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I’m an Exchange 2007 user. It’s terrific, works great and is truly the standard by which others are judged when it comes to business email, calendaring, contacts and other key business productivity features.
Being both a Mac and a PC guy, I’ve been the tester, owner and user of a variety of different applications to interface [...]

I dropped into a Starbucks this afternoon, all prepared to get some emails written and to get some work done between my Sunday afternoon and evening commitments. Everything was fresh in my mind and ready to go via the keyboard and onto the screen. I fetched my grande two-pump sugar-free vanilla skinny latte and sat [...]

Not that you’d actually want to do it (or at least I don’t think I would), but you have to admit it’s pretty cool that you can now run Linux on the iPhone. It’s really basic so far, but no doubt it will get better and have more and more hardware/feature support. Maybe a dual-boot [...]

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Last month, an eWeek writer did a analysis on Average Selling Prices for Windows PCs vs. Macs. The conclusion should not shock anybody: Macs are more expensive, twice as expensive to be exact. So that begs two questions: (1) Why are they continuing to sell so well (overall market share aside) and (2) why do [...]

The 13″ MacBook Notebook Computer from Apple gives you all the power of a Macintosh computer in an easily portable and attractive form. The laptop is housed in a white polycarbonate shell that brings the signature Apple design aesthetic to the notebook. It is designed to meet the needs of video editors, graphics designers, educators, [...]

Macworld is the premier source for news, reviews, help and how-to, videos, and podcasts for the Apple market.
Macworld is the best guide for clear-cut information, resources, and advice to help Mac users buy, maintain, and enjoy their Mac, iPod, iPhone and other technology products. Business professionals look to Macworld for practical, accessible advice, and information [...]

Microsoft and Apple have announced that they are working together to make Exchange Server and the iPhone mobile phone work well together. Apple will license Exchange ActiveSync for use on the iPhone, which will in Turn help assure the Exchange Server dominance in the marketplace stays they way it is. It’s really as simple [...]

Ever since Apple’s hardware made the jump to Intel processors, there’s been an active community involvement in getting the Intel version of OS X to run on the standard personal computers that the majority of users have. Let’s face it, Apple’s hardware is nice and shiny, but despite the price drops, it’s still more expensive [...]

Run Windows, Linux, and more side-by-side with Mac OS X on any Intel-powered Mac, without rebooting. With Parallels’ award-winning virtualization technology, you can run Mac OS X and Windows at the same time. You can even drag-and-drop files between desktops!
Leading the way with our trademark innovation, Parallels Desktop 3.0 [20% off upgrade] [$10 off for [...]

Run Windows, Linux, and more side-by-side with Mac OS X on any Intel-powered Mac, without rebooting. With Parallels’ award-winning virtualization technology, you can run Mac OS X and Windows at the same time. You can even drag-and-drop files between desktops!
Leading the way with our trademark innovation, Parallels Desktop 3.0 comes packed with 50+ new features [...]

If you’re planning to give a new Mac to a loved one, or gift yourself, be sure to pick up Mac OS X Leopard: The Missing Manual. Just in time for the holidays, David’s timely new book offers honest, straightforward, and fun-to-read instructions on all things Leopard, detailing what’s hot, and what’s not.
“With the Mac’s [...]

No matter how much Mac experience you have, Mac OS X Leopard requires that you get reacquainted. There’s a new look, a Quick Look, something called Stacks, a Time Machine, Spaces, and more. So what do Mac aficionados need to get to know Leopard? A clear and concise resource illuminating how best to use and [...]

I’ve had my new MacBook Pro for several weeks now. As I planned to, I purchased Parallels and installed Windows XP Pro SP2 on it. Ironically, installing XP via Parallels was so much easier than installing it on a regular PC. A nice bonus was the fact that Parallels includes a feature that installs a [...]

To support the growing market of Apple Macintosh users, Ontrack Data Recovery has developed new Mac-specific recovery tools that allow Ontrack engineers to recover more data, offer improved reports, handle larger volume sizes, support more languages, and provide faster return of data to the customer.
“As Macs continue to grow in popularity, it is crucial that [...]

This is pretty impressive if you ask me! The Miramar High School bought about 3000 iBooks and installed them in three days! You can check out some pictures here.
At my work we can install ten computers in about ten minutes and I thought that was impressive! The system administrators at this school did a very [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 11, 2006 - Intel Corporation today announced new software development tools and resources through its Intel Software Network. These tools and resources will help Apple developers take advantage of Intel Core Duo processor technologies to maximize application performance on the new Intel-based Mac platforms.
The special beta versions of the Intel [...]

OK, as you have read above, I am having an issue with Linspire as of late. While it continues to work well for my mom’s bookstore, it does present me with some very specific limitations that really need to be resolved.

Oracle database implementers have long enjoyed a wide array of platforms, and not to be outdone, OS X is among the available options for Oracle 10g. An early adopter developer’s release has been posted on Oracle’s Web site for free download, alongside x86 64-bit Windows and x86 32-bit Solaris editions. [Furo]

I’m itching for Tiger (OS X 10.4) to arrive next year, but until then, I’ll have to settle for updates to 10.3.x. The most recent update brings Bluetooth compatibility fixes, audio tweaks, a couple of image format problem resolutions, and better support for NTFS-formatted volumes. As of this writing, the update is not available via [...]