Archives for August 2006
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Browse By Day in August 2006
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Open Source Meets Soul Train: StepMania
Chris Barylick looks at StepMania, a free open source clone of Konami's best-selling Dance Dance Revolution game, and the perfect…
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Power to the People
Portable power is on the minds of a lot of people lately due to the increasing number of portable devices…
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Of iPod Cases and System Preferences
Nancy Carroll Gravley reviews CoreCases iPod cases, and looks more closely into how Mac OS X's System Preferences work.
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CodeWeavers Offers Free Beta of CrossOver Mac
CodeWeavers now has available for download a free, 60-day Beta of CrossOver Mac, which enables Intel Mac owners to run…
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Sony Puts Exec in Charge of Product Safety
Sony has shifted TV division president Makoto Kogure into a role overseeing product safety and quality as it deals with…
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Intel Could Lay Off Thousands Next Week
Intel, which in April said it would begin figuring out how to cut costs and increase efficiency as it struggles…
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MacLibre2 Installs Open Source Apps For You
MacLibre announced the immediate availability of MacLibre2 on Friday. MacLibre2 acts as a one-stop front end for locating and installing…
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Safari, Firefox Usage Dips
Safari claimed only 2.45 percent of the browser market for August, down from July's 3.18 percent. Firefox dropped, too, moving…
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Apple Hot Deals Update For ClubMac, Ramjet, Sweetwater Sound
Apple Computer has updated the Hot Deals pages for ClubMac, Ramjet, and Sweetwater Sound at the Macintosh Product Guide. The…
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Project Magma Issues Beta of Myth II Universal Binary
Project Magma has released a Beta of a Universal Binary for the enduring real-time strategy game Myth II.
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The Window to the Web’s Past
The World Wide Web is an amazing and dynamic mixture of sites covering nearly every imaginable topic. The dynamic nature…
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My Tour of Duty at Apple, Part II
One of the nice things about working for Apple is the way employees are expected to manage their computers. In…
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Of iPod Cases and System Preferences
Nancy Carroll Gravley reviews CoreCases iPod cases, and looks more closely into how Mac OS X's System Preferences work.
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Newer Tech Debuts G4 Upgrades Up to 2GHz
Newer Technology on Thursday began shipping a new line of MAXPower Power Mac G4 upgrades at prices starting at US$399…
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OpenOffice Expected to Go OS X Native Next Month
OpenOffice, the free open source alternative to Microsoft Office, is expected to be available in a native Mac OS X…
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A Better Finder Rename 7.4 Improves FileVault Support
publicspace.net announced the immediate availability of A Better Finder Rename 7.4 on Wednesday.
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Battery Hazard Keeps iBooks Out of School
Apple's iBook G4 and PowerBook G4 battery recall has prompted Quaker Valley High School in Pennsylvania to postpone issuing iBooks…
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New TranscriptionPak for iListen 1.7
MacSpeech announced the immediate availability of the TranscriptionPak for iListen 1.7 on Wednesday.
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Apple Hot Deals Update For J&R Computerworld, MacMall, MacZone
Apple Computer has updated the Hot Deals pages for J&R Computerworld, MacMall, and MacZone at the Macintosh Product Guide.
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MusicRenamer Uses ID3 Tags to Rename Files
SubRosaSoft.com has released MusicRenamer, a free utility that uses the ID3 tags in song files to automatically rename them. It…
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Civilization III: Complete Gets Universal Binary, Other Changes
Aspyr Media on Wednesday released a patch for Civilization III: Complete that makes the turn-based strategy game a Universal Binary…
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Analyst: Zune Underwhelming, Start of a Civil War
American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu offered his perspective on Microsoft's iPod competitor, the Zune media player, and called the…
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Getting Correct Page Sizes in Acrobat
Sometimes size does matter, and that certainly is the case with Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader. By default, Adobe's PDF…
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A Classic Evolved: Excalibur: Morgana’s Revenge
When Bungie broke the hearts of the Mac world with its purchase by Microsoft, Marathon seemed doomed, and for a…
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Too Soon To Zune
The purported Zune device has a 3" screen, a circular navigation controller, a hard drive, built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, which,…
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Toshiba Debuts New Projector
Toshiba on Tuesday introduced a new projector with 2,500 ANSI lumens, a contrast ratio of 2000:1, and XGA 1024 x…
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt Joins Apple’s Board
Apple on Tuesday said that Google CEO Eric Schmidt was elected to its board of directors.
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Microsoft Likely to Ship Vista RC1 Next Week
Microsoft will likely ship Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of its upcoming Windows Vista operating system as early as next week.
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Canada’s Sherway Gardens Store Opens September 2
The grand opening of Apple's third retail store in Canada at Sherway Gardens in Toronto, will be at 9:30 a.m.…
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Mapwing Creator Pro 1.6 Now Universal Binary
Redbug Technologies announced the immediate availability of Mapwing Creator Pro 1.6 on Tuesday.
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Cinematize 2 Gets Intel Mac Support
Miraizon announced the immediate availability of a Universal Binary version of Cinematize 2 on Tuesday.
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Fourth Generation Forensic SATADock from WiebeTech
WiebeTech announced the immediate availability of the Fourth Generation Forensic SATADock v4 on Tuesday.
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Authorities Look Into Apple Laptop Fire in Japan
Japan's Ministry of Economy has ordered Apple Computer to provide information about the faulty Sony batteries found in many PowerBook…
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Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast Gets Universal Update
Aspyr Media on Tuesday issued a Universal Binary update to Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, enabling the game to run…
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Aspyr to Bring Civ IV Expansion Warlords to the Mac
Aspyr Media announced on Tuesday that it will publish the Civilization IV expansion pack Warlords this November.
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Analyst: ‘Slight Downside’ to iPod Sales Without a Refresh
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster on Tuesday issued a new research report in which he looked at the first month…
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Tech Traveling in the New World Order
A few days after officials in the United Kingdom apprehended several suspects involved in a plot to blow up airplanes…
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Mac Geek Gab #67: Email Management with IMAP Plus Tips and Tricks to Share
The info just keeps flowing here, folks. Of course, last week's discussion on e-mail management generated a lot of feedback,…
