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by Tim Haddock, Macworld
by Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post
For a home with more than one Mac running Leopard, I can't think of a simpler, easier backup system than Time Capsule.
by Dan Farber, CNET News.com
The parody of the Macbook Air commercial promoting the ThinkPad X300 ultramobile PC has an effect similar to Apple's series of ads with John Hodgman and Justin Long that put down Widnows.
by Robin Harris, ZDNet.com
Apple is often lauded for its design chops. And Apple's post-modern industrial design is lyrical next to Dell's neo-Soviet brutalism. But Apple makes some really stupid choices. Here are the top 5 - and the best workarounds.
by Julio Ojeda-Zapata, St. Paul Pioneer Press
I don't want a big iMac, but I do want a souped-up smaller one to fit into my cramped working space. I can't get that.
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
If you're looking for something simpler — just an easy-to-use utility for storing passwords, softwre licenses, and similar information — Markus Mehlau's free Pastor 1.8 is a good alternative.
by Jason Snell, Macworld
It is interesting to notice that even back then, there were forces within Apple that were trying to make backing up your hard drive a more convenient process. But it was not to be. And now we only remember Copland when someone's working on articles about famous products that never, ever reached the hands of the general public.
by Jason D. O'Grady, ZDNet.com
Messenger for Mac 7 delivers new suppot for Mac OS X Bonjour isntant networking technology, a new contact list search tool, and the ability to give contacts a nickname for easy recognition, even when their screen name changes.
by David Weiss
Ultimately, Apple and Microsoft are tying to solve many of the same problems. For me, Apple's "solution first, platform second" approach makes for easy understanding of new ideas as well as providing the activation energy needed to try something new.
by Thomas Fitzgerald
The whole "buying" aspect of it is so well hidden from the user that you can happily download songs without the "I'm spending money" part of your brain kicking in to stop you.
by Francis Wong
How good was my customer service experience at Apple? In one word - Fantastic.
by MacNN
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet.com
More like iMovie '09 increasing requirements.
by Electronista
Canadian telecoms provider Rogers today issued a brief note confirming that it has negotiated a deal with Apple to bring the iPHone to the country, ending uncertainty that has persisted since the American announcement last year.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Dominique James, Perfect Photo Pixels
Looking at my growing collection of iPhone snapshots, I cannot help but marvel at the big impact that these small images have on me, and hopefully, on others as well.
by Artonomy
by Adam Fisher-Cox, Appletell
by Iljitsch van Beijnum, Ars Technica
by David Alison
by Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek
During the first four months of 2008, Apple was named as a defendant in eight patent infringement lawsuits, up from five during the same period in 2007.
by Chris Foresman, Ars Technica
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
Today marks the fifth anniversary of The Store—the music/video/podcast/iPod game/iPod touch software emporium launched by Apple on April 28, 2003. To mark the occasion I thought I'd take a gander at my Purchase History and use it to note a handful of personal landmarks.
For me, two iPods, one case, couple of headphones, and two remotes later, total amount spend on iTunes Store: $0.
by Dan Moren, Macworld
Faster processors, RAM, and system buses should bump up performance across the board, and the availability of the Nvidia graphics card ought to provide a nice boost for those who need its higher-end capabilities as well. If you were considering buying an iMac before, then they just got even harder to resist.
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
Now that Apple has the iTunes Store and all its records... er... albums... er.... whatever, does Apple still need Gracenote?
by Aidan Malley, AppleInsider
A new legal complaint accuses Apple of infringing on a patent for a flash memory drive by selling its ubiquitous iPod nano and iPod touch players, among other devices.
by David Dahlquist, MacUser
Essentially, the 3.06GHz processors are current generation chips modified to take in more power and to support the faster system bus speeds so that they can be revved up.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Until the line (and the price) blurs further between Apple's click wheel iPods and touch screen systems, I expect the iPod gaming will be around for a while.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
Apple on Monday updated its iMac consumer desktop computer, adding the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processor and more powerful graphics.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Adobe on Monday announced that its venerable visual web site creation tool GoLive has been discontinued.
by Valerie Khoo, Sydney Morning Herald
Leo Laporte may not yet be a household name but he's acquired a loyal following of fans who listen to one of his 10 podcasts each week. In fact, each month his podcasts are downloaded 4.5 million times around the world.
by KGO
Stanford University now has its own laptop orchestra. Instead of instruments, the musicians play computers. Each key represents a note. But the tilt of a MacBook notebook can change the sound, too.
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
As Steve Jobs said, Apple does not need Microsoft to die in order for Apple to win. That's why articles comparing Apple's Macintosh sales to Microsof't's Vista sales are pretty much, well, useless.
After selling pretty well for most of the 24 years since 1984, you'd think that people will pick up the idea that the pond is big enough for more than one company to win?
by The Life Of Guy
The whole store is an experience. It's a community. It's pretty, open, and spacious.
by Arbi.trario.us
I realized that thei Phone's camera is positioned cleverly as well.
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
by Arnold Kim, MacRumors.com
by MacNN
by Jeff Carlson, Seattle Times
by Rik Myslewski, Macworld
Apple bought the engineering expertise and low-power savvy of P.A. Semi's 150-person team in order to better work with suppliers such as Intel.
