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by Peter Cohen, Macworld
From major releases to Mac clones, third parties had plenty to offer in 2008.
by Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com
I have proof from an expert that the iPhone interface really is better. Who's the expert? My 3-year-old son.
by Lukas Mathis, Ignore The Code
You can make it easy for your users to create awesome things, or you can make it easy for them to create crappy things. It's not only your job to make your application usable, it's also your job to make sure that the things your users build with your application are valuable.
by Mg Siegler, Venture Beat
While a yougurt store employee may not seem like the best source in the world, look at the sources attached to the other stories about Jobs' health — in quite a few cases there are none and it's all speculation.
by Ryan Faas, Computerworld
It's worth reflecting on some of the most notable innovations from Apple in a year that easily ranks as one of the most significant in its 31-year-history.
by Michael Simon, MacLife
I wouldn't call the Macintosh TV or eWorld innovative. They really added nothing new, in my opinion.
by Derek Perez
The iPhone has immense data harvesting capabilities, from geo-location to the accelorometer, etc. But all of these fantastic APIs are available only to native, objective-C based applications, not Mobile Safari?
by David Alpert, Greater Greater Washington
A permanent Apple-shaped architectural feature and all-glass first floor facade may fit Steve Jobs' megalomaniacal personality and Apple's brash corporate image, but if the Old Georgetown Board says it doesn't fit in Georgetown, they may be right.
by Brad Stone, New York Times
Apple's Safari fared the wrost of the browsers in tests by iSec Partners, a San Francisco security firm.
by Ben Charny, Dow Jnes Newswires
Determining Apple's "green-ness" is difficult because so much of the information reported to authorities is provided voluntarily.
by Jim Goldman, CNBC
I was told two weeks ago by sources inside Apple that the [Macworld] decision had nothing to do with Jobs' health. I got the same message today. Period.
by Jason Guthrie, The Apple Blog
Apple is currently sitting in Cupertino with a cool $12 billion in the bank. And if you throw short-term investments in the pot, Apple has quick access to $25 billion. That's a ton of money — especially for a company with $32 billion in revenues.
by Thomas Fitzgerald
Both are good pieces of software and both are aimed at slightly different markets.
by David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun
The contribution of the iPod Touch can't be overestimated. The Touch brings in millions of customers Apple's phone-making competitors can't reach — people like myself who want many of the capabilities of a smartphone without the steep monthly fees.
by Dan Moren, Macworld
Nostalgia is by far the most powerful thing in the entire universe. There is no other way to explain my glee that AMbrosia has released a Universal version of their classic game EV Nova.
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
IDG announced today that next week's Expo will feature a Town Hall meeting, which will be open to all attendees who want to help "shape Macworld in 2010 and beyond."
by Erica Sadun, Ars Technica
It's an elegant approach that allows you to forgo the extra design needed to create and maintain settings screens from within your program and to focus your design work on application semantics. There's only one problem: most users may never see your settings.
by Chris Foresman, Ars Technica
Despite the issues with the iPhone 3G launch, Apple has had a great year, full of exciting new product introductions, record sales, and record profits.
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
In a note sent out to clients this morning, Gene Munster pointed out that it's near impossible to predict an upcoming announcement what with updated iPods, MacBooks, MacBook Pros, and the iPhone 3G having been released late in 2008.
by Dan Moren, Macworld
by Dan Moren, Macworld
If 2007 was Year Zero in the life of the Phone That Changed Everything, then 2008 skyrocketed forward to the year that the device truly came of age.
by Bob LeVitus, Houston Chronicle
by Dan Turner, Computerworld
by MacNN
by Mike DeBonis, Washington City Paper
by Joe Wilcox, eWeek
by Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld
Apple fans weren't so jolly when the iTunes servers went down on Christmas morning — and stayed down for several days.
by Erica Sadun, Ars Technica
by Peter Cohen and Chris Holt, Macworld
Keep an eye on these six trends in the coming years.
by Bob LeVitus, Houston Chronicle
by Apple
Physicists prefer Mac OS X.
