While the Holiday Season will be full of fond memories and happy gift giving, this year may also introduce many to the darker side of technology; Technical telephone support. As many of you will be getting new gadgets this year, getting those gadgets to work properly may require longs waits for tech-support with your phone…
SilverNetworks Updates Spy With Bug Fixes And More
SilverNetworks today released a significant update to itis remote screen capture tool, Spy. Spy allows you to run a small server on your Mac, that when accessed by any normal Web browser, allows people to see your screen, as well as information about your Macintosh. But it doesnit stop there – they can look at…
IT Business: Apple Canada Ready For IT Business
Apple has made some impressive strides in marketing its products to IT shops here in the States, many companies suffering from shrinking budgets and bad karma from Microsoft are finding Apple’s offerings to be good for what ails them. That’s fine, but Apple doesn’t only exist in the US marketplace. What of our northern neighbors?…
Apple Hot Deals Updates For ClubMac, B&H, MacMall, IMG, & OWC
A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for ClubMac, B&H Photo-Video, MacMall, Inside Mac Games (IMG), and Other World Computing (OWC) at the Macintosh Product Guide. The Mac Product Guide is a list of Mac compatible hardware and software products on the market. The Hot Deals section of the Product Guide features several Mac…
MDG Computer Services Shipping Web Server And WS4D/eCommercce Version 4.0
MDG Computer Services, Inc, a leading developer of Web and eCommerce tools for Macintosh announced today that it shipped version 4.0 of Web Server 4D and WS4D/eCommerce, its a single application that includes a full featured Web server, shopping carts, storefronts, credit authorization, virtual domains, and database publishing. Whatis New With Version 4.0? Web Server…
BusinessWeek Examines PowerBook G5 Challenges
With the addition of the Power Mac G5 to Apple’s product line in June, many Mac users immediately began lusting after and speculating on a G5 Power Book. The reality, however, is that the G5 is too hot for a portable computer, and it draws too much power. Our take on the idea of a…
Inside Wal-Mart's Online Music Store & Digital Rights Management
A nalysts viewed Wal-Martis announcement Thursday of its foray into online music distribution as a potential threat to Apple, but it would appear that for the time being the service compares more so with the likes of BuyMusic.com than the iTunes Music Store. The sufficiently titled “WalMart.com – Music Downloads” service offers all songs for…
QuickTime 6.5 Released: Adds Support For 3GPP, 3GPP2, Enhanced DV Playback
Q uickTime 6.5 is here, and available as a free download. QuickTime 6.5 adds support for mobile phone technologies like 3GPP and 3GPP2, as well as enhanced DV playback for use in Apple products such as iMovie, iDVD, and Final Cut Pro. Apple also notes in its press release that QuickTime 6.x has been downloaded…
Blue Mango Shipping New QuickTime Editor
Blue Mango Multimedia, LLC is now shipping Enhanced QuickTime External. Enhanced QuickTime External is a utility designed for expanding the standard QuickTime feature set. The app ships with QuickTime movie editing support and audio level control. According to Blue Mango Multimedia, LLC: Blue Mango Multimedia, LLC today announced the Enhanced QuickTime External, which extends the…
EV Nova Update Zaps Some Bugs
Ambrosia Software, Inc. has released an update for Escape Velocity Nova, bringing it to version 1.0.7. Escape Velocity is a space action/rpg game designed to destroy tedium with laser fire. The update fixes several bugs and improves Panther compatibility. According to Ambrosia Software: EV Nova 1.0.7, for the Mac, has been released. EV Nova is…
Computing With Bifocals - It's All About The MUG, Zoom, & Rechargeable Batteries
Previously in this column, I have made mention of the fact that since my retirement I have joined the local Macintosh User Group (MUG). There is a loose affiliation of user groups across the US and, as far as I know, in other countries as well. These groups meet periodically to share information, fellowship, and…
Despite Opposition, Stillwater Apple Laptop Program Will Proceed
W eive been following the Stillwater school board and a program begun earlier this year to put laptops in two, and then one, of the districtis junior high schools for many months now. It began in September of this year with the announcement that the Minnesota school district would be purchasing some 2,309 iBooks for…
