Launching tomorrow for broadband users and later this summer for all AOL users, AOL 9.0 Optimized…
Month: July 2003
Best Buy confims addition of Apple products to selected stores
Best Buy Co. Inc., the No. 1 U.S. consumer electronics chain, said on Thursday…
Apple’s Safari browser use more than doubled since February
Web analytics research firm OneStat.com revealed this week global usage statistics for leading Web browsers…
Columnist: reason for Wintel crowd’s outcry against Power Mac G5 speed claim is fear
This whole brouhaha over the Veritest benchmarking stinks mightily. I smell a rat…
Is a Mac the right choice? Columnist provides checklist upon which to base decision
A lot of Windows users are out there wondering: Is it OK to switch to a Mac? Will I die? Take it from a guy who has gone back and forth…
NPD Group: Apple’s iTunes Music Store successfully translates brand awareness into usage
According to The NPD Group, there is strong consumer awareness for paid music download sites, but convincing consumers…
iWork updated; time-billing and invoicing integrated with iCal and Address Book
iWork is an easy to use time-billing and invoicing application. It integrates with iCal and Address Book…
Ticker 2.0 for Mac OS X released; freeware stock quote tracker
Ticker 2.0 downloads stock quotes and displays them in a list…
Freeware VLC for Mac OS X updated to 0.6.1; plays multimedia QuickTime might not
VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a freeware multimedia player for various audio and video formats…
Apple gives .Mac members another gift with free Marble Blast game
Apple is offering .Mac members a free version of GarageGames’ Marble Blast game…
Apple soon to debut wireless mouse and keyboard option
Apple’s peripheral team has been hard at work on yet another revision to the Apple Pro keyboard and mouse…
Mercury News: BuyMusic.com ‘like a ratty discount store with clueless salespeople’
BuyMusic.com, the new legal music download service, is somewhat like a ratty discount store with clueless salespeople…
Apple should consider selling movies with an online Apple iMovie Store
An Apple Movie Store could fulfill the same role for the film industry that the iTunes Store has for the record industry…
DontBuyMusic.com launched
The self proclaimed geniuses behind macteens.com are proud to announce their new flagship website, DontBuyMusic.com…
Audio Postcard for Mac OS X communicates via sight and sound over ‘Net
With Audio Postcard, you can create and send digital postcards over the Internet complete with embedded audio messages and customized titling and borders…
Apple to launch Best Buy ‘Store Within a Store’ pilot program next month
Apple Computer plans to start selling its Macintosh computers at certain Best Buy locations…
Things Apple should show in ads to sell more Macs
If Apple showed these things in advertising, and they can be shown rather quickly, easily within the constraints of a 30-second TV ad, I believe it would help sell more Macs to people who might not have even considered one…
Ars Technica debuts new ‘Mac.Ars’ column focusing on Apple and the Mac
Ars Technica, “the PC enthusiast’s resource” has debuted a new column focusing on Apple and the Macintosh called, “Mac.Ars.”
First independent artists hit Apple’s iTunes Music Store; Apple shoots for same usage rules for Wind
Peter Lowe, Director of Marketing for Applications and Services, Apple Computer, gave the afternoon Keynote presentation for the Jupiter Plug.IN Conference…
Apple adds ‘New Music Tuesdays’ tracks and exclusives to iTunes Music Store
Apple’s “New Music Tuesdays” continue to rock on weekly. Apple has announced new releases to the iTunes Music Store…
Apple’s iTunes Music Store will change the album concept; artists should embrace change
Apple’s iTunes is a tool of liberation. It gives them the freedom to pick and choose, and, in essence, make their own compilations…
ZDNet’s Coursey: Microsoft should start new OS from scratch to be more like Mac OS X
Microsoft said last week it plans to hire 4,000 to 5,000 new workers and to increase research spending by about 8 percent…
Flaw City: Microsoft Windows in security meltdown?
The last two months have been quite interesting in Windows-land. A quick perusal of PCWorld.com for the past two months…
Macs to return to Best Buy again?
The rumored shipping date for most of the Apple product to arrive at Best Buy stores is 8/3/03, but Macs have reportedly started showing up already…
PRI Director: Apple’s iTunes Music Store; BuyMusic.com ‘clunky and need to be tweaked’
There are finally a few music-industry endorsed services where users can legally buy online music…
MusicMatch launching ‘Apple iTunes-like’ a la carte download service
MusicMatch is the latest online service to throw itself into the music a la carte game. The online music service is launching a download version similar to…
Clone Mac OS X system disks with freeware HELIOS Xtar
HELIOS Xtar is a UNIX batch tool to backup/clone Mac OS X disks. Available as a free download from the HELIOS web site…
Share and sync Mac OS X Address Books via seeCard Rendezvous
seeCard Rendezvous is an application that shares and synchronizes complete Mac OS X address books…
Share information via virtual television channels with Aizai for Mac OS X
If you’ve got information you want to get out to family, friends, customers or the world at large and are looking for…
iMood Updater 1.5 for Mac OS X now available
iMood Updater is an OSX utility that will update your internet mood via the iMood API…
Glitch hits BuyMusic.com; some songs unplayable on digital portables
Last week Buy.com tried to take a bite out of Apple’s successful iTunes Music Store by rolling out a low-priced song-download service…
Comparing MP3 players; can any beat the Apple iPod?
Can any MP3 player beat the iPod? With its compact size, slick design and big storage capacity…
NY Post: BuyMusic.com ‘trying to set themselves up as the anti-Apple’ – virtually-identical ads may
Rocker Tommy Lee thinks his nude billboard in Times Square is going to make a bundle for BuyMusic.com…
Microsoft ponders iTunes Music Store-like service
Microsoft is… considering launching an online music service to rival Apple Computer’s iTunes…
1GB RAM module for 17-inch PowerBook G4 debuts
Trans Intl. has announced the availability of a 1GB DDR333 RAM memory module for the Powerbook G4 (1 GHz 17 inch model)…
Analyst: Napster 2.0 must match iTunes Music Store usage rules or risk damaging brand
Napster 2.0 will debut with a selection of about 500,000 tracks. The current song volume leaders, pressplay and BuyMusic.com…
Media parroting: ‘only 3% uses Macintosh’ – honest mistake or outright lie?
The most promising new service, Apple’s iTunes works only on Macintosh computers, which represent…
BuyMusic.com blocks Mac users
Thank you for visiting BuyMusic.com. In order to take full advantage of BuyMusic.com’s offerings you must be on a Windows Operating System…
Apple removes ‘Switch’ QuickTime commericals from website
Apple has removed all of the “Real People” (Switch) QuickTime commercials from Apple.com…
Houston Chronicle: ‘iTunes Music Store is the Rolls-Royce of online music, BuyMusic.com is a Yugo’
Since the day Apple introduced the iTunes Music Store, Windows users have had to live with the fact that…
Gates: ‘Longhorn is a bit scary’ and users may not like ‘innovative’ OS right away
Microsoft’s new Windows operating system Longhorn will be so different from its predecessors that users may not like it right away…
Microsoft getting trounced in biggest patent case ever; may have to pay billions to settle
Last month… Microsoft suffered utter defeat at a crucial pretrial hearing in what appears to be the highest-stakes patent litigation ever…
