Month: November 2002

KB Productions has released the freeware title “KGA Golf.” Fetaures include: one full-length 18 hole course and another 9-hole course, course and hole editor so you can create your own courses, variety of sounds and graphics to give you the feeling of golfing, the ability to save your round of golf and finish it later, […]

“Microsoft Corp. today kicks off a corporate brand campaign to convey its role in empowering people through technology to realize their potential. The print and TV effort, uses the copy line “Your Potential, Our Passion” to articulate the Microsoft proposition, which extends both to businesses and individuals. The campaign will roll out in the U.S. […]

As if the rest of the “Switchers” are switching under some extreme duress, InfoWorld columnist Tom Yager describes how he switched to Mac “by choice.” Whatever. Subtle bias aside, this is an interesting read. We guess Tom is still stunned, blinking in the bright light and hasn’t yet shed his misplaced anti-Mac attitude completely. Tom […]

“For those who care about which is the best operating system, it’s not Windows. It’s Unix. Apple’s latest operating system, OS X, has the face of the Mac and the mind of a Unix system. Unix is the platform of choice for serious applications: the ones that power most large websites and the internet in […]

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon and Desert Siege come together to turn your Macintosh into a pivotal wartime control center. In Ghost Recon, Russia has fallen to ultra-nationalistic leaders driven to rebuild the Iron Curtain. In Desert Siege, 60-year conflict boils over as Ethiopia invades its smaller neighbor Eritrea, threatening the world’s most vital shipping lanes […]

A simple, but hypnotic particle system screensaver exhibiting a variety of different drifting and swarming motions from Cloak $ Dagger, Ltd. The “pollen” particles are moved around by various forces and can also optionally gather to form a logo or image. It’s a freeware beta and it’s here.

“If you’re shopping for a new personal computer, don’t get caught in the cone of silence. The silence keeps many consumers from exercising a real choice when they are looking for a good home computer. Walk into a store that sells PCs and in nearly every case a cone of silence will descend. No one […]

Dean Kamen’s Segway Human Transporter has just gone on sale today at Amazon.com. One picture of the Segway’s control panel looks very familiar to us. Compare the venerable Mac OS logo to the Segway Human Transporter’s control panel and you make the call: Mac logo < - - - > Segway panel You can purchase […]

“…Microsoft is up 74% and Apple Computer is up 87%, according to data compiled by market-research firm Birinyi Associates in Westport, Conn. At the same time, a lot of the companies many investors assumed were stalwarts and havens — companies such as Coca-Cola, Gillette, General Motors, Ford, Caterpillar and Boeing — actually have lost value […]

“TechTV’s ScreenSavers offered a report from the show’s cohost, Leo Laporte, from Comdex that Mac users will likely find interesting. According to Mr. Laporte, a Mac user himself, AMD is expected to make a major announcement with Apple during AMD CEO Hector Luiz’s keynote presentation. That presentation is scheduled to begin at 9:00 AM, PST […]

Apple recently added job listings for an Apple Retail Store in Bellevue, WA. There are listings for Mac Specialists, Manager, Asst. Manager, and a Mac Genius. Bellevue is less than 9 miles from Redmond, the home of Microsoft Corporation, according to MapQuest. See the Apple job listings here.

“Macintosh is the single most common brand of instructional computer in schools today,” according to the report “Technology Purchasing Forecast 2002-2003, 8th edition,” released November 15, 2002, from Quality Education Data, Inc., a leading education market research and database firm. Apple’s Mac comprises 33% of the installed base in schools. The next closest competitor is […]

Utilizing the technique of HTTP pipelining, ChimeraBooster will turn the already fast Chimera into a surfing speed demon. This Script change Chimera

“Where’s Apple Computer’s answer to the Tablet PC? The Mac maker isn’t talking yet, but I predict it will have plenty to say about Microsoft’s new portable-computing initiative next year

A new version of iDisk Utility is available on the .Mac Downloads page. Apple recommends that active iDisk Utility users replace their current version. The iDisk Utility is designed to simplify the use of the Public folder on your iDisk as a password-protected drop box for sharing files. It works for subscribers of Apple’s .Mac […]

Regardless of whether you consider his acts of charity somehow tainted because they’re funded with ill-gotten gains from monopoly abuse…

An easy and safe way to customize the icons found in the toolbars of the Mac OS X Finder including folders and the trash can. With CandyBar, one can customize OS X toolbar icons, folders, trash and more with a “Drag & Drop” user interface. CandyBar 1.0.2 includes three exclusive icon sets. More information here.

Stock Watcher will automatically retrieve the latest quotes from the internet and display this information in a convenient format. It will also manage your portfolio of shares including calculation of gain or loss in your local currency. Stock Watcher is a product of Infinite Loop which is a small Danish software house specializing in tools […]

Apple today posted another new celebrity “Switch” commercial, this time featuring the popular music group De La Soul. In the ad, they describe creating their music with Macintosh, and end up saying of the Mac, “it’s a great brain, baby.” See it here.

