AirPort Radar is a free and convenient Dashboard Widget for quickly scanning the area for AirPort and other wireless networks. It will work with…
Month: June 2005
Apple “Switch” ad director Errol Morris producing new Apple Computer TV ad campaign
Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris (“The Thin Blue Line”) has been interviewed by Noah Helpern for The Huffington Post. Morris reveals, “I’m doing…
Apple could use Trusted Platform Module chip to keep Mac OS X off non-Macs
Apple last week announced their intention switch from IBM’s Power PC architecture to Intel’s x86 models. The first Intel computers…
Computerworld’s ludicrous subtitle: ‘Mac users say they have no plans to switch – yet’ [UPDATED]
In a ridiculously subtitled article, “Apple’s Switch to Intel Tests the Mac Faithful – But users say they have no plans to switch — yet…
New York Public Library debuts audio book downloads incompatible with market-dominating Apple iPods
Kafka novels, the Bible, and hundreds of other audio books will be available for digital download at the New York Public Library’s Web site…
ExtremeTech picks ‘MacDailyNews Widget’ among ‘20 Favorite Mac OS X Tiger Dashboard Widgets’
Aside from its powerful Spotlight search feature, the biggest new tool in OS X Tiger is Dashboard, a collection of desktop tools and mini-browsers…
Enderle: ‘When to buy an Apple PC’
With Apple’s recent announcement that they will move to Intel technology in 2006/7, the most common question I hear is…
Newsfactor: Switch to Intel processors might ultimately have little impact on Apple’s market share
The what-if scenarios surrounding Apple’s decision to replace its current chip vendor IBM with the market-leading semiconductor…
Luxology announces ‘modo’ Universal Binary ready for Intel-based Macs; port took just 20 minutes
Luxology, LLC, the creators of modo, a leading subdivision surface and polygonal 3D modeling platform, today announced modo’s compatibility…
The OS Wars heat up: Apple paves way to release Mac OS X for off-the-shelf x86 hardware
Steve Jobs knows that Apple will never wrest away a significant chunk of Microsoft’s Windows market share as long as OS X remains…
Apple Computer is the fastest growing brand in the world
Apple, creator of the iPod, is the fastest growing brand in the world, with internet brands Google, Amazon, Yahoo! and eBay following…
Unreal Tournament now running on Intel-based Apple Mac
Good news from Ryan C. Gordon, the programmer who brought Unreal Tournament 2004 to the Macintosh. Gordon has reported…
Apple Computer attacks Microsoft Windows with two-page Mac OS X Tiger print ad in Time (with images)
Apple Computer has debuted a two page Mac OS X Tiger advertisement in the new issue of Time Magazine…
Endicia releases PictureItPostage for Mac
PictureItPostage integrates with iPhoto, giving you easy way to create postage from any photo on your Mac…
Weaker than expected Apple iPod shuffle sales may result in NAND flash price drops
Weaker than expected sales of Apple’s iPod Shuffle could force Samsung to flood the market with a large amount of NAND flash capacity…
Dvorak predicts Mac OS X for generic x86, Apple ‘Office’ suite, dawn of Mac viruses and spyware
John Dvorak has outlined the future in his latest column for PC Magazine. According to Dvorak’s crystal ball…
Report: Apple to release Mac OS X 10.4.2 Tiger this week
Apple Computer this month is expected to update its retail copies of Mac OS X 10.4 to included the first two maintenance releases…
Fortune: Apple iPod a true cultural and social phenomenon
It’s hard to recall any branded recreational product that ever carried the cultural oomph that the iPod now has. The Hula-Hoop was a fad…
For most Apple Mac users, choice of processor won’t matter
Macintosh users aren’t seeing Steve Jobs’ announcement that Apple is switching from IBM to Intel processors as a betrayal…
Can Intel jettison x86 Windows-forced backwards compatibility to make faster Apple Macs?
I can foresee a future where the best engineers at Intel move to the Apple project. Being able to start with a blank slate for x86…
Universal Binaries forever: Apple could use PowerPCs in Mac lineup at will
I am convinced that Jobs will do whatever he feels is in the best interest of Apple. And if, in the future, Jobs decides that Intel’s goals aren’t…
What happens when world’s No. 1 Apple brand is combined with No. 5 Intel brand?
