Malus Software released today Sambucus 2.0.1, the multi-tasks time-management application for the Macintosh. This new version fixes a bug that would crash the application when relocating the timer window accross multiple screens. It also tweaks the floating timer window to make it even smaller and give more control to the user over itis size and…
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MacsDesign Studio Releases Web Help Desk 5.5
MacsDesign Studio today released Web Help Desk 5.5, a powerful web application for technical support designed for education and small to medium sized business customers. Built with the industry’s most powerful and mature application server, WebObjects 5.1 from Apple Computer, Web Help Desk 5.5 offers an intuitive web interface and an excellent feature set for…
Microsoft Pledges Continued Support For Apple
In 1997, Apple and Microsoft signed an agreement: Apple would make Internet Explorer the default Web browser on all new Macs, and Microsoft would continue their support for Office and other key applications. Additionally, Apple would drop a long-standing patent lawsuit, and Microsoft would buy $150 million in Apple shares. That agreement is set to…
SmarterChild: AIM-bot With Answers
I f youire an instant messenger junkie, youill probably get a kick out of ActiveBuddy, Inc.is SmarterChild. SmarterChild is an iinteractive agenti – an interface to a search engine, weather reports, cinema times and more – that understands your plain English requests, and delivers them right there in your chat window. All you need to…
Will Microsoft Abandon The Mac Platform? No Way!
For one thing, the MBU makes money for Microsoft. It makes a lot of money for the company. Microsoft likes to make money, and Microsoft is perpetually on a quest to increase its revenues. The companyis shareholders like for Microsoft to make money, too. Those shareholders might well question a move from the company that…
Pomp And Economic Circumstance
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) ended the day at 10381.73, up 173.06 in a broad-based rally sparked by investor interest in highly cyclical stocks. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index closed at 1767.07, up 24.50 on the day. Softness in software stocks limited the Nasdaqis gains. Weive heard the reports from various government agencies, Bush…
Time Tracking App Release From Malus
Malus Software released today Sambucus 2.0.0, the multi-task time-management application for the Macintosh. This new version is a major rewrite of version 1, integrating many user requests. Sambucus is a time-tracking application that is flexible and easy to use. It is aimed at freelancers, small buisnesses or anyone else who might have the need to…
Apple Claims To "Lead The Industry" In DVD Burning
Apple has released a press release designed to get a bit of free PR concerning its DVD-R products. In a release titled "Apple Leads the Industry in DVD Burning," the company is announcing that it has shipped more than 500,000 SuperDrive equipped iMacs and PowerMacs. More importantly, the company has also shipped more than 2…
Apple & Panasonic Announce FireWire In Professional Tape Decks, Support For 24 FPS Mini-DV Camcorder
Apple and Panasonic have jointly announced two important announcements at NAB for the Mac platform as a DV editing platform. First up is built in FireWire in two of Panasonic’s professional tape decks, the DVCPRO50 and DVCPRO HD. Panasonic also announced the AG-DVX100 24P mini-DV camcorder, which the company is touting as the first mini-DV…
Big Blues
The markets were sent into a tail-spin this morning by a profit warning from IBM. It was the first profit warning from Big Blue in over a decade. The global computer giant announced that quarterly revenue would be down over $1 billion from previous forecasts to about $18.6 billion and net earnings would be off…
Apple Prunes 375 Jobs, 50 More To Go
There are fewer sales and support folks at Apple these days, according to a C/NET article, which states that Apple cut 375 of those positions in the quarter ending in December of 2001. The C/NET article, by Ian Fired, titled Apple pares a small number of jobs, says: The cuts, which are the latest in…
TMO Short Take: Ozzy Osbourne, I. T. Job Security & The ?Ease of Use? Myth
Since I been in show business and got some money, I bought a house. First house I ever had, and those [expletive delete] can kill ya. Everything be $500 when [repairmen and salesmen] come to your house: "What you want is $500." I said, "I ainit even told you what I…" "I donit give a…
IRC 101: What Is It & How Do I Use It?
