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by Joe Kissell, TidBITS
I'm all in favor of choice, but seriously... Mac users do not need this many backup options! What we need is a small number of excellent options. And yet, although my list of 60 programs includes some that are very good, there isn't a single one to which I'd give a perfect 10-out-of-10 rating, or even 9 out of 10.
by UPI
An Apple Inc. spokesman has denied that four teenagers were permanently banishd from all the company's stores by a Palo Alto, Calif., manager.
by Matt Asay, CNET News.com
Microsoft makes products that people have to use. Apple makes products that people want to use. That's why we love Apple and deride Microsoft. It's as simple as that.
by Samara Lynn, ChannelWeb
The secret has been out for a while. Vista runs better in many insances on Apple Mac's hardware than on other PCs. But figuring out the best way to run Vista on a Mac is an entirely different story.
by Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek
Unless the default Safari download location is changed, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by tricking a user into visiting a maliciously crafted web site, Microsoft said.
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
Once you're in a space, you stay there until you explicitly switch spaces, not just switch apps. This makes all the difference in the world for the way I, and others, want to use Spaces.
by Dan Moren, Macworld
Now there's only really one question left: will Apple manage to destroy the record labels before the record labels manage to destroy themselves?
by Dan Moren, Macworld
It would seem that Steve Jobs's proposed future of DRM-free music has quickly become a reality—if not in quite the way he envisioned.
by Ted Landau, Macworld
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
SuperSync simplifies the process of synchronizing iTunes libraries between Macs, PCs and iPods. It transfers music files and their accompanying metadata, so information on genre, artist, album and track number stays consistent from machine to machine.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Jonathan Blum, Fortune Small Business
Yes, more businesses can now go to Macs. But for the rest of us - particularly those that need basic computing and basic features - Apple is still more expensive and simply not worth the integration headaches for the average small shop.
To me, this is more like: I have no idea how to integrate Macs into our workflow, and I bet that if I can't do it, no one else can.
by Bakari Chavanu, Apple Matters
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
Sounds a bit like the description of a revamped .Mac geared toward over-the-network synching to iPhones, no?
Don't forget Safari for Windows. There got to be some deeper strategy to porting Safari to Windows besides earning some extra Google cash, shouldn't it?
by Brendon Chase, CNET.com.au
Whether you're a newbie or an experienced Apple user, this guide wil show you how to let your fingers do the walking around your Mac.
by Kristina Peterson, Inside Bay Area
To four Palo Alto teenagers raised in the heart of Silicon Valley, the penalty came as a crushing blow — banishment from all Apple stores worldwide for life. Their crime, the teens said, was downloading a third-party car-racing game onto iPhones at Apple's University Avenue store last weekend.
by Scot Finnie, Computerworld
Sure, you can buy a less expensive Windows machine for home or office desktop, but as Macs go, the new iMac is a great deal.
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
Beyond the pretty new UI that feels right at home on Leopard, there ar enew theme maangement features like folder organization, filtering, searching, and tags.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
In the interest of setting the record straight, here are the corrections to my original article based on the actual 10.5.3 update file.
by Noetbooks.com
by Electronista
3 is the name of the telco; it's not the case that Apple had signed up with 3 telcos in one city.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
by Brian Prince, eWeek
Apple has patched bugs in its iCal calendar application a week after security researcher disclosed them.
by Brad Will, TinyPlanet Software Blog
First and foremost, you really need to work out your schedule ahead of time.
by Scott Meade, Synap Software The Blog
Apple is simply following well-proven best practices of customer services and being rewarded with loyal consumers.
by James A. Martin, PC World
The answer? I love the Air and I think many other mobile professionals will too, though it's not for everyone.
by MacNN
by Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com
by Dan Sabbagh, The Times
Apple is poised to announce it will start selling films from four major Hollywood studios for download in the UK as part of its iTunes internet serivice at prices on a par with DVDs.
by Adam C. Engst, TidBITS
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
by Jason Snell, Macworld
by MacNN
This relatively major release addreses a number of issues extant in previous editions of Mac OS X 10.5.x, including problems with AirPort, Time Capsule, Mail, iChat, iCal and more.
by Chris Foresman, Ars Technica
by David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun
FileMaker has created an exceptionally Mac-friendly, easy-to-use database program for regular folk, and just in the nick of time.
by Christopher Dawson, ZDNet.com
by Tom Yager, InfoWorld
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Swedish telecommunication scompany TeliaSonera AB today added its name to the list to mobile carriers set to sell Apple's iPhone this year.