by Michael W. Jones, Mac.Blorge.com
by Softpedia
Job listing reveals plans for future Apple portables.
by Lukas Mathis, Ignore The Code
by ITworld.com
by Brent Smmons, Inessential.com
by Daniel Jalkut, Red Sweater Blog
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
AT&T has lowered the price of its refurbished iPhones until the end of the year or until stock runs out, whichever comes first.
by Jeff Carlson, TidBITS
This is a short story of using one device to route around another, misbehaving, device, and trying very hard to not let technology get in the way of what matters.
by Marek Fuchs, TheStreet.com
by Brett Arends, Wall Street Journal
If a PC coss $400 less than a Mac but wastes half an hour of your time each week, over three years you've puttingg in 78 hours to save $400. That's barely $5 an hour: Not even minimum wage.
by Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOM
OpenCL Is a programming framework that allows software to run on botht he CPU and the graphics processor of the coputer.
by Jeffery Battersby, Macworld
by Erica Sadun, Ars Technica
by Philip Michaels, Macworld
The iPhone goes on sale at Wal-Mart on Sunday, the retailer said. An 8GB iPhone will cost $197 at Wal-Mart, while the 16GB model will sell for $297.
by Megan Lavey, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
A small Indiana company has sued tech heavyweights Microsoft, Apple, and Google, claiming that it holds the patent on a common file preview feature used by browsers and operating systems to show users small snapshots of the files before they are opened.
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
by The Gadgeteer
by Michael V. Copeland, Fortune
If you hold on long term Apple ought to bring some rewards, especially if you are getting in now.
by Michelle Maltais, Los Angeles Times
by Galen Gruman, Infoworld
by Associated Press
Christopher Paolini's "Brisingr," Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy and Peter Matthiessen's award-winning "Shadow Country" are among the dozen-plus book scoming to the iPhone and to iPod touch, publisher Random House Inc. announced.
by Tim Beyers, Motley Fool
Can we really say that Microsoft isn't one of the world's most influential?
by Jason D. O'Grady, ZDNet.com
The vulnerability exploits the fact that dashboard widgets are easily installed by a user and aren't generally thought of as a security threat.
by Dean Putney, Cult Of Mac
by Ted Bade, Inside Mac Games
Alpha Pinball is a basic, no real frills, pinball game for the Mac that is dirt cheap.
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
by Jeff Smykil, Ars Technica
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Manga Studo 4 is aimed at professional artists who create manga — Japanese comics — and Western-style comics.
by Jeffery Battersby, Macworld
The updated Billings is an excellent time-tracking, invoicing, and estimate program that allows small companies to create a big impression.
by Lonnie Lazar, Cult Of Mac
by Dan Frommer, Silicon Alley Insider
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
App Store guidelines aside, my take on the use of private APIs is not absolute. If you, as a developer, want to use Private APIs for non-essential aspects of an app, and take care to check for their existence before actually calling them, and write cod ethat fails gracefully if they don't, then maybe it's OK.
by Reuters
Apple remains an iconic brand, whose marketing, balance sheet and strong growth are the envy of competitors. But with expectations of a major product launch now muted and consumer spending pinched, the outlook is a bit cloudier.
by Joe Wilcox, eWeek
by Jonathan Seff, Macworld
Mail Update 1.0 addresses a problem where a copy of Mail that wasn't properly updated while installing the 10.5.6 update unexpectedly quits.
by Seth Weintraub, CIO.com
There is no comparison between Apple's "consumer" machines and the consumer lines of its competitors. All of Apple's machines are ready to move into the enterprise, depending on the job at hand. The company's simple and elegant product line, which is also highly customizable, will be Apple's entree to the business market—if IT decision-makers can get over their prejudice against equpment that's traditionally been aimed at consumers.
by Mg Siegler, Venture Beat
Users are going to start coming up on the nine page limit problem. e're going to need a better way to organize the apps.
