Apple’s head industrial designer, Jonathan Ive, has been the recipient of numerous awards since the introduction of the Bondi-Blue iMac. Today, Esquire Magazine has given him a new one. The men’s magazine has included Mr. Ive in a list of what it says are the 43 "Best and Brightest People Who Will Revolutionize the World."…
Indian AIDS Awareness Campaign Relies On Macs, Final Cut Pro 3
A new HIV/AIDS awareness campaign has been launched in India to help educate young people in India about the disease. The campaign is centering around a reality TV show that uses two buses to take young people around to different cities, placing them in challenging situations. Information about AIDS and the sexual transmission of the…
Apple Taps PC Company For "Move2Mac" Migration Software For Switchers
For Switchers moving to a Mac, one of the hassles can be how to get your settings and files from your old PC to your new Mac. News.com brought us word of a company called Detto Technologies that has a solution for this, and it’s called Move2Mac. Move2Mac will help move your Windows settings and…
Apple Updates Hot Deals For CompUSA & J&R Computing
A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for J&R Computing and CompUSA at the Macintosh Product Guide. The Mac Product Guide is a list of Mac compatible hardware and software products one the market. The Hot Deals section of the Product guide feature several Mac retailers and special offers that one can only get,…
Microsoft Compares MovieMaker To iMovie, "Innovates" By Adding FireWire Support
This just in from the "Whoda Thunk?" Department, Microsoft has added features to its iMovie rip-off MovieMaker that iMovie has had for two years. MovieMaker is the consumer digital video editing software that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates audaciously called innovative when it was announced several months after Apple released iMovie. The company has released a…
The Hunted, Treasure Planet, & Pixar's New Movie Trailer
< I>Every week, Vern Seward takes a look at Appleis latest offerings at the QuickTime Trailer site, letting your know whatis new. A good story has a way of hanging around for a very long time. The really good ones always manage to find a way to resurface, sometimes with a new twist, often with…
Microsoft Scores Sweeping Victory In Antitrust Ruling, Business-As-Usual For The Software Giant
I n what is already being heralded as a sweeping victory for Microsoft, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has ruled that most of the provisions in the settlement worked out between the Bush administrationis DoJ, 9 of the original suing states, and Microsoft is "in the public interest," and acceptable. Judge Kollar-Kotelly had been presiding over the…
Apple Adds Canada To Free Jaguar For Teachers Program
Canadian teachers take note: Apple has added Canada to its program to give free copies of Jaguar to teachers. Apple launched such a program in the US earlier this month, and many Observers from other parts of the world have been asking if other countries will be included. Yesterday, Apple Canada’s Web site added a…
Dell iPod News Helps Push Apple To 9-Week High
N ews that Dell will be selling Appleis iPod, and official confirmation from Apple that Target will be doing the same thing, helped propel AAPL to a new 8-week high. According to News.com, Apple will be selling Windows iPods through its online Web site soon, and is already selling the MP3 players through its phone…
Apple Death Knell Counter
The Apple Death Knell Counter (ADKC) is a collection of death pronouncements for Apple throughout the years. Issued by journalists, analysts, pundits, business executives, and the like, there have been innumerable "Apple is dead," "Apple will soon be dead," and "Apple is dead if they don’t do this or that" statements issued by all sorts…
MR Stuff Brews Up A BeerMeister 2.0 Release
MR Stuff Shareware has released version 2.0 of BeerMeister, a shareware beer recipe organizer designed to help homebrewers organize and create beer recipes. BeerMeister is the easy way to organize your homebrewing recipes. Developed by a homebrewer for homebrewers, it is a full-featured database designed explicitly for the needs of brewers. BeerMeister is fully searchable.…
Apple Stock Watch - Weak Consumer Confidence Drags Techs, AAPL, & (Maybe) Interest Rates Lower
A weak Consumer Confidence rating for October helped drag the tech markets south in a Sherman-like sweep through Georgia. A trail of red tech stocks rotting in the wake was all that remained, but the smoke drifting from the wreckage was hope that the Fed would soon cut interest rates yet again. The CCI fell…
eBay Patent Case Develops, Business Process Disputes At Issue
