T hough last weekis power outage in the North East US and South East Canada shut down manufacturing for two days at the plant where IBM makes Appleis G5 processors, an Apple exec says that things are going well with IBM. The plant in question is the East Fishkill, NY fab, which is one of…
DEVONtech Updates EasyFind With Speed Enhancements
DEVONtechnologies updates the free find-file utility EasyFind to version 2.8.2. EasyFind is an alternative to or supplement of Sherlock and finds files, folders or contents in any file without the need for indexing. Additionally, EasyFind features case sensitive or insensitive search, boolean operators, wildcards and searching for phrases. EasyFind uses multithreading and so is very…
4-Sight ISDNManager Users Offered Upgrade To MassTransit
Group Logic, developer of best-selling network workflow software products, announced today a migration program for 4-Sight iSDNManager users to switch to MassTransit Enterprise via a competitive upgrade. This follows the announcement that 4-Sight is being shut down effective September 12, 2003 by corporate parent WAM!NET, Inc. WAM!NET sold its print media business August 1st to…
The Devil's Advocate: Apple Files for Trademarks on iWork, ProBand, and Pods [TMO Scoop]
Apple has been quite busy of late with its patent and trademark applications. Coming to light today through the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) are a slew of new trademark applications, three of which are particularly interesting. [Author’s Addendum: You can also read more about iWrite, another mark filed by Apple, in a…
The Back Page - iMac Turns 5 Today: Looking Back At Launch, Effect Of iMac
It was five years ago today, on a Saturday, when Apple was reborn. Few of us realized what the iMac was going to do for Apple, to the industry, or the impact it would have on industrial design throughout the consumer products world, but it was five years ago today that Apple released the Bondi…
Apple Hot Deals Updates For Sweetwater, ClubMac, O'Reilly's
A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for Sweetwater, ClubMac, & OiReillyis 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 features several Mac retailers and special offers that one can only get,…
Microsoft Loses $520.6 Million In Browser Lawsuit Verdict
Eolas Technologies has won a US$520.6 million award in a lawsuit against software giant Microsoft. The case involves patented technology developed by Eolas that allows the use of plugins and applets in Web browsers. Eolas, a company started by former University of California professor Michael Doyle, filed the lawsuit against Microsoft in 1999, according to…
BuyMusic Spokesperson: Our Ads Were Meant To Be A Compliment To Apple
Wired has published a very interesting article on BuyMusic’s (BM) attempts to rip-off Apple’s iTunes Music Store (iTMS) ads. If that sounds familiar, it’s because we mentioned an article on the same topic from the Washington Post about an hour ago. Wired takes a different angle, however, and discusses such issues as copyright infringement, the…
Apple Updates Hot Deals Page For OWC
A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for Other World Computing (OWC) 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 features several Mac retailers and special offers that one can only get,…
SCO Demands Licensing Fees For Linux Embedded Devices, US Government
Y esterday, we brought you an article looking at SCOis demand that Linux users pay them the hefty sum of US$199 for a desktop PC using Linux, or US$699 for a single-CPU server (US$1,399 after October 15th). SCO is demanding this money from end-users of Linux because the company says Linux includes code that is…
Default Folder X Updated Improves Hotkey Support
Further improving its EddyAward-winning utility for enhancing Open and Save dialogs, St. Clair Software today released version 1.8 of Default Folder X. Default Folder X 1.8 answers OS X usersi pleas for the return of a popular feature that graced the Mac OS 9 version of Default Folder: Instead of typing the name for a…
Trikke: Have Fun Away From Your Mac, Watch The Videos In QuickTime
CKQUOTE> Warning:Viewing the info and QuickTime movies on the site referenced in this article may cause a sudden deficit in your checking account. This isnit exactly computer related, but I found this device and the videos so cool that I felt obligated to tell you about it. Some of you may have seen the commercials…
Just A Thought - Can iChat AV & iSight Make Developers See?
Chatless In Florida I was never really a big fan of iChat, Apple’s instant messenger app. The reason is actually quite simple: It wasn’t enough to bother with. By not enough, I mean that while it could perform the basic functions of any instant messenger, iChat had no clear advantage over AOL’s messenger. Worse, it…
Bill Gates: 5% Of Windows Machines Crash More Than Twice A Day
T he New York Times has published an interesting write up of Microsoftis annual financial analyst meeting. We were considering a general-interest reference article to the Timesi coverage until we noted one specifically interesting tidbit concerning Microsoftis own estimation of Windowsi robustness. According to the article, Mr. Gates says that 5% of all Windows installations…
BuyMusic Begins Blocking Mac Browsers
Thank you for visiting BuyMusic.com. In order to take full advantage of BuyMusic.comis offerings you must be on a Windows Operating System using Internet Explorer version 5.0 or higher.” The Mac is not the only platform targeted. Attempts to load the page in Mozilla Firebird for Windows produce the same results. However, non-IE browsers in…
BM Vs. iTMS: Is Anyone Home at BuyMusic.com?
C ompetition breeds a better product. Look at the battle for the best MP3 player, and how far the iPod is pushing its competitors. Unfortunately, when BuyMusic.com (BM) decided to toss their hat into the online music distribution game, they threw their heads in as well. We want to give BM a fair shake. They…
Antilog Shipping Roman Number Converter
Antilog announced today Julius I.0.0, the first release of their free roman-number converter for the Macintosh. Julius is a simple converter for the translation of numbers written with arabic digits into roman digits. The use of Julius if very easy: you simply write the number (strictly positive, no decimal, under 4000), click on the convert…
"Pods Unite" Commercial Posted At Apple's Quicktime Site
If you want to see the commercial but havenit caught it on TV yet, Apple has posted the commercial to its QuickTime site. Below, we have a couple of screen shots from the commercial to give you a feel of what itis like.
Made On A Mac - Power Mac G4 Instrumental In Production Of Independent Feature Film
With the discussion about Premiere’s departure from the Mac market being all the rage last week, we thought it would be interesting to take a look at a feature film shot with the help of a Mac. The film is called Graduation Day, and TMO’s senior news editor, Mike Washlesky, was the director of -photography.…
Alias Reports 25% Of US Maya Sales Are For Mac, Maya On The G5 Is "Fast"
I f you didnit catch the report earlier this week, Alias|Wavefront is now known as Alias. We sat down with the company to get a closer look at Maya 5, which was announced earlier this year, and to find out how the company is doing in the Mac market. Alias entered the Mac market at…
Sexy Computer Bags For Sexy Macs
T he booth that we were drawn to like people lost in the desert are drawn to an oasis, like moths to a flame, like Mac geeks to a new laptop bag… Well, if we mixed more metaphors it would make us dizzy. It seems that some of our Australian Observers may be a bit…
CMS Shows Higher Capacities for Desktop & Portable Backup Systems
Fortunately, the good folks at CMS Peripherals offer such a backup system, called ABSplus, the ABS standing for Automatic Backup System. We had a chance to chat with Mike LaPeters, Vice President of Sales, to give us an update on whatis been happening with the product, and to receive a demonstration. ABSplus Portable
Macworld CreativePro Photo Gallery I
< /P> Itis another Macworld, sort of, and though the show is a fraction of the size of previous Expos, we still have lots of pics. Todayis images come to you from John F. Braun, and feature some of the cool booths and sights of Macworld CreativePro. Check out the close ups of the Power…
Macworld CreativePro Photo Gallery II
< /P> Itis another Macworld, sort of, and though the show is a fraction of the size of previous Expos, we still have lots of pics. Todayis images come to you from John F. Braun, and feature some of the cool booths and sights of Macworld CreativePro. Check out the pirates at LimeWire. They actually…
