Archives for June 2008

June, 23rd June 2008

• Adobe Posts Security Update 1 for Reader, Acrobat

  Adobe has posted a security update for Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.1.2. A critical "vulnerability would cause the application to…

• Bookends 10.3 Adds Google Scholar Online Search

  Sonny Software announced the immediate availability of Bookends 10.3 on Tuesday. The update for the bibliography and reference management application…

• Apple Opens 2nd San Antonio Store on Saturday

  Apple is planning to open is second San Antonio, Texas, retail store in the North Star Mall on Saturday, June…

• Typhoon Hits Apple, Others, with Touch Technology Lawsuit

  Typhoon Touch Technologies added Apple, Toshiba, Palm, and several other companies to a lawsuit on Monday that alleges the companies…

• PocketMac Intros MacTheme for BlackBerry

  PocketMac introduced its new MacTheme for BlackBerry on Tuesday. The theme adds a more Mac-like feel to RIM's smartphone devices…

• Slife 2 Gains Goal Tracking, Web Collaboration

  Slife Labs announced the immediate availability of Slife 2.0 on Tuesday. The new version of the time and activity management…

• Freeverse Intros Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune Deluxe

  Freeverse announced the immediate availability of Jeopardy! Deluxe and Wheel of Fortune Deluxe for the Mac on Tuesday. The games…

• Mac Geek Gab #157: Startup Secrets, Terminal Tricks, Battery Woes, and Services Menu

  John and Dave talk about bandwidth, Mac OS X's services menu, directories in the Terminal, scheduling reboots and more.

June, 22nd June 2008

• The New Battleground: Ultra-thin Notebook Computers

  Apple's MacBook Air proved that there's a market for sleek, thin notebook computers designed for travel. The PC makers, mired…

• iPresentee Unveils Free Keynote Objects

  iPresentee announced the immediate availability of a no cost set of objects for Apple's Keynote, iWeb and Pages applications. The…

• Safari Beats Firefox at Rendering Speeds

  Apple's Safari 3.1.1 Web browser is outperforming the new Firefox 3 browser when it comes to JavaScript rendering, and both…

• 1Password Adds Safari 4 Support

  Agile Web Solutions announced the immediate availability of 1Password 2.6.5 on Monday. The update for the password management application added…

June, 20th June 2008

• Particle Debris (Week of June 16)

  A secondary story that caught my attention this week was from Radio Ink. It seems that radio (not satellite) listenership…

June, 19th June 2008

• Psystar Announces Two New Servers with OS X Server Option [UPDATED]

  Psystar has announced two new rack-mount servers. The 1U OpenServ 1100 has an Intel Xeon Harpertown CPU (2.5 GHz) Quad…

• Apple Employees Give Steve Jobs a 91% Approval Rating

  The freshly launched Glassdoor Web site could leave company bosses worried about their reputation, but not Apple CEO Steve Jobs.…

• SecureMac Documents Mac OS X Trojan Horse

  SecureMac has posted an advisory about a Mac OS X Trojan Horse that exploits a vulnerability in the Apple Remote…

• Apple, HP Hit with Online Store Patent Suit

  The Texas-based Clear With Computers claims that Apple and HP are violating patents it holds for online form-based sales systems.…

• Graph Paper Maker 2 Adds New Customized Grid Patterns

  Black Cat Systems announced the immediate availability of Graph Paper Maker 2.0 on Friday. The new version of the graph…

• Grand Theft Auto IV vs. games on the Mac

  I read the other day, in a New York Times article, that Grand Theft Auto IV "racked up first-week sales…

June, 18th June 2008

• Apple Posts Safari 3.1.2 with Security Fixes - Windows Only

  Apple has posted Safari 3.1.2 for Windows which addresses four security issues. There were no corresponding issues for Mac OS…

• NVIDIA Unleashes GeForce GTX 200 Series GPUs

  NVIDA has unveiled its most powerful graphics processing units (GPU), the GeForce GTX 280 and 260. The GTX 280 has…

• goSecure 1.2 Gains 256-bit AES Encryption

  GoGoalSoft Limited announced the immediate availability of goSecure 1.2 on Thursday. The update for the data encryption application added support…

• China Hits Microsoft with Antitrust Investigation

  Officials from China's State Intellectual Property Office are putting Microsoft under the microscope for possible antitrust violations. The allegations in…

June, 17th June 2008

• Malware on PC Gets Man Fired, Criminal Charges

  Michael Fiola was given a Dell Latitude notebook for his job. Later, thanks to a misconfigured Microsoft server that was…

