Archives for June 2007

June, 13th June 2007

• iList Data 3.5 Gets Intel Mac Support

  Lakewood Studios announced the immediate availability of iList Data 3.5 on Thursday. The updated version of the database application is…

• Captain FTP 5.0 Adds WebDAV, Growl Support

  Xnet Communications announced the immediate availability of Captain FTP 5.0 on Wednesday. The new version of the FTP file transfer…

• Reuters: Mac Gaming Boom Times, or More Bust?

  The return of Electronic Arts to the Mac platform represents a good opportunity for the Mac platform to once again…

• Analyst: iPhone Supply Key to Early Success

  Apple's combination iPod and smartphone, the iPhone, is scheduled to debut at 6p.m. on June 29. The big question isn't…

June, 12th June 2007

• Apple Notes New .Mac Login Links

  Apple Inc. sent an e-mail to .Mac customers Wednesday letting them know where to find a .Mac login with the…

• BandmateLoops Releases New Drum Kits for Reason, Kontakt, iDrum

  BandmateLoops announced Wednesday a partnership with Sounds Like Drums that includes a new line of virtual instrument packages for Reason…

• Propellerhead Software Abbey Road Keyboards ReFill for Reason

  Propellerhead Software announced Wednesday Abbey Road Keyboards, a ReFill for Reason. The package is a collection of seven keyboards from…

• Apple Web Site Makeover Limited To U.S.

  Along with the introduction of several new Mac OS X 10.5 features, Web 2.0 programming for the iPhone, and Safari…

• Safari for Windows Beta Hammered for Being Beta

  Apple released a public beta of Safari 3 for Windows XP and Vista on Monday, and it didn't take long…

• WWDC: Apple Design Awards 2007 Winners

  Apple announced the 2007 winners of its Apple Design Awards at the World Wide Developers Conference on Tuesday. Best Mac…

• 1Passwd Adds Safari 3 Support

  Agile Web Solutions announced the immediate availability of an updated version of 1Passwd with support for Apple's Safari 3 public…

• Apple: Leopard Will Include ZFS… Kind Of

  Apple's revolving door on ZFS has spun back around again. Now the word out of Cupertino is that the ZFS…

• Day #2 Observations

  The opening day of WWDC is a crazy overload of body and soul. Day number two brings sanity and the…

• WiFind: A Better AirPort Menu

  I've mentioned before that Apple's AirPort menu item is a little lacking in the information it provides. Thanks to the…

• WWDC Keynote: Come on and Safari with Me…

  Safari is at the supreme center of Apple's hub right now. That's the main message I took from Steve Jobs'…

• Apple Report: WWDC Special Report

  With the World Wide Developers Conference keynote from Apple CEO Steve Jobs under their belts, Jeff and Bryan take a…

June, 11th June 2007

• VMWare Announces Fusion Pricing & Pre-Order Discount

  VMWare announced Tuesday that VMWare Fusion will be available in August of 2007 for US$79.99, and pre-order pricing for those…

• Leopard May Be ZFS-free

  A few days before Steve Jobs's World Wide Developer Conference keynote on Monday, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced that Apple…

• Sibelius 5 Adds Full VST/AU Support, More

  Sibelius Software announced Sibelius 5 on Tuesday. The new version of the music notation application added full support for VST…

• Apple WWDC Keynote Video Available

  If you didn't get to watch CEO Steve Jobs deliver his World Wide Developers Conference keynote on Monday, you can…

• MCE Ships 250GB MobileStore Performance MacBook Drive

  MCE Technologies announced on Monday that it is now shipping its 250GB MobileStor Performance hard drive upgrade for Apple's MacBook…

• The Keynote

  There have been great Macworld and WWDC keynote presentations by Steve Jobs, but this keynote was not one of them.

