Archives for July 2008

July, 31st July 2008

• Tax Free Weekend in Some States Benefits Apple Back-to-School Customers

  Some states have a tax free weekend for specific back-to-school items. Apple customers in Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, New Mexico North…

• Phone plugins 2.2 Adds Apple Mail Support

  nova media announced the immediate availability of Phone plugins 2.2 on Friday. The update for the quick-dial add-on for Address…

• Apple Security Update 2008-005 Fixes DNS Issue

  Apple rolled out a late day security update on Thursday that addressed potential DNS-related flaws in Mac OS X Leopard…

• Apple Weekly Report #130: Apple Earnings, Jobs’ Health, MobileMe Headaches

  Apple reported is second best quarter in the company's history, App Store downloads topped 25 million, and there's a mystery…

July, 30th July 2008

• Psystar Hires Law Team that Won Burst Setlement Against Apple

  Psystar, which is being sued by Apple, has hired a law firm that was successful in its case against Apple…

• Quark Ships QuarkXPress 8

  Quark announced QuarkXPress 8, the newest version of its professional page layout application, on Thursday. Version 8 includes new design…

• Microsoft May Scrap Windows for Midori

  Microsoft's long in the tooth Windows operating system may finally have a successor in the works code named Midori. The…

• YouSendIt Unveils iPhoto, Final Cut Plug-ins

  YouSendIt announced the immediate availability of plug-ins that let iPhoto and Final Cut Pro use its Web-based large file transfer…

• VMware Releases Fusion 2 Beta 2 with Unity 2 and Multiple Snapshots

  VMware released the second beta of its Fusion 2.0 virtualization system for Mac OS X late Wednesday. The new beta…

• Pirates! for the Mac Ships Aug 29

  Feral Interactive is bringing Sid Meier's Pirates! to Mac OS X, and the company plans to make good on that…

• Apple Poised to Surpass Microsoft’s Cash - Now What?

  According to Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, at the rate Apple is accumulating cash, it could have US$40B in cash in…

July, 29th July 2008

• Apple Warns of Dwindling Supplies of iPods, MacBooks

  Apple has warned some of its channel partners to load up on their best selling iPods and MacBooks to deal…

• CW: Future MacBooks Could Dispense with Mouse Button

  A new kind of trackpad for the next generation MacBooks, if speculation is correct, could lead to the elimination of…

• Mark/Space Intros Missing Sync for Symbian

  Mark/Space announced the immediate availability of The Missing Sync for Symbian devices on Wednesday. The application lets Mac users synchronize…

• MacBooks Are a Writer’s Tool - Don’t Mess with the Keyboard

  There has been some discussion lately about new MacBooks, exotic trackpads, gestures, obsolete mouse buttons and virtual keyboards. The one…

• The long and short of the iPhone’s battery

  Guess what? The more you use your iPhone, the faster its battery drains. This is hardly a surprise. Further, certain…

July, 28th July 2008

• The Long and Short of the iPhone’s Battery

  Guess what? The more you use your iPhone, the faster its battery drains. This is hardly a surprise. Further, certain…

• Firefox 3.1 Alpha Available for Testing

  The Mozilla Developer Center announced on Tuesday that Firefox 3.1 Alpha is now available for download. This release is intended…

• A Concept Video of MacBook Touch Possibilities

  KBMonline has published a video showing various concepts (fantasies) of what a next generation Apple notebook, the so-called MacBook touch,…

• FileMaker Launches Bento Success Story Sweepstakes, iPhone 3G Prizes

  FileMaker is now running a "Tell Us Your Bento Story" sweepstakes. Bento users who describe how and why they use…

• Musings on Apple’s Revamp of the Notebook Line

  The "future product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer referred to recently has led observers to put their money on a…

• Today 1.3 Improves iCal Task Management

  Second Gear announced the immediate availability of Today 1.3 on Tuesday. The update for the iCal event and task viewer…

• Adobe Releases DNG Converter & Camera Raw 4.5

  Along with Photoshop Lightroom 2.0, Adobe released DNG Converter & Camera Raw 4.5 on Tuesday. The update added support for…

• Apple Rolls Out Aperture 2.1.1

  Apple released Aperture 2.1.1 on Tuesday. The update for pro-level digital image editor and catalog application doesn't include many details,…

• Photoshop Lightroom 2 Improves Image Editing, More

  Adobe announced the immediate availability of Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 on Tuesday. The new version of the professional digital image editing…

