2006 May

Stock holders are heartless, blood sucking, blind, droids! What do they care about people? Well, that’s at least what most think about those that own a little part in a publicly held company, but sometimes it’s really not that way. For the most part, Apple stock holders seem to let Apple steer […]

Forgotten failures, how fun to find them. The other day, I was browsing the web — I don’t even know how I tripped over this — and I stumble upon an Apple gaming console. “What! Apple had a gaming console?” I thought to myself in complete disbelief. “When?” I continued in […]

Call it funny, but this tech guy never really sat enough to learn how to play chess before. College was too busy with studding and, well, you know, stuff. Then work came into my life and more important things like Sony PlayStations. Okay, I never got one of those, either, but that […]

While we’ve already speculated about a 30th anniversary edition Mac before, one has to wonder with all this Mac name branding if TAM Part II (Thirtieth Anniversary Mac) is around the corner. Maybe it won’t be as far out as the original TAM but rather a special edition Mac Pro. You know, quad-core […]

In my early days of OS X, I used MacStumbler, a Mac version of netstumbler, to do some wardriving with. Slapping my PowerBook on the front seat and just driving was a blast as MacStumbler would literally announce Wi-Fi networks to me as I traveled down thick business districts. It helped me also […]

Now that Apple has filed for the trademark of “Mac Pro”, it’s pretty obvious that this will be the Intel replacement of the PowerMac G5. The PowerBook, iMac, and iBook replacements all were lavished with statistics of higher performance than of the older models but the question is, will this be true of the […]

If you’ve read your iTunes Music Store agreement well, you’ll remember that Apple is straight-up about what happens if your hard drive takes a dump. SOL (sorry out of luck :) ). But Lifehacker is reporting that there’s this dirty little secret that indeed you can re-download lost music. Lh couldn’t verify […]

Parallels released the first pre-release of its virtualization software. According to a good friend of mine, the installation is a breeze and it works seamlessly with OS X.
This software isn’t the same as Boot Camp. Boot Camp creates a dual boot system. With Parallels, you use the virtualization technique and you’re able to launch […]

Yesterday I attended a large meeting at Apple where they introduced the MacBook for their mayor accounts in the Netherlands.
Yes, I actually got my hands on a white MacBook. So after seeing this nice piece of hardware I could give a little review about my experience. This is purely based on the exterior of […]

Hey music fans, you’re in luck today. Sony’s rootkit lawsuit has completed and Sony is prepared to deliver to all its beloved customers some musical fun. The settlement requires that Sony distribute, “nonprotected replacement CD, free downloads of music from that CD and additional cash payments,” to name a few of the rewards. […]

Now that Apple has fixed its heat issue with SMC firmware update, the questions will be tested as to if the increased fan use will have any ill effect on battery life.
SvenOnTech fitted its MacBook Pro Rev. A unit with the update soon after its release and immediately noticed a cooler aluminum case […]

Apple has quietly released a firmware update for MacBook Pros (MBP) that fixes, well, who knows what it fixes. Apple ain’t telling. From the download page, all we learn is one line of information. “The SMC Firmware Update addresses boot issues with the MacBook Pro.” Boot up issues?
What we […]

I’m a VLC user and I’m pretty happy with this software, although I have MPlayer installed as my secondary video player.
I was very interested in an interview with the MPlayer developers. If you’re a regular MPlayer user, this is a great interview to read.

The Interview
The Software

Tags: vlc, mplayer, video player, interview mplayer

Okay, I know that Final Cut is awesome software. But the following movie blew me away! So sit back and enjoy!

You gotta love Apple for creating programs like this!
Did you know that “The Wild” and “X-Men” were created with Final Cut Studio?

Tags: video, audio, final cut studio, x-men, the wild

So Apple finally released the MacBook to everyones delight. Like the iBook it’s replacing, it keeps its sharp looks and small flawless design. But dude, black?
I get the iPod white and black color option, but wasn’t the entire Mac portable line suppose to be different than all those black PC notebooks? […]

Yes, today is the day! Apple announced the MacBook! And like we expected, it released the MacBook in black and white. Now that we know the available colors, we want to know the specs and pricing of these machines! So here we go!

I don’t have the opportunity (read money) to get myself an Intel Mac. Luckily, Chuck, one of my readers, emailed me about his experience with Boot Camp. I thought it was a great tip. For obvious reasons I did not test this, but these tips might possibly save you lot of money and some […]

First we had the new ads where Apple explicitly said that viruses and worms are not an issue when you use OS X.
Today I got pointed to an article where Apple makes some firm statements regarding the security within OS X.
This is remarkable because Apple never talked about security before. This could have […]

I told my wife this weekend that as an IT professional, I knew that I should dust my Windows XP install every six months and start over due to something termed “bit rot“. But as an IT professional, I was also lazy to do it on my own system because even with my back […]

Ever since I got my MacBook Pro, I’ve been dying to play content that I’ve recorded off of BeyondTV on my PC. Thing is, Front Row will only play the MPEG4 format natively. If you want to play BeyondTV’s files, MPEG2, you have to purchase QuickTime Pro for $30 and then purchase the […]