• ThinkEquity Cuts AAPL to Accumulate, Maintains $130 Target

  ThinkEquity analyst Jonathan Hoopes cut Apple's stock rating to "Accumulate" from "Buy" Tuesday, following Apple's World Wide Development Conference keynote…

• Analyst: WWDC Keynote "Underwhelming"

  Apple's "secret feature" revelations during the Steve Jobs keynote at the World Wide Developers Conference on Monday left American Technology…

• Analyst: iPhone Coding a Mixed Bag

  Apple's announcement that third-party development for the iPhone would be limited to Web 2.0 applications left some developers and investors…

• Mac Geek Gab #107: WWDC Keynote Dissected and Explained

  Dave's at WWDC, and John takes a few minutes to interview him on his thoughts of the keynote announcements and…

June, 10th June 2007

• Apple Unveils New Leopard Server Features

  Apple announced several new features in Mac OS X 10.5 Server on Monday following the Steve Jobs keynote at the…

• Apple’s Online Store Gets a Facelift

  Following the Steve Jobs keynote at the World Wide Developers Conference on Monday, Apple revealed a sleeker version of its…

• Apple Store Goes Offline Ahead of WWDC Keynote

  Apple's online store went offline Monday morning just as the Steve Jobs's World Wide Developer Conference keynote was about to…

• Pathfinder 4.7 Improves Terminal Support, More

  Cocoatech announced the immediate availability of Path Finder 4.7 on Monday. Path Finder is an application that acts as an…

• Apollo Now Adobe AIR, Flex 3 Beta Available

  Adobe's cross-platform application runtime system, formerly code-named Apollo, was officially Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) on Monday. Along with the name…

• IOSPIRIT Ships Remote Buddy 1.0

  IOSPIRIT announced the immediate availability of Remote Buddy 1.0 on Monday. Remote Buddy is an application that lets you use…

• Big Mug Introduces Capture Magic SD

  Big Mug Software announced the immediate availability of Capture Magic SD for the Mac on Monday. Capture Magic SD is…

• AirPort Firmware Update 7.1.1 Improves Shared Disk Support, More

  Apple released the AirPort Extreme Base Station 802.11n Firmware 7.1.1 update on Friday. The update included the previous 7.1 firmware…

• Apple Graces Windows Users with Safari [Updated]

  Steve Jobs seems to think that Windows users need another alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, so he is offering them…

• Mac OS X 10.5 Goes 64-bit [Updated]

  The 32-bit operating systems Mac users have been accustomed to are about to become a thing of the past: Mac…

• Electronic Arts Returns to the Mac

  Long missing from the Mac platform, computer game developer Electronic Arts is officially making a comeback, and in a big…

• Doulber Gold Gets Adds Intel Mac Support

  Phelios announced the immediate availability of a Universal Binary version of Doulber Gold on Monday. Doulber Gold is an arcade-style…

• Analyst: WWDC Keynote Software Focus No Surprise

  Wall Street may have been disappointed that Apple CEO Steve Jobs did unveil a surprise new product during his WWDC…

• Apple Stock Climbs Ahead of WWDC

  Apple's stock closed on Friday at US$124.49 a share as anticipation over what CEO Steve Jobs may surprise us with…

June, 09th June 2007

• TMO’s Jeff Gamet On MacVoices

  TMO's own morning editor, Jeff Gamet, let Chuck Joiner pick his brain on MacVoices about the Adobe CS3 applications, font…

June, 08th June 2007

• Apple Report: That Zany ZFS

  TMO's editor-in-chief Bryan Chaffin joins Ricky and Jeff this week to sort out how Sun's ZFS file system fits into…

June, 07th June 2007

• Apple and Google WWDC Whammy

  Google is gaining strength from its Internet apps. Apple's biggest weakness is its reliance on Microsoft Office. Steve Jobs has…

• Amidst iPhone Buzz, Core Business Provides Apple Strength

  The iPhone buzz is driving investors to Apple stock, and everyone is betting that the iPhone will be a success,…

• Trans International: 4 GB Memory Kit for MacBook Pros

  Trans International announced on Friday the immediate availability of a 4 GB memory kit for the MacBook Pros announced by…

• Smart Scroll X Updated to v. 2.5

  Smart Scroll X has been updated by the author to version 2.5 on Friday. The new version has finer speed…

• Columnist: The Secret Behind Mac and PC Price Comparisons

  For as long as PCs and Macs have existed, people have debated whether PC prices are lower. The promise of…

• Roz Ho Steps Down From Microsoft’s Mac BU

  Roz Ho, well known for her role in leading Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit, is leaving the group after seven years…

• Apple "Get a Mac" Ads Score Grand Effie Award

  Apple's Get a Mac ad campaign was recognized as the most successful marketing campaign of 2007 at the 39th Annual…

• Adobe Keeps GoLive Alive

  Adobe released GoLive 9 on Friday, breathing a little more life into the Web site design application. The new version,…