News.com is reporting on a series of developments in a patent dispute between eBay and MercExchange. At issue are several patents filed by Tom Woolsten, founder of MercExchange, back in 1995 — several months before the creation of eBay. These patents describe "methods of creating and searching online marketplaces and auctions." This case, among others,…
Apple Updates Hot Deals From AudioMIDI.com
A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for AudioMIDI.com at the Macintosh Product Guide. The Mac Product Guide is a list of Mac compatible hardware and software products on the market. The Hot Deals section of the Product guide feature several Mac retailers, including some new audio-oriented retailers, and special offers that one can…
The Back Page - Microsoft Can't Even Be Original When It Illegally Advertises
In April and May of 2001, IBM launched a campaign that I personally found to be reprehensible. The company paid guerilla marketing companies to deface sidewalks and other public property with advertisements for its Linux campaign. "Peace, Love, and Linux," was the name of the campaign, and this was symbolized by chalk art and other…
Cool Waste Of Time - Steve Jobs Vs. Bill Gates On GoogleFight - Bill's In The Lead
We have TMO forum mod CrazyOne to blame for this, but there’s a dandy little Web site that offers a grand opportunity to waste some time. A sight called GoogleFight allows you to enter two search terms and see how many search results each of them returns on Google. For instance, if you enter the…
Guess Who Turns Up As #1 In Google Search For "Stoned Chicks"
Sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction. For instance, do a search on Google for "Stoned Chicks," and you wouldn’t think the number one result returned in that search would be an Apple Web page, yet there it is. TMO forum mod Jon Stanard noted that searching on Google for those two words pointed you to…
Make iChat's Text Input Field Bigger With iChat Enhancer 1.3
G eekSpiff has updated its iChat enhancement utility that is conveniently called iChat Enhancer. iChat Enhancer adds one simple, and much needed, feature to iChat, the ability to make the input text field larger than one-line high. From the productis Web page: Version 1.3 adds Japanese localization and is updated to use version 1.1 of…
New G4+ Processor Turns Up On Motorola's Road map, Speeds Up To 2 GHz [Corrected]
[ Corrected: We made two rather unfortunate mistakes in this article as originally published. The first was that we called the first of the new processors mentioned in the road map below the PowerPC 7455. The 7457 is the correct designation, and the article has been corrected. The second was that we said the road…
Apple Moves Higher As Market Continues To Surge
< B>Monday Trading The market continued its upward advance on Monday as the major market indexes scored noteworthy gains. The blue chip index rose more than two and one-half percent while two broader measures of market performance, the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ Composite Index, each added almost one and three-quarter percent to their…
Apple Stock Watch - Apple Moves Higher As Market Continues To Surge
Monday Trading The market continued its upward advance on Monday as the major market indexes scored noteworthy gains. The blue chip index rose more than two and one-half percent while two broader measures of market performance, the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ Composite Index, each added almost one and three-quarter percent to their value.…
Apple To Give Free Copies Of Jaguar & iApps To Teachers
Apple is stepping up its efforts in the education market with a new promotion for schools called "X for Teachers." This program will literally give not-for-resale copies of Jaguar away to eligible teachers (see Apple’s rules for this offer for eligibility and other requirements). Those teachers will also get copies of iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes, and…
Big Blue Lifts Market, Apple Drops On Earnings Report
O n Thursday the market moved higher on a better than expected earnings reports from IBM. Big Blue helped propel the blue chip index almost 3 percent higher on the day. The grand daddy of tech companies had seen its shares plummet more than 50 percent this year and the companyis positive earnings report and…
International Injustice, Mindless Action, & Nearly Naked Models
< I>Every week, Vern Seward takes a look at Appleis latest offerings at the QuickTime Trailer site, letting your know whatis new. Lotis of stuff to cover this week so letis get to it… First up is an Apple Exclusive QuickTime Trailer of Rabbit Proof Fence. The movie is based on true events: in turn-of-the-century…
