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Lately we’ve seen a trend amongst higher level employees at companies – they keep every e-mail in their inbox! When we ask them why, their response most of the time was “I need to access old e-mails frequently”. This theory is quickly disproved by showing...

comScore released their quarterly report surveying the smartphone market in the United States. Up 2.7 points in the January-March period from last quarter shows that Apple’s smartphone market share is at 39%, followed by Samsung at 21%. This is only for the iPhone hardware....

The lucky person to download the 50 billionth app in the App Store is going to be one lucky S.O.B. Apple is holding a contest for that person and they will win a $10,000 gift card to Apple. Apple recently crossed the 25 billionth download back in February 2012. Do the math folks....

The 13″ MacBook Pro has been listed as the “best-performing” Windows laptop based on a “frustration analtic” according to C|Net. As per Soluto who ran the test: “A main factor in this machine’s metrics is the fact that every Windows...

Belkin has started to ship it’s long awaited Thunderbolt Express Dock. Belkin’s Thunderbolt dock is a solid docking solution for Mac users. The MacBook Air, for example, is a great lightweight unit but has limited ports. Luckily one of those ports is the 10gbit/s...

While we typically don’t write about clients, we at Virtua Computers have detected a phenomenon amongst busy users lately. The Messy Desktop Understandable everyone today is “busy”. People need access to their files so quickly they put it in the most convenient...

So you have last years model iMac. It has the amazingly fast thunderbolt port running at a crazy 10Gbit/s, and that new backup drive you just bought comes with USB 3!! What to do? What to do!? Have no fear. Since thunderbolt technology is still relatively new and still being...

Apple has released a development seed of 10.8.4 to AppleSeed testers. These AppleSeed testers are higher level developers than the general, registered OS X developers (which people pay $99/year for). More than likely registered developers will see this beta in the next few days....

So here’s another client story for you all. A user got a new home computer, and an iPhone 5. She was very excited to start using FaceTime and iMessages to communicate with her kid. The son had an iPod Touch with FaceTime and the client wanted to be able to message him while...

Apple CEO, Tim Cook, spoke at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco this morning.  While there were no earth shattering announcements, he did discuss sales, economics, and marketing.  Below is a summary of some of the main points.  You can find the...