Isn't this like buying the star programmer from another company, so that she can manage your vendor? Isn't this like buying a star basketball player, so that he can be in charge of choosing the basketball? Isn't this scenario a little, well, stupid?
by Ephraim Schwartz, IT Business
The iPHone has realized the old promise of the mobile web, but it's not clear whether the wireless networks can handle the load.
by PC Pro
O2 and Carphone Warehouse are reporting they've sold out of 8GB iPhones, suggesting the recent price cuts may have done the trick.
by Kirk Hiner, Applelinks
by Dennis Sellers, Macsimum News
by Jef Smykil, Ars Technica
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
Apple's general manager of European operations Pascal Cagni believes Apple can do a better job at selling the iPhone in Europe than it has done so far.
by Charlie Sorrel, Wired
by Michael DeAgonia, Computerworld
by Jason Heath, Arts Addict
I've got to say that noting makes you feel like a dorky old man than having a bunch of Macintosh-toting college kids make fun of you... especially when you're supposed to be the "new media" guy!
by Stevey's Blog Rants
by Gene Steinberg, MacNightOwl
by Paul Krill, InfoWorld
Sun continues to pursue talks with Apple to have Java applications run on Apple's iPhone while ackowledging a third party's efforts toward the same goal.
by MacNN
by Karen Haslam, Macworld UK
One issue is Apple's one-carrier-per country model. Another concern is security.
by Bruce Nussbaum, BusinessWeek
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Apple's attitude about unlocked iPhones hints that the company will abandon its business model of grabbing a piece of mobile carrier's revenues in order to make its goal of selling 10 million smart phones this year, an analyst said today.
by Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe
The Air's elegant form sacrifices a lot of functions found on even the cheapest laptops, not to mention its closest, thinnest rival, the ThinkPad X300. Instead Apple offers gleaming aluminum, and assurances that nobody will mind the missing features. And for the msot part, I didn't.
by MacNN
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
dpMatte provides greenscreen keying capabilities similar to video software, for Aperture.
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
Will the iPhone 2.0 software and the games that will pour in with it spell the end for gaming on traditional iPods?
I'm guessing with iPhone and iPod Touch being the future of Apple, the traditional click-wheel will be gone as soon as the cost of touch-screen goes down.
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
Apple released a Boot Camp 2.1 update today for Windows XP, and Windows Vista (both 32- and 64-bit versions).
by Jason D. O'Grady, ZDNet.com
by Stephen Withers, iTWire
Apple generally doesn't offer minimal specifications with the primary purpose of advertising them at low prices as a starting point for optioning-up to more realistic, more expensive and also more profitable configurations.
by Nick Wingfield, Wall Street Journal
"We have a great partnership with Intel," Jobs said. "We expect that to continue forever."
by Brian Caulfield, Forbes
By sticking with its promise to sell 10 million iPhones in 2008 on a call with analysts Wednesday—even as it announced sales of just 1.7 million handsets during the current quarter—the secretive Cupertino. Calfi.-basd computer and gadget maker made it plain that it's about to overhaul its iPhone lineup.
by Brad Reed, Network World
by Robert Vamosi, CNET News.com
Safari users may be subject to crashes or interactions with an attacker's malicious site, according to a warning posted on Tuesday on BugTraq.
by Jennifer Lawinski, ChannelWeb
Apple Tim Cook told analysts and investors that the company expects to hit its target and sell 10 million iPhones this year, and that unlocked iPhones are just evidence of the phone's popularity.
by Ben Worthen, Wall Street Journal
Apple is widely viewed as one of, if not the, most innovative company in the world. But innovation at Apple comes cheap compared to other tech companies. Of the industry's 50 most prolific investors in research and development, Apple spends the least as a percentage of revenue.
by Aidan Malley, AppleInsider
Despite speculation that Apple's acquisition of PA Semiconductor was motivated by the chip maker's specific products, a new report reveals that the iPhone designer is interested more in the buyout for its promises of intellectual proeprty and development expertise.
See Also:
DoD May Push Back On Apple's P.A. Semi Bid, by Rick Meritt, EE Times.
by Robin Harris, ZDNet.com
Apple's hardware independence means they can change the game any time they want.
by Saul Hansell, New York Times
Apple stands out as one company that has been able to flip its business forward so well that it is in a great position to thrive, even if its iPod problems become more than little.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
by Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek
by Adam C. Engst, TidBITS
Apple has released its Q2 2008 financial report, showing strong results pretty much across the board. Quarterly revenues were $7.51 billion, leading to a net profit of $1.05 billion, or $1.16 per share.
Most compelling was the increase in Mac sales, up 51 percent in unit sales from the year-ago quarter and up 54 percent in revenue.
by Rich Mogull, TidBITS
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
Recession fears, rampant iPHone unlocking, and a pessimistic outlook dinged Apple at the beginning of this year, but surging Mac shipments appeared to have the company in good shape as it closed out the quarter.
by MacSparky
by Michael Simon, MacLife
If Apple can simply incorporate the rumored Infineon chip into the existing handset — that is, if the current model has sufficient capabilities for 3G expansion without the need to modify any of the other components — Apple need only submit a "change in identification of (presently certified) equipment" form and pay a $60 fee. The process is significantly shorter than full approval, and Apple wouldn't need nearly as large of a window for filing.
by Erika Brown, Elizabeth Corcoran and Brian Caulfield, Forbes
Late Tuesday, in response to questions from Forbes.com, an Apple spokesman said Apple has agreed to buy a boutique microprocessor design company called PA Semi. The company, which is known for its design of sophisticated, low-power chips, could spell a new future for Apple's flagship iPhone, and possibly iPod products as well.
Apple's choice is a blow for chip maker Intel, which has been trying to convince Apple to rely on Intel's chip—particularly its latest low-power line up, called Atom.
A case of not putting all eggs in one basket by Apple?
See Also:
A Quake In The iPhone Supply Chain: Apple Buys Chip Maker PA Semi, by Dean Takahashi, VentureBeat. I suppose this is only fair, since Apple ruined PA Semi's original business plan. Founded by Dan Dobberpuhl in 2003, PA Semi started out designing PowerPC microprocessors for Apple's low-power laptops. Then Apple threw a monkey wrench in that plan and switched to Intel.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
by Bruce Nussbaum, BusinessWeek
Apple is now in a second, more sophisticated and impactful stage of generating platform innovation.
by Brian Caulfield, Forbes
Despite Oppenheimer's iron discipline, in the Sarbanes-Oxley era it's almost impossible not to drop some broad hints when big changes are coming.
by Andew Garcia, eWeek
Apple is slwoing introducing client and server software elements that wrangle together all the disparate Apple hardware and software installed across the network by giving administrators control over what applications and patches are presented to users for installation.
by Chris Foresman, Ars Technica
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
Apple has taken another move to improve its retail presence in China, opening its first store-in-store set-up there as plans eerge for two Apple retail stores in the world's most populous country.
by Gizmodo
There's a gem of a story—one of many—in Leander Kahney's new book, Inside Steve's Brain, about the biggest OS X mistake Apple never made: The original plan UI was to take the old crusty crap interface from Mac OS Classic and drop it on top of the core.
by Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
When Charlie Miller won US$10,000 for hacking into a MacBook Air laptop last month, he exploited a flaw that had beenpublicly disclosed nearly a year before the contest.
