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by Charlie Sorrel, Wired
by Dave Winer, Scripting News
Apple keeps doing this, trying to take ownership of things they didn't invent. It doesn't work, they don't end up owning it, they just keep their users from getting the benefits of Apple having competition.
by Chris Holt, Macworld
Arguably the best Prince of Persia game to date, The Two Thrones offers players a diverse gaming experience with challenging combat, stealth, and platforming elements.
by Tim Bajarin, PC Magazine
Apple strives toward creating products that bring something new, something different, to computing. And I suspect Jobs will continue to price his Macs accordingly.
by Ryan Faas, Datamation
Keeping any computer running at its best, or fixing its problems, is much like keeping your car in good shape. It requires regular maintenance. Here's a rundown of the best tools available and the types of chores that each is designed to handle.
by Prince McLean, AppleInsider
Apple recently recruited a top chip designer from IBM, resulting in a lawsuit that seeks to prevent the executive from taking his knowledge as "IBM's top expert in Power architecture and technology" to the Mac maker.
by Mike Gunderloy, Web Worker Daily
by Gizmodo
Manufacturing is getting really good. Software updates are more powerful than ever.
by Eliot Van Buskirk, Wired
Apple's own App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch already allows artists and labels to do an end-run around those pricing restrictions and experiment with alternate pricing models and even ad-supported music.
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Counterintuitive as it sounds, lower-income buyers are driving sales of Apple's iPhone 3G, a web metrics company comSocre Inc. said today.
by MacNN
Apple lists the feature as a "Kensington lock slot," but owners have reported that the thickness of the aluminum prevents the standard locks from being used.
by Tim Beyers, Motley Fool
CEO Steve Jobs and his team are doing exactly what they must: They're creating better, more integrated experiences and showing them off in these hugely profitable display cases that we call Apple retail stores.
by Jason Snell, Macworld
Free tool helps you upload your sites without using MobileMe.
by Sam Oliver, AppleInsider
Addressing a widely-publicized feature omission for Japanese iPhone users, local carrier Softbank on Thursday announced plans to begin selling a TV Tuner add-on later this year that will also serve as an extended battery pack.
by David Sawyer McFarland, Macworld
Dreamweaver CS4 solidly addresses the technologies that web design professionals use and is a significant upgrade that offers a new set of tools for those who spend a lot of time with HTML, CSS, and JavaScrpt.
by Chris Foresman, Ars Technica
by Chris FOresman, Ars Technica
by Frederic Filloux, Monday Note
In the summer of 1997, Steve Jobs called Eric Benhamou, 3Com's CEO (the company owned Palm), "Give me the Palm and come and join my Board of Directors. Only Apple can make Palm a true consumer brand." Nothing happened. Apple's foray into the product segment had to wait ten more years.
by Arnold Kim, MacRumors.com
by David Adams, OS News
Apple does stand to lose some Google revenue by letting people use other browsers, but they have much more to gain by unlesahing the creativity of the developer community and giving them the freedom to improve or replace core iPhone functionality.
by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune
by Brian X. Chen, Wired
by Richard Hallas, Inside Mac Games
by MacNN
by Fraser Speirs
The question that looms over all Apple upgrades these days concerns whether the company's interpretation of the Sarbanes-Oxley act will allow them to do it.
by Mark Hattersley, Macworld UK
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Apple Inc.'s anti-Vista response last week to Microsoft Corp.'s "I'm a PC' marketing campaign blunted the impact of its rival's efforts, an internet video metrics firm said today.
by Lonnie Lazar, Cult Of Mac
by Todd Ogasawara, O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
by Macworld UK
Podcaster's rejection explained as Apple preps direct podcast to iPhone downloads schema.
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
Besides service-wide changes like improving localization support and member name suggestions when newbies sign up, MobileMe Mail, Calendar, Contacts, and Account applications all received a healthy dose of tweaks and improvements.
by Glenn Fleishman, Ars Technica
AT&T seems to have finally pushed the button—permaturely clicked a few times earlier this year—and granted iPhone subscribers the same free access to its national WiFi hotspot network that DSL, fiber, laptop 3G, and business subscribers already receive.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
Ergonis Software on Wednesday released an update for PopChar X, its utility allowing users to insert special characters into documents.
by Christian Zibreg, TG Daily
Microsoft has shown Windows 7 for the first time earlier today and there is every indication that this (Vista) maintenance release may turn into the Vista Microsoft should have offered to begin with. We haven't seen Snow Leopard yet, but have a good idea how the operating system may offer. Apple will go in a slightly different direction and we wondered how the two will compare. Here is what we have come up with.
by Jim Mock, soupnazi.org
Maybe it's just me, but it seems like the new no-button trackpds don't always respond to clicks.
by Bob Sutton
Jobs' argument went something like this: What is really hard - and a hallmark of great companies - is that they kill a lot of good ideas.
by Leximancer
by David Appleyard
The screen is gorgeous, the build quality is fantastic and the graphics are screaming.
by winandmac.com
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
by Dave Caolo, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
Technically speaking, there are a handful of third-party Blu-ray drives made for the Mac that users can install into their Mac Pros, so it's not like a Psystar PC is the only way to get Blu-ray on a "Mac."
by Fraser Speirs
An experiment I've been running for more than two years now is over: running two Macs is more hassle than it's worth. I write not to praise synchronisation technology, but to bury it.
