Archives for November 2005
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving, from the staff of The Mac Observer! Our team will be taking off for Thanksgiving, a U.S. holiday,…
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Apple’s Online Store Beats Dell, Sony in Consumer Reports Survey
A survey of 78,000 Consumer Reports subscribers showed Apple's online store beating out the ones run by Dell and Sony.
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Another Use For All That NAND Flash?
The Motley Fool's Seth Jayson speculates that Apple may want some of its recently-secured hoard of NAND flash for use…
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Yale Using Macs to Manage Art
Yale University is combining its audio, video, photographs, and other media into Macintosh managed database system, according to Information Week.…
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LaCie Debuts Hard Drives in the Form of LEGO Blocks
LaCie on Tuesday introduced its new Brick Desktop Edition and Brick Mobile Edition line of external hard drives, which look…
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Intel Adds Internal Apple Group
Intel has created an internal group to support Apple, now that the Mac maker will be using Intel-based chips in…
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Native Instruments Announces Bandstand
Native Instruments announced the immediate availability of Bandstand on Tuesday. The MIDI interface module includes a studio-quality General MIDI sound…
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MacSpeech Adds iTunes 6 ScriptPak
MacSpeech announced the immediate availability of its iTunes 6 ScriptPak on Tuesday. The ScriptPak works with iListen 1.6.5, adding over…
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Microsoft to Create Open XML Standards For Office Documents
Microsoft will create open XML (Extensible Markup Language) standards for Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, starting with the next release…
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Aspyr Sets Sims 2 University Requirements
The expansion pack will require the original Sims 2 as well as Mac OS X v10.3.9, a 1.2GHz G4 or…
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Aspyr Ships Stubbs the Zombie for Mac
Aspyr Media announced that Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse for the Mac started shipping on Tuesday. The…
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Mac Geek Gab #26: Getting Geeky With Photos
Dave and John talk through their favorite ways to take, manage, view, and edit photos. Listen for details on things…
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Steve Jobs Makes Time’s Person of the Year List
Time Magazine announced its 2006 Person of the Year nominees on Monday, and Apple Computer CEO, Steve Jobs, is on…
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LXer.com Writer Sees OS X Dominating the Market if Sold For Non-Apple PCs
Tom Adelstein, writing for the Linux news site LXer.com, predicts that "OS X for Intel would change the PC landscape…
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Apple Stores to Offer ‘The Feast After the Feast’
On Friday, Apple's brick-and-mortar stores, as well as its online shopping site, will participate in the traditional Black Friday retail…
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Easy Barcode Creator 2.0
Easy Barcode Technologies announced the immediate availability of Easy Barcode Creator 2.0 on Monday. Easy Barcode Creator is an application…
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TiVo for iPod Doesn’t Include Macs, But On the Way
TiVo announced a new version of its TiVoToGo service on Monday, but it won't initially support the Mac. The Mac…
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S&P Sees Apple Boost From TiVo
Standard & Poor's (S&P) sees TiVo's announcement that it is adding support for video capable iPods as good news for…
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Grammar & Spelling, Part I: Grammatica
Spelling and grammar errors plague many writers, and is as annoying to the author as it is to the reader.…
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Order From Chaos: Delicious Library
In what could be called one of my more foolish life choices, I've decided to move to a new apartment.…
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Up Close & Personal with the New iMac G5
Apple was kind enough to ship me one of the new iMac G5s for review, making me the first on…
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Teaching 400(+) People to Use a Mac
Many of you reading this will be aware of the debacle that occurred in August when the Henrico County Virginia…
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Digital Foci’s Media Buddy Stores Digital Photos on the Go
Digital Foci Inc. on Friday introduced Media Buddy, a portable hard drive that features a variety of flash memory card…
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IT Columnist: ‘Without Groupware, Apple Loses Credibility’
John Welch, writing for the Jupiter Research Web site IT Management, used his Friday column to lament the lack of…
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Apple Hot Deals Update For PowerMax, ClubMac, MacMall, Publishing Perfection, O’Reilly
Apple Computer has updated the Hot Deals pages for PowerMax, ClubMac, MacMall, Publishing Perfection, and O'Reilly at the Macintosh Product…
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Daystar’s Upgrades Faster Than New PowerBooks
Daystar announced its 1.92GHz G4 XLR8 PowerBook processor upgrades on Friday. The new XLR8 MAChSpeed PowerBook G4 upgrade is for…
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Apple COO Timothy Cook Joins Nike Board of Directors
Nike, Inc. on Friday announced that Apple COO Timothy D. Cook has joined its board of directors. Mr. Cook is…
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Take Control Ebook Helps Windows Switchers
Tidbits latest addition to the Take Control ebook series, Take Control of Switching to a Mac by Scott Knaster, guides…
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Suit Claims Apple Violated Patents
Premier International filed a law suit in Texas alleging that Apple violated two of its patents with technology used in…
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Recycled Mac Answers Nature’s Call
An old Mac SE, a roll of toilet paper, and a burning desire to find new uses for old Macs…
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Bluetooth Trackball for the Mac
The Chwang Yi Company announced The Ball, a Bluetooth-enabled wireless trackball, on Friday. The Ball has two mouse buttons, a…
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PC Publishing Offers ‘Making Music on the Apple Mac’
PC Publishing has released Making Music on the Apple Mac, a new book that explains everything from purchasing the right…
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Toon Boom Studio Express 3 Offers New Text Tool, More
Toon Boom Animation on Thursday released Toon Boom Studio Express 3, a new version of its beginner level animation software.
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Will New Intel Chips Enable Simultaneous Multiple OS Use on Macs?
The Architosh Web site wonders if Apple will take advantage of Intel's virtualization technology and enable "each user account [to]…
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Web Site Builder RapidWeaver Adds Media Inspector, More
This update adds a built-in media inspector that enables users to re-size, flip and rotate photos, in addition to a…
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Konfabulator Widget Brings Lost to the Desktop
Fans of ABC's Lost can bring a taste of the "Dharma Initiative" to their desktops with the Lost Widget for…
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Trafford Centre Apple Store Opens in the UK On November 19
The grand opening of Apple's retail store at Trafford Center in Manchester, U.K. will be at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday,…
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Griffin Releases radio Shark 2.0
Griffin announced the immediate availability of radio Shark 2.0 on Thursday. radio Shark 2.0 is the software component that controls…
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Sony BMG Pulls DRM Protected CDs From Shelves
Sony BMG has asked retailers to remove music CDs that contain digital rights management software (DRM) from their shelves in…
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Public Beta of MemoryMiner Available
GroupSmarts announced the immediate availability of MemoryMiner as a public beta application on Wednesday. The application works with iPhoto and…
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Spotlight Makes Popular Science Best of 2005
Spotlight, the search function built in to Mac OS X 10.4, made the Popular Science Best Of What's New 2005…
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SpamSieve 2.4 Ready For Apple Mail on Intel Macs, More
Michael Tsai has released version 2.4 of SpamSieve, his Bayesian spam filter for Apple Mail, Microsoft Entourage and Outlook 5,…
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Aspyr Releases RollerCoaster Tycoon 3
The first in the RollerCoaster Tycoon series to come to the Mac, the third iteration brings 3D graphics to the…