Plus, my six-year-old daughter has figured out how to rearrange the applications on our iPod touch...
by Aidan Malley, AppleInsider
In an agressive response, unofficial Mac clone builder Psystar has made a controversial claim that Apple doesn't legally own the US rights to protect Mac OS X, invalidating a major component of its lawsuit.
by FJ De Kermadec, O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
Call me old-fashioned, but nothing irritates me more than these attempts at dumbing down interfaces.
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
by Chris Bowler, The Weekly Review
It's a package that's hard to beat.
by Macworld UK
by Brian Crecente, Kotaku
by Justin Berka, Ars Technica
by Justin Berka, Ars Technica
by Stephen Dean, Register Hardware
We'll concede that the recently updated MacBook represents much better value for money, and it's hard to imagine that the MacBook Air will sell well in these credit-crunch days. And yet - we still want one. THat's how good the design is.
by Reality Distortion
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
Add one more headache for whoever is running Apple's App Store approval process: edgy books.
by Softpedia
by The Joy Of Tech
"Hello, again."
by Chris Nuttall and Richard Waters, Financial Times
Apple, with its iPod touch, appears a clear winner this holiday season as US consumers shop for smaller, cheaper, more versatile electroncs.
Michael Gartenberg, vice-president of Mobile Strategy at Jupitermedia, says: "The iPod touch is being positioned as a product that can do multiple things. That gives it that strong value proposition of having lots of capabilities at one price point."
by Turley Muller, Financial Alchemist
The popularity of low-priced PCs stems from the lack of added value for pricier Windows computers, rather than the inability/unwillingness to spend more for a computer. It's incorrect to assert that Mac sales growth is vulnerable to netbooks or cheap PCs. The real challenge facing Apple in this rough economy is attracting new users and enticing current users to upgrade/replace.
by Seth Wintraub, Computerworld
by Robert Palmer, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by Sharon Machlis, Computerworld
The hardware has a clear attention to design details, offering happy surprises like a magnetic socket for the power cord. The OS X eye candy also seems well designed, offering not just gratuitous razzle-dazzle but helpful visual cues.
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
The question that is on my mind: will Apple organize its own expo-like show? Or mini expos rotating among its stores? Where is Guy Kawasaki to cheer for the third-party developers?
by Harry McCracken, Technologizer
The strongest argument against Silent Keynote is probably this: It's very, very unlikely to make Apple reconsider its decision to end support of Macworld Expo. It might even make it dig in its heels.
by Sam Diaz, ZDNet.com
Don't intentionally disrespect Schiller because the company made a business decision that you don't agree with.
by AppCubby
Ranking apps by volume incentivises cheap gimmicky apps, and makes it difficult for developers to charge a fair price for quality apps.
by Jon Fortt, Fortune
With the Apple chief's decision to step out of the spotlight at next month's Macworld Expo, an era comes to an end.
by Franklin Pride, Inside Mac Games
If you want the best ten hours (twenty for te completist) of entertainment you've had since World of Goo, Aquaria is definitely worth the $30.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Ambrosia Software has put together a collection of some of its most popular games, including a few that have been updated to run on newer Macs. The 15th Anniversary Holiday Bundle costs $19.
I spend countless hours of my waking life playing Apeiron by Ambrosia. Maybe you should too? :-)
by Scott McNulty, Macworld
Let's face it: the people crying foul the loudest about Apple's Macworld Expo plans are also the kind of people that will buy whatever Apple comes out, with nary a moment's hesitation.
by Erica Sadun, Ars Technica
Google spends a lot of time trying to develop algorithms to discount page rank spammers. Clearly, App Store is going to have to invest in that same kind of approach.
by Dan Moren, Macworld
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Mac Games Arcade lets you browse, download and buy nearly 400 downloadable games.
by Justin Berka, Ars Technica
by David Bunnell, San Francisco Chronicle
by Joe Wilcox, eWeek
There's a saying that you can always get more money. But the same doesn't apply to time. You can't take back time. Steve has given enough time to Apple.
by Brian X. Chen, Wired
by Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek
EZ4Media's lawsuit alleges that Apple TV, Airport Express, and Apple Macintosh personal computers infringe four of its patents.