by Scot Finnie, Computerworld
The new MacBook fully addresses my year-old criticisms. It reaches critical mass in a notebook computer that's aimed not just at highly mobile execs or design professionals, but at business people in general (not to mention home users and students). Apple finally has the right hardware and software for mainstream business users.
by MacNN
by Ken Mingis, Computerworld
If an Apple iMac married a MacBook Air, what would their offspring look like? A lot like Apple Inc.'s new upscale MacBook.
by MacBlogz
The iPhone revenue model is such a juggernaut for Apple, that diverting resources to a niche marekt seems almsot foolish.
by Jacqueline Emigh, BetaNews
by David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun
Apple spends far, far less money on R&D, but look at what it has delivered over the past few years. Apple regularly delivers products and services that shake up entire industries. When was the last time Microsoft did that?
by John Martellaro, Mac Observer
Apple is poised to move into double digit market share in the U.S., and from all indicators, Microsoft has few obvious strategies available in its arsenal to extricate itself from a continued defnsive position and some key failure points.
by AppleInsider
Google on Monday launched a version of Google Earth as a native application for iPhone and iPod touch owners. Meanwhile, Netflix said it has begun testing its second-gen Generation Media Player, which will stream movies to Intel Macs.
by Philip Michaels, Macworld
According to Apple's sparse release notes, iPhoeo 7.1.5 "improves the printing quality of books, cards and calendars ordered via the iPhoto printing service."
by Iljitsch van Beijnum, Ars Technica
Blu-ray drives in the Mac, perhaps? Let's examine the evidence.
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
by Walt Mossberg, Wall Street Journal
The new MacBook Pro still provides a satisfying upgrade for power users willing to spend the moneyto move up from the MacBook or from a less powerful, or similarly powerful, Windows machine running the inferior Vista or XP operating sytems. But, for onwers of the most recent prior MacBook Pro, the new model's tradeoffs make an upgrade an iffy choice.
by Brooke Crothers, CNET News.com
Will Apple's decision to use Nividia chips in its new MacBooks be a catalyst for change?
by Jeff Smykil, Ars Technica
by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune
Here's a chart that should keep Steve Ballmer up at night.
by Diane Mermigas, MediaDailyNews
by Steven Musil, CNET News.com
by Jason R. Rich, Entrepreneur.com
What today's business people and entrepreneurs are quickly beginning to understand is that Apple's iMacs and MacBooks can not only handle virtually every business application a PC can handle, but also provide a more stress-free computing experience.
by Harry McCracken, Technologizer
For all the arguments it makes that Windows laptops are a better value, there's one feature that all Windows laptops have in common that Microsoft doesn't mention. That would be.. Windows. You know, the operating system.
I'm not saying that it's impossible to make the case that Windows Vista is a plus compared to OS X. But I think it's fascinating that Microsoft didn't even try...
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
Apple has joined Google in publicly opposing a Calfornia ballot initative that would deny marriage rights to same-sex couples.
by Jack Shiels, Inside Mac Games
If ever there was a perfect example of the FPS genre, this was it.
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
by Robert Palmer, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by Chris Holt, Macworld
Emotionally devastating and visually engrossing, this is one of the most beautiful, grittiest, and well-written games to come out in the past five years. Anything more realistic would probably require you to be enlisted.
by Arnold Kim, MacRumors.com
The new agreement appears to limit what is considered "confidential information" primarily to Apple's pre-released software.
by Prince McLean, AppleInsider
The fraduulent report of Steve Jobs' heart attack that never actually happened was orginated by an 18 year old with unclear motives.
by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune
In the analysts' defense, the accounting methods Apple uses aren't easy to follow — even though Oppenheimer has spelled them out at almost every earnings call.
by Jackie Dove, Macworld
The MacBook Pro's new design and its features definitely come out on the plus side of the ledger, with some outstanding aesthetic and engineering improvements to recommend it—not the least of which is its significant attention to environmental issues—at exactly the same price as the previous 2.4GHz and 2.5GHz models. However the mandatory glossy screen may be a deal killer for some people.
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
Intel issued a "correction" Thursday regarding comments one of its executives made earlier this week slamming the iPhone as incapable of working correctly with the internet. It's hard to see this as anything other than an formal apology to Apple and ARM.
by John Carroll, ZDNet.com
If Apple improves its story as a story platform, that could change the game entirely.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Chrostpher Breen, Macworld
Tips for helping kids of all ages and Macs mix safely.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Smith Micro on Thursday announced the release of ExecutiveSync for the Mac, a new application that helps busy users keep files synchronized between two machines in different locations.
by Adam C. Engst, TidBITS
Combine Jobs's comments with the search engine logs, and it's easy to imagine an iPhone- or iPod touch-like device with a alrger screen.
And it all makes sense, technically-wise, because I don't see how the current interface of the Mac OS X can be scaled down to a smaller screen. Of course, it only makes sense if it also makes sense for Apple and Steve Jobs.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Equinux has announced the release of CoverScout 3, a new version of its album art finder for iTunes.
by Karen Haslam, Macworld UK
Reports are appearing that some new MacBook's are shipping with loose battery covers. Other problems are slanted function keys and extra "M" keys on the keybaord, according to postings on the MacRumors forums.
