Archives for March 2008

March, 25th March 2008

• After the MacBook Air - Drop Dead Gorgeous

  Artists concepts for the notebook computer we might be using in the year 2015 were published at Computerworld on Wednesday.…

• Apple Settles Display Color Lawsuit

  A May 2007 lawsuit against Apple that alleged the company misled customers with claims of the number of colors its…

• MailTags 2.2 Adds Leopard Support

  Indev Software announced the immediate availability of MailTags 2.2 on Wednesday. The update for the Mail organization plug-in added support…

• O’Reilly Ships Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac: The Missing Manual

  O'Reilly Media announced the immediate availability of Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac: The Missing Manual on Wednesday. The new title…

• Apple Releases Plugin Manager 1.7.3 for Pro Apps

  Apple released Plugin Manager 1.7.3 for its pro-level applications Tuesday evening. The update for Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Express,…

• AAPL Slowly Climbing from Abyss

  AAPL has climbed back into the US$140+ range after a series of devastating reports on the U.S. economy led to…

• Safari 3.1: Network Timeline

  Keeping tabs on exactly what happens every time you load a new Web page can be a daunting task. Safari…

March, 24th March 2008

• Yahoo! Messenger for Mac Beta Adds Voice Chat, Phone Calls, More

  Yahoo! released late on Tuesday a new beta of Yahoo! Messenger for Mac. The new version adds voice chat between…

• Parallels Offers Rebate on Desktop 3.0 Premium

  Parallels is offering a US$15 rebate on its Desktop 3.0 Premium Edition until March 31st. The full premium package includes…

• Apple’s Tussle with Mozilla Explored

  Apple's decision to offer the Safari Web browser to Windows users, via the iTunes Updater, could hit Mozilla's Firefox hard,…

• Microsoft May Bump Up Yahoo Bid

  Microsoft isn't ready to give up on its bid to buy out the Internet search company Yahoo and may raise…

• O’Reilly Ships Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual

  O'Reilly announced the immediate availability of Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual on Tuesday. The 911 page book by…

• Sonnet Improves MacCuff mini Security

  Sonnet Technologies announced the immediate availability of a new version of the MacCuff mini on Tuesday. The new version of…

• Blizzard Releases World of Warcraft 2.4 "Fury of the Sunwell" Update

  Blizzard released Tuesday a major content patch for World of Warcraft, version 2.4, called "Fury of the Sunwell." The content…

• Macgamestore Unveils Hoyle Card Games for the Mac

  Macgamestore.com announced the immediate availability of Hoyle Card Games for the Mac as a digital download. The game includes over…

• Mac Geek Gab #146: SXSW Recap, Menu Bar Management, AppleCare, and More

  John's back from France, Dave's back from South by Southwest, and they've got plenty to talk about from that. Plus,…

March, 23rd March 2008

• Want to Prevent a Mac Meltdown?  Better Get Temperature Monitor!

  John F. Braun take a look at Temperature Monitor, a tool that can help you monitor the temperature of the…

• Who’s on First? Next to the MAC Store

  Apple Customers shopping at the Cherry Hill Mall in New Jersey will have to decide on whether to visit the…

• CW: Making Leopard Servers Simple

  Apple's big brother to the Leopard desktop OS is Leopard Server. It's designed to run on server hardware, like the…

• Microsoft SP3 for Windows XP Imminent [UPDATED]

  Microsoft has posted an overview of what to expect in Windows XP, Service Pack 3 (SP3). The last scheduled update…

• PC Magazine: Safari on Windows is a Worthy Browsing Partner

  Many improvements, some unique features, impressive speed and future-looking standards make Safari a worthy browsing partner on Windows, according to…

• Sony Reverses Policy, No Charge for Fresh Start Program

  Within hours after Sony announced they would charge for the deletion of trialware from their Vaio computers, admidst a flurry…

• Adobe Ships Photoshop Elements 6 for the Mac

  Adobe announced the immediate availability of Photoshop Elements 6 for the Mac on Monday. The new version of the consumer…

• Hamilton 1.0 Offers Bond Management on the Mac

  Steven Huey Software announced the immediate availability of Hamilton 1.0 on Monday. Hamilton is a savings bond management application for…

• Take Control Releases Take Control of iWeb: iLife ‘08 Edition

  Take Control and TidBITS announced the immediate availability of Take Control of iWeb: iLife '08 Edition on Monday. The new…

