Archives for September 2006

September, 19th September 2006

• Apple Hot Deals Update for the Apple Store, MacGameStore, Ramjet

  Apple Computer has updated the Hot Deals pages for the Apple Store, MacGameStore, and Ramjet at the Macintosh Product Guide.

• Macworld Expo Adds Digital Lifestye Experiences

  IDG World Expo announced on Tuesday that it is adding a new feature to Macworld Expo called The Macworld Digital…

• Mac OS X Shortcuts for Sleep and Shutdown

  Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts can go a long way towards improving your productivity since they reduce how much time…

September, 18th September 2006

• Iger: Apple CEO Steve Jobs is ‘a Tremendous Sounding Board’

  Disney CEO Bob Iger also addressed his relationship with Apple CEO Steve Jobs during his question-and-answer session with analysts on…

• Microsoft’s Mac BU Talks Next Version of Office

  Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit (MBU) will likely ship the next version of Office for Mac in the third quarter of…

• Three New Apple Store Openings September 23

  The grand opening of Apple's retail stores in Columbia, MD, and at Providence Place in Providence, RI, and Village Pointe…

• You Control 1.4 Goes Universal for Intel Macs

  You Software announced the immediate availability of You Control 1.4 on Tuesday.

• Fission Offers Lossless Audio Editing

  Rogue Amoeba Software announced the immediate of Fission on Monday. Fission is an audio editing application that lets you edit…

• shadowClipboard 3 Gets Universal Binary, More

  stupidFish Programming has released version 3 of its clipboard manager shadowClipboard, a Universal Binary that runs only in Mac OS…

• TMO’s Jeff Gamet to Speak at BWA Expo 2006

  TMO's morning editor, Jeff Gamet, will be speaking at the Boulder Writers Alliance Expo on Tuesday, September 26.

• Analyst: Rise in Digital HD Demand Helps Apple

  Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster attended last week's IBC trade show in Amsterdam, where he interviewed 35 digital video professionals…

• Mac Geek Gab #70: Favorite New Apps of Two Mac Geeks

  John and Dave talk through some of the apps they've found and begun using recently.

September, 17th September 2006

• Columnist Takes Common-Sense Look at OS X Security

  Despite recent scares, InformationWeek columnist John C. Welch on Monday published an article in which he concluded: "While you should…

• Kensington Announces New Mice, Cases

  Kensington announced several new products on Monday, including notebook Mice and Contour Notebook Carrying Cases.

• Greenpeace Hazardous Material Report Slams Apple

  The environmental activist group, Greenpeace, released a report on Monday titled Toxic Chemicals In Your Laptop that attempts to list…

• Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 to Include Acrobat 8

  Adobe announced on Monday that the Acrobat 8 product line will be available in November.

• iMac Core 2 Duo RAM Upgrades from Trans International

  Trans International announced the immediate availability of 2GB and 3GB RAM upgrade kits for Apple's Intel Core 2 Duo-based iMacs…

• NPD Data Suggests iPod Downturn, But New Models Not Factored In

  Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster on Monday issued a report in which he looked at NPD sales data for July…

• Zhang Games Intros The Time Portal

  >Zhang Games on Monday released The Time Portal, a puzzle game in which players uncover mistakes in photos and reveal…

• Backing Up Your iTunes 7 Media Library

  Depending on the size of your iTunes media library, you can invest a lot of time ripping your CDs to…

September, 15th September 2006

• Weekly Roundup: Unbox vs. iTunes (sort of…)

  It was supposed to be a show about Amazon vs. Apple, but how much of a comparison can you draw…

September, 14th September 2006

• Tetris Brought Up to Speed: Quinn

  21 years after its initial creation by Alexey Pazhitov, Tetris remains one of the coolest puzzle games to grace the…

• Columnist: Apple’s Good Will vs. Dell’s Lack of Innovation

  David Morgenstern offered an interesting contrast on the PC industry Friday, saying that while growing complaints about MacBook heat and…

• Tables Spreadsheet Available

  Daniel Schwill released the Tables spreadsheet application on Friday. The spreadsheet, which is not part of Apple's Keynote and Pages…

• Physics 101 SE Gets Intel Mac Update

  Praeter Software announced the immediate availability of Physics 101 SE version 6 on Friday.

