Archives for December 2006
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Happy New Year from TMO!
Happy New Years, from The Mac Observer! We will resume our regular Apple and Mac coverage on Tuesday, January 2nd,…
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The Classics, Now at Yard Sale Prices: Unreal Tournament 2004
The Unreal Tournament series, possibly beating out the Quake series, demonstrated what imagination in terms of character and weapon design,…
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Vista’s DRM Designed to Force All New Video Equipment
The DRM in Vista is at a very low system level and draconian. Microsoft, in league with the content providers,…
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Playing the Asian Board Game "Go" on a Mac
The story of a new experience, playing Go on
a Mac, and the humiliation of it all was told.
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Marketcircle Updates Daylite to Version 3.2.1
The Marketcircle networked productivity suite, Daylite, has been upgraded
to version 3.2.1.
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Garmin Announces Training Center for Mac OS X
Garmin announced that their Training Center software is now
compatible with Mac OS X, Tiger.
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Parallels Desktop Beta3 Released
Parallels released a new beta for the latest update to Parallels Desktop on Friday.
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TMO’s Jeff Gamet to Speak at Macworld Expo
TMO's morning editor, Jeff Gamet, is joining The Graphic Reporter's Lesa Snider King at Macworld Expo 2007 for the Graphic…
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Apple’s SEC Filing Discusses Lawsuits
Apple Computer filed fiscal 2006 financial documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday that disclosed improperly handled backdated…
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Apple Stock Climbs After SEC Filing
Apple Computer's stock value is up 5 percent following a filing with the SEC that clears the current management of…
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Analyst: SEC Filing to Have Minimal Impact on Apple
Apple Computer reported the findings of its independent investigation into improperly backdated stock option grants on Friday, and will be…
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Apple Records $84M Charge in SEC Filing
Apple Computer filed its delinquent form 10-Q and form 10-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, and is…
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A Better Display Brightness Control
Changing the brightness of your Mac's display is a pretty easy thing to do, but what if you want more…
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Favorite Keyboard & Mouse of the Year
As the year draws to close, I realize that I've used more keyboards and mice this year than many people…
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Seven Years of Live Keynote Coverage
The Mac Observer has been providing live coverage of Apple keynotes, quarterly conferences, media events, and other happenings for more…
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Griffin FireWave
Even without Apple's soon to be released iTV home entertainment product, your Mac can serve as the center of your…
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VMWare Releases Public Beta of "Fusion" for Mac OS X
VMware's virtualization software for Mac OS X, now in beta, allows Intel-based Macs to simultaneously run a x86 operating systems…
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IBM Announces Lotus Notes Upgrade 7.0.2
The Lotus Notes client package for Mac OS X was updated to add instant messaging, presence awareness, and Web 2.0…
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Adobe Acrobat Professional 8 Reviewed
The Adobe Acrobat PDF creation package has changed a lot over the years. Many more feature have been added in…
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Analyst: No SEC Backdating Witch Hunt Looming
Despite what appears to be wide-spread abuse of stock option grant backdating among fortune 500 companies, the Department of Justice…
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Apple Stock Drops Following Options Article
Apple Computer's stock dropped in early morning trading after a report in the Financial Times stated that Steve Jobs received…
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Concerns Raised Over Jobs’ Involvement in Stock Options
With December 29th and Apple Computer's scheduled financial report filing with the SEC only a day away, concerns are being…
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OWC 100GB Mercury On-the-Go
Fast, reliable hard drive space is a must for many on-the-go Mac users. To that end, Other World Computing's Mercury…
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Apple Retail Stores Outperform Tiffany’s, Best Buy
When compared to other electronics stores, and even luxury stores such as Tiffany's & Co., Apple has them all beat…
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Apple Opens Retail Apple Store in Taiwan
Apple Computer broadened its overseas retail operations by opening its first retail Apple Store in Taiwan on Saturday, December 23rd.…
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This is Apple ... Hold Please
The buzz about an Apple cell phone has reached a tumultuous peak. Rumors are flying. Specifications have been leaked. Now…
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Editorial - The Orgins of the Apple iPhone Name
An exploration of how the Apple community came to seize on the term "iPhone" and what Apple has done with…
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Mac Geek Gab #84: Listener Questions Answered, DVD Mounting Problems, and Sharing Files Locally
John and Dave take time today to answer your questions, talk about DVD Mounting Problems, and continue to explore the…
