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    WE'VE MOVED! OUR NEW WEBSITE IS www.techiejunk.com My name is Daniel, I'm 13 and I love technology. I also enjoy reading about Tech., playing sports, and operating scoreboards! When I grow up I hope to work as an IT professional and help people with computers. It would be fun to meet Steve Jobs some day too. (I am more of an Apple guy)
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What is Leopard?

Leopard is Apple’s latest version of the Mac OS X operating system.  Leopard has been designated a version number of 10.5.  Leopard is the 6th version that Apple has released since early 2001. Leopard contains more that 300 new features when compared to Tiger, the prior version of Mac OS X.

Some of the new, noteworthy, [...]

Updating your Mac for Leopard

This guide will describe the process of upgrading to Mac OS X Leopard.  As Leopard has not been released yet, we’ve compiled this information based on our expectations and experience with previous upgrades of Mac OS X.  This guide will get you to start thinking about the steps involved a Mac OS X upgrade.  If [...]

If you spent $399 on AAPL instead of an iPod in 2001, it’d be worth $10,000

If you spent $399 on AAPL instead of an iPod in 2001, it’d be worth $10,000
Even if you waited until April 2007 to buy, you’re up about $100 per share. Happy Birthday iPod.
And if everyone would have bought Apple stocks and not iPods in 2007, it would have never reached the current value…

Why don’t Windows people switch to Macs?

Over on Apple Matters I came across an interesting post by Steven Leigh which considers 8 reasons why Windows users don’t switch to Mac. Leigh is a recent Mac switcher and he has an interesting insight into the issues surrounding making a switch, but I think that there are several areas where he misses the [...]

R.I.P. TV Links, owner arrested.

It’s a sad day for streaming video fans everywhere as news has been reported that TVLinks has been shut down and the owner, a 26yo man from Chelteham in the UK, was arrested.
Though not hosting an actual content himself, and rather merely providing links to where particular titles can be found, he was nonetheless apparently [...]

Need help with those Digital Camera terms?

Well here ya go:
aperture-An iris like diaphragm opening that you can expand and contract the lens to controll the amount of light in.
burst mode-when the camera can take several shots in a second
ccd- charge coupled device, which is the cameras image censor…1ccd is standered for a consumer video camera, 3 is what pros use since [...]

Top 05, what I want. Edition #1

I decided to start something new, weekly I will give you my top five favorite products and you can comment on what you think or tell me yours.
Nothing makes me happier than fanmail which I have only gotten 01 so far! :/
So here we go…Daniel’s TOP FIVE MOST WANTED LIST!!

Palm Centro
iPhone
Canon Powershot SD800 IS
An External [...]

The only 6 reasons PC’s are better than Macs, and the other side.

No Joke; As much as we love Macs, we admit there really are reasons not to buy a Mac. Here are my top six reasons to buy a PC instead of a Mac.

You only have $300 to get a new computer. There is no disputing the fact that Apple doesn’t compete in the market for [...]

iPod Touch, the Review.

Well I wondered over to my local Best Buy looking for a computer and was like “Duh” I wonder if they have the iPod Touch!!!? So I go over to like the music players and find the iPod touch untouched, and grabbed it.
The iPhone screen is brilliant. I’ll admit it. The colors are vivid and [...]

Mac Mini to be replased by Mac Nano?

We approach all Apple-related rumors with skepticism, but sometimes we get a certain feeling about them, and today’s from Mac OS Rumors gives us that tingle of plausibility. Word from one of that site’s “oldest and most reliable sources in Cupertino” is that the Mac Mini is going to be replaced before the end of [...]