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
The striking thing about this report is n't that the number makes Apple look good, it's how much better Apple is doing than just two year ago.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
Nokia, Apple and others agree to discuss European levy on iPods and other devices.
by Gizmodo Australia
The more I use the Air, the more I need to own it. This laptop isn't for everyone. But if you have a desktop and need a laptop to compliment it when you're out on the road, then this is a superior piece of kit.
by David Flynn, Sydney Morning Herald
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
At the top of the new feature list is the ability to catalog far more than just media like DVDs and books; users can now keep track of their gadgets, toys, tools, and just about anything else that Amazon carries.
by What Hi-Fi?
by Gizmodo
We had a chance to ask director/writer/editor Kobi Shely about his first movie. And he had some interesting things to say about Apple and the people who really, really love them.
by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune
by Jonathan Seff, Macworld
by Troy Wolverton, San Jose Mercury News
The MP3 player industry - otherwise known as the iPod market - seems about to go from being a rock star to a has-been.
While still strong, sales have slowed and even begun to decline in some markets. Prices, particularly on the low end, are plunging, typically an indicator of slacking demand.
And by MP3 player, San Jose Mercury News doesn't count iPhone, possibily the next great platform from Apple.
by Stephen Hutcheon, Sydney Morning Herald
The countdown to the opening of the first Apple Store in the southern hemisphere has begun with the unveiling of a "coming soon" sign across the facade of a nearly-completed office complex int he heart of the Sydney CBD.
by Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet.com
The installed base remains too small to deliver the support revenues necessary for success. And the Mac's own software bundle leaves few basic niches.
by Rixstep
Music subscriptions don't work. That's what the market says. Which basically proves Apple were right all along. But even if DRM works it doesn't work as well as DRM free. Which basically leaves Apple as the odd ones out.
The jury is still out, I believe, on what works and what doesn't work. It may well be that what didn't work was non-iPod-compability.
by Greg Gordon, Sunday Times
by Alex Zaharov-Reutt, iTWire
by James Derk, Scripps Howard News Service
The most striking thing to me is how much Office 2008 has adopted the look and feel of OS X and how much it feels like an Apple product instead of a Microsoft product ported to Apple hardware.
by MacNN
by James Fallows, THe Atlantic
by SUperMegaUltraGroovy
by Mike Gunderloy, OStatic
by Will Hinton, Good Will Hinton
So how did I overcome my objections?
by Goobimama's Soggy Blog
Developers of Mac applications generally pay a lot of attention to the design and aesthetics of the application. Whereas in the Windows world, it is features, features, features. A feature is not a feature until and unless you can use it.
by ImportGenius
Data from U.S. customs records now seem to confirm this prediction.
by Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post
How could you revise the software behind the click wheel without altering its elegant hardware?
by Dan Moren, Macworld
Don't be too surprised when the next big thing out of Apple is something that nobody predicted. After all, that's just the way we like it.
by MacNN
by Jackie Dove, Macworld
WHat ToDo 1.3.2 is a clean, mnimalist calendar, organizer, and to-do program that takes a more iterative approach to task management than iCal—an approach that may work better for some people. It's missing some core functionality, however, and its price is rather high for such a minimal feature set.
by Nick Wingfield, Wall Street Journal
by Ryan Faas, Computerworld
If you are someone who works with video, graphics or music for a living and you need a portable workspace, thenyou have to check out this laptop. Even if media work is something you only do as a hobby or if you're just eyeing a portable with an amazing display for movies or games, this machine is well worth a look. You may decide that it's still bigger than you need. Or you may find, as I did, that your assumptions about size and weight pale in comparison to the solid design, stunning screen and ample processing power available on Apple's biggest laptop.
by Black, Alligator
So, basically, there is a magnet inside the earbuds and inside the screen of my macbok...
by Joseph Goldstein, New York Sun
by Christian Zibreg, TG Daily
by Telegraph
iPhone owners who are considering selling their handsets through auction sites sucha s eBay have been warned that their phones may still contain personal information. Carryng out a full "restore" of the iPhone through iTunes is not enough, according to security experts.
by Eric Savitz, Barrons
One trading source tells me there are "rumors of a rumor" of a 3G delay.
You know, Apple had been so good in shutting down leaks that we don't get decent rumors anymore.
by Rich Mogull, TidBITS
If I truly wanted to challenge myself I'd keep the laptop and try to survive without the iPhone.
by Chris Foresman, Ars Technica
by David Schloss, PDN Gear Guide
It won't be my main photographic tool as the horsepower isn't quite there for the demands of high-end editing work, but it's handy to have for simpler tasks, and I predict it's going to become a constant companion on future flights.
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
By distributing Apple's own software on their site, Psystar has stepped over a large legal line—one that it really should have done its best to stay well away from.
by Darren Waters, BBC
by Dennis Sellers, Macsimum News
If Apple is going to compete in the low (or at least lower) end market, it's going to have to beef up its Mac mini offerings.