So you’ve got friends who’ve invited you to chat with them in IRC, but what is IRC? Neglected by many after the advent of AOL’s Instant Messenger service and its spin-offs, IRC is a gigantic and diverse chat community where people with common interests can chat on any topic imaginable. Once you learn the basics,…
Apple Buys FireWire Developer Zayante, & What It Means [Corrected]
[Editor’s Note: We originally reported USB 2.0, 1394a, and 1394b throughput incorrectly, as pointed out by Observers "algr" and Matt in the comments below. The article has been corrected with the proper figures.] Apple has announced a new acquisition today, the purchase of Zayante. Zayante is the developer of low-level FireWire technologies, including controlling software…
High Tech: Low Volume
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 10,198.29, off about 1.1% on the day. The Nasdaq Composite dropped to 1,784.35 and the Nasdaq 100 Index fell to 1,394.21. Both Nasdaq indicators mirrored the Dowis 1.1% decline. The tech market continues to suffer from low investor interest and concerns that recovery in the technology sectors will…
Search Google Service Menu Item Now Available
A simple background service to allow you to select text in (nearly) any application and press “Shift-Apple-G” to launch a Google search for that text. This release is context aware. When you select text from Project Builder, a browser opens up searching developer.apple.com instead of Google. You can define your own contexts (application-grain) and choose…
On The Flip Side - Apple Should Not Change Its Advertising Approach
Apple Should Not Change Its Advertising Approach April 2nd, 2002 If you believe that Apple needs to conquer a part of the PC market to expand its share of the computer market, allow me to say this: forget about it. For several different reasons, this is highly improbable. There are people who criticize Apple’s advertising…
Need A Rush In QuickTime? Endorphin.com
Endorphin.com is a new site which features news and happenings in Californiais Monterey, Carmel, and Big Sur region. Whatis great about this site is the copious use of QuickTime video. We donit mean those dinky, grainy, washed out videos you sometimes see at other sites. No siree. Weire talking about big, gorgeous, colorful videos, with…
Note To Developers: Apple Posts Session Grids For WWDC
Join thousands of developers in San Jose May 6-10 at Appleis Worldwide Developers Conference where youill learn about the future of Mac OS X, Appleis new Unix-based operating system. Immerse yourself in Apple technologies during this information-packed, five day event. Discuss issues, share ideas, and solve problems with Apple engineers and your peers in a…
Maine iBook Purchase Signed Into Law, US$25 Million Program Puts iBooks Into Schools Across The Stat
King is predicting that in four years laptops will continue because it will be that successful. "Iim so confident that this will prove itself to be powerful and important that it will be very difficult to not fund it in the future." The annual cost of $7 million is cheap, he said, considering itis less…
TMO Short Take -- Do the Apple Stores Need Evangelists... or Salesmen?
Jones said, "I wanna get someplace. I like to get someplace good, be gainfully employ, make me a livin wage." "Just what I suspected," Ignatius said angrily. "In other words, you want to become totally bourgeois. You people have all been brainwashed. I imagine that youid like to become a success or something equally vile."…
Apple Asks For PC Users' Feedback
Apple has posted a brand new Web page on its site that asks for PC users’ feedback. Divided into two sections, one asking for comments from PC people looking to switch, and one asking for comments from PC people who have already made the switch, Apple is looking help in understanding how PC users think.…
The Coolest FireWire Hub Ever, The Godzilla Hub
"AAARRRGGGHHH!!!! Run, run! Itis Godzilla! The blue light ROCKS! The beast from above… This is where the cables go.
The Back Page - Analyzing The MW Tokyo Keynote From The Show Floor
Steve Jobs’ keynote for MACWORLD Tokyo was not without its usual controversy. The event was held yesterday in Tokyo’s Big Sight, a snazzy venue that is everything that many Westerner’s think of as being “Japanese.” It’s cool looking, and it seems “futuristic.” Too bad IDG Japan is disorganized, not computerized, and treats the press to…