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
In a support document posted to its site, Apple described an issue in which Mac would hang on a "Configuring installation" window when trying to install Mac OS X 10.5.6. That was apparently the result of an incomplete update getting seeded into the Software Update process, and Mac OS X will freak out if it tries to install a partially downloaded update.
by Chauncey Dupree, 9 To 5 Mac
by Mg Siegler, Venture Beat
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
by Chris Foresman, Ars Technica
by Ian Lamont, The Industry Standard
The iMac won't be able to survive a recession, or the unstoppable trend toward less-expensive, smaller, and more powerful compting hardware.
by Mikael Ricknas, IDG News Service
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
Songbird is a free, open source, cross-platform media player/web browser based on Mozilla's XULRunner platform.
by Tonya Engst, TidBITS
Macworld Expo is our family's annual reunion. You don't go to reunions because they are convenient, or because they are cheap. You go to reunions because you are a member of the family, and that's what families do.
by Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
It seems so ugly, the way this has gone down — but there's no way to break with tradition in a nice way.
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
Speak volumes... by not saying a word: My name is Lesa Snider King and I'm mad at Apple.
by FarukAt.es
Macworld Expo may have been an important venue for many historic Apple announcments, but it's certainly not been the only one over the past ten years and it would be a mistake to give Macworld Expo that kind of credit.
by Mg Siegler, Venture Beat
If Apple doesn't want IDG to dictate its own launch dates, it shouldn't dictate others' too, obviously.
by Chris Edwards, The Guardian
When Appel senior vice-president Phil Schiller gets up on stage at next month's Macworld, a couple of weeks ahead of the Macintosh computer's 25th anniversary, he will have the opportunity to alter the direction of computing.
by Rob Cox and Richard Beales, New York Times
Steve P. Jobs has turned Apple into a technology powerhouse — twice. But how much is he worth to the company? If one compares the value of Apple's revenue streams to the company's market capitalization, nearly $20 billion.
by Harry McCracken, Technologizer
by Ed Burnette, ZDNet.com
I think what we need is a Mac run-time layer that lets those great Mac programs work well on other operating systems.
By the time one gets all that underlying libraries running on other platforms, you might as well have ported the entire OS X. Which is no easy task, even for Apple.
by James Rivington, TechRadar.com
As a novelty app, it could prove to be quite popular among casual snappers.
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
For the second year running, Apple Inc.'s computers are the most reliable, and its support is the most dependable of all computer makers selling in the U.S., a national chain of computer service shops said today.
by Justin Scheck and Nick Wingfield, Wall Street Journal
There is reason for optimism, based on the evolution of the team that develops Apple's hardware, software and services, some people familiar with the company's internal workings say. Some of them believe the group is now strong enough that, barring an exodus of top talent, the company could keep churning out innovative products without Mr. Jobs.
by Joe Cellini, Apple
by Andy Ihnatko, Chicaco Sun-Times
Folks have wondered about the timing of Apple's announcement, coming as it does just three weeks before Expo. I've seen no hard data supporting to any firm conclusion, but I suspect that it was an act of consideration. If Apple had made this announcement a few months sooner, it would have rightly or wrongly been seen as a tipoff that this would be a good year to stay home. It would have sandbagged the show.
by John Siracusa, Ars Technica
While other companies are paralyzed with indecision, or cling relentlessly to what has worked in the past, or are seduced by sentimentality, Apple is busy murdering its darlings.
by Don Reisinger, CNET News.com
Apple's capacity to deliver groundbreaking products every few months at its varous events is severely diminished. Simply put, Apple doesn't want to have to force itself to innovate for the trade show just to satisfy hype-driven media outlets.
by David Morgenstern, ZDNet.com
The Macworld Expo has been a way to bring customers and solutions together. That confluence now appears in peril, and it can't be done at the stores.