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet.com
Don't be fooled into thinking that Apple customers are any different to anybody else's customers.
by Ricky Kiau
by Nick Wingfield, AllThingsD
Forget next month, it's more fun thinking about hwat digital toys Apple might be making in five year. Forrester Research is the latest to look into the crystal ball in a new report that imagines the Apple products of 2013. But rather than predict Apple jet packs or other outlandish new directions, the research firm uses the company's recent history as a guide to forecasting.
by MacNN
Araelium Group on Wednesday unveiled Screenflick 1.6, an update to the company's screen recording program, which intorudces over 30 new features and improvements.
by Tim Beyers, Motley Fool
If Apple really wants to win the corporate market, it needs to keep winning consumers. And those consumers, in turn, have to sway IT managers to make room for their gears. Gear like, you know, the iPhone.
by Brian Prince, eWeek
Researchers at Core Security Technologies have uncovered three vulnerabilities in Apple's iCal application that hackers can exploit to take over vulnerable machines or launch denial-of-service attacks.
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
This is a really successful app for the general RSS use. Times excels at bringing some great ideas to the RSS table, wrapped up in a refreshing UI that offers a bird's-eye view of what's going on.
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
StopBadware.org, a group founded by Google, Lenovo, and Sun, on Monday asked Apple to reconsider its refusal to address the flaw as a security problem.
by David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun
The Mac's gains so far already have destroyed the psychology that developed in the 1990s that Windows is the only reasonable choice for the average PC buyer.
by Chris Foresman, Ars Technica
Rubicon Consulting has released the results of a recent survey of US iPhone users and found that nearly half had switched from their previous carrier to use the device.
by Jason D. O'Grady, ZDNet.com
by Katie Marsal, AppleInsider
Apple plans for all of its MacBooks to use LED-backlit displays by 2009, completing a transition across its notebook lines away from mercury-laden panels that began last year with an upgrade to its MacBook Pro.
by Jim Darlymple, Macworld
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
by Erik Larson, Bloomberg
Apple, along with CBS, was sued for trademark infringement by a closely held computer-accessory firm over the name of its wireless "Might Mouse" device, whose name evokes the cartoon superhero.
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
Grocery stores sell basic items like tuna fish and bread at razor-thin margins, because they know people are likely to pick up a few other things while they're at the market for the basics. Apple has an opportunity to do the same thing with .Mac, and it won't have to give away the store to make it happen.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
by Ken Mingis, Computerworld
Although the Modbook is undoubtedly a cool concept, the reality for day-to-day use makes it a device aimed at a few narrow niche markets.
by Dave Gustafson, Unpressable Buttons
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Phishers have targeted users of Apple's iTunes music store with sophisticated identity theft attacks for the first time, a security company said Tuesday.
by Michael Yanovich, Inside Mac Games
5 Realms of Cards is a decent enough casual card game, but it didn't excite me and won't have me coming back for more now that the review is done.
by Ryan Naraine, ZDNet.com
by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune
by Jeff Gamet, Mac Observer
by Gizmodo
Someone very, very close to the 3G iPhone launch has told me that Apple will announce their new model at the WWDC Keynote on June 9th. The second-generation iPhone will be available worldwide right after the launch.
by Alan Zisman, Low End Mac
by MacNN
Almost a quarter of Americans currently interested in buying an iPhone are waiting on an annoncement, according to a research director from ChangeWave.
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
by John Moltz, Macworld
Apparently some of you think that Apple's about to go out of business; that its very existence is threatened; that fire, plague, and pestilence lie just around the corner for our favorite fruit-themed computer and consumer-electronics company. To which I say: What fight are you watching?
by Bob LeVitus, Houston Chronicle
Apple's AirPort Express has been one of my favorite wireless gadgets since its introduction in 2004. And what's even better is that the new model, introduced last March, is even better, faster and cheaper.
by MG Siegler, The Industry Standard
These numbers make it pretty clear that Apple is winning at least part of the market share war — and making a ton of money — its own way.
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
An analyst said the negotiations, if true, are "last year's news" and illustrate how Apple is playing catch-up with other handset makers.
You don't play 'catch-up' when there is no industry, no market, yet.
by Philip Michaels, Macworld
Surely, Apple realizes that a partnership is only as strong as its weakest link. And after the past couple weeks, one half of the Apple-AT&T relationship is looking fairly weak indeed.
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
How to make two operating systems live in perfect harmony.
by Saul Hansell, New York Times
by Nathan Alderman, Macworld
Outspring Mail 1.0.4, a brand new competitor in the e-mail landscape, attempts a radically different and immensely promising approach to e-mail management. But in this early version of the program, its good intentions seem to exceed its actual abilities.
by Grace Chng, Straits Times
A vibrant ecosystem of hackers, software developers and accessor retailers has sprung up to support a growing Apple iPhone user base in Singapore.
This is amazing, given that the most talked-about cellphone is not even officially available here yet.
by Ennui
by Joe Wilcox, eWeek
Consider this: Apple's retail market share is 14 percent, and two-thirds for PCs costing $1,000 or more.
by Ben Fritz and Diane Garrett, Variety
For years, Steve Jobs had a simple message for Hollywood: It's my way or the highway. But in recent weeks, he seems to have adopted Burger King's mantra: Have it your way.
by Jason Szep, Reuters
Apple unveiled its largest U.S. store on Wednesday, a glass-facade building sheathed in steel that a senior company official said reflects Apple's plans to expand retail ventures at home and abroad.
by Charles W. Moore, Applelinks
If you're looking for an application to help organize your life, but don't want to climb the learning curve (or pay the cost of admission to the FileMaker world) and are familiar with the way iTunes and iPhoto work, Bento is well worth checking out.
by Adam Epstein, The iLife
by Don Reisinger, ITworld.com
Could the company have the kind of success it does today without the software it provides on all of its products? I don't think so.