The flaw, it turns out, lay in an open-source software library called the Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) library, which is used by many products including Apache, the PHP scripting language, and Apple's Safari browser, which Miller hacked to win the contest.
by Tom Foremski, ZDNet.com
It is high time that Apple recognized this demographic and offered discounts on new products, such as the coming G3 iPhone to its most loyal customers first.
by Charlie Sorrel, Wired
According to French newspaper Les Echos, Apple is pushing Orange to subsidize iPhone handeset prices in order to shift more units.
by Dan Miller, Macworld
There are no guarantees.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
AllBookmarks installs in your Mac's menu bar and provides you with access to all your bookmarks from multiple browsers.
by Galen Gruman, InfoWorld
Once confined to marketing departments and media companies, the Mac is spilling ove into a wider array of business environments, thanks to the confluence of a number of computing trends, not the least among them a rising tide of end-user affinity for the Apple experience.
by MacNN
by Leigh McMullen, Cult Of Mac
The MacHeist bundle looks to be a real starter. If you have use for even just a couple of the full featured applications in the package, it's worth the money.
by Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek
Besides selling off unsold stocks, Munster suspects the price cuts are Apple's way of running experiments to help it determine the right price for future iPhone models.
And will Asia be Apple's "Little Unlocking Lab"?
by Peter Bright, Ars Technica
Writing software for Windows is a pain. Much of the platform is clunky and badly put together, and it makes development much less enjoyable than it should be.
by :Digged:
by David Alison
by Scot Finnie, Computerworld
It hasn't even been a full week since my MBA arrived, and I'm having a change of heart. While I continue to believe that Apple may have misfired on one or two important aspects, it's clear that I misjudged the appeal of the MacBook's finer points. In other words, the "undeniably sexy form factor" I described in my earlier blog post as not being enough to offset the loss of utility... well, let's just say it is enough.
A lot of fine products need to be hold, handled, used, owned before they can be appreciated.
by Moritz Petersen
by Larry Dignan, ZDNet.com
A reader visited the last address for Psystar and verified two things: There's activity and inventory on the scene. There is a business there and he noted headquarters "isn't located in a shady part of town." But a lack of signage and thefact he couldn't get in doesn't provide a confirmation that Psystar is actually at the address.
by Jason D. O'Grady, ZDNet.com
by Larry Dignan, ZDNet.com
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
by Charles W. Moore, Applelinks
With the Leopard release of Text Edit, many users may find that it meets all of their practical word processing needs without the necesity of buying Pages, Microsoft Word, or another third-party word processor solution.
by Marc Zeedar, Macopinion
by Asa Dotzler
by Elise Malmberg, Apple
"Going from a Silicon Graphics environment to something much more contained and accesible was instrumental in turning a more or less experimental partnership of two into a team of nearly 20."
by David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun
by Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS
by Justin Berka, Ars Technica
by Jonathan Richards, The Times
Mobile operators with exclusive contracts to sell Apple's iPhone are bracking themselves for significant losses on unsold stock as they clear the shelves to make way for a new, faster version expected this summer.
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
While it was fun to build the Frankenmac, the truth is that I'm not generally willing to live with the downsides of a build-your-own Mac over the real thing fresh from Apple's factory.
by Cynthia Irmen, School Board Soundings
And let's remember what this editorial is saying: Apple is making their machines capable of using Microsoft software. Let me say it again: Apple is redesigning their machines to be compatible with Microsoft programs. Are you understanding the situation a little bit better now? The Microsoft programs that our kids will begin to learn as we transition to a PC environment over the next 5 years will run on both Apple machines and PCs if the author of the editorial is correct.
Please don't write "hate mails" if you feel the urge to reply.
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Apple Inc has changed its software update tool for Windows users so that it separates updates for already-installed programs from offers to install new software.
Apple has updated the Windows utility, dubbed "Software Update," to version 2.1 That version features a split-pane displays that lists "Updates" atop and "New Software" below.
by Weblog Of A "Switcher"
by Nothing And More
As I see it, it's a gamble for Apple to go either way.
So many companies built operating systems for "generic" computers, and so far only one company succeeded. Why are there so many calls for Apple to license out its operating system, where history indicates that doing so will probably result in failure?
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
The idea for the Mac is not to have no modes, but to make modes very visible. And, from this perspective, Time Machine is very Mac-like, because you cannot help but notice tha you are now in Backup mode.
by Jacqueline Emigh, BetaNews
An IBM spokesperson today denied published reports of what he termed "mass migration" to Apple Macs at his company, claiming the only point of the test is to try to make IBM software products run well on Mac OS.
by Franklin Pride, Inside Mac Games
by Wendy Sheehan Donnell and Joel Santo Domingo, PC Magazine
by Todd Webb
It has become the way that we experience the family photo album, and I think it is better than the way I experienced family photos when I was a kid.
by Richard Koman, ZDNet
If you gave them your credit card number you should alert your bank.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Jason Snell, Macworld
My old rule of thumb — buy a professional Mac desktop model or laptop for about $2,500 — has gone by the wayside.
by Leander Kahney, Cult Of Mac
As they said on MacBreak Weekly, this software actualy worked?
by Apple
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
IBM is evaluating a plan to migrate many of its employees from Windows to Mac.
"In line with IBM's external strategy of offering a true 'Open Client' that may be Windows, Linux or a Mac," the document said, "Research IS is focusing on providing an IBM application stack on multiple Operating Systems, rather than be confined to one or the other."
