I’m not sure if I’m witnessing a trend, but quite a few people I know have recently made the move from Windows PCs to Apple PCs…
Month: September 2003
Inventor of World Wide Web uses Apple PowerBook, Mac OS X, and Safari browser
During a lecture last night at the Royal Society in London, Tim Berners-Lee revealed that he invented the World Wide Web…
Apple posts standalone Mac OS X 10.2.8 Update online
Apple has posted the Mac OS X 10.2.8 Update to it’s servers as a standalone download (39MB) for users who prefer to use this method…
AMD launches Athlon 64; its first 64-bit chip for mainstream PCs
Advanced Micro Devices launches its next-generation processor for desktop computers today, its first 64-bit chip for mainstream PCs…
Dell preps its own ‘iPod’ hard drive portable music player
Dell is about to crank up the jukebox,” John G. Spooner reports for CNET News.com. “The PC maker…
U.S. District Judge orders Microsoft to pay Massachusetts $967K in attorney fees
The federal judge in the Microsoft Corp. antitrust trial ordered the software company Monday to pay Massachusetts…
Apple releases Mac OS X 10.2.8 Update
The 10.2.8 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the following applications…
NetNewsWire 1.05 released; get your online news more efficiently
Ranchero Software has announced the release of a new version of the award-winning NetNewsWire…
Virginia Tech racing to deploy Power Mac G5 supercomputer to make Top 500 list
Virginia Polytechnic and State University is racing to deploy its new supercomputer cluster based on Apple Computer…
Can you have the full Macintosh experience without .Mac?
Apple wants everyone with a Mac to have .Mac. So about a year ago, it made subscribing to its Macintosh-based suite of Internet services amazingly affordable…
Apple to open retail store in Seattle this Friday
Apple will hold a Public Grand Opening for their latest Apple Store on Friday, September 26 at 6:00 p.m. (PDT)…
CNET Senior Editor asks ‘will Microsoft ever get secure?’
If Microsoft really cared about securing the millions of Windows computers in the world, it would have enabled the firewall component in XP by default…
Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group to make music this Wednesday
The Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will be making music at their next meeting, Wednesday…
Internet Week: Sun’s McNealy should ‘buy a Mac or better yet, buy Apple’
Sun once again is trying to convince us that Java belongs on the desktop. At this week’s SunNetwork conference…
New York Times: Apple helping to change structure of music industry with iTunes Music Store
Though no one can predict precisely how the music industry will evolve, many experts agree that a change in industry structure seems inevitable…
The other half of ‘Wintel’ warns about Asian ‘anything but Microsoft’ plans
Asian attempts to create regional standards for computer and communications technologies are doomed to failure, according to Craig Barrett…
Why Macintosh is far better than most IT people now seem to realize
Macintosh “is far better than most people now seem to realize,” writes Paul Murphy for Ace’s Hardware…
Virginia Tech Power Mac G5 Supercomputer Cluster photos posted online
Virginia Tech Supercomputer Cluster composed of 1100 PowerMac G5’s photos have been posted to the Chaosmint.com website…
RUMOR: Mac OS X 10.2.8 Update released internally; public release expected soon
The Mac OS X 10.2.8 update was released internally late last week, sources confirmed. The Jaguar software update was posted to the Apple network…
Steve Jobs: Apple would like more market share, but making the ‘best personal computer’ is top goal
Of all the global companies making PCs today, just two make money. Few would be surprised that one of these is Dell…
Windows iPod owner laments buying incompatible music from Buymusic.com
Poor Debra Pickett. Pickett writes for The Chicago Sun-Times. She is experiencing what it’s like to have an iPod and a Windows personal computer…
Apple Expo 2003 Paris QuickTime video-on-demand and photo gallery posted
Apple CEO Steve Jobs delivered his opening keynote presentation on September 16th to an audience of almost 6,000…
Power Mac G5 Dual 2GHz vs. Dell Precision 650 Dual 3.2GHz Xeon
When Apple’s Steve Jobs introduced the Apple Power Mac G5 this summer as the fastest personal computer any company had built to date…
New ‘Swen worm’ masquerades as Windows Security Update; Macintosh unaffected
A new worm that tries to take advantage of Windows users anxious to get their hands on security updates began making the rounds on Thursday…
The Motley Fool: Steve Jobs right yet again; ‘This is clearly the year of the notebook’
With computer makers growing their laptop sales at significantly higher rates than their desktop siblings…
Time magazine: Apple’s iTunes Music Store ‘has left the others playing catch-up’
A gaggle of companies has struggled for years to create such a market, hampered first by uncooperative record labels…
Did Jonathan Ive ‘almost single-handedly’ save Apple?
Investor’s Business Daily takes a look at Apple’s design honcho, Jonathan Ive…
Steve Jobs the 78th richest American with $2.3 billion in Forbes ranking
In what has become an institution, Forbes magazine’s annual ranking of mega-rich Americans shows…
New York Times: Mac OS X ‘much more secure than Windows XP’
The New York Times’ David Pogue has recanted his recent propagation of the “security through obscurity” myth, writing today…
Apple VP: PowerBook G5 possible; will take some time to engineer
Jon Rubinstein, senior vice president of Hardware Engineering at Apple, spoke to Macworld UK about the Apple G5…
Tempe, Arizona School District ready to go with 1,400 new Apple eMacs
Apples aren’t just for teachers anymore. With two new Apple eMac computers installed in each classroom of the Tempe Elementary…
Wall Street Journal’s Mossberg on making the switch from Windows to Mac
The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg fields a question that we hope is becoming more and more common these days…
Why do Mac owners love their computers while Windows users barely tolerate theirs?
Okay, published estimates for computer use indicate most people use something other than Macs. ‘So,’ you ask, ‘why a Mac-centric column?
School switch to Windows from Mac produces error-filled St. Petersberg Times editorial
To those who have mastered their personal computing universe, few things are as unsettling as a desktop makeover…
Baltimore Sun columnist suggests adding Mac OS X to mix of government computers for safety
The headaches caused by two significant computer virus outbreaks this summer, the SoBig and Blaster worms, have forced technology gurus…
Steve Jobs comments on Apple vs. Apple trademark dispute
The legal wrangle between Apple Computer and Apple Corporation, which represents the Beatles’ interests, could end up in court, said Steve Jobs…
Investors take note: flush with cash, Apple poised to break out of niche
Apple’s new products and impressive sales results should capture the interest of investors…
SimpleGPS updated; displays info from GPS receivers on your Mac OS X computer
SimpleGPS is a small utility to display information produced by some GPS receivers. It is mainly designed to be a tool for viewing all kinds of information…
Carroll, Iowa seventh graders to receive Apple iBooks
Every seventh grade student and teacher in Carroll in western Iowa should have a laptop computer…
Pinellas County migration from Mac to PC faces derision
I totally endorse the decision of Howard Hinesley, the school chief in Pinellas County, to eliminate Apple computers…
Apple’s new PowerBooks expected to help accelerate mass market adoption of Bluetooth
CSR (Cambridge Silicon Radio), a market leader in Bluetooth silicon, today announced that Apple has selected CSR’s BlueCore chips…
Why no Apple two-button mouse?
Back on June 9th of this year, SteveJack wrote, “The time has come for Apple to ship a two-button scroll mouse standard.”