• Mozilla Servers Handling 15 Gigabits/sec in Firefox Mania

  The Mozilla Developer Center said on Wednesday that their servers are handling 2 Gbps in general HTTP traffic in addition…

• Extensis Ships Universal Type Server

  Extensis announced the immediate availability of Universal Type Server on Wednesday. Universal Type Server is the new cross-platform font management…

• Blog: Apple Engineers Underpaid, Yet More Income for Apple

  According to salary information collected by Glassdoor, Apple pays its engineers much less than the industry average. This practice was…

• Exibia 1.2 Improves User Interface

  Plyxim announced the immediate availability of Exibia 1.2 on Wednesday. The update for the QuickTime-compatible video scheduling application includes major…

• CS Odessa Launches ConceptDraw Office

  CE Odessa announced the immediate availability of ConceptDraw Office on Wednesday. ConceptDraw Office is a productivity software suite focused on…

• Troll Touch Intros SlipCOVER Touchscreen for iMac

  Troll Touch announced the immediate availability of the SlipCOVER touchscreen system for Apple's 20-inch and 24-inch aluminum iMac on Wednesday.…

• Analyst: Apple iPhone Sales to Double in 2009

  Morgan Stanley analysts think sales of Apple's already popular iPhone are set to explode and could double in 2009 thanks…

• Mac Geek Gab #156: Tips for Parallels, Time Machine, WiFi, Reinstalls and More

  Back from WWDC, Dave and John are in the thick of the action this week, with listener tips, questions, hints,…

• Apple Weekly Report #127: iPhone 3G Special Report

  This week is our special iPhone 3G edition where we take a look at Apple's second generation smartphone, consumer and…

• My neighbor should be in a Mac ad

  Here's a true story. My neighbor was in the market to replace his aging PC, running Windows XP. While he…

June, 16th June 2008

• HP DreamColor LP2480zx Professional Display

  Color critical work places high demands on displays, and not many LCD models are up to the task. HP is…

• Burglary Attempt At NJ Apple Store Foiled

  Four men used pry bars, sledgehammers and saws to break through the wall from an empty furniture store into the…

• Khronos Compute Working Group Evaluating Apple’s OpenCL

  The Khronos Group announced on Monday that they will form a Compute Working Group to create open standards for parallel…

• Firefox 3 Released, but Demand Crashes Servers

  Firefox 3 was released at 10 AM Pacific Time on Tuesday, but the attempt to set a download record and…

• Parallels Server for Mac Announced

  Parallels announced on Tuesday the immediate availability of Parallels Server for Mac, a server virtualization solution for Intel Macs. The…

• Explaining Apple’s Flash Killer Strategy: SproutCore

  Apple could find itself in a position in the future when poorly implemented versions of Flash and Silverlight for the…

• QuickerTek Announces Solar Charger for MacBook Air

  QuickerTek announced the immediate availability of the Apple Juicz on Tuesday. Apple Juicz is a portable and foldable solar charger…

• Trans International Intros 500GB miniXpress HD

  Trans International announced the immediate availability of 500GB versions of its miniXpress hard drives on Tuesday. The portable hard drive…

• Xserve EFI Firmware 1.1 Addresses Stability

  Apple released Xserve EFI Firmware Update 1.1 on Monday evening. The firmware update requires Mac OS X 10.5.2 or later,…

June, 15th June 2008

• AMD Announces OpenCL Compatible Teraflop Graphics Card

  At the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden Germany on Monday, AMD announced its FireStream 9250 graphics card which breaks the…

• Firefox 3.0 Release Scheduled for Tuesday

  The Mozilla Group has announced that the official release of Firefox 3.0 will be posted on Tuesday, June 17th. The…

• LaCie Announces 1 TB, Bus-powered Portable Drive

  LaCie announced on Monday the immediate availability of its Little Big Disk Quadra 1TB. The bus-powered portable drive fits in…

• Apple Blocking Certain Browsers from iDisk Access

  Accessing an iDisk, Apple's online storage system that's part of the .Mac service, isn't quite as easy as it used…

• nova media Adds Cell Phone Quick Dial to Leopard

  nova media released Phone plugins for the Mac on Monday with support for Mac OS X 10.5.2 and higher. The…

• Mesa Dynamics Intros Amnesty Hypercube Public Beta

  Mesa Dynamics announced the immediate availability of a public beta version of its new Amnesty Hypercube on Monday. The application…

• PopChar X 4 Adds System-wide Character Search

  Ergonis Software announced the immediate availability of PopChar X 4.0 on Monday. The new version of the special character and…