Archives for October 2005
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Browse By Day in October 2005
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IBM to Continue Producing PowerPC Chips Without Apple
IBM plans to continue developing the PowerPC chip, currently used in Apple computers, and will focus on server and embedded…
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EvolutionTV Can Now Timeshift Live TV, More
Miglia Technology on Wednesday released EvolutionTV 2.5, an update that enables users to pause, rewind and fast-forward live TV.
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Apple Video Sales Strong, More Programming On the Way
Apple's experiment with adding video content to the iTunes Music Store seems to be turning out well. Apple executives are…
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DJ-1800 DJ Software Adds Support For Popular Controllers
Version 2.2 of DJ-1800, released on Wednesday, adds support for many popular controllers, including the Hercules DJ console and the…
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Macworld 2006 Feature Presentations Announced
The Feature Presentations for Macworld 2006 in San Francisco have been announced, and they are now open to all expo…
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Apple Developer Connection Posts Article On Network Applications
The Apple Developer Connection (ADC) has posted an article titled Designing Network-friendly Applications. The article covers issues relating to developing…
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Apple ‘Fesses Up to PowerBook SuperDrive Issues
Apple has released a statement admitting: "Some earlier PowerBook G4 computers that have a SuperDrive with a 2X DVD-R write…
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Precision Recall Extends Spotlight Searches
Agent Software on Tuesday released Precision Recall, a utility that complements Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger's Spotlight searching functionality as…
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Sony Intros Double-/Dual-Layer DVD Burner
Sony on Tuesday debuted a new DVD burner with speeds up to 8X when burning Double Layer DVD+R discs.
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iTunes Biggest Competitor is P2P
Apple doesn't see Napster or Yahoo! as its biggest competitor in the music download market. That distinction goes instead to…
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Waterfall Software Typeset 3
Waterfall Software announced the immediate availability of Typeset 3, a tool to preview fonts even if they aren't installed, on…
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Slim Devices Announces New Squeezebox
Slim Devices announced the Squeezebox network music player on Tuesday. A new service, SqueezeNetwork, lets the Squeezebox play Internet radio…
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The Oaks Apple Store Opens October 29
The latest Apple Store at The Oaks Mall in Thousand Oaks, California, is opening at 10:00 a.m. Pacific time on…
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PowerSchool 5.0 Student Management Software Available
PowerSchool announced the immediate availability of PowerSchool 5.0 on Tuesday. PowerSchool is a web based student information management system geared…
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BenQ Adds 20-Inch LCD to Line-Up
BenQ has added a 20-inch LCD screen to its line of monitors.
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PortalPlayer Comments Up Analyst’s Bullish iPod Outlook
American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu on Tuesday issued a reaction to the strong financial results reported on Monday by…
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Mac Geek Gab: SSH, Grep, Find, and Regular Expressions
To say that this show is chock full of info is an understatement! John and Dave continue their tour through…
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What I Like About Microsoft Word…
When I speak at conferences, trade shows, and user groups, someone invariably asks me what word processor I use. When…
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TeamSpeex and ScummVM
Chris Barylick brings us TeamSpeex, a beta software project to bring TeamSpeak game communication to the Mac platform. He also…
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Who’d Have Thunk It?
Ted Landau gathers up everything that is happening with Apple Computer today, and puts it into context. Sony wants to…
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Apple Updates PowerMax, Sweetwater, AudioMIDI Hot Deals
Apple on Friday announced the addition of PowerMax to its group of Hot Deals vendors. The company also updated its…
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RadTech Intros ScreenSavrz for Cinema Displays, StuffBak Recovery Service
RadTech on Friday introduced a new series of ScreenSavrz made to fit Apple's 20-, 23- and 30-inch Cinema Displays, as…
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Forrester Predicts Blu-ray Will Win DVD Wars [Updated]
Forrester Research is predicting that the Blu-ray format will win out over HD-DVD in the battle to become the next…
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Apple Updates All Pro Apps
Apple Computer released Pro Application Support 3.1 late on Thursday, an update for the company's entire pro app line. The…
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MCE Ships Auto/Airline Combo Adapter For PowerBooks, iBooks
MCE Technologies on Thursday announced that it's now shipping its new Auto/Airline Combo Adapter, which is compatible with all G4…
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Conversations With Steve: 2 Minutes To Curtain…
"Gut willies?" Steve is startled: The stage crew know to leave him alone in the few minutes before he is…
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Montage Librarian Pro Offers Spotlight-Like Functionality to Panther Users
Montage Technologies on Thursdy released Montage Librarian Pro, a new application that can search and index files by using functionality…
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MacNotables Discuss New Apple Products
The latest installment of the MacNotables podcast is now available for download. This week, Adam and Tonya Engst, Chuck Joiner,…
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TypeNoMo, ClickNoMo Reduce Repetitive Stress
Developer TCNoMo has released TypeNoMo and ClickNoMo, utilities that reduce the amount of typing and mouse clicking a user has…
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DeckLink Extreme with PCI Express For the New G5
Blackmagic Design announced the immediate availability of the DeckLink Extreme with PCI Express for the new Power Mac G5 on…
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Light Crafts Introduces LightZone Image Editor
Light Crafts announced the immediate availability of LightZone, a photo image editing application, on Thursday. LightZone is aimed at professional…
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Extensis Announces Portfolio 8
Extensis announced Portfolio 8, the latest version of its digital asset management system, at the PhotoPlus Expo on Thursday. The…
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iGet 2.0 File Transfer Application Gets Tiger Support
Five Speed announced the immediate availability of iGet 2.0 on Thursday. iGet is a tool for transferring files from Mac…
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Aperture Complements Photoshop Instead of Competing
Aperture, Apple's new professional photograph management and editing application, is a tool that complements Adobe Photoshop instead of competing with…
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AOC Launches Pro Line of Envision LCD Screens
AOC Displays has introduced a new line of LCD monitors aimed at professionals. The first two models in the series…
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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Reaches Beta
Aspyr Media on Thursday announced that RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 has reached the Beta stage of development.
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Apple Media Event Photo Gallery
New York City -- The Mac Observer was on hand Wednesday for Apple's media event in New York City. We…
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myTV.PVR Enables Watching, Recording TV on Macs
Eskape Labs on Wednesday introduced myTV.PVR, a software and hardware solution that enables Mac owners to watch and record TV…
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Griffin Redesigns iMic For Use with Current Hardware
Griffin Technology on Wednesday debuted a new iMic USB audio adapter that's been redesigned for use with current PCs and…
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Apple Updates Hot Deals from J&R, CDW/MacWarehouse, Publishing Perfection, Ramjet, and O’Reilly
Apple Computer has updated the Hot Deals pages for J&R, CDW/MacWarehouse, Publishing Perfection, Ramjet, and O'Reilly at the Macintosh Product…
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Apple Store Back Online
[Update: 12:50 PM - The Apple Store is back online with new PowerBooks, Power Mac G5 Quads, and less expensive…
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Freeway 4 Pro Shipping
Softpress announced the immediate availability of Freeway Pro 4 on Tuesday. The graphic based web design application has been updated…
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US Modular Adds 120GB Dragon Drive to Line-Up
US Modular has introduced a 120GB version of its Dragon Drive combo (USB 2.0/FireWire 400) external hard drives with a…
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Apple Introduces Pro Photo Editing Tool Aperture [UPDATE]
Apple Computer announced Wednesday a new photo production tool called Aperture during a media event in New York City ahead…
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Apple Shipping New 15 and 17-inch PowerBooks [UPDATE]
Apple announced across the board upgrades to the PowerBook line at a special press event Wednesday. Both models received brighter,…