Somewhere, Steve Jobs is holding an iPhone and shouting 'told 'ya so!'
by AnandTech
Figuring out why OS X seems to be better for battery life is nearly impossible, at least without the aid of both Apple and Microsoft.
by Steve Rubel, Micro Persuasion
by Charlie Sorrel, Wired
Perhaps we'll see a software update soon. Perhaps it will be a paid firmware upgrade.
by Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post
It would be one thing if the new MacBook came with a major boost in features to justify paying more than the white MacBook, itself no slouch. But too many of the new machine's selling points are tangential to its utility as a computer, spending extra for its undeniable style may be a luxury that is better skipped.
by Associated Press
Shares of Apple Inc. climbed Wednesday even as the broader market turned sour, after the company posted a 26 percent increase n its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings.
by Edward C. Baig, USA Today
Apple has fashioned a winner with the new MacBook. Unless you can't live without FireWire.
by Prince McLean, AppleInsider
by Darrell Etherington, The Apple Blog
When your strongest argument is that people have to pay more money to run your heavily criticized product if they want better hardware, guess what the logical conclusion is.
by Letty Nola
by Barkings!
by Rafe Colburn, rc3.org
Apparently Flash 10 isn't much better than previous versions of Flash in terms of performance on OS X.
Adobe really need to focus on Flash for the Mac, before it has any chance of convincing Steve Jobs to put Flash into MobileSafari.
by David Morgenstern, ZDNet.com
by Dan Frommer, Silicon Alley Insider
by Alexis Kayhill, Mac 360
Five years is half an eternity in computer years. It seems like only yesterday that Mac users were all using Stuffit to swtore, archive, and send files to others.
by Om Malik, GigaOM
Apple's volume-to-revenue ratio should scare its rivals.
by Ken Mingis, ITworld.com
by Harry McCracken, Technologizer
Does Apple wanna compete with the eee PC? Beats me. But here's one scenario.
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet.com
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
Company executives have decided to start including the iPhone as one of their prime examples of smartphones that don't run "the full internet" because they don't use an Intel chip.
by Jack Shiels, Inside Mac Games
Overall it plays very well and provides a challenging puzzle experience to boot - a very well made game that I would highly recommend.
by Dave Winer, Scripting News
Runs any software I want (no platform vendor to decide what's appropriate).
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Much of what makes netbooks cool and useful can be found in this now-ancient device, and I still think Apple's eMate design is great.
by Chris Foresman, Ars Technica
Apple has released a new Get a Mac ad poking even more at Microsoft's handling of Vista issues.
by Lesa Snider King, Macworld
All of the changes in Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop Extended CS4 add up to a friendlier, more accessible interface, with increasingly helpful tools that are much easier to find and use than before.
by Jonathan Seff, Macworld
The latest MacBooks are a big improvement over the previous models—as long as you can live without a FireWire port.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
by Gizmodo
by Mark Hachman, PC Magazine
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
The iPhone isn't just the third leg of Apple's business that Jobs promised back it would become back in Janaury 2007, when he introduced the iPhone and changed the name of the company from Apple Computer to Apple Inc. It's now the single largest contributor to Apple's bottom line.
by Jon Fortt, Fortune
Mainstream Mac users will get the benefit of improved visual performance without having to pony up for a seprate chip. It's an acknowledgment that these chips can lead to a better experience for everyone, not just gamers and video geeks.
by Seth Weintraub, Computerworld
by Ben Kuchera, Ars Technica
Creating games has never been easier, but that doesn't mean it's a cakewalk, especially when developing for a new platform like the iPhone.
by Don Reisinger, CNET News.com
There's no telling how much market share Apple can capture in the enterprise over the next decade. But one thing is certain: by creating products that college-aged students want and evangelizing them in the ways of the Mac, Apple is positioning itself to be extremely successful in the business world over the next few years.
by Rick Aristotle Munarriz, Motley Fool
by Andrew Smith, The Dallas Morning News
The new MacBook Pro looks pretty cool, but when you really consider what makes a great notebook computer, the new MBP is almost a worse product than its predecessor.
by John Paczkowski, Wall Street Journal
"Apple outsold RIM last quarter and this is a milestone for us," said Steve Jobs.
by Scott M. Fulton, III, BetaNews
Steve Jobs believes that Apple products typically sell to Apple customers, and stated so explicitly. They may choose not to purchase Apple products in the coming months, but that choice, he said, will be a postponement of a purchasing and lyalty decision that customers have already made.
by Chris Holt, Macworld
New Mac laptops have battery life shorter than their predecssors.
by Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek
Here we've got a company that is earning every bit of its success, with technical innovation, hard-headed business pragmatism, and extremely hard work. It's found a way to prosper in a world despite the pressures of commoditation and globalization. It's refused any easy ways out. Apple is focused squarely on its day job.
by Ken Mingis, Computerworld
Carved from a single block of aluminum, it's a solid update in more ways than one.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
"The 200 millionth app! We've never seen anything like this in our careers," said Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
by Arnold Kim, MacRumors.com
by Craig Grannell, Cult Of Mac
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
Apple announced today during its quarterly conference call that it has already surpassed its goal of 10 million iPhone sales in the calendar year of 2008. The 6.9 milion iPhones sold during Apple's fourth fiscal quarter added up to more iPhones than sales during the entire lifetime of the original iPhone (6.1 million).
