Technophiles

Mac Attack: An Apple a day keeps viruses at bay

Illustration by Gregory Coan

By Gregory Coan

For an IT guy, I have a pretty easy job. I’m part of a team of four, and I am the main Apple “guru.” While my compatriots spend their days cleaning viruses off staff PC’s and trying to figure out why the Microsoft email system isn’t functioning, I help students and staff produce videos, transform photos, edit artistic sound pieces – in short, I help people get things done.

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U-versity 101: AT&T’s U-verse now available in parts of St. Louis

U-verse users can schedule DVR recordings from any Internet-connected computer or wireless device.

It’s a fair statement that competition spurs better customer service.

So, while AT&T’s U-verse TV and Internet service might not yet be available to the entire St. Louis viewing area, chances are the company’s local arrival in December 2007, got the local cable and dish providers pondering their own futures with customers.

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N-SYNC—Microsoft Takes on The Car World

 Sharon Dash

You saw the commercials during the Superbowl -- “Anesthesia, ON,” and “Door, OPEN,” so you know that Microsoft has now made its way into the automobile industry. Recently, the very helpful Sharon Dash, Sales and Leasing Consultant of Paul Cerame Ford-Lincoln-Mercury on New Halls Ferry Road, invited us to test drive a Ford Focus with Microsoft Sync installed.

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