by John Samsel, Inside Mac Games
Purely as a hidden object game, there are better ones, but there are much worse. What hurts the game most is just the lack of mini-games to add variety.
by Jeff Smykil, Ars Technica
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
Among the many changes in Pro Tools 8 is completely redesigned user interface.
by Erica Sadun, Ars Technica
For that $50 you save, you get a used, possibly scratched unit with a possibly much-reduced warranty and you're still stuck with a two-year commitment.
by Chris Foresman, Ars Technica
by Mikael Ricknas, IDG News Service
The iPhone will no longer be available for just Orange subscribers in France after a decision by the national competition council announced Wednesday.
by Jim Darlymple, Macworld
Reed Exhibitions will not hold Apple Expo Paris in 2009. The show organizers confirmed its plans for Macworld on Wednesday.
by Dan Moren, Macworld
Five months after the release of the iPhone 3G last July, a team of hackers has finally figured out a way to alter the device's software so that it can be unlocked for use on networks other than AT&T's in the US for example.
by Owen Thomas, ValleyWag
I think there must have been a ferocious debate within Apple about whether he should go on with his keynote, which was brought to a head by the BusinessWeek story. It's the opposite of how Jobs likes to operate. And it's the clearest sign that something is wrong with Jobs.
by Don Reisinger, CNET News.com
Besides pricing, the Mac Mini offers the best value of any Mac on the market.
by Alexander Wolfe, InformationWeek
by Paul McDougall, InformationWeek
Apple's latest update to its Leopard operating system, OS X 10.5.6, appears to be creating more problems than it's fixing on users' Macs.
by Antone Gonsalves, InformationWeek
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
It may seem obvious to say this, but Apple's performance in the future will mostly rely on the quality of its products rather than its marketing vehicle of choice.
by Josh Quittner, Time
Why wait until the last minute and raise the obvious questions about Jobs's health?
by Jason Snell, Macworld
I don't want Macworld San Francisco 2010 to be like Macworld Boston 2005. But that's still the most likely scenario, and it's a crying shame. I may understand Apple's motivation, but I can't agree with it. Macworld Expo and its community of users and vendors deserve better.
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
For the developers, and for myself and my fellow mebers of the Mac community, I really hope that Macworld Expo finds a way to survive and thrive in the post-Apple era. Unfortunately, it seems to me that Macworld Expo is now like a mall that's lost its large anchor tenant. While the mall may continue to operate for some period of time, the number of shoppers will decline, smaller retailers will fold up shop, and—eventually—the mall will close with a whimper, leaving people only with memories of what used to be.
by Jim Goldman, CNBC
Steve Jobs is fine. It's Macworld the expo that's on its last legs.
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet.com
This whole brouhaha is based on little more than speculation, and to me it seems highly unlikely.
See Also: Apple 'Netbooks', Eh?, by John Gruber, Daring Fireball.
by Arik Hesseldahl, BusinessWeek
By nearly any measure November of 2008 is difficult to compare to November of 2007.
by Nick Spence, Macworld UK
Adobe Lightroom 2.2 includes additional camera raw support for a range of camera makes and models and numerous bug fixes.
by MacNN
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet.com
The problem is most of these people would like a cheap Mac because they are disillusioned with their cheap PCs. I don't think that cheap Macs are the answer.
by Electronista
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
Apple on Tuesday announced that Macworld Conference & Expo 2009 will be the company's last. The company also said Steve Jobs will not deliver his traditional keynote at the event htis year.
In his place, Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, will deliver the keynote on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at the Moscone West hall.
The shifting of Apple's product releases timetable is almost completed, a decade later.
See Also: IDG: Macworld Expo Still On For 2010, Even Without Apple, by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica.
by Dan Moren, Macworld
by Derik DeLong and Cyrus Farivar, Macworld
by Yukari Iwatani Kane and Justin Scheck, Wall Street Journal
Apple, which has outpaced the overall personal computer market this year despite its strategy of eschewing discounts, showed its first signs of weakness in November. Sales of Macs in U.S. stores last month declined 1% from a year ago, while industry-wide PC sales rose 2%, according to research firm NPD Group Inc., which tracks retail sales.
by Cory Bohon, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by Patrick Braga, The Unix Geek
by Agile UI
It doesn't really matter if one product is "better" than another, what matters is whether it provides "a better experience for me."