• Baseline 1.3 Adds Duplicate File Detection

  MildMannered Industries announced the immediate availability of Baseline 1.3 on Tuesday. The update for the disk usage monitoring application added…

• Mac Geek Gab #161: Unlearning Spelling, Cache Sizes, Bypassing Password Security, and Haikus

  John and Dave dig into topics decided by YOU, the loyal listener. Discussions include bypassing login passwords, quickly restoring a…

• Simple Security Steps for Average Mac Users

  Nancy Gravley went digging to find out what the average Mac user should know about their computer's security. Read on…

July, 27th July 2008

• Neverwinter Nights 2

  Say what you will about the history of "Dungeons & Dragons," poke fun at its stereotypes and the imagery of…

• Apple Struggling to Fix Enterprise Mac Issues

  Researchers have discovered a flaw in the UNIX BIND software that translates human readable domain names into IP addresses. Microsoft…

• FotoMagico 2.5 Adds Lightroom Support, More

  Boinx Software announced the immediate availability of FotoMagico 2.5 on Monday. The update for the photo presentation application added support…

• QuickerTek Intros Apple Juicz for MacBook Pro

  QuickerTek announced the immediate availability of Apple Juicz for the MacBook and 15-inch MacBook Pro on Monday. The solar charger…

• Jobs: I’m OK, Butt Out

  In a rare move Apple CEO Steve Jobs commented publicly on his health over the weekend to say that he…

• Ted Landau Talks iPhone Jailbreaking on MacNotables

  TMO columnist Ted Landau has plenty to say about iPhone Software 2.0 Jailbreaking, and that's exactly what he does with…

• Red Marble Brings Democracy 2 to the Mac

  Red Marble Games announced the immediate availability of Democracy 2 for the Mac on Monday. Players take on the roll…

July, 25th July 2008

• Particle Debris and Hallmark (Week of July 21)

  Before I get on to the debris from this week, I must say something about what the Hallmark Channel did…

July, 24th July 2008

• CheckUp 1.2 Features Updated UI, Lower Price

  app4mac announced the immediate availability of CheckUp 1.2 on Friday. The new version features an updated user interface, a much…

• AOL Cuts Back on Blogs to Save Cash

  AOL is apparently telling some of news blogs under its wing to cut back on posts in order to trim…

• AirPort Extreme 2008-002 Fixes Tiger Audio Issues

  Apple released AirPort Extreme Update 2008-002 for Mac OS X 10.4.11 users late on Thursday. The update improves AirPort connections…

• Macgamestore Intros SCRABBLE Journey for the Mac

  Macgamestore.com announced the immediate availability of SCRABBLE Journey for the Mac on Friday. The game lets players use their word…

July, 23rd July 2008

• Forrester: Vista is Like Ill-fated New Coke

  A Forrester report released on Wednesday revealed that of 50,000 enterprise users, over 87 percent were still using WIndows XP.…

• NYT: Apple’s MobileMess

  Even though Apple has apologized to subscribers for the glitches in the MobileMe launch, MobileMe's problems are nowhere near over,…

• Column: Apple and China are Incompatible

  Apple's products and Western IP laws are currently incompatible with China's politics, according to Mike Elgan at Datamation on Wednesday.…

• WSJ: MobileMe Flawed, Ragged

  After a week of intense testing, Walt Mossberg with the Wall Street Journal reported that he cannot recommend MobileMe in…

• FontXChange 1.5 Adds Unicode 5.1 Support

  Morrison SoftDesign announced the immediate availability of FontXChange 1.5 on Thursday. The update for the font format conversion application added…

• Bloxorz

  There is an art to wasting time, and Vern Seward is always on the lookout for ways to help you…

• Steve Ballmer Addresses MS Employees About Apple

  Microsoft, by all accounts, has been on a rough road with the attempted Yahoo! acquisition and the Vista rollout. After…

July, 22nd July 2008

• Absoft Announces Fortran Fx3 Debugging with Xcode 3.1

  Absoft has announced that users will now have significantly improved Fortran debugging capability with the combination of the their Fx3…

• SanDisk: Vista Shortfalls Limit Use of SSDs

  SanDisk, a maker of Solid Stated Drives (SSD), said on Monday that Vista is not optimized for those kinds of…

• Report: Vista Adoption Stymied Despite SP1, Mac and Linux Have Opportunities

  In November 2007, a King Research study revealed that the majority of IT administrators had no plans to adopt Vista…