CR gets OK readership, over 2.5k unique hits a day, serving almost 5000 pages (using wp-cache) which amounts to 200MB bandwidth a day and 33k hits. So what OS and browsers statistics can I pull from these figures? It breaks down like this:
Operating Systems Hits Percent
Windows 259428 78.4 %
Macintosh 55468 16.7 %
Unknown 10909 3.2 %
Linux 4172 1.2 %
Sony PlayStation Portable 466 0.1 %
Symbian OS 71 0 %
BSD 45 0 %
Sun [...]

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In part one I covered ‘Why use eSATA?’ In part two I’m covering ‘How to use eSATA’ The presumption is that you want to add additional external drives to your current setup. Maybe you are a laptop user or have run out of internal space in your computer but still want super fast disk access [...]

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Will Wrights often delayed epic Spore will be winging its way to Apple’s OS X, launching at the same time as the Windows version. The announcement is timed to coincide with the Macworld Expo, which at the time of writing is still running. At the convention EA has three booths running Spore on Macs.

“With Spore [...]

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A two part post, you can find part two here.
Own a MacBook Pro or Windows Laptop? Want to write to / from an external disk at theoretical 3Gb/sec? Which, in practical terms, is a maximum of 280MB/sec.

Tags: Apple, art, book, conversion, disk, firewire, free, FW, mac, macbook, macintosh, sata, usb

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Here’s part two of the easy guide on getting Windows on your Intel Macintosh.
If you want to copy files between OS X and Windows partitions easily then stick to 32GB or below. This is because if you go over 32GB you have to use NTFS, which OS X is unable to write to. If you [...]

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Or how to dance with the devil in the pale LCD light.
One of the first things I did when I received my new MacBook Pro was install MAME. This is not relevant to this article in the slightest, I just happen to like Arcade games. The next thing I did was install Windows. On my [...]

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Steam Punk is hip, has been for ages, well, sin…

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I have a lot of USB devices attached to my Mac, all via a sweet little USB hub that’s a trooper and not failed me yet. So the hub goes into my PowerBook and into the hub goes:
Lacie blue brick 300GB external HDD (Speedy but has a fan in it so it’s noisy)
Western Digital 250GB [...]

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