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
If you're a power user of Mail, or someone who just prefers pressing a few keys to mousing all over the screen, Mail Act-On 2 is a must-have.
by Dave Johnson, PC World
by Roman Loyola, Macworld
Finally, an affordable Mac laptop that's capable of playing graphically demanding games.
by MacNN
by Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle
The new design is smart and the new features are slick, but it's not quite enough for me to cast off my black MacBook.
by Bob LeVitus, Houston Chronicle
The display is to die for, and I may even stop hating trackpads.
by Tm Reestman, The Apple Blog
The results? I believe all but one of these models allows USB 2.0 for video.
by Ted Landau, Mac Observer
by Jason Fried, 37signals
Apple is now adding some fine print to the bottom of some of their ads that says "Sequence shortened".
by Thomas Ricker, Engadget
by Alexis Kayhill, Mac 360
As much as we ask of our Macs these days is it any wonder that we need even more utilities to help us organize our organization tools?
by Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek
One has to wonder whether Microsoft has played into Apple's hands on this one. It took the risk of launching a campaign that, after years of staying mum about hte Mac's startling growth in recent years, essentially called out Apple. But it did so at a time when Redmond didn't have any great news to announce.
by MacNN
AppLoop has launched App Generator, a service for blog publishers that will create an iPhone app from any RSS feed.
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
All this leads to the theory that the new MacBooks are sporting a custom version of Mac OS X that finally harnesses GPU-acceleration for H.264 decoding.
by John Sheesley, TechRepublic
Why do Apple customers pay a higher price for Macs? Is price no object or at least not that big of a deal to a typical Mac user?
by Wallace Wang, Electronista
by Bija Gutoff, Apple
Final Cut Studio was central to Zuckerman's workflow from that first treatment to, well, the final cut.
by Clint Ecker and Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
by Erica Sadun, Ars Technica
by Dan Moren, Macworld
Besides contributing to more than 40 books as author, artist, or both, Bob Staake's also done illustrations for clients as diverse as The New York Times and Anheuser Busch. And he's done it all with a piece of software that's almost 15 years old.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
MacSpeech on Monday announced the release of Dictate 1.2, an update to their speech recognition software for Mac OS X. New to the 1.2 release is the ability for you to dictate any specific word, by spelling it letter-by-letter using a new Spelling mode.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Extensis on Monday announced that it is shipping Suitcase Fusion 2, a new version of its single-user font management software. Changes in Suitcase Fusion 2 include a redesigned user interface and a dramatically changes code base that now uses SQLite database technology.
by Karen Haslam, Macworld UK
A hint that Apple is rewriting the Carbon-based Finder and other Apple-authored applications in Cocoa, seems to suggest that the company is doing its own housekeeping behind the scenes with the launch of Snow Leopard.
by Harry McCracken, Technologizer
I kinda wonder whether these venture too far into the realm of insider baseball.
by Harry McCracken, Technologizer
The MacBook is close in price to the laptops I looked at which it resembles most closely, all of which target what I think of as the low end of the high end of the notebook market; if there's a Mac Tax here, it's not worth worrying about.
by MacNN
by Brooke Crothers, CNET News.com
The latest MacBook Air masks a lot of new electronics under an old skin.
by Edible Apple
So all in all, an iMac and equivalent Psystar system are essentially the same.
by Marci Alboher, New York Times
by Insanely Great Mac
Microsoft recently began responding to Apple's Get a Mac ads and now the mothership has returned that volley. Perhaps, "returned fire" is a better way of putting.
by Heather Clancy, ZDNet.com
by Randall Stross, New York Times
Premium prices for premium products — surely this is a formula most unsuited for frugal times. But the analysts with whom I spoke aren't particularly concerned; all, it seems, list Apple as a buy.
by Adam C. Engst, TidBITS
Apple has been unafraid to break with the past before, and unless sales of the new MacBook and MacBook Pro models were to drop precipitously, I fear that those of us who are unhappy will just have to live with the changes.
by Creativityist
The trackpad is nice. I was a skeptic of the whole thing being a button, but man, they got it just right.
by Warpedvisions.org
I was more productive in Mac land within the first two weeks.
by Nick Mediati, PC World
In a world of $800 laptops, the aluminum-clad MacBook may seem a little expensive, but it's a winner.
by Joe Brockmeier, ZDNet.com
I find Apple's "we know how you should use your computer" attitude really off-putting — and one of the reasons I just can't see switching to Mac OS X.
by Gizmodo
The real takeaway abou the Apple Tax is that it's regressive—that is, lower-priced models get hit harder.
by David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun
by Mark Hattersley, Macworld UK
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Its sheer bloodthirsty combat, high-speed racing and tons of mini-games give you a lot to see and do.
by James Galbraith, Macworld
You can thank that Nvidia chip for closing the performance gap between the new MacBooks and the MacBook Pro.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
A lot of what makes DisplayPort better than DVI is found in the technological nitty-gritty.
by Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer
by MacNN
Apple has released a Migration DVD/CD Sharing Update that improves the performance of migrations performed over FireWire, Ethernet and wireless networks.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
FireWire's absence is certainly disappointing and will surely be felt for a while by Mac users who had invested in peripherals that use the interface, but I suspect most people will make the transition, and will ultimately find that they're not missing much by making the switch.