One of the more interesting side stories to the alliance between Apple Computer and Intel is whose brand, if either, will get a boost from the…
Apple frees itself from IBM straitjacket with move to Intel; a surge of innovation could result
Apple Computer is taking a courageous and risky step in moving from IBM to Intel chips, but the gamble will pay huge dividends…
Apple CEO Steve Jobs tells graduates not to waste time in Stanford keynote speech
Apple CEO Steve Jobs gave a somber and intensely personal commencement speech at Stanford on Sunday,” Tanya Schevitz reports…
Nokia working with Apple Computer to develop new mobile Series 60 Web browser
Nokia announced today that it is using best-of-breed open source software as the basis of a new mobile browser for its world leading…
Video of Mac OS X 10.4.1 for Intel running on Dell laptop posted online
Video of Mac OS X 10.4.1 for Intel has been posted running on a run-of-the-mill Dell laptop…
Just what IS a Mac, anyway?
From a philosophical standpoint, just what IS a Mac? It isn’t the chip, which will be from Intel — and which in the past has been provided by Motorola or IBM anyway…
Apple may be prepping for attack on Microsoft in late 2006
‘It’s a sell-out,’ proclaimed one computer geek on an online forum. In any other business, changing component suppliers rarely registers with the customer, but Apple is no ordinary business…
Report: Apple Mac OS X 10.4.1 for Intel hits piracy sites
There is nothing at all that prevents the version of Mac OS X that runs on the developer transition machines from running on any PC…
NY Times: Apple hadn’t returned IBM phone calls for weeks, informed IBM of Intel deal on June 4
An Intel processor inside a Macintosh could put the vast library of Windows-based games and software programs within the reach of Mac users…
Michael Jackson suicide spam hides Windows virus; Macintosh unaffected
A Windows e-mail virus is trying to ensnare victims by claiming that Michael Jackson has attempted suicide, say computer security firms…
Is Apple setting up the ultimate “Switcher” campaign by preparing to let Mac OS X speak for itself?
Though the transition [to Intel processors in Macs] is likely to be rocky at first for Apple, programmers and customers, the move…
Can Apple grow faster with Intel-based Macs?
Right now, Apple is growing 40% year-over-year while using PowerPC-based hardware. While they may not win the GHz speed wars…
S&P Equity Research downgrades Real on Microsoft news; says Apple may explore subscription service
Standard & Poor’s Equity Research downgraded RealNetworks to ‘hold’ from ‘buy’ and lowered its target price to $6.50 from $8 after a news…
Report: four more international Apple Retail stores coming this year; two in Japan, two in UK
Several postings scattered throughout the Internet, including some on Apple’s own website, have revealed company plans to open…
Microsoft plans music subscription service, may allow conversion of Apple iTunes-purchased tracks
With Apple Computer’s dominance over the digital music business growing, Microsoft is planning to bolster its own online song store…
Poll shows nearly half of Macworld UK readers surveyed approve of Intel switch
Almost half of 1,300 Macworld readers voting in an online poll believe that Apple was right to switch to Intel chips. Those 43 percent…
Canadian woman files iPod battery lawsuit
Ines Lenzi loves listening to tunes on her sleek, stylish iPod. What she hates is when the batteries run out after only three hours of play…
Intel-based Macs running both Mac OS X and Windows will be good for Apple
Let’s face it, Windows-only users have no idea what they’re missing and most are not inclined to do a several hundred dollar “test” to see…
Twin Mac website debuts, dedicated to dual booting Intel-based Macs running Mac OS X and Windows
‘Twin Mac,’ a website devoted to helping make dual-boot work from day one on the new Intel-based Macs…
The Motley Fool: Expect Apple to ink a deal with AMD eventually
Legions wonder whether the [Apple-Intel] deal will reignite real competition with Microsoft’s Windows operating system. But Apple isn’t a software company…
The Register: Apple faces a sales chill that could cost billions
Letters Did Apple make an expensive mistake by announcing a switch to Intel, and a year-long wait for the first hardware?