P. J. Connolly

Although voice recognition for personal computers has been available in some form for almost 20 years, and it’s been available in limited fashion for mobile devices for a while, the implementation of Siri in iOS 5 has been a matter of building voice control into the foundation of the operating system. That’s going to change […]

I’m grudgingly beginning to trust the cloud for my own use. It’s not so much a matter of it maturing as it is a triumph of convenience. Apple’s Photo Stream service, a part of iCloud, is proving to be useful enough that I’m actually considering upgrading my work desktop from Windows XP to Windows 7, […]

Like many of you, I have spent the better part of the last two days slaving over hot downloads. That’s because Apple chose to release the latest updates to iTunes, Mac OS X Lion, iOS, the iWork for iOS applications, and a slew of lesser tools at almost the same time. Tuesday saw the iTunes […]

One of the facts of life a Mac user has to face is that a substantial body of software simply isn’t available for the platform. In some cases, that’s not a problem if equivalent applications for Apple’s operating system exist. But all too often, corporate users and the people who support them don’t have that […]

The launch of the iPhone 4S, iOS 5 and iCloud Oct. 4 was a milestone for Apple. For starters, it fell the day before the death of Apple’s founder and board chairman Steve Jobs, who had been the individual most closely identified with the company’s success in mobile devices. Beyond that, however, the company’s latest […]

Today’s launch of the iPhone 4S, iOS 5 and iCloud is a milestone for Apple in two significant ways. First, it was Tim Cook’s first time in the spotlight since being named CEO in August, upon the retirement of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Second, with the release of iOS 5 planned for next Wednesday, Apple’s […]

If I’ve learned nothing else from spending a few days with the Windows Developer Preview, it’s that Microsoft is taking few chances on there ever being another Vista. Although the first impression one receives of this taster release of Windows 8 is a dramatically different user experience compared with even today’s Windows 7, in many […]

The latest release of VMware Fusion breaks enough ground that one has to wonder what’s left for future releases. Fusion 4 is a solid virtualization environment that adds support for the latest client and server operating systems, including Apple’s OS X Lion, and release 6 of CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I’m even using […]

I’ve spent the last few days kicking the tires on the client version of Windows 8, which set me to thinking about the evolution of user interfaces in general. For years (decades, even) the basic constructs of a desktop, garbage can and nested file folders have dominated the user interface, no matter what operating systems […]

Capacity Is Not the Question The StorCenter PX family includes the px4-300d (left), the px4-600d (right) and the rack-mount px4-300r (below). The four-bay models support up to 12TB of storage, while the six-bay px4-600d can hold up to 18TB. At-a-Glance System Information Although most device provisioning is performed through the Web-based management interface, some basic […]