After months of speculation, Microsoft plans to give developers their first hard look at the next version of Windows in October…
Month: August 2003
Macromedia MX 2004 announced; due to ship in September
Macromedia has announced Studio MX 2004 which provides professional functionality for web development…
Apple patents for devices that dynamically change color may be disputed
Color Kinetics “doesn’t make LEDs, it does make software and control technology for programming light shows and mixing different colored LEDs,” reports Scott Kirsner…
Virus and worm problems not just due to market share; Windows inherently insecure vs. Mac OS X
Between the Blaster worm and the Sobig virus, it’s been a long two weeks for Windows users…
Forbes speculates on PowerBook, iMac updates; wireless Bluetooth keyboards and mice
Now that Apple Computer has officially started shipping some of its PowerMac G5 computers, attention is shifting to forthcoming updates…
Roger Ebert comments on Macintosh placement in feature films
In his most recent “Movie Answer Man” column for The Chicago Sun Times, Roger Ebert fields a question from…
Suburban Chicago students will receive over 1,700 new Apple iBooks
In Schaumburg Township Elementary District 54, students can expect to be more computer savvy this year…
EISA: iPod the ‘standard-bearer for the future of Internet music’
iPod has received the accolade of best Internet Audio Device in European Imaging and Sound Association’s…
Wall Street Journal’s Mossberg: Latest offerings from ‘Rio, Creative can’t beat iPod’
Ever since it was introduced in October 2001, Apple’s iPod digital music player has been the unquestioned leader in its field…
More schools experience Windows virus, worm problems while Macs just keep working
The ‘sobig’ virus, one of the most recent computer programs sent over e-mail with malicious intent…
PodUtil iPod file copy utility updated
PodUtil has been updated to version 1.1. PodUtil is a small utility that enables you to copy the contents…
Apple to hold ‘Focus on: iSync” live online session; features iSync product manager
Apple has invited .Mac members to a live online session. Apple’s email and web page state…
Apple closes up 3.19%; hits new 52 week high
Apple (AAPL) closed up $0.67, or 3.19%, today to set a new 52 week high
A tale of two school systems: Windows schools crippled while Mac schools unaffected
Bowling Green City Schools Technology Coordinator Lee Jordan thought the system
Apple gains in early trading; up 61 cents to $20.62; hits new 52 week high
Shares of Apple Computer are up 61 cents to $20.62 in NASDAQ trading…
Anonymous benefactor blesses Illinois school with Apple eMacs, iMacs
Sunny Hill School will bring a new meaning to student teaching this fall, when third- and fourth-grade students…
Backup your Mac to your DV or Digital8 camcorder
DV Backup lets you use your DV or Digital8 camcorder as a high capacity backup tape drive. Capacity is up to 10GB per hour of tape…
The one thing Microsoft’s providing now is leadership in viruses
A virus that debuted this week has been declared the fastest spreading e-mail plague of all time…
Ride a Tron Lightcycle with free Mac OS X ‘Armagetron’ game
In Armagetron, you ride a lightcycle around the game grid. You can only make sharp turns of 90 degrees and a wall constantly builds up after you. Think Tron…
Microsoft uses Linux to protect its own website
Microsoft has made a big deal out of asserting that Linux is not fit for the enterprise. But Microsoft itself is using Linux…
Ecommerce Times: Apple’s iTMS ‘a DRM watershed event’
Apple’s iTunes service does use DRM technology — for example, users may not e-mail downloaded music files…
Microsoft warns of three critical IE and Windows flaws; affect most Windows users
No, this is not a reposted article: Microsoft alerted PC users to three critical security flaws in Internet Explorer and Windows today…
Baltimore Sun: Macs users clearly have it much easier than Windows users when it comes to security
More than two years after its introduction, not a single Mac OS X-specific virus has yet appeared…
Jupiter Research predicts online music sales to hit $3.3 billion within five years
While Jupiter Research expects total music sales to remain flat over the next five years, the online portion of the market…
The Age: ‘everyone may want to move to Mac’ because Macs are ‘largely immune to viruses’
After covering the Office v.X for Mac relaunch, and noting, “any attempt to dump Mac as a platform would only add…
Apple launches ‘iPod-a-Day Giveaway’
Apple has launched its ‘iPod-a-Day Giveaway’ promotion…
Billboard poll finds 99 cents is ‘too much for just one song’
A single song download is too pricey at 99 cents, according to a Billboard.com poll. Of 9,034 voters, 61% said…
Quicken 2004 for Mac OS X and OS 9 debuts
Intuit has announced their personal financial information management application, Quicken 2004 for the Mac…
Customer Satisfaction study shows Apple just slightly behind Dell; Gateway falls
Customer satisfaction, which has ticked steadily upward for the past two years, remained constant last quarter…
Apple unveils world’s fastest personal computer in India
Apple “on Wednesday unveiled in New Delhi the world’s fastest personal computer — Power Mac G5…
3-2 FCC vote lets AOL add iChat AV-like abilities to AIM instant messenging service
The Federal Communications Commission will let AOL Time Warner Inc. add videoconferencing to its popular instant-messaging software…
Analyst estimates iPod ‘could account for 5% of Apple’s 2003 sales’
Three decades ago, Steve Jobs revolutionized the computer business. Now he wants Apple Computer to do the same with music…
Adobe releases Power Mac G5 Photoshop plug-in update
The “Adobe Photoshop 7.0.1 G5 Processor Plug-in update for Mac OS X” is designed to optimize Adobe Photoshop…
Who will lead Apple after Steve Jobs?
SteveJack thinks he knows who Jobs is grooming to be his successor. Is he right?
What happens when Steve Jobs dies?
I was going to call this article, “What happens when Steve Jobs retires?” or “Apple after Steve Jobs,” in deference to taste…
Apple adds ‘New Music Tuesdays’ tracks and exclusives to iTunes Music Store
Apple’s “New Music Tuesdays” continue to roll on weekly. Apple has announced new releases to the iTunes Music Store…
Apple iChat AV users might get many new videochat buddies; FCC to lift AOL video IM ban
In a move that paves the way for America Online to launch videoconferencing and other next-generation applications…
Analyst: ‘Apple will have problems filling’ G5 orders; demand ‘will not impact Apple’s market positi
Noting that demand for the latest Power Mac is strong, according to the company, IDC analyst Roger Kay told NewsFactor that Apple…
SoBig virus variant rapidly inflecting Windows machines; Macintosh unaffected
“Welcome to the summer of the worm,” writes Dennis Fisher for eWeek. “Hard on the heels of the Blaster worm outbreak…
Download driving directions to your iPod
PodQuest adds a menu to your menu bar which allows you to download driving directions, found using MapQuest…
ThumbsUp for Mac OS X thumbnail batch creation application updated
humbsUp is a simple, drag & drop based utility to create thumbnails for a bunch of pictures and supports all image formats…
Stream your iChat buddy icon as live video with iChat Streaming Icon
iChat Streaming Icon is a Cocoa application works together with iChat AV to change your static buddy icon…