Lotus Notes on Mac still sucks. :-)
by Erik Kennedy, Ars Technica
In this article we'll take a look at some basic ways you can improve your Mac's security right out of the box.
by Wendy Sheehan Donnell, PC Magazine
The iPhone does lots of stuff, but first and foremost, it's a mobile phone—and it's not a good one.
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
Apple's Mac business outgrew the overall PC market in the U.S. by a significant margin in the first quarter, according to research from IDC and Gartner released Wednesday.
by Christopher Price
Does Apple want Exchange on Mac?
I suspect licensing Exchange API to use on a Macintosh — as opposed to the iPhone — is significantly higher.
by John Sheesley, TechRepublic
To make an effective MacIntel clone, all it takes is some clean-room engineering about how Apple uses EFI to boot Mac OS X, and modify EFI on a PC to boot OS X. Include Mac OS supported Ethernet, video cards, and other hardware in your clone box and you're done.
by Kate MacKenzie, Pixo Bebo
There's no shortage of utilities to help Mac users manage tasks, projects, to-do lists. Many are more complicated than the projects and tasks we want them to manage.
Is there a handy, intuitive, manageable, affordable utility that can manage what I need to get done?
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com
NBC Universal would like to have its TV shows distributed once again through Apple's iTunes service, a top exeucitve said Wednesday, but he called for antipiracy measures to help protect his business' revenue.
It's there, NBC. It's called "ease of use" and "great experience" — so much so that you won't bother to go pirate.
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
Safari 3.1.1 is, as always, recommended for all users and "includes improvements to stability, compatibility and security," according to Apple.
See Also:
Apple Patches $10,000 Prize-Winning Bug, by Robert McMillan, IDG News Service.
by Glenn Derene, Popular Mechanics
In both the laptop and desktop showdowns, Apple's computers were the winners.
by Bob LeVitus, Houston Chronicle
Preview has always been a gem. But in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard it's turned into a real powerhouse with many new and useful features.
by Gizmodo
Reader Kahri visited their second location and saw no Psystar, but a packing supply company called "US Koen Pack."
by Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS
by Charles Maurer, TidBITS
There is no way to index images. To find pictures by their content requires (1) describing the content in words and (2) attaching descriptions to images. Both requisites sound simpler than I have found either of them to be.
by MacNN
by Franklin N. Tessler, Macworld
PowerPoint has caught up to Keynote in many areas and surpassed it in some. But Keynote's workflow and overall feature set remain superior.
by Leigh D. Stark
Where is the choice, Apple?
by Dan Nystedt, Jonny Evans and Desk Edit, Macworld UK
by Tom Yager, InfoWorld
Apple is getting ever more daring in its engagement with open source.
See Also:
Corrections to "Back to the Mac", by Tom Yager, InfoWorld.
by Diane Garrett, Variety
At least two more majors have joined Disneyin allowing their new releases to be sold via Apple's iTunes Store.
by Douglas S. Malan, The Connecticut Law Tribune
The iPhone, Apple's entry into the do-it-all smart-phone market, is popular with consumers, while raising security concerns within information technology departments of some businesses and law firms.
by Jeffrey Veffer
So what did Jobs change? Buxton just mentions that Jobs became the Chief Design Officer and promoted the value of design throughout the company. And the remarkable thing to keep in mind is that he did it with lagely the same staff that was around during the previous leaders' tenure. He really just gave the existing staff the tools they needed and hte right support to be able to execute on those good ideas.
by Roger Born, MyMac Magazine
by Bryan Gardiner, Wired
The problem, says lawyers contacted by Wired.com, is that breaking a EULA technically isn't illegal (it's not a signed or executable contract) and penalties tend to vary from state to state, making it very hard to stop.
by Nathan Alderman, Macworld
If you need a fast, accurate way to poer through reams of e-mails, PowerMail's superb searching could be a life-saver. But for everyday use, the current version's unpolished interface and otherwise limited features can't quite justify its relatively high price tag.
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
by Charles Arthur, Guardian
Forgive me forbeing a bit sceptical, but isn't it far, far more important whether the company has been around, ahs a reputation, and is going to deliver a machine? Isn't it?
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet.com
by Mark Kellner, Washington Times
The computer age was supposed to reduce complexiy and organize our lives, but somehow that hasn't automatically happened. This program may be a small step in the right direction.
by John O'Brien, Courier Mail
by Architosh
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
Although Numbers has some stunning templates, its shortcomings make it more difficult to use when you leave template-land. There's no doubt that I can create a prettier spreadsheet in Numbers, but Excel offers more formulas, features, and tools to help with actually building the spreadsheet.
by Gordon Haff, CNET News.com
THe EULA may or may not be an issue. The tying of hardware, software, or services has generally been frowned upon by the courts. On the other hand, the ultiamte resolution resolves around specific facts around market power and the like.
by Greg Sandoval, CNET News.com
Amazon's MP3 service is growing but not at the expense of Apple's iTunes, according to a report issued Tuesday by research firm, the NPD Group.
Is the pie getting bigger, or are all these at the expense of physical CD sales?
by Jonathan Seff, Macworld
by MacNN
The Miami-based Mac clone vendor Psystar says that Apple's restrictive licensing terms violate US antitrust laws and wants to fight the Cupertino-based company in court.
Idiotic move.
by MacNN
by Brian White, BloggingStocks
Is Apple pulling a long-term end-game by trying to slowly but surely erode Microsoft's dominance in the operating system area?
The way I see it, Apple is slowly eroding the relevance of Microsoft's advantages.
by Brian Caulfield, Forbes
While great industrial design—whether it's for great cars or great buildings—always attracts gawkers, it's software that makes Apple's proliferating array of machines so comfortable to use on a long-term basis.
Most of Apple's software is both simple to use, and powerful. And all the exciting stuff — from OpenDoc to Cocoa Touch — are all happening on Mac OS.
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
The single noticeable change wrought by the 2.0.2 update is a Favorites entry within a Flickr contact.
by Michael Gartenberg, Jupiter Research
Apple systems can be a seamles fit for many organizations. Time to get over the myths and take a closer look.
