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Looking Back At OWC Over The Years.

Friday, January 29th, 2010 | Author: OWC Jen

While I celebrate my 13th anniversary of working at OWC this month, I thought a virtual stroll down memory lane might be informative and entertaining. When I first came here, there were only about six employees, so we all did whatever was needed to make sure orders got out the door and customers were happy. I would take an order in the morning, help run it through the credit card terminal later in the afternoon or evening, and sometimes help enter it into the Fed Ex terminal at night.

I had a number of paper pages stapled together that gave me the latest prices on 30-pin and 72-pin SIMMs, 168-pin DIMMs and everyone’s favorite SCSI drives (is my SCSI fast, wide, ultra, ultra fast, ultra wide, fast wide?).  Notes were all over it since we didn’t yet have the website we have today with all its helpful information. With the Apple II I used once or twice in the library at my grade school being my only Apple/Mac experience, I relied heavily on www.everymac.com and a program called QuickConference to instant message Larry (a.k.a. OWC Larry) or our other techie guy to figure out what was compatible with what.

You can check out early iterations of our website here by typing in “www.macsales.com” into the field at the top. If you aren’t familiar with the Wayback Machine (not to be confused with the WABAC machine), it is a very cool tool and project. Article Continues…

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November 30th – A Very Important Day for the World.

Monday, November 30th, 2009 | Author: OWC Chris S.

historyToday is a very important day.

The first Monday after Thanksgiving is commonly known as “Cyber Monday” and is the day that many online stores do a lot of their Holiday sales.

So, one may think we’d be touting all our holiday specials on the blog today. After all, it’s what you’d expect.

Sure, I could talk about the OWC Express enclosure blowout, but I did that last week and I hate to repeat myself.

I could talk about the highly-praised NewerTech Voyager Docking Solution and the bundles we offer with it, but that would barely be worthy to mention today. The same thing goes for the great specials we’ve got on OWC Mercury On-The-Go enclosures.

Normally, knocking nearly 2/3 off of the Lenspen VidiMax Ultra: Deluxe LCD / Plasma Screen Cleaning Kit would be worthy of talking about, but not today.

Even the free shipping we’re offering on orders over $150 can’t compare to the amazing significance today will hold in history.

No, my friends, today is a day of significance, hope, and glory, for today is the 40th Anniversary of the first appearance of “Mahna Mahna” by the Muppets on the Ed Sullivan Show. While there was a considerably more primitive version that appeared on Sesame Street earlier in the year, this was the rendition that really brought it into the spotlight, and was the version that most directly evolved into the most popular version from The Muppet Show in 1975.

This is such an important landmark in our history as a species, I couldn’t possibly bear to sully this important day with overt mentions of great deals.

I’ll leave that up to OWC Grant and hourly Tweets…just follow us on Twitter

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November 9, 2005 – Firefox is released.

Monday, November 9th, 2009 | Author: OWC Chris S.

Firefox-CakeFour years ago today, Web users everywhere that were looking to escape from the mediocrity of Internet Explorer were treated to the official release of a new browser, Mozilla Firefox. Since then, It has since become one of the most popular Web browsers currently available, second only to Internet Explorer, which, of course, ships as the default browser for Windows.

Firefox started as an offshoot of the Mozilla Application Suite which, in turn, was built on the open-source code of Netscape Communicator. Since then, Mozilla dropped active development in favor of the standalone apps Firefox and Thunderbird, and the full application suite was spun off as the community-developed project, SeaMonkey.

Firefox is considered by most to be stable and safe, and is available in Mac, Windows and Linux versions. That compatibility, plus an extensive add-on architecture which allows users to customize Firefox, are the main contributing factors to its popularity.

Even though I, personally, tend to stick with Safari for the vast majority of my Web browsing (especially in Snow Leopard, where Safari 4 is a 64-bit application), I still keep an updated copy of Firefox handy; every so often, I’ll find a site that pitches a fit over Safari, yet handles Firefox just fine. However, on the two virtual machines (Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux) I have on my MacBook Pro, Firefox is the main browser I use.

Many other people I know, both Mac and Windows users, use Firefox almost exclusively. Its compatibility with many corporate and online banking sites is far better than Safari (without changing user agent strings); I don’t think we need to go into its security advantages over Internet Explorer. ;-) I’ve also found Firefox to be reasonably zippy on PowerPC-based machines, often rendering more complex pages faster than Safari, so it may be a good option for you if you have an older machine.

Overall, Firefox is well worth the download, even if you don’t use it every day. You can find the latest version (v.3.5.5, released late last week) at www.mozilla.org/firefox

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