From MacPowerUser, iDraw is an illustration and animation program for that has many of the features of high-end design programs…
Month: February 2003
Be, Inc. files lawsuit against Microsoft; claims anticompetitive business practices
Be Incorporated announced today it has filed suit against Microsoft Corporation for the destruction of Be’s business resulting from the anticompetitive business practices of Microsoft…
Kiss Netscape goodbye; next release of Netscape could be the last
Net pioneer Netscape Communications may be headed for life support, or so says MozillaNews.org. If this is the case, it would be a very sad ending to the tortured history of the first browser to gain mass acceptance during the dawn of the Internet…
Microsoft proposes settlement that could threaten Apple in California schools
A proposed class-action legal settlement by Microsoft that could result in the donation of hundreds of millions of dollars of Microsoft software to needy schools throughout California…
Keynote cleaner and better organized than PowerPoint
Keynote is more streamlined than PowerPoint, but I didn’t notice many major features missing…
Control and schedule home appliances in Mac OS X
How would you like to control and schedule just about any simple home appliance right from your Mac running Mac OS X…
More 15.4-inch Aluminim PowerBook rumors
From what we have gathered on the grapevine, substantial supplies of the existing Titanium models still exist at retailers and even at the major distributors’ warehouses…
New PowerBook 15.4-inch rumored soon to debut
When Apple introduced the new 12″ and 17″ PowerBooks, they neglected the once-supreme 15″ middle model, save for minor price cuts. According to recent talk, that could change as early as next week…
Frosted snowman Screen Saver for Mac OS X
Celebrate winter with your own digital snowman…
Share and browse MP3 files over LAN and Internet
MP3 Sushi is a set of two applications: MP3 Sushi Server and MP3 Buddies…
Time Magazine profiles Apple industrial designer Ive
Given the buzz attached to his name in the hallowed halls of Apple, Jonathan Ive might be expected to be something of an egomaniac…
Seattle Times columnist finds ‘sweet spot’ in Mac product lineup
The sweetest spots in the current overlap of price, performance and utility are clearly the $999 eMac, the $999 iBook and the 17-inch, $1,799 iMac…
Gene Steinberg to present Apple’s Eric Jue on The Mac Night Owl LIVE tonight
Meet The Mac Night Owl, Gene Steinberg, Mac author and columnist. Get to know Gene, and discover his unique…
.Mac members reap new rewards
Apple has added two more .Mac rewards for .Mac subscribers…
Macs are quite often cheaper than comparably equipped Windows PCs
When you do a fair price comparison, Macs are not more expensive than comparably equipped Windows PCs. Quite often they are cheaper…
Play Game Boy Advance games on your Mac
BoycottAdvance/MacOS is a Game Boy Advance emulator for the Macintosh. It can run most of the existing Game Boy Advance software to some degree…
FinkCommander 0.5 now available
FinkCommander is a graphical user interface for the Fink software packaging system for Mac OS X. It provides an intuitive front-end to the Fink command-line tools…
Access hidden Mac OS X advanced settings with simple freeware app
Cocktail is free general purpose utility for Mac OS X 10.2 or later. The application simplifies the use of of advanced UNIX functions…
Render 2D and 3D Animations in Mac OS X with freeware PixelShox Studio
PixelShox Studio is a live-video creation tool built exclusively for Mac OS X. Contrary to other available programs of this type, is it built 100% for Mac OS X…
Apple posts Oni update; now runs natively in Mac OS X
In the year 2032, Big Brother is alive and well. The World Coalition Government has annexed 80% of all nations and tracks your every move…
Simulate Naval and Air warfare with Harpoon III
Harpoon III, from SpearSoft, accurately models and simulates Naval and Air Warfare. It models pretty much all aspects of Naval and Air combat…
Apple releases Mac OS X 10.2.4
Apple today has updated its Mac OS X operating system. The 10.2.4 update addresses issues related to reliability for built-in applications, services, and more…
Baltimore Sun: iLife devoid of ‘hassles and conflicts common to the PC world’
For the past couple of years, one of the best reasons for an average consumer to buy an Apple Macintosh over a Windows PC has been the included set of multimedia software…
Cut web search times in half with Seek
Seek takes the hassle out of web searches by bringing you directly to the results of your search in your web browser…
Now-famous Shuttle photo taken with small telescope controlled by 11-year-old Mac
The shadowy, closely-analyzed photo of space shuttle Columbia’s underside was not snapped with cutting-edge military equipment…
Apple posts updated Safari beta
Apple has updated Safari. The update is available via Software Update…
Top Ten surfin’ Safari keyboard and mouse shortcuts
Here are our top ten Safair keyboard and mouse shortcuts…
Surf smarter with NetNewsWire 1.0
Ranchero Software has released NetNewsWire 1.0…
Reuters calls Microsoft ‘biggest seller of Mac software’ – did they forget about Apple?
Microsoft… is the biggest seller of software for the Macintosh…
Intel shatters MHz Myth; to attempt ‘CPU speed isn’t everything’ campaign
Intel wants to take your mind off chip speeds — especially if you’re going to be in the market for a new laptop…
Smooth out Mac OS X; remove Aqua’s annoying stripes
Max Rudberg has done it again!
Safari pique: Microsoft halts work on Internet Explorer 6 for Mac
In the latest twist in the twenty five year long poker game between Apple and Microsoft…
CCIA urges European Union to force unbundling of MS products in Windows
An organisation that represents some of the world’s biggest tech firms is urging the EU to investigate the dominance of Microsoft’s Windows XP software…
Microsoft to upgrade Office for Macs; to offer access to Exchange support
The update will give Mac customers access to corporate calendar and contact information stored on a server running the software giant’s Exchange software…
Apple posts X11 for Mac OS X v0.2
New in X11 v0.2…
Dude, you’re getting a cell; Dell commercial actor arrested on pot possession charge
Benjamin Curtis, the 22-year old actor who portrays “Steven,” the Dell Dude, in those tiresome commercials…
Solitaire game for Classic and Mac OS X updated
Gaps is a “Montana” solitaire game in which all cards are dealt into 4 rows…
Macromedia Freehand MX debuts
New Version Adopts Streamlined User Interface, Increases Macromedia Flash MX Integration…
Apple Upgrades Xserve; Dual 1.33 GHz G4s and FireWire 800
Apple today upgraded its Xserve 1U rack servers to deliver incredible price performance through dual 1.33 GHz PowerPC G4 processors…
Apple introduces Xserve RAID Storage System; priced just over $4 per gigabyte
Apple today introduced Xserve RAID, the first 3U rack storage system with a massive 2.5TB storage capacity…
Washington Post says hardly any software bundled with 12-inch PowerBook G4
It’s possible to mistake Apple Computer’s new 12-inch PowerBook G4 for its own manual — the foam envelope that protects the laptop in the box is only a little longer…
Seatle Times tech writer: iPod ‘best of all portable players’
When Apple Computer released a Windows version of the iPod last year, I decided to try it, since so many Mac-loyal readers have raved about it…