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3ware Announces High Capacity Network Storage Unit
Taking full advantage of the new Mac's on-board Gigabit ethernet, 3ware has announced a high capacity, high speed Network Storage…
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While Some In The Industry Struggle, Sonnet Has Record 2000 Year
In a traditionally brutal Macintosh upgrade market, Sonnet has reported a record year in 2000. With all-time high sales accounting…
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MacRun Pre-Announces A New Cartoon-Like Game
MacRun has announced that it will soon release Captain Bumper, a new animated, "cartoon-style" game. It is a skill game…
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FastTrack Speeds Towards OS X
AEC Software has announced that FastTrack Schedule is being developed as a Carbon API-based product, which will allow it to…
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Take More Control With New Control Strip Modules
Clarkwood Software announces the immediate release of CSM Pack 1.0, a set of 5 modules for Apple's Macintosh Control Strip.
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Screen Capture Program Offers OS 9.1 Compatibility
St. Clair Software announces the release of the Public Beta Version of Screen Catcher 2.2b1. New features include it's compatibly…
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iView Helps Keep Digital Media In Line
Anyone who uses a digital camera, or works with a variety of graphics formats will applaud the new media management…
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Scientific "Workhorse" App Updated
Synergy Software is proud to release a free upgrade of KaleidaGraph, a graphing and data analysis application for both Windows…
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MacSpeech Announces iListen Enhancements and Timetable
On Thursday, MacSpeech hosted a press briefing to update us on the progress of their flagship product , iListen. The…
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Macromedia Keynote Announces Advertising Alliance, Shows Cool Animations
Rob Burgess, CEO of Macromedia, gave Thursday's keynote speech at this week's MACWORLD Expo. Things started off with a humorous…
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From The Floor: SoundBlaster Live!, Bringing Quality Sound To A Mac Near You
We had the opportunity to preview Creative Labs' SoundBlaster Live! for Macintosh this week while at MACWORLD Expo. This card…
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From The Floor: Cool MP3 Players From Iomega & Creative Labs
In addition to the very cool future technology of DataPlay, there were two fantastic MP3 players being shown. Iomega was…
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From the Floor: Sorenson Media Announces MPEG-4 Beta
As some Observers may already know, Sorenson Media provides codecs that give us the quality QuickTime movie and streaming playback…
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Pics Day 3 - The Crowd Goes Wild
John F. Braun's camera takes us through MACWORLD's exhibit halls again, this time shifting the focus from the products on…
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A pioneer leaves us, William Hewlet of HP dies at 87
William Hewlett, the co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, has died today at the age of 87
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HP/Gateway Warn, AAPL Drops
Gateway and Hewlett-Packard both issued profit warnings today as weak consumer spending on technology continues to plague computer manufacturers. The…
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From The Floor: Alias Looking To See Mac Account For 50% Of Sales
Alias|Wavefront, the maker of the high-end 3D animation package Maya, is looking to see the Mac fill 50% of its…
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E-mail Basics, Part II: A Printable Guide For New Mac Users
I would like to continue discussing some of the more advanced options available to users of Outlook Express 5.0. These…
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Montreal Newspaper Dedicated A Full Page To Apple
On Wednesday, January 10, one of Canada's prestigious newspapers, La Presse, dedicated a full page to Apple's announcements at MACWORLD…
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Is It Raining In China? Updated Earth Browser Knows
Lunar Software has updated their nifty weather utility, Earth Browser, to version 1.3.6. More than just providing the weather across…
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Scientific Tool Coming To OS X
Calerga has announced that they will be bringing their multi-functional scientific tool, SysQuake, to make OS X sometime this Spring.…
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Sapphire Shows Us That Being Framed Is A Good Thing
Sapphire Innovations has released Framed 1.01. Framed allows users to add stylish, intricate borders around images and pictures. All of…
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Washington Apple Pi Delivers Last Blast Of Holiday Cheer
The Washington Apple Pi user group successfully refurbished and distributed 25 Macintosh systems to families around the Washington DC area…
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MP3 Pro: Same Great Sound, Same Great Taste…But Half The Size
MP3 is all-dominating right now, but is no longer cutting-edge when it comes to efficiency, and may soon be replaced…
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Aestiva & Tenon Announce Bundle Package For SysAdmins
Aestiva and Tenon Intersystems announce the release of four Aestiva Web site applications anyone can add to a Web site…
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A Better Finder Rename Updated
PublicSpace.net has updated their popular Finder enhancement tool, A Better Finder Rename, to version 3.5. The new version allows users…
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A New Use for Your Digital Pictures
If you have more digital pictures than you know what to do with, the new screen saver from MacScreenSavers.com called…
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Web Host Benchmarking Tool Updated
MaxProg has announced version 1.2 of HTTP BenchMark. The Web tool is designed to help SysAdmins test their networks and…
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Shogo Ready For Order
What could be more fun than stomping around the downtown metropolitan area in a giant robot armed to the teeth?…
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From Show Floor: Wireless Networking? How About Wireless Printing?