WIll the iPhone be a success if it is thick as a phone book? Of course not. Will the Macintosh be a success (today) if all the hardware looks like an IBM XT? Of course not.
Apple is not a hardware nor a software company. As Steve Jobs said, Apple today is a Macintosh company, an iPod company, and an iPhone company.
by Aidan Malley, AppleInsider
The first test of Apple's licensing system for iPod accessories has come with the launch of a complaint by the company against Atico International, whose speakers allegedly infringe on patents behind the "Made for iPod" label.
by David Morgenstern, ZDNet.com
The issue isn't the talent or commitment of the programmin by Microsoft's team. It's the on-again, off-again strategy.
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
It's a simple and easy-to-use way to access your contact data without having to open Address Book.
by Elinor Mills, CNET News.com
"Please note that we ar enot treating this as a securty issue, but a further measure to raise the bar against unwanted downloads," the Apple representative wrote in an email.
by Natalie Weinstein, CNET News.com
Orange, France Telecom's mobile provider, will whisk the iPhone ito at least 10 more European, Middle Eastern, and African countries.
by Craig Grannell, Cult Of Mac
Where TapeDeck excels is in making the audio-recording process totally idiot-proof and fun.
by Joe McManus, redOrbit
by Antone Gonsalves, InformationWeek
After only one day with a limit of one iPhone per customer, AT&T, the exclusive iPhone seller outside of Apple in the United States, said Thursday the restriction has ended.
by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune
by David Braue, ZDNet Australia
It's hard to imagine Telstra kowtowing to Apple by entering into a partnership that would devalue its own investments in content.
by Lifehacker
From pure eye candy to outright productivity-boosters, read on to get reminded of some of the more obscure things you can do with your Mac, fresh out of the box.
by Chris Foresman, Ars Technica
by Craig Grannell, Cult Of Mac
Photoshop Elements 6 is only 20 bucks more than Pixelmator when grabbed from Amazon, and, when the current state of both applications is considered, Adobe's effort is about 20 times better.
by Cult Of Mac
by Philip Michaels, Macworld
The way Google's vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra sees it, the entire mobile industry stands to benefit from what Apple has done with the iPhone.
by Philip Michaels, Macworld
Web giant's company culture critical to stepped-up Mac development.
by iPodNN
iPods and iPhones are now supported on some flights out of the US, Sinapore Airlines has announced.
by Jack Schofield, Guardian
Rumours that Apple is about to launch an ultramobile tablet have not been confirmed by Intel.
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Microsoft will deliver its delay-plauged Open XML file converters for Office 2004 for Mac next month, the company reaffirmed Tuesday.
by Inside CRM
Complete solutions, familiar formats and "the cool factor" keep customers coming back.
by Tim Anderson, The Guardian
DRM might not stop pirates, but it does rivals. And in business, the later can be a greater threat than the former.
by The Small Wave
There's really nothing Apple could show that Microsoft (if they desired) couldn't easily conter with an ad of their own.
by Andy Space, 9 To 5 Mac
Apple is stimulating demand for the new device when it ships by making it hard to get hold of the current edition.
by Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe
Time and again, Apple serves up features like touch-screen controls that seem unnecessary, irrelevant — until you try them. Apple vice president Ron Johnson says the new store's "green roof" is that kind of innovation. A rectangle of lush grass surrounds the skylight. This lucky reporter was taken up to see it; store customers never will, unless they look down at it from a room in one of the nearby hotels.
by Richard Wray, The Guardian
The 3G version of the iPhone will be unveiled "in the coming weeks", the boss of Apple's exclusive mobile phone partner in the UK and Ireland hinted today.
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
In what might be a high-profile case of career suicide, an Intel Germany executive has reportedly confirmed that Apple plans to use Intel's Atom processor in a future iPhone.
by Maggie Shiels, BBC
Apple media figures are stonewalling on whether or not Mr Jobs will actually be taking the wraps off a new 3G smartphone at the WWDC event.
by Zack Urlocker, InfoWorld
by Aayush Arya, MacUser
This one, titled "Sad Song", has John Hodgman donning a hat, carryng a guitar, and singing "Vista Blues" in tandem with a dog.
by Dan Moren, Macworld
Apple has big plans for its latest retail store and its first in downtown Boston—literally. The new brick-and-mortar outlet, opening Thursday on Boston's tony Boylston Street, will be the largest Apple Store in the United States with three floors of retail space.
After so many years and so many stores, new stores still carry an air of excitement.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
All indications are that Time Capsule has a bright future.