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
When it comes to compact, wireless models, there's little competition for Apple's Wireless Keyboard. It's among the smallest and lightest models on the market, yet it doesn't sacrifice full-sie keys and it provides a mostly standard key layout.
by John Martellaro, Mac Observer
Both parties have agreed to Alternative Dispute Resolution. The outcome could result in a negotiated settlement, the terms of which could also remain secret.
by iPhone Atlas
by Shaun Nichols, vnunet.com
A new rouge security application for the Mac could be on the way, according to one industry executive.
by Dan Pourhadi, MacUser
by Gizmodo
The class boundary remains, but it's blurrier than ever.
by Lana Christian, IndyStar.com
by Dan Turner, Computerworld
This new consutrction method is ingenious, useful and elegant — an example of why Apple remains Apple.
by Brian X. Chen, Wired
Greenpeace, an environmental blog, commends Apple for cutting down on the amount of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) used inits notebooks and new cinema display.
by Greg Sandoval, CNET News.com
by Jason D. O'Grady, ZDNet.com
Apple has taken their fraud protection up a notch in the new MacBooks by adding tiny Liquid Submersion Indicators throughout the notebook's chassis according to AppleInsider.
by Electronista
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
by Chris Holt, Macworld
For now, Spore is a comical, beautiful, and surprisingly fun journey that will likely satisfy casual gamers but wil disappoint fans hoping to see a Wright masterpiece.
by Steve Jobs, Apple
For the past several years, Apple has made a concerted effort to be more transparent about the steps we are taking to protect the environment and make our business more sustainable. In this environmental update, I'd like to inform you of our recent progress and introduce you to a groundbreaking system of reporting that we believe is unmatched in our industry.
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
by Mitch Wagner, InformationWeek
by Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek
Apple sees no reason to slash prices and sacrifice margins on its laptop computers when consumers are still willing to pay top dollar.
by Joe Wilcox, eWeek
Apple's pricing strategy is brilliant, if for no other reason than its riskiness.
by Andrew J. Wylie, The Harbus
Perhaps like the video of coach Bobby Knight's chair throwing episode, we see evidence of fact out of context. Mr Dell offered praise for Steve Jobs for the audience's benefit: "Apple has raised the bar in industrial design. THe elegant simplicity of thoughtful design."
by Seb Janacek, Silicon.com
Apple is now allowing fan sites to post accurate product photos before the big Steve Jobs announcements. Where's the fun in that?
by MacNN
by Aidan Malley, AppleInsider
Living up to a promise it made in January 2007, Taiwanese electronics maker Luxpro has at last filed a lawsut against Apple claiming that the American company was plotting a multinational scheme when it sued Luxpro over its iPod shuffle doppelganger.
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
The practice of sharing the stage is nothing unusual, no matter what color shirt Cook wears onstage.
by MacNN
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
The "netbook" market is an entirely different game. Apple may well go there eventually, but it won't be for another year or two, and then when they do, it will drive the PC press nuts because Steve Jobs will announce it in such a way that makes it seem as though Apple invented the entire product category.
by Lonnie Lazar, Cult Of Mac
Do Apple's customers care how much the company cares?
by MacNN
by William Porter, Macworld
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
TextSoap is a "text cleaning" utility that maintains formatting.
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
by Charlie Sorrel, Wired
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Lukas Mathis, Ignore The Code
Selling anti-glare screen protector in MacBook Pro sizes will soon be a viable business.
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
Apple has made its professional and consumer laptop lines more similar than they've ever been. At the same time, the company has tried to differentiate the two lines by giving the MacBook Pro a few new features of its own, as well as by removing a popular feature from the MacBook.
by Noetbooks.com
Users should get at least some of the following features or the option to add them on for an additional charge.
by MacNN
ooVoo on Wednesday announced its high quality video chat software for Mac.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
by Cisco Cheng, PC Magazine
The Apple MacBook 13-inch (Aluminum) couldn't be more glamorous, glorious and magnificent—from a design standpoint. Performance, meanwhile, gets a necessary lift from the Intel Centrino 2 platform and nVidia graphics.
by Mendelson Tiu, Smarthouse
Despite Apple dropping its prices in the US, Australians would have to pay more just to get hold of the newly released notebooks.
by Darren Gladstone, PC World
Intel's integrated GPU, which most Windows-based laptops use, is about as elegant as a mouse in a tutu. With today's Apple announcement, a reasonably powerful integrated graphics system is available for laptop motherboards: nVidia's new GeForce 9400M. And the Apple MacBooks have it.
by Elinor Mills, CNET News.com
by Lifehacker
by Gizmodo
Since the very first minute, when he immediately sat down to let Tim Cook talk, he was saying: "Hey, look, Apple is more thna Steve."
by Victor Godinez, The Dallas Morning News
Sure, Display Port will eventually become a standard, but everyone has HDMI right now, and it's silly for Apple to spurn that market.
by Don Reisinger, CNET News.com
Apple's decision to let multi-touch technology lead it into the future is a smart one. It will set the company apart in the notebook market and put its competitors on notice: Apple is willing to take chnaces to beat them.
by Daniel Terdiman, CNET News.com
The upshot seems to be that for the first time, Macs will be able to hold their own as gaming machines, even if they are not quite at the elite level.
by Jason Snell, Macworld
You can program either the bottom right or left corner of the trackpad to act as a secondary mouse button. So the no-button laptop can act as a two-button laptop after all.
These new MacBooks work with your iPhone headphones.
