WuffCam is the easy-to-handle software for your Webcam on Mac OS X. The simple user interface and fast installation makes using your Webcam…
Month: May 2003
Syracuse Post-Standard: Top 10 ways to find out Mac news; MacDailyNews at #10
No Mac is an island. Here are 10 ways to keep up on developments in the world of OS X and Apple…
Forrester Research Analyst: ‘Windows is good enough for most people’
Everybody steals from Apple Computer Inc. Or so the thinking goes in the Mac community…
Microsoft releases MSN for Mac OS X
Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit on Thursday will release MSN for Mac OS X…
PowerPC 970 (G5) processors rumored to be on the move
LoopRumors has “received word that two large shipments of Power PC 970 processors went…
Sydney Morning Herald: Apple’s eMac ‘a good value’ with a ‘massive array of free software’
High though the praise is for Apple’s skilful artistry and impeccable taste in industrial design, one is forced to concede that the eMac is not its most beautiful machine…
Apple to bring QuickTime to mobile devices; QuickTime 6.3 due soon
Apple Computer Inc. is reportedly preparing to extend the reach of its QuickTime multimedia software to mobile devices….
Motley Fool writer calls Jobs a ‘smug punk’ and worries about demise of music in album form
The Motley Fool’s Bob Bobala is concerned about Apple’s iTunes Music Store and thinks, “the whole thing could destroy what I like most about music…
Run an infinite number of Mac OS X Docks with DockFun! utility
DockFun! is a simple, smart utility which lets you have an infinite number configurations of your dock…
Download Wizard download manager replacement updated
Download Wizard, a small, simple replacement for your browser’s built-in download manager, has been updated…
Popular Mechanics proclaims Apple’s HD Cinema Display ‘King Of All Flat Screen Monitors’
The first thing you’ll notice about Apple Computer’s luscious HD Cinema 23-in. flat-panel display is its size…
Microsoft’s iLoo not a hoax; MS says iToilet was real project now killed
What’s true with the iLoo? Microsoft Corp. and its public relations firm have changed their story – again…
New customizable website for Mac News Junkies automatically gathers Mac news
If you are a Mac News Junkie, there’s no need to search multiple sites for the latest information about the Mac community…
iTunes Music Store sells over two million songs in first 16 days; over 4,300 songs added yesterday
Apple today announced that over two million songs have been purchased and downloaded from its revolutionary iTunes Music Store…
Knight Ridder reporter: iTunes Music Store offers ‘little actually new’ over competing services
I’ve just yanked myself out of the infamous Steve Jobs reality distortion field so I can try to give a rational evaluation of Apple Computer’s new iTunes Music Store…
Apple iTunes Music Store Eurpoean launch this autumn
Computer innovator Apple is reported to be in advanced talks with European record labels in a push to launch a version of its iTunes…
iTunes sharing explodes across the Internet
Apple Computer’s iTunes software has apparently opened up a new way for Macintosh owners to share music collections across the Internet…
Charismac’s Discribe adds drag and drop AAC support
Charismac Engineering has announced support for the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format…
iView Media Pro updated; supports over 120 file formats
iView MediaPro is an application for home-users, hobbyist, digital camera users and creative professionals alike…
Upcoming iSync version rumored to support .Mac-based ‘Safari Bookmark Sync’
Company documents say that iSync 1.1 will have support for more brands and models of wireless phones…
Does Apple’s market share really matter?
Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier’s Special Report for NewsFactor Network looks at Apple’s place in the personal computer…
Apple’s adds ‘New Music Tuesdays’ tracks to iTunes Music Store
Apple’s “New Music Tuesdays” roll on…
Wired: Apple defying economic principle; flourishing when it should be dead
J. Bradford DeLong’s article “So Much for Economic Principle,” in Wired Magazine’s June 2003 issue, has hit the newsstands…
Associated Press reporter fed up with Windows XP
The day before this was written, Windows XP whined in its lower right-hand dialogue bubble that critical updates were available…
TinyBooks v1.06 accounting/bookkeeping app for Mac OS X released
Ken Winograd and Space-Time Associates announced today the release of a new Macintosh accounting/bookkeeping program called TinyBooks…
Hewlett-Packard Inkjet Driver Project for Mac OS X updated
The Hewlett-Packard Inkjet Driver Project (HPIJS) is a printer driver for CUPS and Ghostscript…
Freeware iCalTimeZoneFixer corrects iCal timezone change issue
iCalTimeZoneFixer is a utility that prevents Apple?s iCal from changing the start and end times of calendar events…
Cintos – a cross between Othello and Risk – updated for Mac OS X
Cintos is a unique strategy board game with online play. The game is played on an 8×8 board, with 2 or 4 players…
Forbes.com: Apple ‘closer than previously thought to releasing’ G5?
Rumors are starting to build that Apple Computer is closer than previously thought to releasing a computer with a new chip produced by IBM…
Gates looks to make Wintel more Mac-like; wants to ‘help’ music labels via MSN
Bill Gates, in an interview with Associated Press, explained why he believes the software and hardware camps need to work even closer as computers become more integrated into our lives…
Audible.com audio service available to users of Apple’s new iPods
Audible, Inc. today announced that its industry leading spoken audio service, Audible.com, is now available to all users of Apple’s new ultra-portable iPod digital audio players…
Competitors (including Microsoft) line up to knock off Apple’s iTunes Music Store
Microsoft is glad to see the labels are providing more flexibility. They’re providing that to anybody, not just to Apple,’ Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said…
Apple’s PowerSchool wins second straight ‘Best K-16 Education Administration Solution’ award
PowerSchool, a division of Apple today announced that it has been named the winner of the 2003 Software and Information Industry Association’s (SIIA) Codie Award…
Switcher takes in-depth look at his first ‘iYear’ with Mac OS X
It was about a year ago that, after a decade or so of Windows on my client and Unix/Linux on my servers, I bought a TiBook and got into OS X…
AAC vs. MP3 at 96-192 kbps using AIFF as the reference point
Gunnar Van Vliet, self-described Mac user and music lover, wanted to know how good AAC was in comparison to MP3…
.Mac Learning Center sites adds ‘.Mac Presents’ online series
Apple has updated its .Mac Web site with a new section entitled, “.Mac Presents,” which offers…
How’s Apple’s new iTunes Music Store? Associated Press says ‘It Rocks!’
It’s too bad 97 percent of you will have to wait until the end of the year to check out Apple’s new iTunes Music Store…
How’s Apple’s new iTunes Music Store? Associated Press says ‘It Rocks!’
It’s too bad 97 percent of you will have to wait until the end of the year to check out Apple’s new iTunes Music Store…
Singer Jodi Light and Musician Mario Mendivil to discuss music on the Mac tonight
The Mac Night Owl LIVE will be broadcast online Friday, March 9, 2003 @ 8-10pm Central…
Evening Standard: iTunes Music Store ‘not available yet on ordinary personal computers’
It seems almost inevitable that Steve Jobs, the head of Apple Computer and the computer industry’s greatest showman…
Business 2.0: new iPods worth the price and provoke envy
I’ve written about my iPod envy before. What kept me from nabbing one upon launch was…
Smith Barney upgrades Apple to ‘in-line’ from ‘underperform’
Smith Barney upgraded Apple Computer