Quick Poll: It’s been 24 hours. What are your first impressions of OS X Lion?

Apple released OS X Lion, its latest operating system, yesterday and the reception so far seems to have been good. The software has been downloaded over1 Million times in a single day, making it Apple’s fastest selling OS yet. To give you an idea of the massive scale of this release, that means that Apple has moved over 3.6 petabytes of information in the last day alone serving the demand for Lion....

2 min · 290 words · James Hamilton

Quick Resume on the Xbox Series X is so good I want to imbibe it

Quick Resume on the Xbox Series X is so good I want to imbibe it PUSH IT DEEP INTO MY MAW SO IT BECOMES ME How does Quick Resume work on the Xbox? Without getting bogged down in technical details, it’s possible because of Microsoft’sXbox Velocity Architecture. This uses a combination of the console’s SSD, data decompression, new APIs, and Sampler Feedback Streaming. The best part is you don’t need to enable anything....

2 min · 378 words · Grant Mcdonald

Quick, cheap way to hack WiFi using Amazon servers to be revealed

A fast, easy way of hacking WiFi networks is set to be unveiled at a security conference later this month,Reuters reports. The method, which uses Amazon’s cloud-based server hosting service, reportedly tests 400,000 potential WiFi passwords per second in order to break into networks. A German security consultant, Thomas Roth is going to distribute and discuss the technique at theBlack Hatconference in Washington, D.C., which runs on 16 and 17 January....

2 min · 290 words · Lisa Hill

Quicksilver, the greatest mac app of all time, is back.

Quicksilver might not be so familiar to new mac users but just a couple of years ago the app was considered a must for any new mac. Originally developed byBlacktreedeveloper ‘Alcor’, it was built to speed up day to day tasks like emailing, launching apps and file manipulation but it soon grew to do far more. Eventually the development of the app was open sourced and code shifted over to GitHub....

4 min · 675 words · Cameron Archer

Quickstart Guide to Social Media for Business [Infographic]

Many businesses are just getting started in social media. It’s the natural course of action to take today seeing how huge its impact and reach has become. If you have a limited budget and have no idea where to begin, this Infographic fromGetit Comms, a Singapore based PR firm, might be a good reference to get your brand exposed in the world of social media in 14 simple steps. Just like traditional marketing, social media is not a one shot deal....

1 min · 209 words · Andrea Baker
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