D ude, Wassup? “Yeah, so, like, I was with my girlfriend, see? And I asked her to take this test, see, so that, um, like, we can see if weire, like, compatible and stuff. So, she goes, “No! I ainit taking no stupid test!” And I go,” If you like, like me and stuff, then…
QuickTime 6.3 Released With Several Improvements
A pple has released QuickTime 6.3 today. The new version includes several improvements, including… The release notes are so brief, weill just let Apple say it directly: QuickTime 6.3 delivers a number of important updates, including: Automatic detection of streaming transport Improvements to DV audio and video synchronization Enhanced support for Keynote, iMovie, and iDVD…
Apple Drops PowerBook Prices As Much As US$300
A pple has dropped the price on the 12″ and 15″ PowerBooks by as much as US$300.Price drops are for all four 12″ and 15″ models, making the 12″ product line start at just US$1,599, a US$200 drop. The 15″ line now starts at US$1,999, some US$300 less than yesterdayis price. The 15″ SuperDrive model…
Apple Updates Hot Deals For Inside Mac Games
A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for our friends at Inside Mac Games 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…
Default Folder X Update Improves Hotkey Support
St. Clair Software has released version 1.7.1 of Default Folder X, its Eddy Award-winning utility for enhancing Open and Save dialogs in Mac OS X. Default Folder X 1.7.1 delivers a significant performance boost over the previous version, allows the use of hotkeys to access Favorites in the Finder without modifier keys, and corrects problems…
DEVONtech Updates DEVONthink With Speed Enhancements
DEVONtechnologies updates its revolutionary information manager and freeform database to version 1.6 and makes it much faster and less memory-hungry. 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…
iTunes Updated: Internet Sharing Access Disabled [Updated]
[ Update: We received e-mail from some astute Observers who questioned the wording of the release notes for iTunes 4.0.1. Our original report said that the update included better AAC report, but that appears to not be the case. While the notes (see below) list better sound as a feature of version 4, the only…
Microsoft Pursues Business-As-Usual Competition To iTunes Music Store
Microsoft is quietly preparing a music service of it’s own that will compete with the iTunes Music Store (iMS), according to a C|Net report from Evan Hansen. The service, originally supposed to be revealed back in January of this year, will most likely be a subscription-based model, similar to other label-sponsored services like PressPlay and…
Pixar-Apple Connection: Apple Promotes Finding Nemo Game
M any people have wondered when Apple and Pixar would begin working together a bit closer. When Pixar chose an Intel-powered Linux rendering solution to replace its Sun render farm, some of those wondering thought never. Then again, Mac OS X is being used in the work flow at Pixar, so perhaps not all is…
A Few Of Her Favorite Things: Oprah Gives iPods To Everyone In Audience
CKQUOTE> Raindrops and roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and 15 GB iPods… That may not be how the original song goes, but when youire Oprah, you can sing it any way you want. According to Observer Randy Souther, Oprah likes iPods so much, she recently gave each and every single person in…
Apple Updates Hot Deals For ClubMac: Mac Bundles, Software, Storage, More
A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for ClubMac 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 least in…
DMCA Discriminates Against Visually Impaired, Say Advocates
It seems that in the quest to protect e-books from the evils of piracy, a small group of readers are left out in the cold – the visually impaired. Advocates and copyright experts alike are seeking an exemption from parts of the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act, allowing them to circumvent the copyright protection in…
Default Folder X Update Adds Hotkey Support
St. Clair Software is happy to announce the availability of a new version of Default Folder X, its Eddy Award-winning utility for enhancing Open and Save dialogs in Mac OS X. Default Folder X 1.7 adds hotkeys in the Finder for quickly accessing favorite folders, expands options for sorting recently used folders, and now integrates…
Apple Updates Hot Deals For J&R
A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for J&R Computing 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 least…
Macrovision Brings SafeDisc Encryption To The Mac Platform
Macrovision Corporation has released SafeDisc for Mac users. SafeDisc is a copy protection utility designed for encrypting CD-ROMs to prevent duplication. The app features anti-hacking measures and digital signature encryption. According to Macrovision: Macrovision Corporation, the world’s leading provider of digital rights management (“DRM”) and copy protection technologies, today announced the availability of SafeDisc® for…
Dana - Part PDA, Part Laptop For Writers & Students
< B>What exactly, is Dana? Imagine a device that is smaller, lighter, and cheaper than a laptop, runs 25 hours on a single charge or an additional 35 hours on a set of 3 AA batteries, has a full size keyboard and a wide backlit screen for easy text input or eBook reading, includes typical…
Intel's Itanium 2 Beginning To Earn The "Itanic" Moniker With Newly Discovered Glitch
Servers are crashing and IBM is halting shipments of its x450 server after a glitch in Intel’s Itanium 2 processor line was discovered recently. According to an article on ZDNet, the bug appears in Itanium 2 processors running at 900MHz or 1GHz, and can be worked around by underclocking the chips to 800MHz. Intel is…
2 Million Songs Bought From iMS, 4,300 New Songs Added
I t took a couple of more days than the first million tunes, but Apple has announced that some 2 million songs have been downloaded and paid for at Appleis iTunes Music Store. The 2nd million milestone took just 16 days, with the company having sold one million songs during the first seven of those…
Apple Updates Hot Deals: Photo, DV Cameras, More
A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for B&H Photo-Video 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 least…
Forbes (Sort Of) Throws Fuel On PowerPC 970 Speculation
An interesting blurb hit Forbes early Friday evening concerning Apple. The mainstream financial and business magazine mentioned Apple and IBM’s upcoming PowerPC 970 in its "People To Watch" piece for this week. Forbes says that "rumors are starting to build that Apple Computer is closer than previously thought to releasing a computer with a new…
NY Times Quotes Apple Exec On Microsoft's Athens PC Prototype
H ave you seen the Microsoft/HP PC prototype that the two companies are calling the Athens PC? Itis been discussed at many Mac Web sites and forums for the past week, including a rousing discussion on Slashdot, and a flame-fest on at least one Windows zealot site. Athens was introduced last week at Microsoftis Winhec…
Thoughts On eMacs, iMacs, iBooks, & Education Options
A s the administrator of the System Shootouts, after Appleis flurry of new product introductions in January & February, I was able to take a long-needed break during the past several months. This came to an end a few weeks ago, with the introduction of a significant announcement by Intel (the new "Centrino," a.k.a. "Banias,"…
Best Buy & Microsoft Named In Scam Lawsuit
OK, tell us if you’ve heard this one: A priest, a cowboy, and an "escort" walk into Best Buy to purchase a DVD… Would you believe a boy scout, a bum, and two parrots walk into Best Buy looking for a vacuum cleaner? How about a guy who just wanted to buy stuff and wound…
Digital Hijacking
T he following story is fiction. I tell you this story to illustrate a point which I promise to make abundantly clear. Any resemblance of the characters in this purely fabricated tale to any real person is by coincidence only. I was surfing the iNet using a friendis PC when a pop-up ad appeared on…