Apple on Wednesday released an update to its backup utility for paid members of .Mac. Backup makes backing up copies of your important files simple. You can use Backup to back up files to your iDisk, or to recordable CD and DVD discs. Backup 1.2.1 is available for download from the .Mac downloads section after […]

Bares Bones Software’s BBEdit has hit version 7. It’s an HTML & text editor for the Macintosh, tuned for the specific needs of web authors and software developers. New in version 7: CVS support, configure multiple web sites, redesigned Sort Lines and Process Duplicate Lines plug-ins, Close Current Tag command, rectangular text selections and many […]

Solarwinds 10.0.1 is a Screen Effects module for Mac OS X. It’s quite an interesting particle effects saver. Tweak the settings a little and you’ll find that you can achieve an amazing number of different patterns. You can also connect the particles with lines for a very different effect. It’s free and info and download […]

Apple Iceland gets into the act and helps spread Apple’s ‘Switch’ message around the globe. See this new ad, in native Icelandic, here.

“Intel Corp. rolled out its fastest microprocessor Thursday with new technology to speed the performance of PCs and widen the gap with its nearest rival, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.,” so says CNN Money. The chips themselves are priced at $637, significantly higher than what have been Intel’s fastest chips up to now, the 2.8 gigahertz […]

“For those who are jumping from a Windows machine to a new Macintosh computer, the new Move2Mac kit from Detto Technologies can make transferring files quicker and easier than copying them all onto Zip disks or burning a stack of CD’s,” writes J.D. Biersdorfer today in the New York Times. A free registration is required […]

Apple has posted the latest celebrity ‘Switch’ ad online. The ad features cellist Yo Yo Ma who says, “Macs are friendly to people like me.” Ma tags the commercial with, “I’m Yo Yo Ma and I play the cello.” See it here. Yo Yo’s switch story is here.

“At a full gigahertz ahead of AMD, whose Athlon XP processor clocks in at 1.8 GHz, Intel’s line of processors appears to be the faster of the two. However, in test after test, the AMD Athlon chip consistently trumps Intel’s Pentiums. Motorola’s 1.25-GHz G4 chip also more than holds its own against the Pentium,” writes […]

Apple has released WebObjects 5.2, an update to its enterprise application for developing and deploying business applications on the Web. WebObjects gives users the ability to build or use standards-based web services without writing low-level SOAP, XML or WSDL. Tools enable code-free generation, configuration and testing of web services from existing data assets. These standards-based […]

PDFshrink reduces the size of PDF files by optimizing the resolution and compression method of images, removing unused elements such as metadata and thumbnails, eliminating duplicate images and compressing other parts of a PDF file. Two versions are available, PDFshrink and PDFshrink Lite. Both are fully compatible with Mac OS 10.1 and 10.2 (Jaguar) and […]

A Cocoa version of the popular strategy game “Ataxx” with online play and chat. Play yourself, the computer, or a friend online. Sports 15 board configurations and 4 switchable visual appearances. Create more if you’d like. Now with better AI and clickable links in chat. Aquataxx is a great way to let off steam, challenge […]

Use this program to stick multiple photos (located on your local drives or from the Internet) to your screen. Use as a fast image viewer, for webcam viewing, recording & replaying, to display slideshows, as a wallpaper-utility (e.g. view pictures of day/hour or periodically rotate through all images of a folder) or just as an […]

“Observers report that Apple has been serious enough about its ace in the hole to seed a few lucky civilians with prototype boxes

Apple has posted an update to its Mac OS X operating system, bringing the current version to 10.2.2. Apple says the update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the following: Address Book, iChat, IP Firewall, Print Center, Mail, Rendezvous, Sherlock and Windows file service discovery. The update also includes the updated services previously delivered […]

“Simply put, Apple and its CEO, Steve Jobs, are regaining the PC industry’s lead in innovation that they lost five years ago. In a bid to improve the Mac’s lowly 5% market share, Apple’s product developers are the ones pushing the envelope — and the competition, too,” writes Alex Salkever, Technology editor for BusinessWeek Online. […]

Charles Bermant writes an article that is undefinable for the Seattle Times entitled, “Apple ahead of pack in eliminating spam.” Mistakenly reporting that Mac OS X’s Mail app’s Junk Mail Filter is “part of the operating system,” and alternating statements like, “the strength of OS X’s spam-filtering ability is proprietary technology, something called ‘adaptive latent […]

Samsonite today launched the 625 Series Hardlite ICT business case with Bluetooth technology. This allows for communication and exchange of information with a Samsonite Hardlite business case. Now your briefcase can be used as a carrier of vital information such as flight information, connections, etc. The built-in anti-theft technology will also notify the owner if […]

Microsoft is readying code for the Mac version of .Net, according to MacWorld UK; MS has added OS X code support to its Common Language Infrastructure. The story notes that Shared Source CLI has the source code to run on Windows XP, Free BSD and OS X. Here is more.

Max Themes has released a revised version of his ‘Rhapsodized’ theme for Mac OS X. ‘Rhapsodized’ is Max’s take on making a modern platinum look for Mac OS X and now lets you choose among many new flavors. You’ll need Duality to use these themes. ‘Rhapsodized’ info and download links here. ‘Duality’ info and download […]

“The latest laptop upgrades from Apple feature excellent prices on the entry-level end, and they offer performance that is closer to Apple’s desktop line than ever before. Apple also gets a bonus for having an industry first (not rare for the company), a slot-loading SuperDrive in its high-end PowerBook G4, which clocks speeds at 1 […]