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet.com
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
While Apple sees only the upside of glossy screens—bright and vivid colors—I see only the negative—myself.
by Brian X. Chen, Wired
Despite a raft load of nifty new features, Apple's new Mac notebooks will have a hard time moving off store shelves during the economic crisis, industry analysts say.
by David Pogue, New York Times
Therei's a difference between U.S. sales and global sales. There's also a difference between retail sales and corporate sales.
by Jason D. O'Grady, ZDNet.com
DisplayPort has an advantage over HDMI in that it is royalty free which makes it cheaper to implement.
by Sven-S. Prost, Quarter Life Crisis
What I find disappointing is that Apple aren't bolder when it comes to optical media. Many people simply won't use their optical drive much and that simply kicking those out of the normal notebooks would have been a bold but reasonable step.
by Jason D. O'Grady, ZDNet.com
On Blu-Ray, Jobs said: "It's grat to watch the movies, but the licensing of the tech is so complex, we're waiting till things settle down."
by Erica Sadun, Ars Technica
by Clint Ecker, Ars Technica
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
The entire trackpad gives tactile feedback when clicking, so when you use your thumb to click anywhere in the bottom half of the trackpad, it clicks just like a button would. The trackpad also knows when you are holding onto something, like a Window or a folder.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
Calling the MacBook an "amazing product," Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the latest generation consumer notebooks at the company's headquarters on Tuesday.
Jobs said that people wanted a MacBook with a metal enclosure, faster graphics, and LED backlit displays, and Apple delivered on all of those counts.
One of the most touted new features of the updated MacBook line is the glass multi-touch trackpad, which supports gestures of anywhere between one and four fingers. The trackpad also eschews a separate trackpad button: instead, the whole trackpad acts as a physical button that you can click.
by Jim Dalrymle, Macworld
The new MacBook Pro will feature wo graphic chipsets, the Nvidia GeForce 9400M embedded on the motherboard and the Nvidia GeForce 9600M as a discret part. The graphics deliver 32 parallel graphics cores and 125 gigaflops of graphics performance, Jobs said tath using the 9400M you get five hours of battery life and four hours with the 9600M.
by Philip Michaels, Macworld
The 24-inch LED Cinema Display offers 1,920-by-1,200-pixel resolution, along with a built-in iSight camera and microphone, stereo speakers, and three-port USB 2.0 hub.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
The MacBook Air will feature more storage capacity and faster graphics, Apple announced Tuesday during a press event at its headquarters. The revamped versions of the smallest and thinnest laptop in Apple's portable product line will ship in early November at the same $1,799 and $2,499 prices as the current systems.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Apple chief operating Officer Tim Cook said that Apple's most recently reported quarter showed sales of 2.5 million Mac systems — a new company record. "If you look at the history, what you would see that the Mac has outgrown the market for 14 of the last 15 quarters. That's almost four years. That's phenomenal."
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
Microsoft primarily beats the "PC are cheaper and have more features!" dead horse that Apple customers clearly don't care about.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
The software features patient and insurance billing and reporting, eligibility verification, e-statements, scheuling, prescription tracking, insurance estimation and other features.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Speed DOwnload helps users with download tasks and can do auto-resuming downloads.
by Jon Fortt, Fortune
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
Bento 2 links with Apple Mail; works with Excel, Numbers, and AppleWorks; and adds many spreadsheet style functions. The software also links RSS feeds to contacts, events, projects, and other information stored in Bento.
by Danny Gorog, APC
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
The single-button trackpad is gone. Which is to say there is no button at all.
None of these "$800 new MacBook!" rumors came from anyone with any credibility.
by Bob LeVitus, Houston Chronicle
by Asher Moses, Sydney Morning Herald
The iPhone has become a virtual goldmine for budding software developers - including several Australians - with some earning thousands of dollars a day from relatively simple ideas.
by MacNN
by Ryan Faas, Computerworld
Periodically performing a few key maintenance tasks can keep Leopard — and earlier versions of Mac OS X — running strong and prevent or resolve problems.
by Christopher Dawson, ZDNet.com
Yes, OO.org has been good enough for a long time; the latest release should leave little doubt for any users who had been on the fence.
by Michelle Quinn, Los Angeles Times
Apple's stock, which had been wallowing at a yearly low, continued the climb it started Thursday. Today, Aple shares jumped to $110.26, up 13%, its biggest one-day gain since 1999, according to the Associated Press.
by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune
Apple's notebook computers have been its main source of revenue for some time now, and if Apple plays its cards right, they are likely to remain so for the foreseeable future.
by Rick Aristotle Munarriz, Motley Fool
by Jason R. Rich, CIOL
Hot business-friendly applications and cmpatibility are two of the many reasons small to mid-sized businesses are considering the Mac.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
The OpenOffice.org Community announced Monday the release of OpenOffice.org 3.0, a free office software suite designed as an alternative to Microsoft Office. This is the first version to run natively on Mac OS X.
by John Cox, Network World
When almost 1,000 freshman students showed up at Abilene Christian University on Aug 16, they got something more than the usual medical release forms, parking permits and Welcome Week t-shirts. Thye got a choice of a brand-spanking-new Apple iPhone 3G or iPod Touch, plus a package of ACU-written web applications to use on them.
by Jason Larson
by Jeff Carlson, Seattle Times
by MacNN
by Avanti Kumar, Computerworld Malaysia
Malaysia's International College of Music said its use of a mobile computing solution, powered by Apple, has given its students significant creative and technical freedom.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
by Kasper Jade, AppleInsider
Apple said this week some of it more recent MacBook Pro models may contain faulty Nvidia graphics chips that produce distorted video or fail completely.
by Joe Cellini, Apple
"Aperture was the digital Swiss Army knife that let us capture, caption, organize, rate, present, transmit, and back up terabytes of RAW images from four different photographers using different camera models."