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
An entrepreneurial Mac vendor has gone offline just hours after it was discovered selling Mac OS X Leopard desktops from a company not named Apple.
That was fast.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
Stan has been in the Mac industry since 1994 when MacCentral first went online as a weekly publication. Things were a lot different back then—the internet as we know it was in its infancy—but Stan saw a way to make a successful business.
by Jeremy Horwitz, iLounge
by Katie Marsal, AppleInsider
Apple is investigating problems with its new Penryn-based Intel notebooks that caused flickering and graphics corruption during media playback and web browsing.
by William Mize
by Jack Schofield, Guardian
Pystar is offering an OpenMac made of standard PC parts on its web site for $399.99 — and it's claimed to run the latest version of Mac OS X.
So, someone is willing to play cat-and-mouse game with Apple? Will Apple brick this Macintosh in the next update?
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
So, we know it's coming, but what else?
by Nate's _Log.
He didn't need the help of that third-party apparatus. And then it all made sense.
by Adrian Thomas, The Jetplane Journal
1. DMG files and installing apps; 2. There's no right-click! 3. Where's my Home folder?
by Applepeels
Apple information just does not get to Windows users. They do not read Macsurfer, Digg, or almost anything else to do with computers.
But, of course. It makes perfect sense for Mac users to be more informed about computer technology, because they choose not to go with what "everybody is using".
by Tonya Engst, TidBITS
Based on plaintive email I'm receiving, it seems that many people are reluctantly contemplating a switch away from Euroa to an email client that's more actively supported or that has a more modern interface. I wrote this article to share my difficulties in making the switch in hopes of improving the experience for those who may follow (or choose not to follow) in my path.
by Ed Ramsey
I think the lure of inexpensive hardware, and the accumulated knowledge base of years of windows use mentally locked me in to a grove that I couldn't see, and couldn't move out of.
by Sebastiaan de With, Cocoia Blog
The problem I want to address can be referred to as 'Swiss Interface Syndrome', and its symptoms extend tot he apparently randomly distributed presence of Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann's 1957 typeface — Helvetica — in the graphical user interface.
by Xinhua
China Mobile has not started formal negotiations with Apple Inc. over the iPhone, despite the intention of both sides to cooperate.
by Eric Benderoff, Chicago Tribune
I adore Apple's MacBook Air so much I'm starting to think I can live with its shortcomings.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
by Joe Kissell, Macworld
Coordinate family members' or colleagues' schedules with iCal 3.
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet.com
I guess that the most obvious reason is that the Mac OS X platform isn't really all that cut out for gaming as of yet. However, Apple could bypass all these limitations and simply leverage Boot Camp.
Please no! It seems — to me, anyway — that high-end gamers are migrating from Windows to Wii, XBox, and PlayStation. Windows is losing that game advantage. There's no reason to join the Windows game bandwagon now.
by Gary Morgenthaler, BusinessWeek
Windows users, in the very near future, will be free to switch to Apple computers and mobile devices, drawn by a widening array of Mac software, without suffering the pain of giving up critical Windows-based application sright away. The easy virtualization of two radically different operating systems on a single desktop paves a classic migration path. Business users will be tempted. Apple is positioning itself to challenge Microsoft for overall computer dominance—even in the corporate realm.
by Ken Mingis, Computerworld
It's so set-it-and-forget-it simple that it's worth doing.
by Tim Beyers, Motley Fool
Adobe media player is, in many ways, a self-contained application. No browser is needed to download content from the web.
Hello? Excuse me? So is iTunes and the iTunes Store and all the free podcasts. So is QuickTime Player and the (still going nowhere) QuickTime guide.
If Adobe has an advantage here, it's with Flash. Having Flash deeply embedded into a media player could make delivering ads side by side slicker and more relevant.
So does QuickTime and the QuickTime skin. Which nobody is using.
by Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer
by Jeff Carlson, TidBITS
At the very least, any event passed to iCal should be intercepted and presented to the user as a confirmation dialog.
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
If you control-click on a word or a range of selected text and choose "Search in Google", the search is performed in Safari, regardless whether it's your preferred browser.
by Justin Berka, Ars Technica
by Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe
A company spokesman told me that Apple built Time Capsule with just one goal - easy data backups for Mac users. Mission accomplished.
by David Alison, DigitalAppleJuice.com
One of the little "gotchas" for me with my Mac has been closing down applications.
by Danny Katz, The Age
"I've always been a devout PC follower, but now I'm thinking of converting... to Mac."
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
Safari's behavior with tab-dragging is a little weird, and I suspect confusing to many people. When you drag a Safari tab, there are two dragging modes, determined by the initial direction in which you drag.
And I totally agree with Gruber's conclusion: there is no need for the intra-window mode to exist, except that it looks pretter than the inter-window mode.
by William Porter, Macworld
GyazMail 1.5.7 is a solid, competent desktop e-mail client, with an attractive user interface and some nice features. But the program hasn't changed much in years, and the rest of the e-mail universe has changed a lot.
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
Education and "safe surfing" practices are as important to this era of security as anything having to do with counting flaws or patching practices. Maybe that's the third rail of technoogy writing: it's not always the mean evil corporation's fault, sometimes, it's your.
by Robin Harris, ZDNet.com
Apple proves that by delivering value - instead of problems - computer users will happily fork over twice as much as Microsoft can get for WIndows today.
The overall point, which I agrees, is that Mac OS X upgrade is worth the upgrades, whereas the value of Vista is still not clear.
However, there are some nitpicks I want to make. What Apple sells are upgrades. After all, your very first copy of OS X is "free" with your Mac that you buy.
Secondly, Apple has very liberal upgrade policy: you can skip upgrades without paying any price penalties further down the road.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
New software designed to automatically port Java-based games to the iPhone has been revealed by New Zealand's Innaworks.
