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Dave Hamilton: You had kind of an interesting path in the Apple market. In essence you started making tools for übergeeks. James Wilson: Exactly right. I mean, we started as a band of übergeeks that had no intention at all of ever making a product in the Mac space. In 2003, we actually started as…

Ten years before the World’s Fair opened in New York City, the major economic powers imploded. The 1929 Stock Market Crash was a major event, but was just one of many events that lead to and caused a persistent economic upheaval that was felt for decades afterwards. New York City, at that time, had a…

Apple introduced iCloud earlier this week during a keynote address at the company’s annual World Wide Developer Conference. iCloud offers a host of document hosting and syncing services, including the ability to have most of your iTunes purchases (music, apps, and iBooks) synced to any and every Mac and iOS device you have. While iCloud…

Continued from Part I. Dave Hamilton: Tell us about the early days of the Macintosh. Dan Bricklin: We were there when the Mac came out and we released, under Software Arts, TK Solver — which we ported to the Mac. That’s because we used a “write once, run everywhere” language. So we put that on…

If you want to disable Facebook’s automatic facial recognition feature, do this: Log into your Facebook account in a Web browser Click Account (It’s in the upper right corner of the Facebook page) Choose Privacy Settings Click Customize settings (It’s at the bottom of the Sharing on Facebook section) Click Edit Settings next to Suggest…

Dave Hamilton: So what are you thinking about these days? Dan Bricklin: The iPad. DH: Of course! Tell me more. DB: The magic of the iPad is not that Apple magically writes code. There are other things that make it magical. I believe it’s magical, but I believe the magic is in the control it…

ForeSee Results filed a proactive declaratory judgement action on Tuesday  against all four of the patents Lodsys holds after the the patent holder threatened legal action against its clients, according to Foss Patents. Clients ForeSee Results claimed were threatened included Adidas, Bust Buy and WE Energies.Lodsys is also facing patent invalidation filings from Brother, Canon,…

Apple purchased the land in two transactions. In 2006, the company bought 50 acres off Wolfe Road, and in 2010, the company bought 98 adjacent acres from HP, giving Apple not quite 150 acres. Mr. Jobs told the Cupertino city council that his company wanted to take that space, increase the number of trees on…

In 1998, Steve Jobs stood up and abruptly, boldly cancelled OpenDoc right before the bewildered eyes of several thousand developers. Previously, they had been told that OpenDoc was Apple’s salvation and answer to Windows. But that was the previous regime. Mr. Jobs had different, bold plans for the resurrection of Apple, namely simplifying the product…

If you’re using MobileMe, there are a couple of things to consider before you start trying to clean things up yourself. First, make sure that you’re not syncing with iTunes in addition to MobileMe (which is one of the most common causes of duplicated data). To check this, plug in your iOS device, open iTunes,…

Safe Download Version shows when your Mac’s malware definitions were updatedSafe Download Version is a Mac OS X application that shows which safe downloads definition list version is installed, along with the date and time the definition list was last updated on your computer. The brand new version 0.2 update changed the time shown from…

Apple had been rumored for some time to be working on a cloud service that could replace MobileMe, rumors that accelerated with the news that Apple had bought iCloud.com earlier this year. On Tuesday the company acknowledged iCloud by announcing that Steve Jobs would be participating in a keynote event for WWDC that focus on…

X2Y is based in Erie, Pennsylvania, and the suit was filed the Western District of Pennsylvania. According to Bloomberg, all five patents are in areas covering ways of overcoming electromagnetic interference. X2Y alleges that Intel is using the techniques covered by the patents in its processor line, and it named the Core i7 as “one…

Internet communication is so good nowadays that no company can drop just any old product out there and hope for the best — before the consumers get wise. Instead, the community of users, via Facebook and Twitter, conceive of what they need and create a group consciousness about what serves their needs and what doesn’t.…

The lawsuits came in response to a letter Apple sent to Lodsys requesting the company abandon its legal actions against developers. “Lodsys chose to move its litigation timing to an earlier date than originally planned, in response to Apple’s threat, in order to preserve its legal options,” the patent holder stated in a blog post.Lodsys…

As this is the last article in this series it seems only fitting that it be about an application that’s patterned after the device that started it all, the iPod. Back when it began, the iPod was a plastic and metal box about the size of a deck of playing cards, and back then it…

The Macintosh is benefiting from the iPhone and iPad halo effect. Macintosh sales continue to grow and Apple continues to note in its earnings reports that half of their retail sales are to former PC users. The Mac is being embraced, more and more, by thousands of newbies, students, and people of all ages who…

The best defense is to make sure that “Open ‘Safe’ files after downloading” is disabled in Safari’s preferences — which is the default. Apple released a Knowledge Base article which explains how to find and disable the malware and promises an update that will do just that automatically.Some are using the existence of these Trojans…

Can you hear me now?Mac users that can’t access Skype’s services should quit the Skype application, then delete the shared.xml file in <you home directory>/Library/Application Support/Skype. Skype’s services should be available once the application is relaunched.Skype doesn’t have any details available yet on exactly what went wrong, nor has the company said when it expects…

Mac Defender is a fake anti-virus piece of malware that tries to extort credit card numbers out of Mac users by creating phony problems on their system (read more in our original coverage). The malware first came to light with a security alert from Intego earlier this month, and has made headlines since because Apple…

“The Kindle 3 has 38 buttons, 37 more than the all-new Nook,” Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch said (wryly, according to Fortune) during the media event announcing the device. “Anyone who has mobile devices with [a lot] of buttons and nav bars knows that means a lot of scrolling and a lot of interface……

Steve Jobs speaking at a 2010 media eventWWDC is Apple’s annual conference for iOS and Mac OS X developers, IT professionals and third-party hardware makers. This year Apple will be focusing on the future of Mac OS X and iOS.Apple isn’t expected to make any hardware announcements at the event, so it seems likely that…

Combustible aluminum dust that collected in factory air ducts is suspected as the cause of the explosion and fire at the Chengdu facility. The factory is said to be a location where some iPad production takes place, although neither Foxconn or Apple has offered an official confirmation.The Chengdu explosion happened on Friday, May 20, and…

France Telecom CEO Stephane Richard speaking at an EU symposium on Net Neutrality in 2010 Photo courtesy of Olivier Ezratty Praise be to the iPhone The comments came in a speech in San Francisco last week that was attended by AllThingsD. In that presentation, Mr. Richard spoke on a variety of topics concerning the smartphone…