Well, I did it. I stayed up all night reading techie news and following the iPad chatter on Twitter, then promptly at 7:30 a.m. local time (we’re in Central Time zone at the moment), I pulled up the Apple Store website and placed my order for a 32GB iPad + 3G. So now the wait [...]

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Working on a forthcoming review of vReveal video enhancment software (for Windows®) has led me to learn more about both Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) and virtual machine (VM) applications …

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In my quest to get vReveal video enhancement software to run in Windows® on a virtual machine (VM), I installed the newly-released VirtualBox 3.0 VM application update on my 24-inch iMac yesterday. The problem I was trying to correct is that the video card emulator in VirtualBox 1.5 was not up to handling a high-end [...]

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I have a chance to review a new, specialized video editing tool called vReveal, just in time to try to fix up some of the shaky vids I’m making with my new iPhone 3GS. But there’s a catch. vReveal is a MS-Windows® program. Normally this would not be a problem, since I have Windows XP [...]

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About a month ago, long-time friend Deirdré (@DeirdreS on Twitter) suggested I try Sun Microsystems’ VirtualBox application, after I’d complained about the necessity to buy yet another copy of Parallels to put on my home webserver. Since it’s opensource software, and I’m a fan of Sun anyway (having used Solaris when I worked at Cadence [...]

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