• Macintosh Documentary to Premier at Wisconsin Film Festival

  Welcome to Macintosh -- The documentary for the rest of us, a new documentary about the world of Apple and…

• Clarkwood Software Launches Flowing Pennies 1.0

  Clarkwood Software announced the immediate availability of Flowing Pennies 1.0 on Monday. Flowing Pennies is a personal finance application that…

• Apple to Open Cambridge UK Store on Thursday

  Apple is opening its new Grand Arcade Shopping Centre store in Cambridge at 10:00 am on Thursday, March 27. This…

• Safari 3.1: The Magical Develop Menu

  Safari 3.1 isn't only faster than earlier versions of Apple's Web browser, it also offers easy access to the Develop…

March, 20th March 2008

• Miro 1.2 Re-architected for Future Growth

  The free, open source Internet media viewer, Miro, was updated to version 1.2 on Thursday. The new version adds new…

• Apple Running New Interactive Webpage Ads

  Apple is once again running interactive Webpage ads with Justin Long and John Hodgman in the sidebar, reacting to a…

• CW: Multitouch Makes All the Difference on New MacBook Pro

  Apple customers who bought a MacBook Pro just before the new Penryn-based models were introduced in February have nothing to…

• Paperclip 1.3 Improves Note Viewer Spaces Support

  From Concentrate Software announced the immediate availability of Paperclip 1.3 on Friday. The update for the persistent notes utility for…

• NetFinder 3.1 Improves Leopard Support

  Ortabe announced the immediate availability of NetFinder 3.1 on Friday. The update for the file transfer and management application improved…

• MediaCentral 2.7 Sports Improved TV Image

  equinux announced the immediate availability of MediaCentral 2.7 on Friday. The update for the home media center management application sports…

• Geophoto 2 Improves iLife 08 Support

  Ovolab announced the immediate availability of Geophoto 2 on Friday. The new version of the geographic organizational application for digital…

• Instant TinyURLs from TextExpander

  TinyURL is really great because it shrinks long Web addresses down to a much smaller and more manageable size, but…

• Sony Charges to Remove Crapware from Vaios

  Sony is charging customers to remove trialware and other unwanted software from their new Vaio TZ notebook computers. It's hardly…

• Apple Weekly Report #119: More Lawsuits, iPhone Launches, and WWDC

  The Apple lawsuit train pulled into the station to pick up more passengers this week, the World Wide Developer Conference…

• Ban mail-in rebates

  I despise mail-in rebates. On the marketing irritation scale, mail-in rebates rank up there with infomercials for worthless products and…

March, 19th March 2008

• Ban Mail-in Rebates

  I despise mail-in rebates. On the marketing irritation scale, mail-in rebates rank up there with infomercials for worthless products and…

• OpenOffice Moves Closer To Native Mac Version

  The OpenOffice.org Mac Porting team has announced the third development snapshot of its Aqua version of OpenOffice for Mac OS…

• German-English Dictionary Released for Leopard

  Lipflip.org has released an installer package for the dict.cc version of a German-English dictionary. The installer, compatible only with Leopard,…

• Ruby as a Replacement for AppleScript

  John Muchow has written a series of tutorials on how to replace AppleScript with Ruby. Some developer community members have…

• Apple Retail Stores Closed On Easter Sunday

  A check of Apple stores in Colorado shows that all five stores will be closed on Easter Sunday, March 23rd.…

• Apple Releases Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 2.0

  Apple released Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 2.0 on Thursday. The update added support for several new digital cameras and…

• Blog: Apple Using iTunes Windows Updater to Push Safari

  Apple is using the iTunes updater in Windows to not only update iTunes and QuickTime, but also to promote previously…

• yFlicks 3.3 Adds Coverflow Browsing

  Many Tricks announced the immediate availability of yFlicks 3.3 on Thursday. The updated version of the movie management and viewing…

• Flux 1.1 Supports Layers, Image Editing

  The Escapers announced the immediate availability of Flux 1.1 on Thursday. The WYSIWYG XHTML/CSS Web site design application supports multiple…

• AirPort Firmware 7.3.1 Restores AirDisk Support

  Apple released Time Capsule and AirPort Base Station (802.11n) Firmware 7.3.1 Wednesday evening along with Time Machine and AirPort Update…