While the Mac Observer staff is convinced of the value of the wireless technology, the good folks at Epson announced…
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From The Floor: The Coolest Digital Media Yet (With Pics)
Imation is showing off a new technology called DataPlay Digital Media from DataPlay. DataPlay is a tiny disk in side…
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Eye Candy: Pictures from the North Hall, Day 2
John F. Braun continues his visual tour of MACWORLD Expo with more pictures from the show floor. Today's pictures feature…
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Web Based Movie Library Support Coming To OS X
MOTEK today announced that their web based movie library, StockMovies, will support Apple's forthcoming OS X operating system. StockMovies is…
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Media100 Psyched About The Latest Macs
Media 100 is at MACWORLD this week, and they are positively giddy over the latest Mac hardware offerings. The company,…
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From The Floor: Booth Highlights
While everybody knows that MACWORLD is a wonderful forum for product announcements, MACWORLD visitors are also presented with a unique…
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Intaller VISE For OS X Updated
MindVision has updated their installer creation utility, Installer VISE, to version 7.1. Installer VISE allows developers to easily create and…
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Corel Updates Popular Graphics App, Painter
Corel has announced an update to their popular graphics application, Painter. Version 6.1 includes a number of enhanced palettes and…
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AAPL Rises More Than 8%... At Last
Apple finally benefitted from the dual forces of upward momentum in the tech sector and the positive press coverage surrounding…
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That Vision Thing: Never Again!
The moral of the story should be very clear, in light of Tuesday's sermon/pep rally/keynote address: we should stop doubting…
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The Age Of Mobile Creativity
Mass communications have been developing for the past century or two, but until now they have been so ludicrously expensive…
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Mac vs. PC: What War?
I started to realize that the perpetual war between Mac believers and PC advocates is... just useless. I admit that…
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Symantec And Earthlink Team To Secure Users’ Systems
Earthlink and Symantec have teamed to provide Earthlink members with a copy of Symantec's security scan software, Security Check. Security…
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You Little Devil: View Web Sites Offline
Chaotic Software has updated Web Devil, the utility for viewing complex web pages off-line, to version 5.2. This updated version…
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Intego Updates Internet Security Tools
Intego has updated their their Internet anti-virus software, VirusBarrier. VirusBarrier 1.5 is designed to run "silently" once it is installed,…
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Icons Boring You? Not These. MWSF Icon Set Released
The icon wizards at Mendelini.com have released two new icon sets, one focusing on the products announced just yesterday during…
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GameRanger Adds Two New Titles
Scott Kevill has announced that Heroes III: Complete, and Shogo: Mobile Armor Division are now supported on GameRanger. The gaming…
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Graphite Colored Memory? You Betcha’
Graphite-colored memory upgrades for desktop Macs are now available from Mushkin Enhanced Memory Systems. The modules are designed for maximum…
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Apple Posts iTunes Installer To iDisk
Many readers, and several Mac Observer staff members, had a difficult time successfully getting the installer from Apple's servers. Fear…