When will Apple have one single set-top box to do it all? Apple TV for video, Time Capsule for networking and backup, and iPod dock for charging - is it time to merge them all up into one single device?
by James Galbraith, Macworld
Real performance progress has been made at each iteration of the iMac. So when does an upgrade make sense? That is entirely based on who you are and what you use your Mac for.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
Apple confirmed on Wedneday that its Worldwide Developer Conference, being held June 9-13 in San Francisco, has sold out for the first time in the history of the annual event.
This is indeed good news for both the iPhone and Mac platform. Existing Mac developers: watch out for the incoming competition.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
GhostReader converts text to speech and works in PDF, Word and other documents, and can speak any selected text in any application.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
by Thomson Financial News
by Dori Smith, Backup Brain
Does buying Adobe's applications help Apple sell more hardware? Nope? Then it ain't gonna happen.
by Ryan Faas, Computerworld
With a host of new tools and add-ons available, changing the look and feel of Mac OS X 'Leopard' is easy.
by Tom Yager, InfoWorld
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
Adobe is a good company with good products, but they don't fit into Apple's focus at all.
by Lewis Page, The Register
Air New Zealand will equip eighteen of its airliners with in-flight entertainment rigs allowing iPod users to play their video on seatback screens, listen to audio through the aircraft system, and control their device via the plane's interface.
by David Morgenstern, ZDNet.com
by Tom Koulopulos, Wisconsin Technology Network
The greatest innovators today aren't product innovators, they're companies and people who build new business models.
Of couse, regardless whatever business model you have, your product must also be good.
by Tom Yager, InfoWorld
by Erik Schwiebert, Schwieb
When we came to the realization in 2006 that there was no way for us to keep VB in the product and still ship Office 2008 on any semblance of the schedule we wanted, we announced its removal, but kept looking at how to bring it back into the suite even before we shipped.
by Leander Kahney, Cult Of Mac
"They were pulling down the green monster covering."
by Tom Yager, InfoWorld
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
Apple has entered into an agreement with Emmis Interactive that will give radio listeners in the U.S. the ability to buy the songs they hear on the air using their iTunes account.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
MYOB US has announced the release of Checkout 2.1, an update to its point of sale software for Mac OS X.
by Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle
Any time you make a major change, even with an operating system known for its user-friendliness, there is a learning curve. Here are six common items that regularly flummox Mac newbies.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Hendrickson Software Components on Tuesday announced the release of Compass 1.0, a new utility that archives e-mail.
by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune
For Apple, it's a strong signal that Steve Jobs has backed away from his stubborn insistence on flat-rate pricing and is ready to start a new round of deal making in Hollywood.
by Jeff Smykil, Ars Technica
by MacNN
Apple has confirmed that CEO Steve Jobs, along with a "team of Apple executives," will deliver the keynote at this year's WWDC conference.
by Tim Haddock, Macworld
Pros willwelcome Movie Magic Screenwriter 6.0.3.111's everything-but-the-kitchen-sink feature set and fully customizable outlining abilities, but Writers Guild wannabes may want to think twice before they cough up cash for features they'll never use.
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
Thanks, Microsoft, for listening to your customers. It's always pleasing to know that the voice of the user does matter in determining the future direction of a product.
by Jenn Abelson, Boston Globe
Inspired by the Red Sox fan who buried a David Ortiz jersey under the new Yankee Stadium, Apple reseller Tech Superpowers decided to leave its own subversive treasure under the competition moving in directly behind them on Boylston Street - the massive new Apple store set to open Thursday.
by Jonathan Seff, Macworld
On Tuesday, Microsoft released Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Office 2008 for Mac, designed to add stability, security, and performance enhancements to the suite of office applications.
by Jonathan Seff, Macworld
Microsoft on Tuesday announced it wold restore support for Visual Basic for Application (VBA) to Microsoft Office for Mac, a direct result of complaints from uses about the removal of the suite's cross-platform automation functionality.
Although Microsoft offered no specific date when users could expect the next version of Office for Mac, the company said the product is typically revised every two to three years.
by Bryan Gardiner, Wired
With these new non-exclusive deals, some analysts say Apple is finally realizing its traditional business model just won't work on a global scale. Moreover, there are actually benefits to being doing away with exclusively.
by Philip Berne, infoSync World
The lesson is that companies who try to blatantly defeat the iPhone will probably fail, because their goal is suspect. Better to try to make the best phone possible.
