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Despite numerous delays and the demands for profitability on what is soon to be a publicly-held company, Opera Software ASA is still strongly behind supporting and making its Opera Web browser for Mac OS X, the company has told The Mac Observer. A spokesman said the company is hard at work on version 7 of…

We have just about had our fill of 20 year historical looks at the Mac, but we found yet another one we felt we should pass on to you. The Sydney Morning Herald has published its own retrospective of the Mac, and with its Aussie-attitude, we found it interesting and insightful. The article stems from…

Anyone who has had at least a passing interest in Apple and in supercomputing will know that the two came together at Virginia Tech late last year in a big way. The 2200 G5 processor ‘Big Mac’ was put together in record time for a meager sum of US$5 million. After the dust settled, Virginia…

The freakish aspect about attending San Francisco Macworld Expo is this business of being awake at 7:30 AM. In fact, it’s 7:38 right now. I’ve been tossing and turning in my King Bed/Nonsmoking/Not Too Close To The Elevators, Please hotel room for more than half an hour. Yes, I realize that my body clock thinks…

Freeverse Software has annouced the upcoming debut of a new browser aimed at children, to be unveiled at next weeks MacWorld conference. Titled: BumperCar, the Web browser utilizes WebCore and Safari influences and is designed with content filtering and child advocated Internet securty. According to Freeverse Software: Freeverse Software announced today that it will show…

Guitar Center (GC), the largest professional audio recording equipment and musical instruments retailer in the US, has started stocking its 120-plus stores with the entire line of Apple products and will soon start training a number of specialists in each store to be ‘Apple experts’. Audio engineers, producers, recording artists, and musicians now have an…

With the addition of the Power Mac G5 to Apple’s product line in June, many Mac users immediately began lusting after and speculating on a G5 Power Book. The reality, however, is that the G5 is too hot for a portable computer, and it draws too much power. Our take on the idea of a…

Apple has taken the unusual step of introducing what has heretofore been considered a pro display to its consumer line of iMacs. The company has rolled out a new 20" iMac that will be added to the 15" and 17" models already for sale. The new unit comes configured exactly like the 17" model with…

In September, we covered a one-on-one laptop deal in Stillwater, MN. That deal would put iBooks in the hands of every junior high school student and teacher in the town. In October, the deal was restructured to cover but one of the two local junior high schools, and was sealed. On Tuesday of this week,…

[1:15 PM CDT] G4 iBooks Are Here, Starting At US$1,099 by Bryan Chaffin The wait is over; Apple has dropped the G3 from its product line; the G4 iBook is here. Apple announced three new models of iBook, 800 MHz, 933 MHz, and 1 GHz, all based on Motorola’s G4 processor. Called the iBooks G4,…

Trans Intl. has announced new upgrade modules for Apple 17″ and 15″ iMac Flat Panel G4’s. The modules, when installed, provide up to 2 GB of DDR 333 memory. The modules operate at 133Mhz with a data rate of 333Mbps. According to Trans Intl Today Trans Intl. announced the availability of a 2 Gigabyte (GB)…

What do you get when you combine Apple’s Pyramid iMac and it’s Snake iMac? Why you get this mess: Images from Apple’s design patent The Pyramid Snake iMac–no, it’s not a joke. On August 31, 2004, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USTPO) issued United States Patent Number D495,332 to Apple Computer, Inc. for…

Remember the nonsense earlier this year heading into Macworld New York? IDG World Expos announced the show was moving back to Boston in 2004, and Apple then announced it would not be going. In fact, said Apple at the time, we may not even go to the 2003 New York show. IDG responded with a…

Ars Technica has published a comprehensive Mac browser smackdown, as the site put it. The piece is very solid review and breakdown of the nine browsers available for Mac OS X, including a look at performance, rendering accuracy, and overall user-experience. From the review: For the first year to year-and-a-half of OS X’s existence, one…

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…