2006 April

If you’re like me, you’ve been using VLC for most of your video needs on the Mac since it’s free and will transcode so much more than QuickTime Pro will. But the VLC team hasn’t got a hold of a MacIntel yet to integrate the Apple Remote into successfully. (The latest version has […]

What does Apple’s recent canning of the bulk of the Aperture team mean for the photo editing software? After a slew of bugs, none like before at Apple for quite some time, and a price break on its latest release, some say that Aperture could be done and never see a 2.0 version. […]

After we kicked over the burning trash can about Leopard running Windows code natively, many spread the fire stating it was the end of OS X. Yesterday SvenOnTech played devils advocate and agreed that like OS/2, OS X was going to die. One of the examples was that no software maker would waste […]

SvenOnTech has posted a handful of articles about Apple and its embracing of Windows which has brought the furry of comments. Some agree that it’s a good idea while others toot the OS/2 death horn. Today, we lean to the right and say, yup, it’s entirely possible that the end of OS X […]

A while ago there was a great interview posted in the Seattle Times with Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak.
During the 30th birthday of Apple, there were a lot of interviews with Steve Wozniak. I think that I read and listened to most of them. What I like about this guy is that he only loved one […]

Let the debate once again begin as well known writer Robert X. Cringely is saying that Leopard is going to straight up run Windows applications like OS/2 used to!
Cringely goes out on a ledge and writes:
I believe that Apple will offer Windows Vista as an option for those big customers who demand it, but I […]

I have a close friend that use to work at Microsoft. He told me once about its testing lab and how it was filled floor to ceiling with PCs that were used for testing. I can’t remember the exact number of boxes he said they had, but it was well over a couple […]

Glory of glories, LogMeIn now works on the MacBook Pro (and most likely other Intel-based Macs, though not tested by us)! With the latest version of Java, Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 Release 4 (download), you can now finally log into Windows machines remotely via your Firefox web browser. In fact, it […]

Apple has released a revision to its photography software aimed at professionals with Aperture 1.1. Don’t let the point one version fool you as Apple claims this to be, “a significant update to the revolutionary all-in-one post production tool for photographers.” With newly improved RAW image rendering, a complaint from 1.0 […]

Apple has done what most companies never do, released a product before its projected announce date. With Intel-driven iMacs, Mac minis, and MacBook Pros in many homes and businesses months before the announced date of June of this year, there are a lot of happy campers.
But Camp Mac isn’t all happy as […]

Hey, if you’re too scared to download Boot Camp and install it yourself to get Windows XP up and running on your beautiful Apple hardware, then worry not, ExperCom well sell you one with it already on! For only $30 more than what Apple charges for the 15.4″, 1.83GHz, 512M RAM, and 80GB […]

“Steve Jobs and management is an oxymoron,” is what one Apple executive once said about Steve Jobs only a year after his very successful release of the Macintosh. Over stepping his authority and sticking his nose into areas and projects that he had no right to be involved in caused some tension […]

Mac users were hit with a virus last February called Leap.A, aka Oompa Loompa, that was accompanied with some fan fare. Even though Apple claimed it wasn’t a virus, it still released a patch to insure other smart kiddies didn’t ride the iChat vulnerability further. Truth was, it was a bit virus, a […]

Maybe it’s a bit late to cover this news because, if you where not living underneath a rock for the last couple of days, you probably know about the new feature Apple released last week called Bootcamp.
Boot camp makes it possible to dual boot your Intel Mac. So you would be able to run […]

In hopes of that the Mac Intel version of Firefox 1.5.0.2 would tap better into LogMeIn, SvenOnTech gave it a good college try today.
Logging into our account has never been an issue, only when we click on that “Remote Control” link is when all hell breaks loose. Well, when we clicked on […]

If you’re looking to protect that investment of your life in that MacBook Pro of yours, then all one has to do is simply download a simple piece of software. iAlertU will beep like a car alarm when you press the Play/Pause button of your Apple supplied remote. The beep informs you audibly […]

So now that Macworld UK is reporting that Apple Records boss Neil Aspinall is not only stating that the entire Beatles catalog is coming to iTunes but is being remastered to sound “brighter”, one has to ask, what was the law suit about? It seems that Aspinall made some comments during the trial that […]

Leo Laporte’s This Week in Tech (TWiT) is a great podcast that I’ve been listening to since day one. Leo has had Steve Wozniak on the show many times and for Episode 48, he brings employee number 1 along with some other single digit Apple employees to talk about Apple’s beginning years.
You’ll hear […]

What OpenOSX couldn’t do Parallels Workstation did. For months I’ve been wrestling with getting WinTel 2.x to work on my MacBook Pro and have never been able to, even though it’s got Intel inside. Oddly enough, I did get it working on the Mac mini running a PowerPC here in the SvenOnTech labs […]

SvenOnTech has posted about the details of Windows support in the next version of OS X, code named Leopard, and now with the release of Boot Camp, many are fearing this could be the end of OS X as we know it. The thought is if Apple builds in support for its rivals operating […]