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
Apple has rejected an iPhone application that supposedly uses off-limits technology just like Google's mobile application—only the developer swears it's not true.
by Daniel Terdiman, CNET News.com
by Ginny Miller, Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
While playing around at home with her new Apple MacBook, Valnisi came across a reference to field trips. One thing led to another, and last month some of her students got a technology treat at the Apple store in Germantown, Tenn.
by Elizabeth Woyke and Brian Caulfield, Forbes
Apple was the first company to realize that gizmo players are as much about personal expression as they are about function.
by Darren Murph, Engadget
The 24-inch LED Cinema Display is a well thought-out product. It's the first display that isn't ashamed to be built for notebook owners, and the simple inclusions that make it unique are incredibly handy and entirely useful.
by Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times
What seems clear is that the issue is caught up in the long-running negotiations between the labels and Apple over variable pricing. The truly strange thing here is that neither side is well served by DRM.
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
While 2007 might have seemed like the year of the iPhone, Apple will probably look back on 2008 as the year it became a cell phone company.
by Erica Sadun, Ars Technica
by MacNN
Apple is now listing which countries and carriers around the world are carrying unlocked versions of the iPhone, the company's website reveals.
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
A big chnage has been made for users of Apple's MobileMe syncing service. According to Apple, contacts, calendars, and bookmarks on a Mac automatically sync within a minute of the change being made on the computer, another device, or the web at me.com.
See Also:
A Deeper Look At Mac OS X 10.5.6, by Rob Griffiths, Macworld.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
Bare Bones Software released an update for its HTML and text editor, BBEdit, on Monday, adding a new font and improving the performance of FTP.
by Justin Berka, Ars Technica
Many owners of the new laptops have had their machines crash frequently with 4GB of memory installed.
by David Allen, Inside Mac Games
by Stuart Gripman, Macworld
NovaMind Platinum 4.6.1 gets high marks for a deep feature set and excellent user interface. If you regularly edit complicated mind maps, performance issues may dampen yourenthusiasm. Still, if you're looking for a full-featured mind-mapping tool, NovaMind should be on your short list.
by Robert McMillan, Macworld UK
Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome browsers could do a better job of protecting passwords, according to a security researcher who released a study of browser password managers on Friday.
by Reuters
Where iTunes fits into album sales strategies will almost certainly be one of the main topics of 2009 and beyond.
by Joe Wilcox, eWeek
App Store is a potentially killer platform because the devices are so personal and people can't give up the applications.
by Ellen Messmer, Network World
by Brooke Crothers, CNET News.com
Because of the price and the way it's marketed, 3G should be built in.
by Daniel Lyons, Newsweek
Some kid in his bedroom can make a million bucks just by writing a little application for the Apple phone.
by Brian X. Chen, Wired
Just hours after announcing plans to sell a high-end Mac clone, niche electronics reseller EFI-X changed course in order to avoid a nasty legal confrontation with Apple.
by Joshua Topolsky, Engadget
by Michael Mandel, BusinessWeek
The answer: 13,920, including engineering and retail. But there are 27,250 iPod-related jobs created outside the U.S.
by Charles Arthur, The Guardian
It's taken a long time - seven years to be precise - but the promises of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates from 2001 are finally coming true.
by Chris Holt, Macworld
World of Goo is a trippy puzzle game that pushes your knowledge of physics to its gooey limits in a post-modernistic setting. Fun, quirky, and highly-addictive, World of Goo is one of the most entertaining puzzle games to come to the Mac in years.
by Daniel H. Steinberg, O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
Is there no Apple keynote at Macworld?