Is this Java on the iPhone? No. Apple is still the gatekeeper, and you still cannot run any Java applications that is out there.
by iPhone App Entrepreneur
Apple will support Android because the alternatives are worse.
by Ajay Singh, UCLA Today Online
Called UCLA on iTunes U, it's part of Apple Inc.'s two-year-old collaboration with U.S. universities competing to reach prospective students around the world.
by Aidan Malley, AppleInsider
Hidden away in the latest test firmware for iPhone developers is the mention of the chipset that will power third-generation cellular internet access in Apple's next generation of the device.
I think, at this point, everybody is convinced that there is a 3G chip in a future iPhone. The question is: when?
by Ryan Naraine, eWeek
Faced with a security crisis affecting its media player, Apple responds with key exploit prevention mechanisms aimed at thwarting hacker attacks.
by MacNN
Memeo today unveiled LifeAgent 2.2, a new version to its automated software backup solution, that introduces support for Flickr and .Mac iDisks.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Peter Kafka, Silicon Alley Insider
"If I knew when this date was, why would I announce it in the middle of a sentence at the Finnish embassy, rather than report it in the Wall Street Journal?"
And even if it is true, I fear Steve Jobs, and would never announce anything before he did. :-)
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
iTunes is widening its lead in the digital music market at the expense of other top brands, according to a new report by Ipsos.
If you want to compete with iTunes, you pretty much have to sell DRM-free music. If you want to compete with Amazon, you pretty much have to sell DRM-free music that is not available on Amazon. Niches, i.e.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
Unfortunately, there are no notes from Apple that detail the specific changes in each of the firmware updates.
Unless you're having troubles with your Mac, wait a few weeks. Let others test out the updates for you first.
by Aidian Malley, AppleInsider
In the latest round of its semi-annual teen surveys, analyst group Piper Jaffray finds that ownership of Apple's iPhone has doubled in six months and is set to double again, though cooling iPod and iTunes use suggests a changing of the guard.
Apple is continuing to hold a demanding lead on MP3-playing fit-in-your-pocket devices (i.e. iPod + iPhone), and may soon have a lead on the smart phone market too.
by Carl Nygren, Low End Mac
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
Apple on Tuesday began shipping Final Cut Server. Final Cut Server catalogs media and generates thumbnails to enable viewing annotation and approval of content from anywhere using a Mac or a PC.
by MacNN
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Sure, companies will be able to produce devices that may have some similar characteristics to the iPhone, but are they going to be able to replicate a thirving third-party development environment?
Heck, I can't find a single MP3 player manufacturer that can even replicate the iTunes experience. (I'm talking about the app, not the store.)
by William Porter, Macworld
Thunderbird 2.0.0.13 isn't as pretty as Apple Mail, and it doesn't integrate with OS X as well as Mail does. But in every other respect it is a very capable e-mail client, and its navigational tools and excellent support for tags give it an edge over Mail, at least for users who want the best tools for maanging lots of mail.
by Rik Myslewski, Macworld
And that's just the way Steve Jobs likes it.
by Michael DeAgonia, Preston Gralla, David Ramel and James Turner, Computerworld
by San Antonio Busienss Journal
by Jason D. O'Grady, ZDNet.com
Remember when Apple used to have the most advanced notebook materials? I can't help but htink that they're beginning to lose their edge.
by Mitch Wagner, InformationWeek
Small features make all the difference in why we connect with certain applications, and are downright repulsed by others.
That's why there's always room for sharewares and smaller products, even when there's a 800-pound gorilla in the room.
by Duncan Wilcox, Cocoa Therapy
The HIG is still good. In fact the first fifth of it is pure gold, still 100% current and relevant.
by Jeffery Battersby, Macworld
Better tools for employee sick leave and vacation time are welcome additions to the program, but pretty buttons, iCal integration, and .Mac backups are not enough to make this program a necessary upgrade for current users.
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
by Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS
Apple confirmed for me last week that a feature for using hard drives attached via USB to an AirPort Extreme Base Station is an unsupported feature. What a "lack of support" means is that you won't get any help from Apple's technical support.
by Erik Vlietinck, IT.Enquirer
by David Alison
I'm having too much fun exploring my Mac.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
Developers, TOon Boom Studio have tweaked its easy-to-use animation software with a better user interface, calligraphic lines styles and feather edges for creating blurs and glows.
by David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun
by Orgtheroy.net
by C.G. Lynch, Reseller News
Employees could lead the charge to change.
by Casual Observations
One of the reasons I have a very good control over my personal finance is I am able to control my impulsiveness to buy. iPod Touch has completely turned my discipline upside down in a matter of days.
by Cory Bohon, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Flow, a pleasant FTp client for the Mac, has definitely come a long way since we last took a look at it.
by Arnold Kim, MacRumors.com
Apple frequently announces new products that don't first show up in the FCC database. Also, companies are allowed to have some degree of confidentiality for products.
by Sameer Aidoor, Ctrl.Alt(ered).Mind
by Wall Street Journal
Smuggling iPhones has become a lucrative, if legally qustionable, way for traveling students and flight attendants to earn a bit of extra cash.
Perhaps it's no coincidence that iPhones, perennially sold out at Apple's Manhattan stores, are in stock in Buffalo. Manhattan is full of tourists armed with strong euros, rubles and Brazilian reasis. Few of them visit cities in upstate New York.
by Aidan Malley, AppleInsider
by Chris Ullrich, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
After a few weeks in the arms of Firefox 3 betas, I've returned to Safari as my daily browser. Unsurprisingly, it's the interface that drove me back.
by Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
Network administrators are complaining that Apple's recent decision to offer users its Safari web browser as part of an iTunes and QuickTime update has made their lives harder, as they struggle to remove the software from PCs on their networks.
