O ur friends at MacNN noted today that Apple has added Mac OS X 10.2.5 to the online Apple Store as an orderable CD. Though the Apple Store says the update is downloadable through Software Update Control Panel, it does not actually show up yet. Also, the Apple KBase document linked to by Apple is…
Link iTunes, iPhoto To Your TV With TiVo, Remotely Schedule TiVo From Your Mac
TiVo has released the Home Media Option for its Series2 Digital Video recorders. This adds a variety of new features, not the least of which are integration with iTunes and iPhoto to play your songs and show your pictures on your TV. You can also use the new Home Media option to remotely schedule your…
Alan Greenspan Weighs in On Intellectual Property
If our objective is to maximize economic growth, are we striking the right balance in our protection of intellectual property rights? Are the protections sufficiently broad to encourage innovation but not so broad as to shut down follow-on innovation? Are such protections so vague that they produce uncertainties that raise risk premiums and the cost…
Debunking Dvorak With Napkin Math For OS X On Intel
L et me get this out of the way first. I think John Dvorak is great. I love his Macintosh articles the most because they tend to piss everyone off. I also like them because they make me think a lot more than articles written by apologists. However, as often as I enjoy his articles,…
A Place For Everything, & Everything In Its Place, Except In Mac OS X
< B>File System encapsulation There are few good reasons for programs to strew files all over your hard drive; since OS Xis release, however, more Mac users have to deal with programs that install in ways they cannot control. In contrast, one of the few great things about older versions of the Macintosh operating system…
Apple Updates Remote Desktop With Network Install, NetBooting, More
Apple has released an update for Remote Desktop, the company’s network administration tool for Mac OS X. The new version, 1.2, includes some major new features such as the ability to perform Remote Software Installations, Remote Network Startup Disk (just what it sounds like), some auto-update features for Remote Desktop itself, and some enhanced security…
Biofuel Cells May Makes Desktop Macs Jealous
Oh, I donit yammer at any old thing, so your toaster and your easy chair are both safe from me. Usually the objects (literally) I direct my one-sided conversations to belong to me, and they are normally items of convenience. Like my Cube, for instance, and the 12″ PowerBook I intend to buy soon. I…
Video/Voice-Over-IP App, New Game Come To Mac OS X
O S X is slick and keeps getting slicker by the minute. Each new application validates Appleis choice for its next generation OS, especially since the core of OS X is UNIX via FreeBSD. And one of the nicest things about UNIX is its Open Source software support. Applications by the hundreds are finding their…
QuickTime Updated With MPEG-4 Streaming Fix
A pple has updated QuickTime to version 6.1.1. The new version delivers what Apple calls important bug fixes to MPEG-4 streaming. We know this because of the one-line note that comes with the download in Software Update: QuickTime 6.1.1 delivers important bug fixes to MPEG-4 streaming. As of this writing, QuickTime 6.1.1 is available only…
DEVONtech Updates DEVONthink With iChat Support
DEVONtechnologies updates its revolutionary information manager and freeform database again, to version 1.5.3. Without the need for indexing, DEVONthink fully or semi-automatically classifies elements, lists similar contents and words immediately using fuzzy algorithms, finds and compares text and even images, summarises texts intelligently and provides high performance concordance tools. DEVONthink Personal Edition 1.5.3 now imports…
The Mac Observer: The Apple Trader - AAPL Is A Growth Stock Wearing A Value PE
AAPL Is A Growth Stock Wearing A Value PE April 3rd, 2000 After last week’s beating, the tech stocks may limp off their recent lows in anticipation of a robust earnings season. Nevertheless, something seismic has shifted in the psychology of investors, both institutional and retail. It’s as if everyone woke up last Tuesday and…
Apple Updates Hot Deals For MacConnection & ProMAX
A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for MacConnection and ProMAX 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 and special offers that one can only get, at…
The Devil's Advocate - Apple Display Dyslexia
Why is Apple losing the resolution race to Dell? When it comes to laptops, PowerBook users are always left whimpering like puppies for just a few more pixels of resolution when they look at their PC counterparts. Case in point, Dell and others have been offering laptops with 1600×1200 resolutions (1.9 Megapixel) for a long…
Two Views: The Believer & DysFunKtion Family
< I>Every week, Vern Seward takes a look at Appleis latest offerings at the QuickTime Trailer site, letting your know whatis new. Perspective. In movies, some directors use perspective to tell a story from a view not normal to us, be it physically through tricks of the camera as it was used quite creatively in…
Microsoft Refuses To Patch NT4 Vulnerability
A nother security vulnerability has been reported with Microsoftis line of server operating systems. While such news is nothing new to long-time Microsoft watchers, the difference between the new issue and past ones lies in the response from Redmond. According to an article published in the Register, Windows XP and 2000 users need to install…
MP3 Player Air Whisper Updated With New Menu Feature
Today Kanex Group Inc. has released new version of its compact MP3 Player for Macintosh. Air Whisper 1.3 enables a high-quality playback and easy browsing through MP3 files, while takes much less system resources than other MP3 players. Created for Mac OS X, and at the same time supporting classic Mac OS, Air Whisper is…
Apple Updates Hot Deals For Inside Mac Games, B&H Photo-Video, & MacMall
A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for Inside Mac Games, B&H Photo-Video, & MacMall 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 and special offers that one…
New York Expo Now 'CREATE'; Exhibitors Skeptical
I n an effort to jump start a show that exhibitors admit needs a jolt of change, Macworld Expo set for this July in New York City will now be called CREATE, and will focus specifically on technology for the creative arts, from design and publishing to video and music, it was announced Wednesday. In…
Apple Releases AirPort 3.0 Updater for OS X 10.1.5 And 10.2
A pple has updated AirPort software to version 3.0. The new version supports both AirPort and AirPort Extreme base stations and cards. AirPort 3.0 improves printing support, administration abilities, and options for extending the range of your wireless network, especially with AirPort Extreme. If you use an AirPort Extreme base station, make sure you have…
Apple Moves WWDC Back One Month To Show Developers "Panther" Version Of Mac OS X
Apple is full of surprises this week. While many casual observers may have been surprised by the appointment of former vice president Al Gore to Apple’s board of directors, long time Apple watchers will be surprised to learn that the World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) has been moved not only by time, back a month…
iCalShare Adds Calendar Previews To Its Online Calendar Depository
iCalShare is proud to introduce our newest feature ? calendar previews. With calendar previews, you can now preview calendar content without the fuss of launching iCal and subscribing to every calendar you find interesting. To preview a specific calendar, just browse to the calendar that interests you and click on the iPreview calendari link. Once…
Apple Overhauls Corporate Governance, Adds Two Independent Director Positions
O n the heals of announcing the appointment of Al Gore to its board of directors, Apple announced today an overhaul of its corporate governance rules. The company also officially announced that two new director positions had been added to the board, including the one already occupied by former vice president Al Gore. The press…
Apple Links To Crazy Apple Rumor Spoof Of Al Gore Appointment
A pple has shown that it has a sense of humor, at least some of the time. In wake of the companyis announcement to appoint Al Gore to its board of directors, a fire storm of debate, though we use the term loosely, has erupted from all corners of the Mac community. Most of the…
Gateway To Close 80 Retail Stores With 1/3 The Revenues Of Apple's Retail Store Locations
TheStreet.com has published a report looking at Gateway’s current, or latest, plans for restructuring. Gateway has been struggling for the last couple of years, and has taken on the role of "beleaguered" that the press used to assign Apple. Gateway’s two biggest problems have been being crushed by Dell in a price war that Dell…