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
In Amju Pet Zoo, you find eggs and hatch them to make your own zoo of little animals. You can feed them and watch them grow, and when they grow up, they make more eggs, which you can also care for.
by Chris Foresman, Ars Technica
Apple has added sidebars that highlight the top 20 paid and free apps separately.
by Adam C. Engst, TidBITS
by Stan Veit, Computer Shopper
We were just beginning to realize that the Computer Mart of New York might be a success beyond our dreams and that the little space in Polk's Hobby Store might not be enough, when I received a phone call.
It was a very fast-talking young man who told me, "I'm Steve Jobs."
by Martin Lindstrom, Advertising Age
Have some brands actually managed to create their own religions by, coincidentally or deliberately, adopting triggers and tactics from the world of religion?
by Arik Hesseldahl, BusinessWeek
That Apple continues to fall short says less about Apple's standing as an environmentally friendly company than it does about the company's willingness to play by all of Greenpeace's occasionally inconsistent and illogical rules.
by Connie Guglielmo, Bloomberg
Employees in the cell-phone departments at five California stores, contacted by phone today, said Wal-Mart will offer iPhones by the end of December. Employees are currently being trained on how to sell the device, all five said.
by BBC News
A freeware application for the iPod Touch can turn the music player into a virtual mobile phone.
by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune
by David Needle, InternetNews
There's not much doublt, health concerns aside, that Apple CEO Steve Jobs will give the keynote early next month at Macworld Expo in San Francisco.
But pity the show producers. You'd have to think they would love the chance to promote Macworld Expo months in advance as featuring a keynote by the best known CEO in tech with a penchant for taking the wraps off brand new products and technology. No such luck.
by Mitch Wagner, InformationWeek
With the launch of MacBook Air, an improved iPhone and smashing sales in the Apps Store, Apple sliced through the global economic gloom of 2008 and turned in a solid year.
by Marin Perez, InformationWeek
Apple announced Friday it has had over 300 million downloads from its App Store, a whopping total considering the store opened only five months ago.
by Erica Sadun, Ars Technica
by Joe Cellini, Apple
by Sean Fallon, Gizmodo
An Agrentinian company is choosing to push their luck by building more Mac clones.
by James Galbraith, Macworld
Its lack of compatibility with other Macs and its lack of customization settings are disappointing, but it's a good fit for its limited target audience.
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
For making quick switches and adjustments to your Spaces configuration, and for making it easier to identify different workspaces, Hyperspaces looks like a promising prospect.
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
by Ted Landau, Macworld
Input Managers are on the way out. And while they may still work for now, don't count on things to go smoothly.
by Michael DeAgonia, Computerworld
The BSD code underpinning Mac OS X goes a long way toward preventing malware problems — as any Linux and Unix user can attest - and there's a decided lack of interest in the Mac from cybercriminals.
by Aidan Malley and Kasper Jade, AppleInsider
Those familiar with show organizer IDG's trouble snote that the Adobe pullout has now been accompanied by Belkin and Seagate. The move is deemed especially surprising for Belkin, which is believed to have already paid for its booth space this year.
by Dale Vile, The Register
Those of us making a more objective assessment of what's going on look at how Apple's business is evolving and see a lot of similar traits to those that were apparent as Microsoft was gaining power.
by Joshua Topolsky, Engadget
They not only sound really, really good (warm lows and crisp highs, a distinct lack of that modern, pushy mid-range), but they do work with the iPhone (the 3G we've got here, at least).
by MacNN
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
by Darren Murph, Engadget
by James Galbraith, Macworld
The changes to this latest version are subtle, and there are, most likely, more substantial changes for Apple's largest laptop down the road, but if you can stand carrying the extra weight, or require a matte screen, the 17-inch MacBook Pro is a big, beautiful, and fast portable.
by Dan Moren, Macworld
by Doug McLean, TidBITS
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
by AFP
by Mikael Ricknas, IDG News Service
by Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC
One thing that this incident does show is Apple's split personality when it comes to communicating with its users and with the medai.
