it be a sign, they are backing off from their branded phone? 

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Five Ways to Innovate Like Google

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If you want to innovate like Google, listen to someone who works there, but be forewarned, it's not going to be easy.

Read the five ways on DaniWeb.

5 Ways iPad Wannabes Can Compete

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It hasn't even been three weeks since the release of the iPad, and we are hearing rumors that every major manufacturer has plans for a competing tablet. Here's 5 ideas for them on how to compete with Apple.

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Stupid OSX Tricks: Running The Disk Utility from Startup Disk

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A friend of mine who knows computers inside and out, recommends running the OSX Disk Utility at least once a week. At first I thought this was silly, but I'm beginning to think he knows from whence he speaks.

The Disk Utility has two purposes. It lets you find and repair disk permissions and it lets find and repair hard disk errors. When your hard disk isn't healthy, it adversely affects performance in a big way.

The other day I ran the disk utility and was shocked to find major errors in my disk permissions. I fixed them, then ran the disk repair and it found a major error. The error seemed minor enough to me --the number of directories it was supposed to find was off by one number. It found 174,101 files and it was expecting 174,102. To the Disk Utility this was a major error highlighted in red to make you take it seriously. It recommended I run the repair feature.

The trouble is that you can't run the Disk Utility Repair feature from the active disk. This means you need to insert your OSX install disk and run it from the Install Disk.

Follow these steps to run Disk Utility from your Install Disk:

1. Insert your OSX Disk. It needs to be the version you are running, so if you are running Snow Leopard, it has to be the Snow Leopard Install Disk.
2. Restart your computer.
3. When you hear the musical chime, press and hold the letter C on your keyboard.
4. When the Install screen appears, click the Utilities menu and select Disk Utilities.
5. Click Verify Disk. Note this takes about 20 minutes for a 160 GB hard drive.
6. After the Verify process is complete, note the errors. I got the exact same ones as when I ran it directly from the hard drive, so I knew it was serious. 
7. Click Repair Disk. Again, this will take about the same amount of time as the Verify process. When it's finished, you should get a message (in green) that the errors were repaired.
8. Run the Disk Permissions process one more time.
9. Reboot and when your system boots, remove your disk.

After I did this, I was pleased to find my computer is suddenly dead quiet. Instead of hearing constant action on my hard drive, I hear nothing. It is silent and my computer is running much more smoothly. So take my friend's advice and run that disk utility once a week. It takes time, but you'll be glad you did.

Time for Apple and Adobe to Bury the Hatchet on Flash

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The war of words between Apple and Adobe just keeps escalating, but it's time to find a solution because it's consumers who are losing out.

Read my full commentary on FierceContentManagement.

Kin Could be Microsoft's Stupidest Move Yet

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I'm left wondering if Microsoft actually ever spoke to a teen before they created the Kin, because after checking it out, it appears to miss both form and function in one package.

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DaniWeb Review: Apple iPad 32GB Wi-Fi

 

After all the hype, I finally got my hands on an iPad, and for the most part I like what I saw. This is by no means a perfect device, but show me a piece of hardware that is.

Read my full review on DaniWeb.

Photo by Richard-G on Flickr. Used under Creative Commons License.

Any Way You Slice It, iAds Still Ads

Apple can dress them up as mini Apps and vet them against viruses and spyware, but in the end an ad is an ad.

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Early iPhone Users Can Kiss Multi-tasking Buh Bye

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If you own a first or second generation iPhone, you can forget about that new multi-tasking functionality Apple introduced with iPhone OS 4.0. You need to live without it or (wait for it), buy a new phone. Imagine that.

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