And this lesson can easily be applied to other products, from iPod-killer, to Microsoft-Office-killer.
by John Biggs, CrunchGear
Clearly this is a shopping cart glitch.
by Charlie Wood, Moonwatcher
By choosing to compete on design instead of technology alone, Apple seems to have found a loophole in the Innovator's Dilemma.
by Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com
Google ahs released basic software called Vidnik that lets Mac OS X users record video with a webcam or built-in camera, trim its length, add tags and a title, then upload it to YouTube.
by Rich Mogull, TidBITS
We iPhone users check email and browse the web on our iPhones as much as on our Macs, but there's on key difference: the iPhone is always in a pocket and always on the network. While there isn't a lot you need to do from a security standpoint, I do have a few recommendations that stem from how we use iPhones differently than other devices.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Essentials 2 for iPhoto includes "Make It Better," a tool that lets you compare color, contrast and brightness adjustments side-by-side. You can then pick the best-looking images, and adjust your picture accordingly.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Pixelmator is an image editing application that incorporates selection tools, painting tools, retouching tools, layers and color correction capabilities, typography elements and filter-based effects.
by Antony Bruno, Billboard
Perhaps no single device has had more impact on mobile music than Apple's iPhone. While only 6.7 percent of overall mobile customers use their phone to listen to music, rising to 27.9 percent for smartphone users, a full 74.1 percent of iPhone owners reported using the device as an MP3 player, according to M:Metrics.
by Katie Marsal, AppleInsider
by Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service
Apple's iPhone will be available from more than one mobile operator in Australia and India later this year, further signs tat Apple is breaking with its history of exclusive iPhone distribution agreements with operators in other markets.
by Channel NewsAsia
Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel), Bharti Airtel, Globe Telecom and Optus announced on Monday that they have signed an agreement with Apple to bring the iPhone to Singapore, India, the Philippines and Australia later this year.
SingTel holds a 30.5% stake in India's Bharti and 44.5% in the Philippines' Globe. It owns Optus, a telecommunications operator in Australia.
More countries are now going to have multiple telcos offering iPhones.
by MacNN
Apple is going after the sellers of at least one iPhone knockoff, delivering a cease & desist to a HiPhone reseller in Europe.
by Bryan Gardiner, Wired
For those concerned about the battery taxing tendencies of 3-G chipsets, there's new evidence that Apple may be planning to include a 3-G kill switch of sorts in its forthcoming second-gen iPhone.
by Jarrod Tully, Mactropolis.com
It does what I need it to do and I'm geared up to fend off my next looming deadline with poise and determination.
by Tom Yager, Computerworld New Zealand
Microsoft is floating a closed trial of Live Mesh, which, on paper at least, looks like .Mac for the 21st century.
by Jenn Abelson, Boston Globe
After what some consider a long snub, Apple finally arrives in Boston. And its Back Bay store, set to welcome customers on Thursday, was worth the wait.
by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune
Here's one thing the folks at Apple could teach their friends at AT&T: how to parcel out the good news.
Case in point: the Starbucks-iPhone-Wi-Fi deal that's been on and off all week and geerating all the wrong kind of headlines.
by Lisa W. Foderaro, New York Times
by MacNN
Both 8GB and 16GB versions are listed as "currently unavailable" and are not given estimates for when they should return to the ordering system.
by Glenn Fleishman, Seattle Times
by NotebookReview.com
by Jason D. O'Grady, ZDNet.com
It seems that only the front USB port on the MacBook offers a full powered, full speed bus.
This seems to explain why my USB hard drive can only operate from one of the two USB ports on my MacBook.
by Dan Frommer, Silicon Alley Insider
With .Mac and the iPhone, Steve Jobs has a chance to get people even more tied in to Apple servics. Which is what Apple is all about. But until .Mac is free — at least the mainstream stuff like email, calendar synching, photo galleries, etc. — we think it will continue to be a small, niche service at best.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
TapeDeck carries with it some retro charm — it's designed to look like a cassette tape deck, and even operates like one. It's designed to quickly capture recordings, stored as "tapes," recorded directly to MP4-AAC audio.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
by MacNN
by MacNN
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
by The Morning Call
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
What to consider after deciding which Mac to buy.
by Leander Kahney, Cult Of Mac
by Weblog Of A "Switcher"
I suspect that when 2.0 comes out, Times will be a very cool program. Good luck Acrylic, keep up the great work with such a unique interface.
by Matthew Broersma, ZDNet UK
Sun has released a major update to its open-source desktop virtualisation tool xVM VirtualBox, adding support for Apple's Mac OS X and Solaris host operating systems, in addition to other improvements.
by Martin LaMonica, CNET News.com
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
At the end of the day, the iMac's refresh reiterates one thing: Just adjusting one variable in this equation doesn't fix what's wrong with Mac games.
by Dan Frommer, Silicon Alley Insider
by Eric M. Strauss, ABC News
by David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun
What we do know is that Apple's global iPhone strategy has kicked in to high gear.
by David Pogue, New York Times
There are, of course, other network-attached hard drives, many with more features. But none seem to have the Time Capsule's combo of capacity and wirelessness. This is a classic case of Apple's insistence on simplicity taking its own version of the network hard drive into a higher realm.
by Craig Grannell, Cult Of Mac
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
The original Comic Life took your photos and let you put them into panels that looked like comic books, complete with captions, dialog bubbles and other effects. Comic Life Magiq builds on that functionality with pre-built templates, "props," balloons and spraycans to help you tell a story using your own pictures.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
Perceptive Automation has introduced Indigo 3.0, a major update to its home control and automation server for Mac OS X.
by Jonathan Seff and Jason Snell, Macworld
We bust the most common Mac shopping myths.