• TinyBooks 4 Adds Sales Tax, VAT Support

  Space-Time Associates announced the immediate availability of TinyBooks 4.0 on Friday. TinyBooks is an accounting and bookkeeping application.

• MaxUpgrades Introduces MaxSink RAM Heatsink

  MaxUpgrades announced the immediate availability of its new MaxSink memory chip heatsink for fully buffered DIMM memory modules on Friday.

• Apple Hot Deals Update For ClubMac, MacMall

  Apple Computer has updated the Hot Deals pages for ClubMac, MacMall at the Macintosh Product Guide.

• Apple Releases Boot Camp Beta 1.1.1

  Apple released Boot Camp beta 1.1.1, an update to its software that lets Intel-based Macs boot Windows XP, on Thursday.

• DiBcom to Provide Chips for Elgato

  Computer TV adapter maker, Elgato, and mobile TV chip maker DiBcom announced on Friday that they are expanding their partnership…

• MacSpeech Announces GarageBand 3 ScriptPak

  MacSpeech announced the immediate availability of a new iListen ScriptPak for GarageBand 3 on Friday.

• Virgin Atlantic Bans All Apple & Dell Laptop Battery Use

  Virgin Atlantic announced new restrictions on all Apple and Dell laptops Friday, forbidding all laptop battery use in-flight. The carrier…

• Bitbliss Releases Pile & Pop Game

  Bitbliss Studios has released Pile & Pop, an action puzzle game in which players pick up and drop colored bricks,…

• Analyst: Apple Took Microsoft By Surprise

  American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu doesn't think that Microsoft's Zune media player poses a big threat to Apple and…

• Improving AirPort Network Connection Time

  Usually your Mac can connect to different AirPort, or Wi-Fi, networks quickly and without any problems. If you find, however,…

• From Discs to Downloads: Apple Leads the Way

  At Apple's "Showtime" press event on September 12, the biggest news was about a product that won't be available until…

September, 13th September 2006

• MacBooks vs. PC laptops: A Tale of Two Brothers-in-Law

  Everything about the Mac market that had seemed to be true for so long...now appears to be shifting. I am…

• Apple’s New Cards: Aces and Kings?

  So Apple showed its cards on Tuesday, and it wasn't a bad hand at all: A nice pair of aces…

• Ultralingua 6 Gets Auto Word Form Detection

  Ultralingua announced the immediate availability of Ultralingua 6 on Thursday.

• OWC Announces RAM Upgrade for iMac Core 2 Duo

  Other World Computing announced the immediate availability of 2GB memory upgrade kits for the iMac Core 2 Duo on Thursday.

• SoCal MacFair 2006 Opens Registration

  Registration for the Southern California MacFair 2006 is now open. The event is on November 3 and 4 at Cerritos…

• Apple Plans New Store Design

  Apple Computer plans to unveil a new store design in September that incorporates features from its New York City Fifth…

• Adobe Clarifies Photoshop CS2 9.0.2 Update

  Adobe released a version 9.0.2 update for its flagship image editing application in August, but didn't specify what the update…

• Apple Updates J&R Computerworld, PowerMax, Publishing Perfection Hot Deals

  Apple has updated its Hot Deals Web site with new specials from J&R Computerworld, PowerMax, and Publishing Perfection.

• Blizzard Licenses Havok For Upcoming Hybrid Game

  While licenses to obtain middleware aren't typically big news in the game business, Havok's Thursday announcement that Blizzard had licensed…

• Analyst: Apple’s Gross Margins on New iPod nano Pushing 50%

  A teardown of the new iPod nano revealed that Apple's gross margins on the manufacturing of the new device could…

September, 12th September 2006

• Native Instruments Intros Massive, Absynth 4, Battery 3, FM8, Komplete 4

  Native Instruments on Wednesday introduced five products set to ship next month: Massive, Absynth 4, Battery 3, FM8, and Komplete…

• Skype Adds Cross Platform Video to the Mac

  Skype announced on Wednesday that it has added cross platform video call support to it's Mac Internet voice chat application.

• New SilverSATA Models From WiebeTech

  WiebeTech announced the immediate availability of two new SilverSATA dual bay hard drive units on Wednesday.

• Impostrip To Add Intel Mac Support

  Ultimate Technographics announced on Wednesday that Impostrip 8.3 will be released in October as a Universal Binary application.