You have an environment that you trust your employees to have a general-purpose computer, yet your environment cannot handle a little web browser? Me think you have a bigger problem than Safari.
by Olga Kharif, BusinessWeek
The most likely explanation: Apple is gearing up for the next version of the popular handset or it underestimated demand—or both.
by Dan Miller, Macworld
OmniFocus 1.0.1 is one of the nicest, most polished to-do managers out there. The more you buy into the whole GTD process, the more useful OmniFocus will be. But even if you haven't joined the Cult of David Allen, it's still a powerful way to help you get things done.
by Incemental Blog
by Aaron Weiss, Server Watch
The Xserve delivers a turnkey server environment that offers out-of-the-box productivity difficult to match with enterprise PC servers.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
A pair of remote access solutions for Macs have appeared from different developers.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Scott Hansen, ISO50
Mac is far superior in this arena and delivers an experience that's so far advanced compared to Windows, it's seriously sad.
by Robert Lemos, CIO.com
Sometimes, IT leaders are told that the company runs Windows, period. But that doesn't stop them from wishing for the forbidden fruit: One CIO explains why he'd like to bring Apple to his enterprise.
by Stephen Withers, Hydrapinion
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
The smart phone market has been reduced to a two-horse race between Apple Inc.'s iPhone and Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry, according to consumer surveys publshed this week.
by Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer
by Jeff Gamet, Mac Observer
by Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe
With a new chief executive at the helm, Avid is slashing prices, upgrading customer service, and overhauling its product line.
by J. Peter Bruzzese, InfoWorld
The entire system feels like something out of "The Jetsons." Everything I plugged in — printer, camera, USB keychain, network connection — just worked, and it all worked immediately.
by Chris Foresman, Ars Technica
by David Pogue, New York Times
Every now and then, a couple of messages come in that really irk me. These messages tell me how wrong I am about something I reviewed, which is fine — but they come from people who have never even tried the product.
by Kirk McElhearn, Macworld
by Gizmodo
Osborne effect? Never heard of it.
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
I think it's hard to argue that Adobe should have somehow known the end was near for Carbon when even Apple didn't know.
by The Official Publicspace.net Blog
It's just awesome as a light travel companion.
by Alan Zeichick, Z Trek
Apple's web repository of "I'm a Mac" ads aren't really marketing at all, they're just there to cater to zealots.
by Baltimore Sun
If Apple has fixed the problem, why not say so in the update's documentation? Why leave users guessing?
by Suzanne Deffree, EDN
by Ryan Faas, Computerworld
by John Siracusa, Ars Technica
The choice was hard not just because it hurts Adobe and Microsoft, but also because it hurts Apple itself.
by Matt Hartley, Globe And Mail
Just what does Apple Inc. have against Canada?
by Colin Gibbs, RCR Wireless News
Mobile gaming continues to languish, plagued by a lack of innovation, overpriced titles and the constraints of tiny screens and 12-key pads. But game makers are hoping that Apple Inc.'s iPhone changes all that.
by Bryan Gardiner, Wired
The GreeNYC logo shows astylized apple with a stalk and a leaf. It bears a resemblance to Apple's famous logo — a resemblance Apple says infringes on its trademark.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
At WWDC 2007 Apple discontinued its Carbon 64-bit program, which left company's like Adobe without an avenue to make its current codebase 64-bit. What Adobe has to do now is transition all of the old Photoshop code to Apple's native Cocoa programming language, where it can then be made 64-bit.
Maybe it was a mistake after all for Apple to introduce Carbon?
by Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica
Paid downloads accounted for almost 30 percent of all music sold in January, a number that would have been unthinkable just a few short years ago.
by Thomas Fitzgerald
In my opinion both tools offer a powerful workflow solution for Photographers, but personally, I find Aperture's non modal worklow more intuitive.
by Kirk McElhearn, Macworld
In the first part of our Spotlight series we'll give you an overview of the Spotlight menu, including how to customize how results are presented, how to save time with keyboard shortcuts, and how to rboot spotlight when it misbehaves.
by Jonathan Seff, Macworld
Bug fixes.
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
Call me a skeptic, but doesn't that seem like a lot for Apple engineers to tackle in a year, ading a whole new device category when iPhone 2.0 (both in software hardware) is right around the corner? And when new iPod Touches and iPod Nanos are expected in September?
by Eric Savitz, Barrons
Bernstein research analyst Toni Sacconaghi notes both iPhone models appear widely available in AT&T stores. And both models are in stock at O2 and Carphone Warehouse stores n the U.K.
by Seth Weintraub, Computerworld
This type of list is a product of a bygone era. Misconceptions that have been proven false for years or nitpicking a flaw of past hardware aren't going to help anyone make a good business decision.
See Also:
Macs: They're Not For Everyone, by The Macalope, CNET News.com.
by Jon Fortt, Fortune
Steve Jobs's plans for a new Apple campus in its hometown of Cupertin, Calif. are taking a little longer than expected to become reality.
by Charles Arthur, The Guardian
Sometimes, saying nothing isn't enough.
by Larry Dignan, ZDNet.com
How does Apple differentiate between the iPhone and iPod?
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
by Agam Shah, Macworld UK
by Brian Caulfield, Forbes
Intel's most intriguing customer isn't showing its intentions. This is despite the fact that analysts say Apple will almost certainly dip into Intel's new line of processors, as they grow both more power-efficient and more powerful.
by Destination Unknown
Windows has users — Apple has followers.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
Adobe on Wednesday announced the Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 beta program, following up on the successful beta for the first version of the photography workflow application. Lightroom 2.0 beta will include many enhancements including being the first Adobe application to support 64-bit for Mac OS X 10.5 Intel Macs.
by Investor's Business Daily
Recent history shows why innovation stalls at many firms.
by David Morgenstern, ZDNet.com
Microsoft's desktop strategy has been and continues to be a prescription for mediocrity. No wonder that the PC market is so focused on cost, commoditization and the entry-level machine.
by Robert Lemos, CIO
Instead of productivity gains, dealing with compatibility issues between the Macs used by engineers and the PCs running Windows used by the line-of-business people in the office slowed down work and resulted in communications issues.
by Kamakshi Palakodety, TechNews
The Modbook is more like a drawing board for designers. It is a slate tablet PC which enables the illustrators to work with a pen rather than the keyboard, prompting flexibility to their designs' digital incarnation.
by Dana Gardner
We should expect quite a bit of news out of Apple soon that has nothing to do with client-side hardware, and much more to do with the iTunes funnel and the .mac services cloud.
