Mozilla.org, the organization that coordinates Mozilla open source development, today announced the launch of a new foundation that will continue to promote the development, distribution and adoption of the award-winning Mozilla standards-based web applications and core technologies, including the Gecko browser layout engine. The Mozilla Foundation will continue and expand on the efforts of mozilla.org,…
DEVONtech Announces Upcoming DEVONagent Beta Testing
DEVONtechnologiesi new Internet search agent software DEVONagent is getting closer to the first public beta, and so the product page has been updated with new screenshots and a description of the forthcoming features. Based on DEVONtechnologiesi revolutionary DEVONtechnology, DEVONagent is the information finding tool of the next generation. It simulates the behaviour of a human…
Pods Unite: Buy A Beetle, Get A Free iPod
A pple and Volkswagen have announced a very interesting new promotion called Pods Unite. If you buy a new Beetle from Volkswagen, you can get a 15 GB iPod and a "Volkswagen iPod connectivity kit." The iPods are engraved with the Volkswagen Driveris Wanted logo, and you also get a coupon good for US$100 off…
Apple Updates Hot Deals Page For ProMAX With DV Gear
A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for 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 features several Mac retailers and special offers that one can only get, at least in…
Inside Endorphin.com: Mac Made Videos On The Web
I n Pacific Grove, a small town 150 miles south of San Francisco, sits Endorphin Productions Inc.(EPI), producers of high quality videos that have been seen on the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, and more. When most people think of California based industries, they are likely to think of movie production, but what sets EPI…
Adult Sites Fight Patent Holders: Apple & Others Could Be Next
O K, what does Apple, Microsoft, CNN, your local cable company, and Web based adult movie sites have in common? (This is not a trick question.) They all use technology to deliver digital content to you, and that is the reason why one company, Acacia Media Technologies, believes that its ship has come in. Who…
Apple Hot Deals Updates For ClubMac, Publishing Perfection, MacWarehouse
A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for ClubMac, Publishing Perfection, and MacWarehouse 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…
Pixar Hits All-Time High, AAPL Consolidates Below US$20
T he markets turned in a mixed performance on Wednesday as traders positioned themselves for the quarterly reporting season and continued looking for overall market trends for the summer months. At the close on Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 9,156.21, off 66.88. The S&P 500 Index finished at 1,002.21, down 5.63. The…
Adobe: Watch Out Office, Here Comes The PDF
[Adobe CEO Bruce] Chizen, who has been running the company since December 2000, has learned from past mistakes. Heis spent the last two years redesigning products, replacing sales staff and buying up smaller firms to gird Adobe for a new assault on the corporate market. The grand plan: Convince companies that every single document they…
BusinessWeek & Fortune Heap Praise Upon Apple's iChat AV
Best of all, iChat lets me bypass the phone company. For the few people on my instant-messaging buddy list who have iChat, I donit pick up the phone anymore to talk to them. I simply look to see if theyire available and, if they are, I click on the voice connection button in iChat. A…
Steve Jobs Normally High Forbes Poll CEO Ranking Attacked By Lemmings
According to the fine folks at As The Apple Turns, some PC folks are bent on defaming our CEO of choice by flooding the Forbes poll with negative votes. From As the Apple Turns: ALERT! It has come to our attention that apparently some Windoid site is attacking Steve Jobs in the only way they…
Apple Hot Deals Updates: DV Editing & Audio Gear
A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for AudioMIDI.com, Sweetwater, and DVDirect 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,…
How To Keep Your Mac OS X Mail Server From Being Used By Spammers
Many spammers are able to spread their filth widely due to the fact that some server administrators leave their SMTP servers open, allowing anyone to use them to send mail. This article lists step-by-step how to keep your OS X Server system from being used in this manner. From Apple: Follow these steps to prevent…
G5 Fever Hits Australia, Amid Reseller Rivalry
Australians are already keen to pre-order the new G5-based Macs, but a report by industry news site ARNnet reveals that reseller squabbles and delayed deliveries may be cause for concern. Apple’s sales in Australia can be defined in three broad categories – the online Apple Store, the various AppleCentre retail stores, and the ‘associate reseller’…
Apple Hard Disk Update 1 For G4s: Not For Everyone
A pple has released a hard drive firmware update. Hard Drive Update 1.0 is intended to help your drive last longer, though as we discuss in the Spin below, some are reporting problems. This from the Hard Drive Update Read Me file: The Hard Drive Update 1 improves the longevity of some hard drives shipped…
DEVONtech Shipping PhotoStickies 4.0
DEVONtechnologies releases version 4.0 of Christian Grunenbergis famous tool PhotoStickies. PhotoStickies displays one or more photos located on local drives or on the Web as frameless windows on the desktop, shows Webcam pictures, acts as a fast image viewer, and records and replays slideshows. Also, PhotoStickies can be used as a comfortable wallpaper utility. In…
The Back Page - Fighting iTMS Singles: "Protecting The Album" Is A Loser's Argument
"Our artists would rather not contribute to the demise of the album format," said Mark Reiter, with Q Prime Management Co., which manages the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica and several other artists. "We can’t let a distributor dictate the way our artists sell their music," Reiter said, adding that the business terms were otherwise…
Digit Magazine & MWJ Offer In-Depth Looks At G5
Two pieces on the G5 were published this week that we wanted to draw to your attention. The first is from Digit Magazine, part of the Macworld/IDG publishing stable, and was written by MacCentral’s Jim Dalrymple. That piece is titled "Apple G5: in-depth analysis," and includes information and comments from a variety of sources. In…
mi2g: Macs Worth 5X Points More Than Windows In "Hacking Challenge" This Sunday
T he secondhanders and societal leeches will be out in force this Sunday, July 6th. The mi2g Intelligence Unit has issued a report saying that an international hacking challenge has been issued for that day, with a point system based on the OS of the target machine. Unfortunately for Mac system admins, Mac OS (and…
All The Power Of An Apple //e In The Palm Of Your Hand
About PalmApple is an open source Apple //e emulator for PalmOS PDAs. […] Current Status Complete rewrite using 68000 assembly for 6502 and video emulation. Apple //e with M65C02 CPU (not complete undocumented opcode emulation) 64K Memory (with 16K Language Card) 40×24 text mode, 280×192 hires mode, and mixed text/hires mode. Disk II controller support…
Apple Hot Deals Update For MacConnection
A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for MacConnection 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, at least in…
Mozilla 1.4 & Netscape 7.1 Released
Mozilla on Windows now has support for NTLM authentication. This enables Mozilla to talk to MS web and proxy servers that are configured to use “windows integrated security”. Mozillais bookmarks have been overhauled. Bookmarks now include a root level folder, the ability to have two differently named bookmarks pointing at the same location, site icons…
Mac OS Guru Shipping SQL4X Manager Update
Mac OS Guru has release an update for SQL4X Manager J, bringing it to version 2.5.1. SQL4X Manager J is a SQL database Interface designed for Web development and database management. The update features performance enhancements including PHP code generator enhancements and improved PostgreSQL support. According to Mac OS Guru: SQL4X Manager J 2.5.1 (Build…
WWDC Keynote Participant, Luxology, Defends G5 Performance
T he discussion concerning the speed claims of Appleis new Power Mac G5 continues to churn on the Internet. Apple introduced the Power Mac G4 replacement last Monday during the WWDC keynote. During the presentation, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the new architecture by calling the Dual 2 GHz Power Mac G5 the "worldis fastest…