by Brad Stone, New York Times
There is one unusual and noteworthy aspect of the app called Amazon Remembers, which Amazon is calling "experimental." The tool lets users take a photograph of any product they see in the real world. The photos are then uploaded to Amazon and turned over to the far-flung freelance workers in Amazon's Mechanical Turk program, who will try to match them with products for sale on Amazon.com.
by Joe Cellini, Apple
by Groklaw
by David Lawsky, Reuters
Everyone agrees Apple achieved its dominance n music downloads and players with good products and marketing, which makes it entirely legal. Nevertheless, rivals and a technology rights group are concerned Apple is overly aggressive.
by Matt Buchanan, Gizmodo
Bascially, Unix-based systems are architectued so that they require administrator privileges to modify the OS and are traditionally more strict in enforcing them.
by Ed Sutherland, Cult Of Mac
Another wrinkle in the spy-vs-spy Mac security game appeared Wednesday when a Mac Trojan horse attempted to disguise itself by naming a file "intego," a reference to Intego, the anti-virus company.
by Dan Moren, Macworld
The proposal was submitted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and argues that end users should be allowed to jailbreak their phones to use legally-acquired third-party applications.
by John Samsel, Inside Mac Games
by Chris Holt, Macworld
by Scott McNulty, Macworld
iPhoto is a paranoid application. When you hit delete in iPhoto the offending picture isn't actually deleted. Instead, it's whisked away to the iPhoto Trash.
by Macworld
by Brian Dipert, EDN
by Arik Hesseldahl, BusinessWeek
With fewer iPod users upgrading, the days of explosive growth are over. And that leaves iPhone and Macs picking up the slack.
When Apple make playing music on the iPod touch as easy and as cheap as the 'regular' iPods, people will upgrade. :-)
by Sebastien Arnaud, I Blog Therefore, I Am
It is a very solid ultra portable system, that can act without shame as a desktop replacement for most of us when plugged t an external screen/keyboard/mouse.
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Datamation
by Brian X. Chen, Wired
Apple doesn't want you to believe what it says, even though the company claims it's not lying. That's the gist of the Cupertino company's legal response to a lawsuit regarding allegedly misleading advertising for the iPhone 3G.
by Joe Wilcox, eWeek
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
"We have removed the KnowledgeBase article because it was old and inaccurate," Apple spokesman Bill Evans told Macworld. "The Mac is designed with built-in technologies that provide protection against malicious software and secrutiy threats right out of the box."
by Chris Foresman, Ars Technica
Apple has added the ability for developers to generate promotional codes that can be redeemed directly through the App Store.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
Adobe, a major player in the Mac software market, will not be among the developers exhibiting on the show floor at next month's Macworld Conference & Expo.
by Dan Moren, Macworld
by Ted Landau, Macworld
Service sprovide systemwide commands that allow you to quickly accomplish a variety of tasks, such as sending Mail messages lickety-split or making a new Stickies note from a selection. If you're not already using the Services menu, you'll soon discover how it can boost your productivity.
by The Dads Center
It works better than any computer I've ever had, and I can do more with it than any other computer I've ever had. Period.
by John Viega, O'Reilly Broadcast
by Andrew Fishkin, Low End Mac
by Joe Wilcox, eWeek
Apple forums are abuzz about display problems affecting MacBook Air.
by Matt Neuburg, TidBITS
Klicko prevents clickthrough. To put it another way, it restores the pre-Mac OS X behavior: when you click on a non-frontmost window, that window comes to the front and that's all.
by Franklin Pride, Inside Mac Games
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet.com
Apple now recommends that users install antivirus software on their Mac systems.
by Chris Foresman, Ars Technica
Mini DisplayPort is an Apple-designed miniature version of the VESA-approved DisplayPort, which fully supports the protocol while offering a more compact connector.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
Lawyers for Apple said they have discovered additional information since the original complaint was filed. Without going into detail, lawyers said the new information is in regards to Psystar's products and marketing.
by iPhone Savior
by Dale Mugford, BraveNewCode
Anyone getting one of these machines will be supremely satisfied, in my humble opinion.
by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune
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