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Month: July 2003

Cracking Mac OS X passwords 4,096 times harder than cracking Windows passwords

Thursday, July 24, 2003 1:42 pm7 Comments

Yesterday we featured an article about a way to speed the cracking of alphanumeric Windows passwords…

Apple advertising not working?  How about holding an ad contest worth millions to the winner?

Thursday, July 24, 2003 10:12 am9 Comments

Apple’s commercials don’t suck, they just suck at selling Macs to non-Mac users. Apple should let its Mac users, especially its Mac users who used to use Windows, create Apple’s ads…

Apple advertising not working?  How about holding an ad contest worth millions to the winner?

Thursday, July 24, 2003 10:12 amNo Comments

Apple’s commercials don’t suck, they just suck at selling Macs to non-Mac users. Apple should let its Mac users, especially its Mac users who used to use Windows, create Apple’s ads…

Microsoft warns of more critical Windows flaws; DirectX bugs could allow attacker to take over your

Thursday, July 24, 2003 8:45 am3 Comments

Two security bugs in Windows’ DirectX could allow an attacker to gain control over computers running it…

Apple Security Update 2003-07-23 released

Thursday, July 24, 2003 8:41 amNo Comments

pple’s Security Update 2003-07-23 for both Mac OS X 10.2.6 Client & Server…

Intel not ‘rattled’ over formidable speed of Apple’s 64-bit Power Mac G5

Thursday, July 24, 2003 8:24 am36 Comments

Apple’s new Power Mac G5 achieves all these personal computer firsts…

Mercury News: ‘adequate’ Nomad should ‘triumph’ over iPod; depends on your definition of ‘triumph’

Thursday, July 24, 2003 7:53 am11 Comments

Products that are adequate and inexpensive often triumph over products that are better and cost more…

Apple’s diversification could lead to greater Macintosh market share

Wednesday, July 23, 2003 10:00 pm7 Comments

Over the past few years, Apple Computer Inc. has flummoxed its critics and thrilled its user base by venturing into new territory…

Windows passwords cracked in under 14 seconds

Wednesday, July 23, 2003 9:50 pm10 Comments

Swiss researchers released a paper on Tuesday outlining a way to speed the cracking of alphanumeric Windows passwords…

‘The Official G5 Interview’ posted online by IT Enquirer

Wednesday, July 23, 2003 8:06 am3 Comments

IT Enquirer has an interesting interview, “The Official G5 Interview,” with Apple’s Tom Boger…

Mac OS X 10.3 Panther’s Mail.app 1.3 able to read Outlook meeting requests?

Wednesday, July 23, 2003 7:54 am14 Comments

We haven’t heard anyone else mention this, but Mail.app v1.3 (coming with Mac OS X 10.3 Panther) is reportedly able to read Outlook/Exchange…

Konfabulator 1.5 released; includes new JavaScript engine

Wednesday, July 23, 2003 7:40 amNo Comments

Konfabulator 1.5 is update to the system utility for Mac OS X. Widgets can now support drag and drop…

Willow Design announces portable Mac Lab Case Series

Wednesday, July 23, 2003 7:37 am1 Comment

Willow Design has announced a set of cases to fit multiple Titaniums, 14″ iBooks, and Clamshell iBooks to make setting up portable Macintosh curriculum labs easier…

Apple adds ‘New Music Tuesdays’ tracks to iTunes Music Store including exclusive digital track from

Tuesday, July 22, 2003 8:54 pm4 Comments

Apple’s “New Music Tuesdays” continue to rock on weekly. (How soon BuyMusic.com institutes “New Music Wednesdays” is anybody’s guess)…

BuyMusic.com’s inconsistent licenses non-transferable; machine specific

Tuesday, July 22, 2003 1:31 pm14 Comments

Buymusic.com opened its virtual doors this week, selling music online for ’79 cents’ (and up) per song, and $7.95 (and up) per album…

CNBC’s ‘Power Lunch’ to feature BuyMusic.com founder and Tommy Lee at noon EDT

Tuesday, July 22, 2003 10:45 am7 Comments

CNBC’s ‘Power Lunch’ will feature an interview with BuyMusic.com founder…

BuyMusic.com TV commericals blatant copies of Apple’s iTunes Music Store ads

Tuesday, July 22, 2003 9:07 am40 Comments

Featuring black text on a white background, BuyMusic.com’s TV ads read, “Music Downloads For the Rest of Us” and featuring…

Freeware ‘The 20th Century Voyage’ screen saver shows events of 20th century

Tuesday, July 22, 2003 8:55 am1 Comment

The 20th Century Voyage is a screen saver that shows events of 20th century

BuyMusic.com not compatible with Apple iPod; founder expects to sell 1 million songs per day

Tuesday, July 22, 2003 8:10 am31 Comments

In the computer industry, a month is a huge amount of time, and we’re going to take advantage of it…

BuyMusic.com launches; founder says Steve Jobs ‘a visionary, but he’s on the wrong platform’

Tuesday, July 22, 2003 7:53 am43 Comments

A new Internet music download site for PCs debuting Tuesday boasts the cheapest per-song rates yet but many of the same restrictions on copying…

Agence France Presse reports Jackson statement verbatim except for ‘Apple’ reference

Monday, July 21, 2003 7:26 pm20 Comments

Pop superstar Michael Jackson on Monday hit out at a proposed new US law that would make the musical piracy on the Internet punishable by a possible jail sentence.

