2006 January

To most everyones surprise, the new Intel iMacs are not doing too well in sales. At least not as well as Apple had hoped. Why? Lots of speculation is floating around but after just releasing an update just before Christmas, it didn’t seem like the iMacs would be hard to keep on […]

According to the security expert Neal Archibald, OS X is insecure. He states that there are many old leaks which are solved for years in other operating systems. The only thing that’s keeping these leaks from popping up is the low market share. He says that, unless Apple is addressing these issues, the security future […]

I could not believe the rumors at first. I mean, Disney taking over Pixar? You’ve got to be kidding me! So when someone pointed me to the rumors at first, I was like: “Yeah right, this is not going to happen!”
But it seems I was mistaken, it happened and it happened for about 7 billion […]

Looks like all those Apple users teasing Windows users that Microsoft is the least secure operating system might find some egg on their face. “In my opinion, things could be a lot worse on Mac OS X than they currently are on other operating systems, regarding security vulnerabilities,” said Neil Archibald, senior […]

If you’re looking for another client to download those BitTorrent files you see all over those search sites based in the Baltic states, then you may want to get FireAnt. Made for both the Mac and Windows, you’ll be impressed with its ability to download via HTTP, BitTorrent, and streaming. With support for […]

Steve Jobs gave up a little, though some would say a lot, when he let Disney buy his baby, Pixar, Tuesday for a whopping $7.4 billion. He gave up complete control of one of the most successful computer animation studios in the world. That’s hard for a guy like Steve who likes to […]

I have become very fond of new sound utility I discovered last month called Sound Grinder. Sound Grinder 2.5.1 was developed by a company called Monkey-Tools. This handy little program started out as a simple audio conversion tool and has blossomed into much more.

Three years ago today, Apple starting shipping iLife, a collection of all the iApps (excluding iTunes) that where once offered for free. Added to the mix was GarageBand which was all new to the iApps list (and didn’t have an i in front of it.) With some stunning new features in iDVD and […]

It was sixteen years ago that Lisa was birthed. She was stunning. The first ever computer with a GUI (or graphical user interface for the older generation,) and two 5-1/4 inch floppy drives with one huge external 5 Meg hard drive. Humming with 1 MB of RAM and the Motorola 68000, blazing […]

In the US, Apple is king of brand names; around the rest of the world, however, it’s all Google. brandchannel.com is branding its 2005 poll and saying that the top known brands in the U.S. aren’t Coca Cola and Guess Jeans, nope, it ain’t 1985 anymore. This list has got Target (4), Starbucks […]

Today P.O.D.’s Testimony is out and I was about to buy it at iTunes Music Store. Then I saw the price. $13.99. Mmm, do I want to pay the same price for a DRM protected album as what I could get it for at Wal-Mart for, I thought. Sure, it comes with two videos, […]

Mouse BT from Chwang Yi is the answer for all you Mac mini and iMac users who long to use a two button mouse without a cord. While many RF mice exist, you’re hard pressed finding a Bluetooth version. It was our hopes to find the Mighty Mouse BT at Macworld this year; however, […]

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:
As we said in our earlier article, word was that Windows XP would not boot on an Intel Mac, due to the use of the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) instead of BIOS. That information hasn’t changed yet, but an enterprising person, who apparently fibbed a little and told his […]

Is it because Mac is going the way of Intel or is it because more manufacturers are realizing that there is a market for Mac products that we are starting to see more Mac stuff? Either way, I’m glad to see that now there is a USB phone that fully supports all hardware functions […]

When Apple showed off its new Intel based notebook at Macworld last week, many were surprised to find the lack of a Firewire 800 (1394b) port. Where was it? Since most of the Apple staff on site was seeing the MacBook Pro for the first time like everyone else, no one could be […]

Everyone has been giving praises to Apple for its amazing success on the iPod line. However, all this talk about Apple turning into a multimedia company may actually be a death wish for it. According to Forbes, Apple"s profit margins are declining, not fattening as one would expect. Why? While Apple […]

I don"t get it. Apple has done so well with its line of notebooks by bringing the latest in advancements to the portable world but even now with the new Intel PowerBook MacBook Pro, it is missing something. Something big. A docking station.
Why does it take the likes of OlympiaControls to make something nearly every […]

Apple’s stock price went up 12% last week. The keynote was a big boost for Apple’s stock and this had everything to do with the new hardware and software that was announced.
I had a great laugh about the e-mail Steve Jobs sent to his staff. This is what it said:
“Team, it turned out that […]

If you can remember the good "ol days of the Apple II then you"ll probably want to jump on this offer from podprix. Artist Tomi is putting on sale tonight at 6 PM (EST) a limited amount of brown T-shirts with the Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in Lego minifig form holding an actual 6502 CPU. […]

I just got a fancy new cellphone from Verizon, a Motorola RAZR V3c, and was darn frustrated to find that it wouldn’t work out of the box with Mac OS X, either via USB cable or bluetooth. Apparently, it’s just too new for the OS to know about. Blech. Meanwhile, though, I spent hours […]