Archives for June 2006
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Apple Introduces New "Get a Mac" Ads
Apple added three new "Why you'll love a Mac" ads to its Web site on Tuesday
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MaxUpgrades Debuts MaxExpress eSATA Solution For G5 Power Macs
MaxUpgrades has introduced MaxExpress, an eSATA PCI-Express host adapter for G5 Power Macs that includes two external ports. It's compatible…
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THQ to Issue Universal Binary For Cars: The Game Next Week
Next week, THQ will issue a Universal Binary patch for the Cars: The Game title that was released last week.…
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3 New Mac Games from PlayFirst
PlayFirst announced the immediate availability of three games, Plantasia, Subway Scramble, and TriJinx: A Kristine Kross Mystery for the Mac…
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Analyst: iPod Sales Will Be Down, But Offset By Better Mac Numbers
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster on Tuesday issued a research report in which he said that his recent checks with…
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Analyst: Apple to Enter Cell Market, But Not Today
American Technology Research (ATR) analyst, Shaw Wu, thinks it's inevitable that Apple will enter the cell phone market, but probably…
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Worried About Your Mac Getting Jacked? Get JackSMS
One of more interesting features of the latest round of portable Macs is something called the SMS, or Sudden Motion…
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Synergy and Serendipity at Apple
Clearly, it made good business sense for Apple to switch to Intel, but in this column, I want to focus…
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New Google Earth, SketchUp Available
Google announced the immediate availability of new versions of Google Earth and Google SketchUp at its Geo Developer Day on…
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Lasso Professional Server 8.5 Offers Universal Binary, More
OmniPilot Software on Monday released a Universal Binary of its Web scripting programming application Lasso Professional Server.
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MacPractice Uses Parallels to Bring Windows Dentistry App to Mac
MacPractice this past weekend announced an agreement with Synca Direct, Inc. to bring the company's Cadi dentistry software to Mac…
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600 Power Macs Assist With Cleaning Up James Bond Movies
When the James Bond Ultimate DVD Collection hits stores July 17, 1962's Dr. No will look as fresh as 2002's…
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SATA Hard Drives for MacBook, MacBook Pro
Trans International announced the immediate availability of its Serial-ATA mobile hard drives for the MacBook and MacBook Pro on Monday.
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Mac Author Michael Bartosh Dies
The Macintosh community suffered a tragic loss on Sunday with the untimely death of Mac OS X Server expert and…
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Fetch 5.1 Adds Intel Mac Support
Fetch Softworks announced the immediate availability of Fetch 5.1 on Monday. Fetch is an FTP and SFTP file transfer application.
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Silver Screen Studios Plans Power Mac Buy
Silver Screen Studios announced that it plans to purchase several Power Mac workstations to use in its feature film digital…
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Apple Hot Deals Update For AudioMIDI
Apple Computer has updated the Hot Deals pages for AudioMIDI at the Macintosh Product Guide.
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Net Neutrality Bill Shot Down
Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives voted against a bill that would have imposed stringent "net neutrality" requirements on…
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The Sims 2 Will Be Open for Business in September
Aspyr Media on Monday announced that it will publish its third expansion pack for The Sims 2, Open for Business,…
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Understanding iCal Time Zones
If you use iCal to keep track of your appointments, and you travel or work with people in other time…
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Musing on an Apple-Nintendo Merger
n the heels of a recent rumor that Apple is developing iPod games under the direction of a former LucasArts…
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The Mac Observer Publishes Downloadable Back Up Guide from Dr. Mac
The Mac Observer is proud to announce the release of Dr. Mac's Guide to Backing Up Your Mac, published by…
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FastMac Ships TruePower Batteries for G3 PowerBooks
FastMac on Friday started shipping TruePower laptop batteries for G3 PowerBooks, offering up to 56% more capacity than Apple's OEM…
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ChatBarrier X4 Encrypts Audio Chats, More
Intego on Friday released ChatBarrier X4, a new version of its real-time encryption software for iChat. The update offers the…
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PS3 Could Allow Users to Install OS X
Sony has determined to make its upcoming PlayStation 3 more programmer-friendly than previous iterations of the videogame console, even going…
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Time: Dell, HP ‘Should Be Very Worried’ About New MacBook
Time magazine's favorable review of the new MacBook concludes by stating: "You get a computer that runs both Mac OS…
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Onset Debuts New Rainfall Logging System
Onset Computer Corp. has released HOBO RG3, a new battery-powered rainfall logging system that combines a data logging rain gauge…
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Audiofile Announces Spectre 1.0
Audiofile Engineering announced the immediate availability of Spectre 1.0 on Thursday
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Feral Launches Mini-Site for The Movies Game
Feral Interactive on Friday launched a mini site for its upcoming game The Movies, featuring a plethora of downloadable content,…
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Out of the Park Baseball 2006 Comes to the Mac
Sports Interactive this week released Out of the Park Baseball 2006 for Mac and Windows, enabling gamers to recreate any…
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Fish Tycoon Released
The goal of the game is to discover the 7 Magic Fish of Isola -- solving a genetic puzzle in…
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Fine Tune Your Sidebar
The Sidebar in Finder windows is a handy place to store commonly used files and folders. All you have to…
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Intel Mac Ready Jon’s Phone Tool Available
Jon's Phone Tool, the cell and land line phone dialing tool, was updated to version 3.5 on Thursday.
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FirmTek Ships ExpressCard Adapter for MacBook Pro
FirmTek on Thursday said that it is now shipping its SeriTek/2SM2-E ExpressCard SATA adapter card for the MacBook Pro, providing…
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MYOB Distributor Acquires MarketBlast
Acclivity, best known for the MYOB accounting products, announced on Thursday that it has acquired MarketBlast from 4D.
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Like Apple, Microsoft Taps The Daily Show Talent
Apple hired The Daily Show "Resident Expert" John Hodgeman to to represent the PC in its recent TV advertising campaign,…
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Universal USB Drive Adapter from NewerTech
NewerTech announced the immediate availability of its USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter on Thursday.
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FotoMagico 1.7 Adds GarageBand, Apple Remote Support
Boinx Software announced the immediate availability of FotoMagico 1.7 on Thursday.
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SonicFire Pro 4.1.1 Gets Intel Mac Support
SmartSound Software announced the immediate availability of SonicFire Pro 4.1.1 on Wednesday.
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Bare Bones Issues Yojimbo 1.2
Bare Bones Software has released version 1.2 of their information organizer Yojimbo, adding a new "Copy Item Link" command, a…
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Mac Gaming Poll Offers Mixed Results
In a recent poll conducted by Macworld UK, 32% of respondents said they preferred to play Mac OS X native…
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Civilization IV Reaches Beta
Aspyr Media on Thursday announced that its upcoming strategy game Sid Meier's Civilization IV, which will ship in late June…
