Mega Apple Linkage on Ars Technica for Lion and Other New Products

Go here for Ars Technica’s “Week in Apple: It’s a Lion-pocalypse” link party. In that post, Jacqui Cheng links to their coverage of Apple’s new software and hardware releases from this past week, including: Mac mini, MacBook Air, Cinema Display, and Mac OS X Lion. As usual, Ars Technica provides insightful coverage of computer technology related …

Ars Technica Story on Publishers Suing Georgia State University over Course e-reserves

Ars Technica is featuring a story today about a pending lawsuit against Georgia State University by publishers over the university’s use of course e-reserves. In academia, students might have some books to buy for each course, but professors might also give students some readings via handouts (okay by fair use doctrine). With the advent of …

Adobe Flash Will Really Deplete Your Battery

After reading this post on Wired which reposts a review of the new MacBook Air from Ars Technica, I am going to uninstall Adobe Flash from my MacBook. As has been widely reported, Apple decided to not include Flash with the latest MacBook Air. The reason given was that it was better for consumers to …