2006 March

Most won’t recognize the name Jonathan Ive but nearly every one will know his design: the iPod. Ive has a long, very long, list of credits to his name while at Apple for the past sixteen years which includes designing the original TiBook (Titanium PowerBook G4), iBook, the 22” Cinema Display, PowerMac G4 Tower, [...]

Yesterday we asked if the last twenty years at Apple were as good as the first ten years. Today we pull out something from those first ten years that seemed to be an instant hit from its announcement at Moscone Center in 1984 but later proved in lackluster sales that it really wasn’t what [...]

When Woz gave the world the Apple II along with the floppy drive to allow for DOS to boot the inexpensive master piece from Cupertino, California, it would set up a standard for the small company that many would hold it to for years to come. Major successes came after, like the Macintosh, but [...]

I’ve always loved the motion screen savers that have ran on both Windows and Mac desktops in the past years. While some are good enough to allow for the fee they request, I just can’t see paying money for such a screen saver most of the time. Thankfully, Hyperspace is one that doesn’t [...]

It’s old news that Apple Computers has had some legal trouble with Apple Corps (the famous record label started by the Beatles in the late ’60s) but once again, it’s news. Tomorrow, Jobs’ company takes on McCartney’s (and et al) company in a London court to try and convince the judge that iTunes really [...]

If you like using Apple’s free IM client, iChat, but wished you could use such features as tabs like the other clients (like SvenOnTech favorite Adium,) you now can. Chax is a free software application that adds such features as tabs, font customization, animated user icons, idle time in tool tips, Address Book nickname [...]

Looking to spice up your Macs folders? Need to know by eying which folder holds what? Looking for that Firefox folder but it’s just blending in with all the other blue icons? How ’bout that iTunes folder? Whelp, score some free icons from Apple and start customizing your folders like now! [...]

A colleague mailed me the following how-to. I thought that it was too good to keep this for myself. This how-to is for the people that have iMac G5s. This problem is very common and can appear “out of the blue.” The fans will start producing a big noise and it only stops once you [...]

SvenOnTech raised the question the other day if Apple would be introducing its media center Mac with a Viiv chip. The comments made us stop and think and ask another question, “Does Apple really need a media center?”
Our feelings on Microsoft’s Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) is that it’s cool and [...]

I thought that it was a good time to address a very old discussion about the benefits of sudo opposed to root access. After reading a good article on Slashdot about this, I got inspired to address it on my blog! If you absolutely don’t know what sudo or root is, this could be a [...]

It’s been wildly reported that April 1st will be the day that Apple makes a fool of all those other portable media players (PMP) out there with its release of the full-screen 3.5 inch LCD iPod video player. Search Google Images and you’ll get a good collection of the supposed player.
Now think [...]

The rumor is that Apple is patching, for the second time, the previous patch. This because the first previous patch contained flaws! This is nothing like we are used to with Apple…
But then again, even Apple employees can make mistakes.
In the latest patch (Security Update 2006-002 v1.1), the following issues where addressed:

apache_mod_php
CoreTypes, LaunchServices
Mail
rsync
Safari
These updates are [...]

I wrote this script because I just got irritated by the fact that, when I wanted to know the amount of disk space I had left on my Powerbook, I had to go through loads of clutter before I found the information I needed. So I wrote this very simple script and I was good [...]

That video we posted about the other day was the real deal and now you too can slap XP on your Intel-based Mac! And don’t worry, you can still boot into OS X since the boot loader will give you a choice of OS after turning on your Apple product.
There’s not much [...]

Ever wonder if that cool slot that sucks in your CD or DVD on you Mac (or car stereo) gets dirty? Think about it. Where does all the oil and dirt from your hand that gets transfered to your disc go when you slip it in into the slot? Good question and [...]

Apple goofed and released its first movie, High School Musical, for a mere $1.99 and then yanked it quicker than anyone could have watched the entire 1 hour and 39 movie off of the iTunes Music Store. Then it was back…for $9.99. It seems the original price was incorrect.
The question is, [...]

Hey, the DiVX guys have gone Universal and thus FrontRow will now play your collection of videos you may have amassed in the past few years. Reports on the forums is that all of the player is not Universal, so some Intel folks are stating a 30% increase of CPU consumption when compared to [...]

While I can not confirm if this is true, since both Safari and Firefox won’t display the video, it’s being reported that the hacker, Narf2006, that got XP to run on an Intel iMac has put up video showing the Mac boot into XP. Again, I can’t get this to work on my Mac [...]

Everyone’s been asking and John C. Dvork as even said it straight out, “Apple will run Windows,” soon. Well it looks like Microsoft is listening and is even eager to welcome Apple to its fold of OEM’s releasing the statement:

‘Just like all Microsoft’s OEM’s, Apple can build industry-standard hardware that’s compatible with Windows; Microsoft [...]

Saturday, we posted our take on the MacBook Pro and now have a readers take on the very same notebook we have come to love in just a short week. So, here’s what James thinks about his MacBook Pro.
I’ve had mine for about a week but then I ordered it on February 3(the release [...]