Apex Geeks's (apex_effect_geeks) Blog

A number of news organizations have been picking up on Microsofts newest ad campaign which points the the higher prices of the Mac vs. the PC. Microsoft and others refer to this as the Apple Tax. Instead of defending the price of the Mac I thought we'd do an actual comparison in oder to determine...

Yesterday Oracle Corporation and Sun Micosystems announced they have entered into an agreement where Oracle will acquire Sun stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction will run Oracle and estimated $7.4 Billion. Questions remain on how this will impact the open source projects that Sun ho...

Mac users have been typically comfortable with the Apple OSX platform being free of Malware but an iWork Trojan may be turning Macs into Zombies. The Trojan horse was embedded in an iWork '09 trial version that was making the rounds on file-sharing networks. Researchers have now discovered two ot...

The founders of Pirate Bay, the most popular BitTorrent site on the Internet, were sentenced to 12 months in prison and a $3.56 Million fine after the court filed a ruling against the group. What's interesting is that the court did not find the defendants guilty of hosting material illegally but ...

We're late on this one but since it's still near Easter we thought we'd review what the term easter egg means in Geek Speak. An easter egg is a secret message, credit or screen hidden in an application, game, or DVD. Easter eggs typically include a bonus feature or item but can include the names ...

Microsoft has stated they they are making preparations to include Internet Explorer 8 in an upcoming Automatic Update/Windows Update release. The update will likely roll out during the 3rd week of April and will target Internet Explorer 6 and 7 users, which currently makes up 93% of Internet Expl...

Microsoft confirmed today that, as planned, Windows XP has finally and officially transitioned from the Mainstream Support phase to the Extended Support phase. Most users are likely not to experience any difference in service since Microsoft will continue to provide regular security updates and o...

The meaning of the term Beta has had some changes in recent years but most still believe that it represents the first version of software that is considered stable enough to be released for testing, but not yet ready for commercial release. However, many companies have been using the term Beta as...

The original founders of Skype have been approaching several equity firms in hopes to make a bid for the now eBay company. The two men sold Skype to eBay in 2005 for 2.6 billiion and since then have formed a capital firm and backed the online video service Joost. eBay has been attempting to sell ...

Twitter is becoming more and more popular and there are various companies trying to jump on the Twitter bandwagon and attempting to build applications to facilitate a better user experience. Tweetdeck is one of these applications, still in Beta it's shown to be one of the better organized Twitter...