I was surfing around some of my favorite Volkswagen news websites during another unproductive day at home, when pulled up the VWVortex website. There on their front page was news of the all-new 2009 Volkswagen Scirocco. Volkswagen’s attempt (again) to capture the sports-coupe segment.

The VWVortex article mainly consisted of Volkswagen’s Press Release from the Geneva Auto Show.

Volkswagen’s Chief Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn was quoted in the VWVortex article saying:

“In the Scirocco we will be bringing the kind of sports car into the showroom that people dream of. Yet it is a dream that an exceptionally large number of car drivers will be able to afford – despite all of the high-end technologies we have implemented.”

I’m not too sure about the “kind of sports car[...] that people dream of.” part of Dr. Winterkorn’s statement. While the front end design is defiantly unique and shocking in comparison to the Volkswagen Jetta and GTI, which are currently offered at dealerships, the all-new Scirocco isn’t as appealing of a ’sports coupé’ I was expecting from Volkswagen designers and engineers. Read the rest »

Apple introduced their idea of a solution for backing up notebooks with Time Machine back in January at Macworld 2008, called “Time Capsule.” It’s an interesting contraption.

At first I was a bit skeptical and put-off with the device and with Apple. I was upset with Apple with this device, which makes Apple appear that they’re becoming more like Microsoft. The device is supposed to relieve the issue that notebook users with Mac OS X Leopard, Apple’s newest operating system, can use Time Machine to automatically back up the notebooks files.

The Time Capsule is pretty much the same thing an Airport Extreme Base Station, aside from the fact that the Time Capsule has a built in hard drive. But, once again, Apple has released a product that I’ve found flaws with its options, offerings, and has, well, come up short in my expectations of an amazing Apple product. Read the rest »

Apple has announced a major update to its Apple TV device, its ‘Take 2′ software update.

Take 2 is a major revision of Apple TV’s software adding new features to the set-top box, including HD movie rentals and trailers, iTunes music store, access to Flickr photo galleries, in addition to accessing YouTube videos, and Podcasts.

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So, about a week ago Apple released it’s 6th major release to the Mac OS X system. A few days before its release, Apple had a pre-order system set up. So, being the geek that I am, I pre-ordered. On Friday 26th, I received my package, and Apple officially started selling the OS. Upon opening the box, I was greeted with a reflective, holographic-like package. I opened the box and pulled out the Mac OS X “Leopard” 10.5 DVD and slipped the disc into my MacBook and started the installation.

The Installation said to save all of my work and press the “Restart” button within the dialog box. A few seconds later, the installation started. I selected my language and my options and the installation started. Having previously watched the Leopard installation movie from Apple’s website, I knew it would take between an hour or two to fully install and reboot the computer.

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