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The catastrophic cratering of the global economy, falling gas prices, and President George W. Bush’s recent executive activities have indirectly prompted Saint Paul gadfly software developers CodeWeavers, Inc., to provide free software for every American on October 28, company officials reluctantly announced today.
In July, CodeWeavers — whose software lets Mac OS X and Linux users [...]

Sonic Solutions, the leader in digital media software, redefines Mac burning yet again with the introduction of Toast 9 Titanium. Toast 9 allows consumers to record high-definition content from high-definition (HD) camcorders and favorite HD programming from TiVo DVRs and Elgato’s EyeTV devices to Blu-ray Disc (BD). Users also have the option to burn HD [...]

Upgrade to 4.0 GB for less than 1/4th Cost of the Apple Factory option!
Other World Computing (OWC), a leading Mac and PC technology company, announced today that it is offering 4 GB Memory Kits for Apple’s newly announced MacBook and MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo models, which began shipping yesterday, February 26, 2008. OWC is [...]

It’s Thanksgiving and Astraware would like you invite you to join our table and gobble up some great games this Holiday Season! Whether you’re traveling to see family, having a get-together at home, or simply recovering from turkey overload, we have some special offers on games that the whole family can enjoy!
We’re offering three simple, [...]

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 [...]

If you’re looking to save a little bit, or in this case a lot, then you may want to head over to Amazon. It’s giving you a $150 mail-in rebate on the MacBook Pro if you purchase it before February 28th. With the new units shipping sometime this week, you can expect to have [...]

Here’s the third episode of the the special podcast called “Ten Minutes With a Mac Developer.” A series presented by The MacReviewCast. The interviews today are with Lynda Weinman from lynda.com and Peter Lewis from Stairways Software.
Lynda Weinman was the reason I started coding HTML back in the mid ’90s. Her books on designing Web [...]

The above quote is from John C. Dvorak in PCmag.com, PC magazine and his article, Windows Vista: Where’s the Buzz?” We have all come to think of John as a Apple hating, Unix hating, Windows PC user over the years. So that’s what makes his latest article so unusual. He starts out by making fun of [...]

Secunia Advisory: SA16047
Critical: Moderately critical
Impact: Manipulation of data, DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Mac OS X, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or replace system widgets on a user’s system.
Solution: Apply patches.

The balance of the Best of Show awards go to some of the big names and the small names of the Mac community. First, one of the most well-known names in FTP software, Panic, is about to upgrade its Transmit program to version 3. Apple’s iPod shuffle and Mac mini were given the Best of [...]

Another of the Best of Show winners at MWSF was Roxio’s Popcorn.
Popcorn helps you easily make high quality copies of your non-encrypted, DVD movies. Powerful compression technology gives you the flexibility to copy even the largest movies to a single DVD disc.
Compress an entire 9 GB dual-layer DVD-video to a standard 4.7 GB DVD [...]

According to Inside Mac Games, a preview of the RPG, Knights of the Old Republic has been posted at Apple’s Web site under games. This seems to be a growing trend for Apple as more and more games port over to other operating systems like the Mac and Linux.

The author of the Mac Net Journal explains how, once again, the Mac has come to the rescue. Apparently, one of the author’s co-workers was trying to do some audio editing, but really needed help. The author was able to be of service using nothing but completely free Mac applications. The first application used was [...]

Here is a great review of the two O’Reilly books: Running Mac OS X Panther and Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther. The reviewer - who is obviously an O’Reilly fan, gave both books a glowing review and recommends both of them to interested parties.

MacDialer 1.6.1 allows you to use your Mac for easy contact management. Call your friends and family right from your Mac through your modem. MacDialer also allows you to place a call while browsing your email.
While there have been reports of some issues with the updates, I believe this still might be worth checking [...]

FutureCandy is offering Gordon 1.3.2, the only SWF decompiler and resource extractor for Mac OS X. According to FutureCandy, Gordon 1.3.2 offers improved performance in parsing large SWF files and comes with a whole bunch of other great features. Gordon 1.3.2 is demoware which can be downloaded from the FutureCandy website in addition to Swftools.com.

According to reliable sources, it appears that the Apple and all of their products are nothing but a hoax. Thanks to some photos from a diligent blogger, you can clearly see wires holding up a Power Mac and it’s display. If this does not rock Apple users right down to the “core”, I don’t know [...]

No, this is not a typo. There is a RSS reader just for Mac users called Shrook 2. While I doubt that Shrook 2 was created by a big green dude from a children’s movie that recently came out, the reader boasts features not available anywhere else. It supports all versions of RSS in addition [...]

Needed corrections have been made to the iTunes post.