Certainly, I do sense great things are yet to come on .mac, but I'll hestiate to say that "there's not too much more innovation needed down there in the hardware space."
by Mike Wendland, Detroit Free Press
I really can tell no difference between running those Windows programs on my Mac with Boot Camp, and on my Dell at my Free Press office.
by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune
The iPhone gets the most press and the iPod sells in the largest quantities, but it's the Macintosh that really drives Apple's growth, says Gene Munster.
by Thomas Gagnon-van Leeuwen, MacUser
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
Ableton Live remains a more-than-able musical tool.
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
FinderPop is up there on my personal list of must-have utilities for Mac SO X. If you want quicker access to your files and folders, it's a mose-driven alternative to keyboard launchers.
by Arik Hesseldahl, BusinessWeek
This leads him to believe two possibilities. 1) A new iPhone is coming sooner than originally expected or 2) There's a production or manufacturing problem. He figures the chances that a new iPhone are coming at about 80%.
by Larry Dignan, ZDNet.com
The average Apple iPhone user is an avid email reader (not writer) under the age 30, browses the web heavily and may carry a second phone. Meanwhile, a lot of these folks would like a few physical tweaks to the iPhone.
Those are some of the takeaways froma report from from Rubicon, a research firm, and indicates a bevy of interesting cross currents.
by MacNN
by Victor Graf, The Daily Evergreen
I wandered into the Apple Store in Portland this weekend and was confronted by the usual mix of candy-coated technology, obtuse and rare software, and bizarre people.
by Chris Oaten, Adelaide Advertiser
The most appealing facet of the MB Pro is something that can't be measured in benchmarks. It just feels right, as a mature product should feel.
by Chris Oaten, Adelaide Advertiser
Apple's MacBook Air remains a thing of such stunning form that the fact it's also a surprisingly capable computing device seems more a bonus than a necessity.
by Kevin Carmony
The Mac has everything I love about Linux, but the software and services were so nicely put together.
by George Hulme, InformationWeek
by David Morgenstern, ZDNet.com
by Erik Vance, Wired
Seismologist Elizabeth Cochran and Jesse Lawrence have made use of the sensors built into many new laptops that sense when the computer is being dropped, and turned them into earthquake monitors. They hope to sign up thousands of users to act like a grid of detectors that can sense an earthquake before it does too much damage.
I wonder how Al Gore will feel about all these laptops running screensavers at night, sucking away electricity, while helping to cure cancer and detect earthquakes.
by The Macalope, CNET News.com
The Macalope certainly wants to see Apple come up with a comprehensive strategy for implementing sound security in its software, he's just saying that there's more than one aspect to this issue.
by Matt Hartley, Globe And Mail
Every week during the design process, the teams hold a pair of meetings, Michael Lopp, senior engineering manager at Apple, said. One is a brainstorming session where free-floating and crazy ideas are encouraged; in the second, designers and engineers are forced to ground all those thoughts in reality and figure out how they can be practically incorporated into the product.
Mr Lopp said this two-pronged approach helps keep the idea phase of the process rooted in the real world early on, while ensuring that the innovative juices keep flowing in the final stages.
by Marcelo Duran, Newspapers And Technology
For users of Apple's Leopard Server, Podcast Producer automates the workflow behind producing near-live audio and video podcasts, the company said.
by John Topley
I think that it probably amplifies any snobbish tendencies that you may already have, but perhaps more than anything it makes you aware of the deficiencies in other products through a heightened appreciation of good design. Is that so bad?
Or maybe it takes a snob to buy Mac? After all, if you are not a snob, you'll just use (and bitch about) whatever else everyone is using, right?
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
While Outspring Mail introduces some intriguing new ways of managing e-mail, it drops the ball on some standard features in the process.
Reading this reminded me of OpenDoc: how one might be able to take the brains of Outspring and drop it into the body of Mail.app.
by Alexis Kayhill, Mac 360
Adobe has managed to take a massively complex application with many professional level features and make it somewhat easy for the average Mac user to tolerate, at a wonderful price. It's not perfect, but it's a true value.
by Larry Seltzer, eWeek
And yet the Mac continues not to be widely attacked int he real world. With their reputation among security professionals taking a nosedive and malware for the Mac on the increase, things could change real soon. Unless all that talk of the Mac market share increasing is just hot air.
by Ben Worthen, Wall Street Journal
Many IT groups have banned the iPhone from their workplaces, complaining that there is no way to force employees to protect their iPhones with passwords and that they can't erase sensitive corporate data from remote locations if the device is stolen or lost. Additionally, they say the iPhone doesn't support the software many businesses use and that it only works on one cellular carrier's network.
But keeping the iPhone out of the office may be a losing battle.
The strategy of getting Macs to corporations via the bottom rank-and-file failed. Let's see how well iPhone can invade the enterprise.
by MacNN
With Web2 Delight, users can find content from any popular video or photo sharing service, such as YouTube and Flickr, and save it to any Mac.
by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune
by MacNN
by Adam C. Engst, TidBITS
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
The AirPort Express offers more features, a more travel-friendly design, and easier setup than similiar products from other vendors.
See Also:
Airport Express Comes Through, by Confessions Of An Ex-Windows User.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Roxio has beefed up the software impressively, and has made Toast much less of a simple video burning tool and much more of a digital media hub for users looking to get a lot more out of the content they already have.
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
The new suit was filed today in San Jose, accusing Apple of pulling the same color dithering trick on the latest 20-inch iMac that it did with the MacBook and MacBook Procs cited in the previous lawsuit.
by MacNN
by Joe Kissell, Macworld
We've taken a fresh look at ten browsers for OS X. We put all of these browsers through their paces and judged them on interface, web capabilities and extra features.
by Nancy Gohring, Macworld
When the iPhone went on sale in the U.S. last June, many observers predicted that it would ignite sales int he broader smartphone market. After nine months on sale here, and its more recent rollout in parts of Europe, it is now clear that the iPhone ahs done just that, analysts at the Smartphone Summit in Las Vegas said on Monday.
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