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet.com
by Sven-S. Prost, Quarter Life Crisis
by Michael DeAgonia, Computerworld
Though some thought it was released too soon, Mac OS X 10.5 has matured into a solid operating system.
by Jordan Robertson, Associated Press
In another step in the worldwide march of Apple's iPhone, the top mobile phone operator in Latin America said Wednesday that it has inkced a deal to bring the multimedia gadget to more than a dozen countries later this year.
by MG Siegler, The Industry Standard
Perhaps NBC is waiting to see how successful the Apple TV device will be with Apple's new movie studio deals in place. Or perhaps Zucker just wants to make Apple chief executive Steve Jobs squirm a little more as the Hulu's positive reviews keep coming in.
My guess is that NBC really have no idea and no plans on how to deal with Apple.
by Matt Asay, CNET News.com
Focusing on adoption helps a company to fixate on how to make software (or hardware) enjoyable, and not necessarily what will make it sell better. The sales follow the adoption.
by Arik Hesseldahl, BusinessWeek
Google is increasingly becoming a would-be Apple competitor, making Schmidt's membership on Apple's board awkward, if not ultimately untenable. Concerns over a potential conflict of interest have surfaced in the tech blogosphere in the past, but the potential for rivairy takes on added urgency as Apple prepares to launch the next version of its iPhone while Google partners ready cell phones that run Google's operating system.
by Mactropolis.com
It would seem that all signs are pointing to a large itnernational rol-out of the much ballyhooed iPhone 2.0.
by Gizmodo
by Ian Beck
I highly recommend Times for anyone who wants an elegant way to track a small number of feeds they care about. This is certainly not a progam for everyone, but if its presentation of news makes sense to you, I doubt you'll look back.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Opacity helps users generate resolution-independent graphic images and icons for use on the web and in applications.
by Todd Benjamin, CNN
by Roman Loyola, Macworld
Under the hood, the new iMacs differ significantly from the original aluminum iMac, and those differences result in speed increases.
by Lunar Obverse
by David Morgenstern, ZDNet.com
At one time, Mac OS X's Aqua interface was light and colorful. Now it's taken a darker turn, and at times, in some applications, on some displays and for some eyes, much darker.
by Erica Sadun, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
Drifting Light's Jolt 1.0 provides a systemwide menu-bar icon that lets you temporarily disable display sleep.
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
by Jason Snell, Macworld
Those were funny days, the days before the coverage of every Apple new-product announcement.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Return to Dark Castle is a lot of fun for gamers who remember this series from their younger days, but may not appeal to newer gamers who have grown up with more sophisticated gaming expectations. Now get off my lawn you young punks, before I call the cops.
by Steve Goldstein, MarketWatch
In an unusual shift, Telecom Italia also said it's going to sell Apple's iPhone in Italy. Like Vodafone, Telecom Italia didn't provide many details.
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
While Apple is taking sure steps toward evolving the upper echelon of its iPod product line, what should it do to keep its iPod cash cow going into the next decade?
I definitely see the iPod classic and nano lines gaining touch's functionalities in the near future.
by AppleInsider
Vodafone, the world's largest mobile phone company in dollar sales, announced Tuesday that it has reached an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten of its markets beginning sometime this year.
Looked like the rumor of Optus getting the iPhone in Australia turned out not to be true. Which may imply that the rumor of SingTel, the parent company of Optus, getting the iPhone in Singapore is not true either.
by JessPDX
My favorite things are video Skyping and Photo Booth.
by MacNN
Lunar Software has released EarthBrowser 3.0, an update to the real-time three dimensional model of the earth that offers continuously updated global information.
by CIO
The real obstacle for many IT departments lies in the way Apple does business, not the core technologies they use. But to the extend that corporate IT is starting to simply not care what users run personally, and decreasing their bubble of responsibility to core services, Apple will increasingly be used for business purposes as it expands in the consumer market, by dint of the simple fact that users will use their personal devices to the greatest extent possible for work.
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
Here's the rub:if it takes a week of use to get the hang of the iPhone keyboard and a month to get good at it, how does Apple convince a current BlackBerry/Tero/Sidekick/BlackJack/whatever mowner who is particularly skeptical about the keyboard?
by Alan Freedman, PC Magazine
by Eric Zeman, InformationWeek
by Jason Parker, CNET Download Blog
With all of it's flexibility, Times might be worth the extra money.
by Bob Kaneko, O'Grady's PowerPage
If you have a desire to create high definition discs, integrate your TiVo with your Mac, or convert video for use in different environments, Toast 9 Titanium is about as good as it gets.
by Thomas Fitzgerald
Of course all this is just complete fantasy. Yet the sheer excitement of the potential for such a huge eruption to take place in the technology industry is worth a ltitle idle speculation.