BusinessWeek Calls Apple Stores Zen-Like
Been Christmas shopping? Even the most war-hardened shopper can tire of fighting the crowds just to save a few pennies on gifts that the intended recipient may not want. Stores like Wal-Mart during the Christmas buying season can easily be compared to midwestern stockyards, where cattle where herded before becoming last night’s dinner. An article…
AstraPix 540: Digital Chimera
A pple bills itself as the supplier of the hub of the Digital Lifestyle. Macs, for many, are at the center of the digitized snippets of the lives their owners lead — from music to pictures to movies and more — but what of the devices that gather all of these isnippetsi? There are digital…
Canadian Consumers Could Pay Dearly For Their Next iPod
The next time you buy a pack of blank CDs or scroll through the playlist on our iPod you’ll think of our northern neighbors after reading this: Canada currently collects a tariff on media that can be used for recording music; cassette tapes, blank CDs, and similar items. The purpose of the tariff is to…
DEVONtech Shipping EasyFind 3.0
DEVONtechnologies updates the free find-file utility EasyFind to version 3.0 to use the advanced search operators known from the intelligent Internet search agent DEVONagent. Therefore, users can not only use the boolean "and", "or" and "not" operators to combine two search words, but also the high-end operators "near", "before", "after" and "xor" as well as…
Apple Hot Deals Updates For Sweetwater, CDW, & Outpost
A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for Sweetwater, CDW, Outpost at the Macintosh Product Guide. The Mac Product Guide is a list of Mac compatible hardware and software products on the market. The Hot Deals section of the Product Guide features several Mac retailers and special offers that one can only get, at…
Just A Thought - Apple Tablet: Alive And Well With Robert Cringely
Hey all of you Apple speculators; you folks who enjoy ruminating over what Jobs and crew will do next to shake things up; I’ve got a topic for ya that is likely near and dear to your digital hearts: Apple tablets. Half of you are probably saying, "Damn right! An Apple tablet would make me…
Court Rules SCO Must Show Offending Code
SCO has made quite a name for itself in recent months, not because of technical excellence, but because of its attempts to wrangle licensing fees from anyone using Linux, and possibly other *nix variants such as BSD and its descendants. The company has also made a splash because of its lawsuits against those who’ve refused…
DEVONtech Updates DEVONthink With WebKit Engine Conversion
DEVONtechnologies updates DEVONthink to version 1.7.3. The new version is optimised for Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther" (but still runs on Mac OS X 10.2), comes with new features, improvements and fixes. When running on Mac OS X 10.3 ("Panther"), DEVONthink Personal Edition now features a "Special characters" command to open the character palette and…
Intelli Innovations Shipping New Portable Barcode Scanner
Intelli Innovations, Inc., developers of innovative hardware and software for Macintosh, today introduced the IntelliScanner Scanabout, a multi-functional addition to its expanding IntelliScanner USB Barcode Reader product line. IntelliScanner Scanabout is a flexible new barcode scanner built for both tethered and portable use. Users can use the product at their desk as a wired reader…
HP To Launch Online Music Store, MP3 Player (With Analysis)
It seems that everyone wants to follow Apple into the space that Apple says can’t make money. Reuters is reporting that HP is going to be the latest me-too company in the music download business, following such runners-up as Roxio, MusicMatch, BuyMusic.com, and Dell Computer. Like Dell, HP is also going to be selling its…
Apple Hot Deals Update For MacWarehouse, ClubMac, CompUSA
A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for retailing giants MacWarehouse, ClubMac, and CompUSA at the Macintosh Product Guide. The Mac Product Guide is a list of Mac compatible hardware and software products on the market. The Hot Deals section of the Product Guide features several Mac retailers and special offers that one can…
ComputerWorld: Xserve Cluster Crunches Bio-data For Lab
We hear a lot about Apple’s latest desktops and notebooks these days — even ganged PowerMac G5s have been making headlines — but we seldom hear news of the Xserve and how businesses are using them. Here’s a story from ComputerWorld Singapore about a laboratory that has recently installed Xserves. Temasek Life Science Laboratory needed…
