Happy Halloween! Apple today released Mac OS X 10.4.3 Update which delivers overall improved reliability and compatibility for Mac OS X v10.4…
Month: October 2005
The Motley Fool: Apple has done it again – this time with video
It appears that Apple has done it again. It’s been less than 20 days since Apple launched video capability in iTunes…
Apple in discussions with U.S. television networks to provide more iTunes video content
Apple Computer Inc. on Monday said its iTunes online service has sold a million videos in under 20 days, sending shares up almost 5 percent…
Report: Extremely strong demand seen for Apple iPod, iPod nano, iPod shuffle units
With the holiday shopping season fast approaching, orders to Apple’s overseas manufacturing facilities show strong demand for all three members…
Rip your DVDs for playing on Apple’s new video-capable 5G iPod
What if you want to transfer content from a DVD you already own to the iPod?
What should Apple do about the Mac OS X Finder?
To some, Apple has had five chances to build a proper Mac OS X Finder and has failed each and every time. The Classic Mac Finder was a magnificent achievement…
Shares of Apple Computer up in early NASDAQ trading on report of one million iTunes videos sold
Shares of Apple Computer, Inc. hit $56.21, up $1.74 or 3.19% in early morning NASDAQ trading on volume of 6,358,566 shares following the announcement…
AP: Apple iPod video remarkably clear, iTunes Store needs more video content
With the debut of their new 5th generation iPod, Apple’s touting video as a feature, not the focus, which remains music…
Report: Steve Jobs would consider selling Pixar
At least one Wall Street research firm has suggested that an acquisition of Pixar by Disney makes sense…
Apple’s iTunes Music Store sells over one million videos in under 20 days
Apple today announced that iTunes Music Store customers have purchased and downloaded more than one million videos since…
The only legal way to get music into iPods in Australia is effectively Apple’s iTunes Music Store
Gift giving season is almost here, and it’s very likely that this festive season you or someone you know will receive an iPod…
2006 to herald first Macs capable of running both Mac OS X and Windows
Two worlds will collide in 2006, producing the first systems capable of running both Windows and Mac OS. (Maybe.) For years, computer users have sought a hybrid…
Samsung to launch ‘Apple iTunes Music Store killer’ soon
Samsung Electronics will branch out into the online music business, a field long been dominated by Apple of the U.S. Choi Ji-Sung, the head…
Can Apple’s iTunes Store resurrect old time TV?
Recently, I was invited by friends to attend the Friends of Old Time Radio Convention held last Friday at the Holiday Inn…
Real’s Glaser: Apple iPod+iTunes ‘will lose out because of the share of market forces against them’
To a multi-billionaire like Bill Gates, $761m (£428m) might not be a huge sum. But to Rob Glaser it is a windfall that could make his RealNetworks…
Microsoft threatens to boost South Korean productivity by withdrawing Windows
Microsoft Corp. has threatened to withdraw its Windows software from South Korea if the country’s antitrust agency orders it to unbundle…
The man behind Apple and Pixar: Steve Jobs
He’s chief executive of two of the most powerful technology brands in the world: Apple and Pixar…
Apple lowers special deal prices on select PowerBooks, offers special deals on iMac G5, iPod, more
The Apple Store currently lists products on sale with savings on select new and unopened Apple products. All sale-priced Apple products…
Sprint Nextel to launch ‘Sprint Music Store’ with $2.50 per song downloads directly to mobile phones
Sprint Nextel Corp. is poised for a full-scale launch of its high-speed wireless network, a service that will include the first over-the-air music download…
Glass cube assembly begins at site of Apple’s 25,000-square-foot 5th Avenue flagship store
Construction workers last week began to assemble a giant glass cube, which will be set like a jumbo gemstone atop Apple Computer’s…
Apple’s brilliant, deceptively simple Front Row software has a bright future and raises questions
I’ve been testing Apple’s Front Row software for a little over a week now. It’s a deceptively simple application. It works in its own environment…
Autobytel’s CarTV first to provide automotive video content for Apple 5G video-capable iPods
To meet the booming demand for video content to play on Apple 5G video-capable iPods that hit retailers’ shelves last week, Autobytel’s CarTV…
Keep or dump Apple iBooks? Henrico restarts laptop bidding on middle school computer contract
It’s back to the drawing board for Henrico County’s School Board, which voted last night to request proposals for a computer vendor…
Former Apple exec writes about life at Apple, offers it free online
Apple’s former director of product marketing (responsible for Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, iDVD and few others), Mike Evangelist is writing a book about his life at Apple…
Free AppleScript converts Quicktime Player’s frontmost movie into iPod-readable video
Ari Bader-Natal has created a free AppleScript which converts the frontmost movie in Quicktime Player into an iPod-readable video…
Thurrott: ‘I’m super impressed with Apple’s iPod video, looks great blasted out to large TV set’
I’ve been playing with a new iPod with video, the Apple Universal Dock, and the new Apple Remote for the past week…
Consumer Reports: Apple’s new iPod screens scratch-prone like iPod nanos
Just weeks after it introduced the incomparably tiny Nano, Apple has put its high-capacity players, too, on a crash diet…
PC Magazine: Apple Airport wireless routers receive this year’s highest overall rating score
Home networking routers connect to a broadband modem and provide a hardware firewall against outside hackers…
Has Apple’s Steve Jobs saved network television or simply helped hasten its death?
You see – there’s a secret in the television industry…
Why in Jobs’ name doesn’t Apple advertise the Macintosh?
What is more troubling than the businesses who want to sell a ton of merchandise during the holiday quarter are the businesses who seemingly…
Advice for parents: protecting against iPod porn
It’s not ‘dirty books’ that parents will be confiscating in the future, it’s an iPod Video packed with porn clips downloaded from the web…
Podner will reformat your movie collection for Apple iPod and iTunes
Wondering how to make the most of the new iPod – the one that plays movies and music videos?
Mac users need not apply (online for jobs at a number of large companies)
When it comes to some big-name companies, Macintosh users may have a tough time landing a job…
TV network presidents see no threat from Apple video iTunes+iPod
In the wake of Apple Computer Inc.’s unveiling of its new video iPod, the presidents of the six broadcast networks said Wednesday…
With recent PowerPC announcements, why the heck did Apple decide to switch to Intel?
There have been a few recent PowerPC announcements that have caused the Mac Faithful to wonder anew about The Switch…
PowerBoost: multi-party iChat AV video conferences possible from any G4-based Mac
Ecamm Network has released PowerBoost, a new shareware add-on for iChat AV 3 that makes multi-party conferences possible…
BusinessWeek: Apple iPod+iTunes video marks new era for digital media
Nearly everyone who has had a chance to use Apple’s newest, video-enabled iPod has fallen in love at first sight, myself included. Like the original…
TV Critic: Apple iPod video strikingly bright, crisp, very fluid; TV will have to reorient itself
When it comes to television screens, I confess to being a “size-matters” kind of guy who prefers living large. How large?
Enderle: ‘2006 should be a very powerful year for Apple’
We are anticipating that many of Apple’s laptop products will simply no longer have an optical drive of any kind but instead will have a multiple format…
Sony’s quarterly profit drops by nearly half
Sony Corp. said Thursday its profit in the latest quarter dropped by nearly half from a year ago, as electronics sales stayed flat, its movies…
iPod nano ‘scratches’ lawsuit really only benefits attorneys
The only real beneficiaries of a class action over scratched screens on Apple’s tiny music player may be the attorneys…
Apple releases Backup 3.0.1
Apple today released Backup 3.0.1 which addresses file restoration and other issues and is highly recommended…