Sven LL Rafferty

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 (3), [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

If you’re a die-hard Apple fan or just a curious one of its history, then there’s a new podcast for you. This Day in Apple History is being launched by Apple Matters and will focus on past events such as product releases and birthdays of such people like Steve Jobs.
“Apple is a fascinating company [...]

Microsoft will be releasing its popular curvy keyboard for the Mac later this year. Due sometime by summer, Microsoft will give Mac users a keyboard with a dedicated key that only the Mac understands. But that key won"t have the commonly found apple on it as Microsoft could not get proper authorization for [...]

Sun Microsystems cofounder Bill Joy shined some sunlight on the fact that Apple in fact was considering Sun’s CPU during the time it was courting IBM for the PowerPC and was close, oh so close, to going with it. Like all great tales, it fell apart in the final moments.
What would have life been like [...]

Now that the beloved PowerBook name is gone like the IBM chip that powered it, one has to ask, “Was MacBook Pro the right name?” I’ve got to admit, when I first heard the new name on the stairs of Moscone Center, my stomach turned a little. But the more it sat in [...]

The Register is reporting that Apple’s stock closed at nearly $100 yesterday on the day it announced it would be shipping Intel Macs in just a month. What’s so interesting about this fact is that the stock price was $80.86. Another way to show that number is 8086 which was the first CPU [...]

It’s finally here, the new Intel PowerBooks. Well, they’re not PowerBooks anymore, they’re MacBook Pro’s. Whle nearly everyone else was saying the Mac mini would be the first new Intel release, I’ve been saying it for more then a month that the PowerBook would be the one updated. I guess this adds [...]

Did I flip out when I saw Belkin showing off it’s new KVM for the Mac mini at CES, Saturday? No. But I was very much intrigued by it. Its perfect fit to sit under the mini and seamless look made it an immediate eye pleaser. Then the touch sensitive buttons [...]

One thing I’ve never quite understood was Apple’s lack of a power light indicator on its PowerBook. When I turn on a PC notebook, I know if my button press activated the computer or not because I immediately see a green light on the laptop somewhere come on. With the PowerBook, if I’m [...]

iLife has been confirmed and it’ll contain another sibling: iWeb. What’s iWeb? Not sure but as it is integrated with all the other digital software of iLife, I would suspect it will be taking your photos and video and creating your own web site with that content. How this will fit in [...]

Adobe hopes to squish Apple’s photo software, Aperture, with a light boom next week on the floor of Moscone Center when it shows off an early version of the San Jose-based company’s offering. Not known for taking things lightly in the professional market of video and graphics, Adobe will come out swinging with LightBoom [...]