Maxprog is proud to present a new release of iCash, new version 2.0 iCash is a tool intended to control your personal finances, keeping track of incomes, expenses, credits, debts and Banks transactions for you. As simple as creating the accounts you need and move money between them! You donit even need to know about…
Disney DVD Offers Enhanced Content for Mac
Disney notes that The Haunted Mansion DVD lets viewers turn their digital photos into ghosts, take a virtual, 3D ride through the mysterious mansion, import images onto a Mac to create customized desktop themes, wallpaper and animated screensavers and more. The company says this is “the first time that a Hollywood title has delivered such…
Apple Rolls Out iPod Mini Worldwide; Available July 24
The mini will be priced at ?279 in Europe and ?179, including taxes, in Great Britain. In Japan, the mini has been priced at n Japan for ?28,140. “The iPod mini has been a smash hit in the US, and weire thrilled to finally be able to offer it to music lovers the world over,”…
Colsa Exec: Xserve Is A Superior Server
In a Federal Computer Weekly article about the new Army Xserve supercomputer cluster, an exec with Colsa, the company building the cluster, says that Apple’s Xserve is a superior computer. In the same article, an analyst with Illuminata, Inc. is quoted as saying that "Apple has decided to get fairly serious with servers." Those are…
Ihnatko - Boston, Macworld Expo, Show Bizness
Show Bizness By now, many of you have made the altogether foolish decision to come here to Boston for Macworld Expo. And when I call this idea Foolish, I of course am saying nothing against the show itself. Macworld Expo promises to be a palace of delights as always — more on this Palace…
June 21 - 30: Bill Gates Offers To Help License Mac OS
[Authors Note: Owen and I are still behind in this series, but are working hard to catch up – Bryan] This week, we have one of our favorite stories about Apple, especially from the early days of the Mac. It was this week in 1985 that Bill Gates, the very same Bill Gates that heads…
Herald Sun Heaps Praise on Apple, iPod
Australian newspaper the Herald Sun has published a very positive look at the iPod phenomenon. The paper heaps praise on Apple, Steve Jobs, the iPod, and the iTunes Music Store, including positive words from analysts and competitors alike. From the article: If ever a single device has had an impact on the mindset of consumers…
Mac Browser Watch - Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Receive Minor Updates
Mozilla.org has released minor updates to its standalone browser and mail clients, Firefox 0.9.1 and Thunderbird 0.7.1. The Thunderbird release includes a fix for an OS X issue involving profiles from version 0.6. No changes for Firefox 0.9.1 were explicitly noted. From the Thunderbird release notes: Fix for 0.7 not recognizing profiles whose directory path…
Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Receive Minor Updates
Fix for 0.7 not recognizing profiles whose directory path contained non ascii characters. Mac OS X: Thunderbird 0.7 was not recognizing existing 0.6 profiles. Fix for the new mail notification icon in the Windows system tray not always showing up. Improvements to the extensions system. Download links for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows versions…
Apple Previews Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger"
Apple today previewed the forthcoming release to its Mac OS X operating system, Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. The update, slated to ship in the first half of 2005, incorporates 150 new features, including new ways to find files and other information, integrated RSS feeds in Safari,…
Apple Releases New Line Of Cinema Displays
If you have a fancy new G5 and don’t want a monitor that goes with the now-discontinued Power Mac G4, you’re in luck. At this morning’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC), Steve Jobs introduced a new line of Cinema Displays featuring a thin-bezel aluminum case. The line of widescreen displays include a 20″ display, a 23″…
IBM Points The Way To Mobile G5s
One of the items most mobile Mac users have on their wish list is a G5-powered PowerBook. Such a device, thus far, seems many months away, to say the least. The current crop of G5 processors, exclusively produced by IBM, require hefty heat management in the form of heat sinks and liquid cooling that can’t…