by Arnold Kim, MacRumors.com
by Todd Bishop, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The biggest cash pile in the technology industry has historically belonged to Microsoft, but now it has some company, and it's a familiar name: Apple.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
I came up with what proved to be a workable solution for staying in touch during our vacation: a MacBook Air and a pair of iPhones.
by Leigh McMullen, Cult Of Mac
by Peter Bright, Ars Technica
The confusion of UIs in Windows mirrors the confusion of development within Microsoft.
by Terry White
When you rent a movie on your computer and "move" it to your iPhone or iPod you only need to be connected to the internet at the start of the transfer. Once it's on your iPhone or iPod you still have 30 days to start watching it.
by Justin Berka, Ars Technica
by Harvey Schachter, Globe And Mail
by Greg Detre
by David Carr, New York Times
It will take some time. Many homes are still not ready to share digital files; download speeds are sporadic; and the DVD remains the format of choice.
But going forward, everything is up for grabs. And when it comes to a jump ball, best to put your money on Apple.
by Thomas Fitzgerald
by Simon Tsang, Sydney Morning Herald
All the criticisms remain and,sure, it would have made more economical sense to buy the regular MacBook (which has more for less) but the Air is just something else altogether when you use it. Comparing price and specification charts simply doesn't do it justice.
I wonder how many of these "price and specification charts" have items like thinness and joyfulness.
by Arnold Kim, MacRumors.com
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
Good news, folks. Microsoft has signed up for the iPhone SDK, and will be porting Windows XP onto everyone's favorite smart phone.
On second thought... never mind.
by Alexander Wolfe, InformationWeek
by Simon Jary, PC Advisor
It was 10 years ago - on May 6, 1998 - that Apple unveiled the computer that revolutionised the company and marked the end of the beige box computer forever.
by Christian Zibreg, TG Daily
by Oliver Rist, PC Magazine
Apple's put a load of work into Leopard Server, and it shows. What was mainly a niche back-end platform for Mac users has evolved into a slick server that caters to a general small-business audience.
by Antone Gonsalves, InformationWeek
Apple is much better than other computer makers at solving customers' tecnical problems, Consumer Reports found in a subscriber survey.
by Eric Savitz, Barrons
Such a move would be hugely out of character for Apple, which has done very few substantial acquisitions over the years.
by MacNN
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
The Amazing Brain Train features fifteen different mini-games in five categories — tests of your mental skill, in categories like search, planning, spatial awareness, memory and numbers.
by Katie Marsal, AppleInsider
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
Even if Apple were to buy Adobe (a big if), and if that acquisition raised anti-trust concerns, Apple would sell the competing Adobe apps, not their own current ones.
by Dan Moren, Macworld
by Dustin Driver, Apple
Every one of the MediaStorm stories was produced on a Mac using Apple apps. "The Mac is just a magic box," says Storm. "It allows us to do so many amazing things. It's a seamless visual environment that keeps the creative juices flowing. And Macs just flat-out work. Our Macs are always running; they're always working. W're a total Mac shop."
by Robert X. Cringely, PBS
It seems obvious to me that there is only one real reason why Apple would sell off its professional applications and that's to avoid antitrust problems when/if Apple buys Adobe Systems.
by Jemima Kiss, Guardian
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
by Saul Hansell, New York Times
by Mike Cane
I can envision Steve Jobs himself telling Adobe: You need us, we're doing just fine without you. If you want Flash on the iPhone, we want it for free.
Faced with that, remembering what happened with TrueType, Adobe had no choice but to make a daring move.
by Christopher Turner, ATPM
I like the reclaimed desktop space due to its smaller size, and the fact that my finger don't have to work as hard as before.
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet.com
by Joel Santo Domingo, PC Magazine
Even though there are a slew of new competitors to the iMac, none of them have quite enoug innovation or execution to dethrone the king of the all-in-one desktops.
by MacNN
by Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek
More office workers infatuated with iPods and iPhones are demanding Macs. Is business ready? Is Apple?
by Hank WIlliams, Silicon Alley Insider
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
by AppleInsider
Apple saw its share of the Windows browser market triple immediately after it began encouraging users of the Microsoft operating system to download and install its Safari web browser through the widely deployed Apple Software Update mechanism, according to a new report.
by Greg Wilson
by Hoovenson Haw, Pressure Release Valve
by Brian Caulfield and Elizabeth Woyke, Forbes
Apple is knitting together a broad coalition of companies around a vision of computing that goes far beyond today's hot-selling iPhone and toward a future that combines wireless broadband and touch-sensitive interfaces with built-in motion sensors.
by Brian Fonseca, Computerworld
by MacNN
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
Apple has moved to dismiss rumours that it plans to abandon its video products.
by Matt Neuburg, TidBITS
by Matt Neuburg, TidBITS
ScreenFlow is a stunning, clean, clear, beautifully designed application.
by Sven-S. Prost, Quarter Life Crisis
It dragged me down again to think that companies like Apple — and aparently pretty much most other people making keyboards as well — have given up even trying to make a good keyboard.
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