AlwaysOn names Apple iTunes Music Store ‘Top Innovation of the Year’

Monday, July 21, 2003 4:14 pm3 Comments

AlwaysOn named Google the Company of the Year and the Consumer Technology Company of the Year at its AO2003 Innovation Summit at Stanford University last week…

Michael Jackson says ‘beat it’ to House copyright legislation; calls Apple’s iTunes Music Store bett

Monday, July 21, 2003 3:48 pm29 Comments

Michael Jackson expressed concern over the “Authors, Consumer and Computer Owners Protection and Security Act of 2003…

Department of Homeland Security chose Microsoft due to time and money limitations

Monday, July 21, 2003 12:38 pm18 Comments

The fact that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security awarded Microsoft Corp. a $90 million enterprise software deal two days after Bill Gates met with DHS Secretary Tom Ridge…

RUMOR: G4 PowerBook updates due soon; PowerBook G5 ‘beginning of 2004’

Monday, July 21, 2003 10:23 am16 Comments

Some new information about future Apple portables has appeared, “from a very reliable source,” according to MacBidouille…

Yet another call for a ‘Pentium Mac’

Monday, July 21, 2003 7:49 am20 Comments

It’s time for me to explain, once again, why I think it’d be a good idea to put Mac OS X on Intel processors…

Apple’s second quarter 2003 market share rises; diversification into music promising

Sunday, July 20, 2003 10:02 pm15 Comments

Apple Computer boosted its worldwide market share from 2.0 percent in the first quarter of 2003 to 2.3 percent in the second quarter…

Competitors line up to knock off Apple’s iTunes Music Store; analysts say ‘iTMS for Windows’ by Than

Sunday, July 20, 2003 3:34 pm5 Comments

Spurred by the runaway success of iTunes, Apple Computer Inc.’s online music store, competitors are readying their own music download services in a surge of activity…

Time Magazine: iChat AV and iSight more examples of Apple’s ‘better execution and design’

Saturday, July 19, 2003 11:07 pm2 Comments

Apple’s mission of late has been to take popular concepts and apply better execution and design. Not only is the iPod a better music player, but its software, iTunes, is a seamless interface for managing songs. The same is true for iSight and iChat…

New York Times: iTunes Music Store ‘working against the survival of the album’

Saturday, July 19, 2003 9:20 pm18 Comments

The pop album made its way through the 20th century by staying adaptable, transforming itself from analog grooves to digital bits…

Apple posts ‘Pods Unite’ VW/Apple commercial and info

Friday, July 18, 2003 12:12 pm7 Comments

Apple has made the televsion ad for the new “Pods Unite” promotion available on their site…

Apple’s iTunes Music Store in position to capture major part of US music download market

Friday, July 18, 2003 7:59 amNo Comments

Apple’s iTunes Music Store could capture 20 per cent of the US paid-music download market, claims Needham’s analyst Charles Wolf in a report this week…

Apple’s ‘Switch’ ads failure; no increase in Macintosh market share seen

Friday, July 18, 2003 7:17 am30 Comments

It has been a year, and the masses aren’t switching to Macs. Last summer, Apple Computer began airing the TV commercials that were supposed to chip away at Microsoft’s empire…

Miglia offers new FireWire Raid units in 100% aluminum to match Power Mac G5

Thursday, July 17, 2003 10:15 pm1 Comment

Miglia Technology has released 240GB, 400GB and 500GB versions of its FireWire Raid units. The units are dual bay external FireWire…

64-bit Power Mac G5 the world’s fastest personal computer

Thursday, July 17, 2003 9:53 pm9 Comments

Based on IBM

eBay names new board member; Fred Anderson of Apple Computer joins board

Thursday, July 17, 2003 8:59 pm1 Comment

eBay, the “world’s online marketplace,” today announced the appointment of Fred D. Anderson to its board of directors…

Enhance iChat AV to allow videoconferencing with USB cams; older G3 Macs

Thursday, July 17, 2003 7:24 pm1 Comment

The iChatUSBCam Application Enhancer module fixes iChat AV so that most QuickTime video sources work for video conferencing…

Apple’s newest Retail Store to open July 26th in Burlingame, CA

Thursday, July 17, 2003 4:31 pm1 Comment

Apple announced earlier today that it will open its newest retail store in Burlingame, CA, on Saturday, July 26 at 10am PST…

Apple closes up 5.18%; hits new 52 week high

Thursday, July 17, 2003 4:19 pmNo Comments

Apple (AAPL) closed up $1.03, or 5.18%, today to set a new 52 week high at $20.90 on the heels of a better-than-expected earnings report…

Apple’s iChat AV to come in a Windows version before long?

Thursday, July 17, 2003 4:14 pm13 Comments

Last month Apple introduced the first practical software for online video chats. With a fairly inexpensive camera-microphone unit…

Buy.com to name online music store ‘iMusic’ to take on Apple’s iTunes Music Store

Thursday, July 17, 2003 3:58 pm4 Comments

Online retail heavyweight Buy.com on Wednesday confirmed plans to launch a paid download digital music service to piggyback on the success of Apple’s iTunes…

The Motley Fool: Jobs has ‘Apple moving in the right direction’

Thursday, July 17, 2003 3:44 pm2 Comments

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