Month: June 2005

For many years there have been several operating systems to choose from, but the newest ones – those based on a Linux kernel…

Wacom Technology Corp. has posted a new driver for professional pen tablets running on Mac OS X v.10.2.6 & later…

BadFruit Inc. has released software that turns iTunes, the online music store run by Apple Computer Corp., into a podcast downloading…

Telecoms giant BT (British Telecom) is take on Apple for a share of the multi-billion pound music download market. It will launch a new service tomorrow…

Quanta Computer has been beaten out by Asustek Computer recently (Apple PowerBook, iBook, Xserve, and iMac manufacturer) on a 500,000 order…

Chris Jones, Microsoft corporate vice president of Windows core operating system program management, spoke with DigiTimes’ John McClure…

Apple says it will ship its first Intel-based Macs in mid 2006, with the transition finished by the end of 2007. It says it will continue…

More than 40 million credit card numbers belonging to U.S. consumers were accessed by a computer hacker and are at risk of being used…

Downloading has been uplifting Coldplay. The British pop band’s new album, ‘X&Y,’ topped the sales charts in the U.S. with nearly 740,000…

“Apple is trying to leverage the growing Podcasting phenomenon with the next version of its iTunes digital jukebox software and will ship the free software ahead of schedule as part of what sources are describing as a ‘high-profile’ technology launch,” Kasper Jade and Prince McLean report for AppleInsider. “…Although Apple has branched out into offering […]

Apple Computer’s Steve Jobs was the Bay Area’s most underpaid CEO in 2004, a dramatic turnaround from 2003…

Microsoft’s Windows operating system is old — about four years old, which is ancient in the computer world. So is the last major revision…

At least one analyst thinks that Apple is due for a day of reckoning with this strategy, especially now that it plans to move to x86 chips…

Apple won’t stand in the way of people who want to run Windows on its forthcoming Intel-processor Macs. But whether or not users will…

Rumors that Apple Computer have been quietly developing its own spreadsheet solution gained a dab of credibility this week as sources pointed…

For Apple, the question is how much longer will its Golden Age last? After being dismissed as a computer industry has-been, Apple is once more…

A business consultant says the market for ‘podcasting’ is underserved. While 40% of the Internet-delivered audio shows focus on…

The market for MP3 players is set to double between 2005 and 2009 amid strong demand from consumers and hundreds of vendors…

Apple has decided to make WebObjects available for free within its Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” developer tools…

For the first time, a PC player publicly welcomes the notion of selling machines loaded with Apple’s software…

Other World Computing (OWC) has announced another addition to its popular line of Mercury Elite external storage solutions – the Elite-AL Pro series…

So, Apple has released their dev kits for OS X on Intel hardware and I was lucky enough to be the recepient of one. I took a disk image…

Intel quietly introduced the Intel 5×1 series, which shifts the existing…

Apple Computer Inc.’s stock got a boost on Wednesday amid upbeat comments by a Morgan Stanley analyst, who said the computer…

Amnesty Widget Browser is a utility that allows Dashboard widgets to live directly on your Desktop via a convenient icon in your system menu bar…

Diehard Macintosh users have long mocked ‘Wintel’ computers with Microsoft’s Windows operating system and Intel innards as inferior…

Microsoft has quietly launched the beta program for its new illustration, paint and image-editing tool codenamed Acrylic. It is aimed…

Windows users are being urged to download the latest security updates from Microsoft to fix critical flaws. The software giant has warned…

Beginning this coming school year El Dorado High School’s freshmen and sophomores will be included in the school’s computer learning…

Ericsson, the Swedish telecommunications group, will on Wednesday announce a far-reaching alliance with Napster to offer the US group’s music downloads…

The online Apple Store has suddenly increased ship times for both Mac mini models from ‘Same day’ to ‘6-8 business days’, possibly…

A generic PC is often known as a Wintel box. So, is a generic Mac running Intel a Mactel? Of course that is a trick question. Apple doesn’t license out its OS…

The highlight of my week was my daughter, Shikari, graduating eighth grade and going into high school. She looked so beautiful in her pink dress…

The Google Maps Plugin enables you lookup your Apple Address Book addresses using Google Maps…

Widget Creator is freeware for beginning and advanced widget designers. It will help you to create widgets faster than ever…