Black Cat Systems has released version 2.0.0 of Health Tracker (formerly Weight Tracker), a graphing program to track health related measurements. Health Tracker now runs under MacOS X. In addition, a FAT version is also available for older systems.Health Tracker is a simple yet powerful program which helps you keep track of and graph any…
Interview With David Pogue
Eolake Stobblehouse [TMO]: David, you have long been a best-selling author of Mac books like iMac for Dummies and Mac Secrets. Now you write books about Palm and Windows too, and the latest is that you have become a New York Times columnist. Congrats on that. Tell us a bit about how you got that…
Can You Beat Them And Join Them? Microsoft Finally Feels Insecure
There is a war brewing, on these shores and abroad, that threatens our most basic need for security and autonomy. On one side is a tremendous superpower wielding political might with all the subtlety of a Cosa Nostra henchman. Squaring off against this formidable behemoth is a similarly large collective whose processes, shrouded in mystery…
PC Technologies That Will Affect Your Mac
Processors The main trend in PC processors that will affect the Mac is the growing emphasis on floating point operation speed. Intel largely designed the Pentium 4 around boosting floating point speed at the cost of integer performance. Intel did this because they see future PC usage centering floating point intensive tasks, like digital video,…
Track Time And Expenses More Easily
TimeCache 4.0 is full of new features that make tracking time and expenses for billable projects easier than ever on your PowerMac. Use TimeCache 4.0 to make sure youire billing projects accurately — without wasting a lot of time doing it. Who uses TimeCache? Graphic designers. Consultants. Copywriters. Art Directors. Attorneys. Architects. Multimedia developers. Web…
Mitch Mandich Sells 275,000 Shares Of Apple Stock
when Apple announced the company had seen a major decrease in sales during the beginning of the December quarter (Appleis 1st fiscal quarter). The consensus since that announcement is that Mr. Mandich was ousted from his position, though Apple has been playing it straight. Mr. Mandich has apparently decided that he would rather rid himself…
Add Layers To PDF Documents
Today, Lantana announced Stratify PDF, an Acrobat plug-in that adds another dimension to PDF documents layers. Now you can create named layers and move existing objects on to them, or take existing pages and make them layers of another page. Stratify PDF also allows you to show or hide layers and to merge layers.Stratify PDF…
Apple Confirms US$100 Price Drop On GeForce3 Video Card
Currently, the stand alone product is priced at US$499. Adding it to the high-end PowerMac G4 models will now cost US$250 extra (in place of a GeForce2MX), while adding it to the low end model will cost US$350 (in place of the less expensive ATI Rage 128 Pro). NVIDIAis Web site does not have pricing…
Wit SoundView Lowers Q3 Estimates For AAPL, "Moderate Risk" For Q2
With the further weakness in consumer PC demand in March, we see moderate risk that Apple Computer will fall short of its heavily sought goal of a "slight profit" in the March quarter and see high risk that Apple will fall short of consensus estimates for the June quarter. We are maintaining our Street-low March…
TMO Exclusive Interview With Bob "Dr. Mac OS X" LeVitus On OS X
. We got the opportunity to get his thoughts on just about everything related to Mac OS X. Bryan Chaffin (TMO): When did you start using Mac OS X? Bob LeVitus (Dr. Mac): Hmmm. That depends upon how you define Mac OS X. Would Copland or Rhapsody count? 🙂 As for what we now know…
Seybold Sees The Release Of MassTransit Enterprise 4.0
Group Logic, the leading vendor of network workflow software and services to the print media industry, announced today that it has released version 4.0 of its MassTransit Enterprise file transfer, remote proofing, and remote workflow software for beta testing by leading print media companies. The new product will be demonstrated at booth #2028 at Seybold…
Monster.com Posting Confirms Apple Store Coming To Minneapolis
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Anecdotal Evidence: OS X Runs Much Slower On G4 Cube Than On Other Machines?
For some time now, Iive been running OS X on my G4 Cube, as well as on my PowerBook G3 “Wall Street.” Iive been favorably impressed with the interface, especially the simplicity and elegance. I am not quite a Unix “Yoda” yet, but can appreciate the potential. But there has been one thing that has…
Steve Wozniak On CNBC To Celebrate 25th Anniversary Of The Apple I
Steve Wozniak designed the Apple I by himself motivated by the desire to make something he could show his geek buddies. Steve Jobs was able to sell 50 of the machines to a local computer store (one of the only ones in the country at that point), and Apple Computer was born. Back to CNBC:…
4D And GoLive Bundled For Ultimate Web Solution
4D SA, publishers of the 4th Dimension RAD/RDBMS Environment and WebSTAR Server Suite, announced today that it has bundled Adobe? GoLive(tm) 5.0 software with several of its products to provide complete Web Server Solutions which will enable the integration of dynamic database content into HTML pages created with Adobe GoLive 5.0. The products bundled with…
Old Friends, New Friends
After getting used to moving around the new Finder, described in our last installment, we then decided to explore some of the goodies in the Applications folder. We also posted some screenshots in an earlier article, but letis continue our date and meet some new friends. Old Friends We recognized some of the crew right…
OS X Offers Plug-and-Play Web Publishing With Image Capture!
Plugging a camera into a USB port and having it appear on the desktop is one thing, but having it launch an application is another. When we examined the Image Capture window, we were pleased to see a few things. For one thing, you could adjust how a hot-plug action (such as our plugging in…
One OS X Game Released, Others On The Way
Casady & Greene, Inc. of Salinas, California announced today the release of Zone Warrior II, version 2.1, for Appleis new operating system, Mac OS X. C&G has plans to carbonize and update three more of their classic award-winning action-arcade games, Glider Pro(TM), Step On It!, and Crystal Crazy, for Mac OS X. Zone Warrior II…
Getting To Know You
Driving Around Before we delve into the Dock, learning how to navigate among your drives is a good place to start. If you double-click on a drive, youill be presented with a window that is definitely not what youire used to under good oli OS 9. What is familiar is the name of the drive…
Bryan Chaffin
Todayis entry comes from our own Editor-in-Chief, Bryan Chaffin. Launch CPU Monitor. Move CPU Monitor to the Dock. Get URL for Understanding and Working With The Dock for those who may not know how to add things to the Dock. Add it to Login Items in System Prefs. Open CPU Monitor prefs. Turn on Display…
Apple (Informally) Acknowledges RAM Problem With Firmware Update [Updated]
Apple probably had good intentions. Prior to delivering Mac OS X 10.0 to the (early adopter) masses on Saturday, a new firmware update was made available some time Friday. It had the promise of better performance with Mac OS X, so many decided to apply the update before their new OS arrived. Potentially a big…
Snak On This: IRC Client Updated
Version 4.6 of Snak has now been released. Version 4.6 provides support for NAT routers, multiple preference files for the case that multiple people use the program and more precise control of what is spoken, and from what channels. The fully updated server list is read from an external file which can be easily updated…
Still No AOL Fire Support, But There Is A Workaround (Updated)
As we reported yesterday, OS X users wanting to use Eric Peytonis excellent IM application, Fire, have been finding the going difficult. Fire has been updated three times in the days since OS Xis release, and each update has been blocked by AOL, meaning that OS X users have no native AIM client available. While…
Who Is Kernel Panic, And Why Is He In My Mac? Apple Posts Mac OS X TIL
We are going to help a bit. A kernel is what an operating system is built on top of. It handles all the ugly low level things like talking to the hardware. Mac OS X is built on top of a version of Unix called Free BSD and uses the Mach Kernel (check out this…