eWeek Examines IBM's PowerPC Roadmap
Could more next generation game consoles have more in common with Apple’s Power Macs than with x86 based PCs? According to a report in eWeek, IBM believes so, and is marshaling its resources to concentrate on delivering processors for a core set of customers. One well known customer of IBM current 970 processor line is…
Dr. Mac: Rants & Raves - Drum Machines on Your Mac: Not for Drummers Only
When it comes to creating drum tracks, GarageBand kinda sucks. Sure you can use loops and many of them sound fantastic, but if you want to record drum tracks from scratch, your choices are as follows: Record real drums one track at a time, which is both difficult and tedious. Record Software Instrument drums using…
Just a Thought - Cone of Silence
Psst! Wanna know a secret? If it has anything to do with Apple, uttering those words to some Apple watchers would elicit such a torrent of Pavlovian-induced saliva you’d be wise to wear a rain slicker and hip-boots. So when some poor schmoe at Toshiba got a wee bit loose in the lips about the…
iTrip Version 2.0 Released From Griffin Tech
Griffin Technology Inc, innovator of exciting hardware and software products for the Mac market, today announced the iTrip Software Version 2.0 is available for immediate download. This small free software installs all available US frequencies on and iPod or iPod mini. Users can then change the broadcast frequency of their iTrip or iTrip mini directly…
Default Folder X Updated With Dialog Synchronizing
St. Clair Software is happy to announce the availability of Default Folder X 1.9.4, the latest revision of its Eddy Award-winning utility for enhancing Open and Save dialogs. Default Folder X 1.9.4 now offers the option to keep Open and Save dialogs "synchronized" so they always point to the same folder, and gives users control…
Euro iTMS Sells 800,000 Songs In First Week
Apple has announced that its European iTunes Music Stores — UK, France, and Germany — sold more than 800,000 songs in its first week of operations. The company’s press release includes a direct challenge to heretofore European market leader OD2, claiming that Apple’s UK store sold more than 16 times the UK-based OD2 in the…
Camino 0.8 RC1 Released
A new look and icon set (a graphite set will be made available shortly) Upgraded Gecko HTML rendering engine to 1.7final from 1.0, yielding performance and web page rendering enhancements, as well as a large number of bug-fixes A more-compact download manager UI Entirely rewritten bookmark system, capable of importing Safari, IE, and Mozilla bookmarks,…
Apple Store Loads Up On Refurb, Discontinued Products
Apple has added a veritable slew of refurbished Macs, as well as "new and unopened" discontinued models at the Apple Store. The company has also updated the Hot Deals page for ClubMac and O’Reilly at the Macintosh Product Guide. The Mac Product Guide is a list of Mac compatible hardware and software products on the…
Ihnatko - I Love AppleScript Studio
Studio Sessions Boy, the more I work with AppleScript Studio, the more I love the thing. I don’t use any commercial apps to maintain and manage my weblog. When I started YellowText in 1995, the word "blog" didn’t even exist. A simple script to automatically upload an HTML file to my webserver became a…
DNS Attack On Akamai Brought Apple.com Down Tuesday Morning
If you were trying to run a search in Google, read your Yahoo mail, or buy a Mac yesterday morning, you may have had a problem doing so. These sites and others were affected by a Denial of Service attack that ultimately brought down the Domain Name Service (DNS) server at Akamai that references those…
Enterprise Developers: Apple Looks At Eclipse On OS X
Software developers can have it rough; they toil, working on a bit of code under often impossible deadlines. While they make a decent salary, they make nothing like the money Hollywood would have you believe. Programmers don’t exert themselves physically, but the mental strain in producing good code can be as rough as wielding a…
Metafy Updates Anthracite With Unicode Overhaul
Anthracite updated to 1.0.4. Anthracite is the ultimate collection of Web mining power tools combined in an easy-to-use graphical environment that lets you quickly and seamlessly extract data from Internet sources, modify it to suit your needs, and export it to templates or databases as part of your daily workflow. Anthracite has had a complete…