by MacNN
The software is based around the concept of grouping, which divides tasks based on difficulty, timeframe, or common topic.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
Apple has just sent out invites to a special media event on Apple's campus on October 14.. The invite reads, "The spotlight turns to notebooks," and has a ray of light shining over the back of an unidentified Apple notebook.
by Marc Stephens, Biscayne Times
There's a reason you never see an Apple store empty.
by The Inquisitr
According to the source, Apple retail stores have been given price sheets that list 12 price points for the new range of laptops, with prices between $800-$3100.
by David Needle, Internet News
The iPhone's success is helping Apple, developers and even the competition.
by MacNN
by Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek
Apple sells computers to thousnds of schools, philanthropies and non-profits, all of which are bound to get hit hard as interest rates rise and charitable donations drop. Maybe Apple could come up with some innovative way to help them weather the hard times.
by Jack Shiels, Inside Mac Games
by David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun
Unveiling compelling new products while its competitors retrench will give those consumers who are still spending one more reason to choose Apple.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Erica Sadun, Ars Technica
The field trips offer schools a free one-hour training sessions for students while strengthening school branding with Apple.
by Flip Phillips, Macworld
Scientific computing marches forward.
by Joe Kissell, Macworld
What you can do to make sure your private data stays that way.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
The update includes some improvements to the video editor, some additional hardware support, and some country specific bug fixes.
by Don Reisinger, CNET News.com
Nothing will change until Apple experiences a year of decining iPod sales. Once that happens, its competitotrs will panic and try to be the first to the market with something innovative and Apple will be forced to make serious changes to the iPod or come up with something new altogether.
This guy never heard of the iPhone or the iPod Touch?
by John Martellaro, Mac Observer
A public succession plan seems to be more about obsession by the media than a prudent executive management practice.
by MacNN
by iPodNN
Developing European Union guidelines could force Apple to adopt a more user- and environmentally-friendly approach to batteries, reports said.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Spell Catcher provides spell checking for more than a dozen languages, and adds a variety of writing productivity features not embedded in the operating system.
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
The way iTunes defines "new" is not, "most recent" but rather "most recent that you've never played any portion of."
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
by Rupert Neate, Telegraph
Mr Wozniak says the Apple downgrade was "correct". In fact he believes: "It is time for the whole computer industry to maybe have a bit of a slowdown. For twenty years we have been in this replacement and upgrade market," he says. "It is very easy to postpone that when there are financial irregularities."
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet.com
Vendors who adopt Apple's QuickTime MOV format for their hardware need to be aware of the fact that Windows users are getting a poor product experience thanks to the poor performance of QuickTime.
by Scott McNulty, Macworld
Although Apple computers are not somehow magically immune to viruses and other malware, they've been remarkable free of such pests for most of their history. But does that mean you can ignore antivirus software?
by Jacob Beaton, Inside Mac Games
Battlestations: Midway attempts to break some new ground by combining real-time strategy and action genres in a WWII setting. While it doesn't create a totally unique game, it does succeed in creating a fresh and fun game.
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Apple Inc. faces a tough quarter, according to ChangeWave Research, which today projected a drop in consumer plans to buy a Macintosh computer in the next 90 days.
by MacNN
by Al Sacco, CIO.com
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
Podcaster, the application rejected from the App Store that allows you to stream and download podcasts directly to an iPhone or iPod touch, is now being distributed via Cydia, the open-source installer used to place applications on jailbroken iPhones and iPod touch.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Sequence lets you capture individual screenshots as well as video of your Mac.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones continues the long-running fantasy action game franchise with an all-new title featuring third-person action and combat with special moves and abilities.
by Nicholas Ciarelli, The Daily Beast
Lately, there are signs that Apple—long the most secretive company in the tech world—has thrown in the towel on fighting leaks.
by Ron Lussier, Glassdoor.com
I hope Apple will take their employee's comments seriously, and also treat developers more like partners than potential leaks.
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
The only Cocoa Touch applications that run in the background are Phone, Mail, Safari, and iPod.
by Ben Stevens, The Mac Lawyer
by Andy Greenberg and James Erik Abels, Forbes
Stanza, a book reading application offered in Apple's iPhone App Store since July, has been downloed more than 395,000 times and continues to be installed at an average rate of 5,000 copies a day, according to Lexcycle, the three-person start-up that created the reading software.
by KarlKraft
If the phone is placed in emergency call mode, any incoming SMS messages are previewed instead of presented as generic messages.
by Marcus Beagley
by Robert Jensen, IT Business Net
I wanted out! I wanted simplicity back in my life.
by Aidan Malley, AppleInsider
A US federal judge has shut down some attempts by Apple and AT&T to dismiss a class action lawsuit that accuses the two of violating antitrust law with their iPhone exclusivity agreement, pushing the complaint closer to a possible trial.
by AppleInsider
The Securities and Exchange Commission said Friday it's investigating whether a false report that Apple chief executive Steve Jobs suffered a heart attack was published in an effort to manipulate the company's stock price.
by Lonnie Lazar, Cult Of Mac
The biggest news may be that users will now be able to turn the device off from within the control panel.
by Ben Boychuk, Macworld
Could Apple reliance on iTunes's musical legacy hinder further growth?
by Ted Landau, Macworld
by Dan Moren, Macworld
Company founder, Tyler Loch, said that he would be shutting down the company for "personal reasons."
by Arnold Kim, MacRumors.com
by Connie Gulielmo, Bloomberg
After more than 30 years pitching first Macintosh computers and then iPod media players to consumers, Apple is using the iPhone to attract a new audience: business buyers.
by Tim Haddock, Macworld
StoryMill 3.1 provides an impressive workflow approach and toolset that can't be replicated in your current word processor. If you're the sort who prefers plotting in a MacBook to jotting in a notebook, odds are StoryMill could prove a real asset in getting your 100,000-word opus onto the printed page.
by Macworld
by Arnold Kim, MacRumors.com
by Adam Turner, Sydney Morning Herald
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
by Stuart Turton, PC Pro
All that concerns me here, is the image put forth by the Mac community that Steve Jobs is some kind of incredible showman, able to stop time with a bat of his eyelids, and the world with a movement of his lips. It's a lie. He's just a very clever man in a polo neck.
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
Rules you disagree with are frustrating. Rules you don't know about are scary.
by Greg Sandoval, CNET News.com
The Copyright Royalty Board on Thursday froze the rate that digital-music stores, such as iTunes and RealNetworks' Rhapsody, must pay music publishers.
by Jeremy Kirk, Macworld UK
The first concerns the iPhone's email application, which automatically downloads images within an e-mail, said Aviv Raff, a security researcher. The second design flaw is how the iPhone's email application dsiplays URLs.
by John Timmer, Ars Technica
Apple's SDK reveals far more about the device than any of the company's statements, and it provides some insight into what it took to cram OS X onto a mobile device. It also reveals a bit about how Apple, given what amounts to a redo on Cocoa, has aggressively pushed its software design philosophy onto its developers.
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
This useful OS X add-on lets you move and resize the active window using keyboard shortcuts.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Clue Classic is a new casual game based on the classic board game Clue.
by Stevie Smith, The Tech Herald
by Arik Hesseldahl, BusinessWeek
There are only so many world-changing products a company can create, but there's still plenty of room for Apple to extend established product lines.
by Kevin Allison, Financial Times
Apple's market power means it still has an advantage in pricing talks.
by Walt Mossberg, Wall Street Journal
Fusion is now the better choice for running Windows on a Mac virtually.
by Alex McLarty, The Mac Gamer
by Dave Jeyes, Theregoesdave
While a standalone Flash player for the iPhone could be useful, it doesn't solve the problem of being able to successfully navigate websites in Flash onto the iPhone. And even if Steve Jobs allows a plug-in, many web sites would still be hard to navigate on a phone.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
FlatOut2 puts you behind the wheel of a variety of different race cars as you take to courses in cities, in industrial parks, out in the country and elsewhere, competing in a no hodls barred contest for first place.
by Garry Barker, Sydney Morning Herald
Software has been improving life for all sorts of people for years, among them Robert Black, a Melbourne designer who spends 10 hours or more a day working at his Macintosh.
by MacNN
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet.com
by James Dempsey, Macworld
Adobe has continued the PDF tradition of being the "universal file format" for many industries, not just content creation. But over the years the PDF format—and Acrobat itself—has gone through some major changes, some of which have been great and others that leave me wondering just where Acrobat is going.
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
by Philip Michaels, Macworld
Apple says it has not seen any evidence to back up a French newspaper's claim that Mac Pros are emitting toxic odors, including benzene.
by Jason Snell, Macworld
In the past few days, Apple has shown that it's listening to the feedback it's been receiving and is willing to change its policies accordingly. That's an extremely encouraging sign for the iPhone platform.
by Dan Moren, Macworld
Apple announced Wdnesday morning via a posting on the front page of its iPhone developer site that it has decided to discontinue the non-disclosure agreement preventing developers from discussing iPhone programming.
Apple said it will issue a new agreement to developers covering released software that will not contain the NDA clauses. Software and features that Apple has not yet released, such as future versions of the iPhone Software Development Kit, will continue to be confidential until their release.
by Lee Sherman, Macworld
ArcSoft MediaImpression 2.1's do-it-all approach to media asset management is indeed impressive for such an inexpensive program. But despite a few neat tricks, Mac users wil be far better served with a combination of the Mac's built-in media browser and Apple's iLife suite for cataloging, editing, and creating multimedia presentations.
by Greg Sandoval, CNET.com.au
Apple isn't going to throw that away, and the music industry isn't going to risk losing its largest distributor.
by MacNN
Zengobi has announced an updated version of its note taking, mind mapping, brainstorming, and task management software.
by BusinessWeek
See Also: Analyst: Apple's Market Beatdown Has No Effect On Its Bsienss, by Brian X. Chen, Wired.
by Don Descoteau, Victoria News
A Saanich web design school is holding its ground, following a threat by Apple to take legal action if the local firm does not change a corporate logo it has used since 2005.
You can see the disputed corporate logo in question here. Personally — and I'm no lawyer — I think Apple has a strong case.
by Devin Leonard, Fortune
For five years, Apple's iTunes Music Store has been the internet's most successful music store. But as music publishers have sought a higher share of its proceeds, Apple has threatened to shutter iTunes.
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
Selling unlocked contract-free iPhones in Hong Kong is the optimal way to supply the mainland Chinese gray market.
by Joe Kissell, TidBITS
Why reviewing iPhone software - and casual games in particular - is problematic.
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
At the Flash on the Beach 08 conference in Brighton, UK, senior director of Engineering at Adobe, Paul Betlem, took another public shot at sinking Adobe's claws further into Apple's mobile OS.
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
When I step back and take a look at some of the very cool things Apple has contributed to my multimedia life, I recall that the company is capable of amazing work. I'd like to recount some of that work now.
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
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