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I would agree that Apple does have a sense of what consumers are looking for in a product. Don’t believe there is really any disputing this, considering the success of the iPod, iPhone, etc. But for a past Apple exec to take his lessons from Apple and to apply then over at Palm, might not [...]

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:
As we said in our earlier article, word was that Windows XP would not boot on an Intel Mac, due to the use of the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) instead of BIOS. That information hasn’t changed yet, but an enterprising person, who apparently fibbed a little and told his [...]

What do you get when you combine a group of smart developers, mixed with a great idea and a lot of hard work? Under the right conditions you get a truly unique piece of software that was deemed worthy of the prestigious Apple Design Awards, specifically named as the Best Product New to Mac [...]

When I started podcasting with my Mac I used Audacity, a freeware program for recording the podcast. But when I upgraded to Tiger, Audacity and Tiger did not play well together and I was experiencing more then my share of crashes. I was not comfortable using Garageband because of the lack of post production capabilities. [...]

Think Different — It’s more than just a clever former marketing slogan of Apple Computer, it’s a line that many of it’s independent developers take to heart when coming up with innovative new ideas for their applications. Today’s review focuses on just such a developer, Gus Mueller of Flying Meat software and one of [...]

The Mac developer community has given us Mac users a ton of great software for our iPods. I’ve talked about many of my favorite programs in the past. Most of these, like Pod2Go and Podlock are shareware and commercial. But what if you wanted the best that freeware had to offer for your iPod? What [...]

Browsers are ever-changing, or at least the good ones like Firefox are. The stale, dead ones like IE are stagnant. What is the browser world going to look like in 2006? To get the answer, all you need to do is to check out the new beta browser called Flock.
Flock takes browsing to the [...]

If anyone has ever used a Web hosting firm to host their own domain name, you’ll know that if you need to create a forum on your Web site, or if your Web site is a blog with WordPress, or any php blogging program, you’ll need to understand how to set up and maintain a [...]

A year or so ago, I would of had serious doubts about doing an article on a third-party blogging tool. But since that time I think that most everyone that reads this may already use a blog, or thought about starting a blog, or at least, know what a blog is.

In the past year we’ve seen the popularity of both blogs and podcasts explode. There are fewer and fewer websites that do not have an RSS feed available for their customers and/or visitors. In fact, if you are a business on the web, an RSS feed is a necessity. RSS started out as being Rich [...]

Stuff happens, and stuff happened to me and my new iMac the last two days. It started when I was having trouble getting the printer setup utility to recognize my Canon i860 printer. Then all the setup utility would do was to crash when I tried to add any printer. Something was wrong. After I [...]

As I opened the box and started going through the packaged materials I remember the feeling of being overwhelmed by the size and power of the new Adobe Creative Suite 2. Where do I even start to give you my view of the product? After all, it contains new versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, inDesign, GoLive, [...]

Although I’ve designed websites for years, I never enjoyed working with CSS style sheets. Whenever I could, I used tables or layers and avoided CSS like the plague. Along the way there have been a few CSS editors I tried but there was nothing I found that made working with style sheets any easier. Along [...]

While I’m on the subject of unique Mac software, does it surprise you that another of my top ten picks is also from Flying Meat? It shouldn’t because Flying Meat has what so many Mac software companies have, and that’s imagination. If VooDooPad wasn’t impressive enough for you, just take a look at FlySketch.
I cannot [...]

While I was at MacWorld Expo, I was able to visit with the Prosoft folks and get a new product they had called Drive Genius. I gave it a test drive last weekend and although I ran it through the list of analyzing, repairing, testing, benchmarking and data checking functions, the true test would be [...]

I have an iTunes/iPod problem. In August I created a library on one of my
computers with about 150 songs. I then created another library on a different
computer. I now want to put my old songs from the first library back into my
iPod. So, today I opened my first library and hooked up my iPod. For [...]

As Jeremy Cohn noted earlier this month, Apple has, indeed, launched a new iPod: the iPod photo.
The spanking new iPod comes in 40GB and 60GB sizes, has the same form factor
as the existing full-sized iPod, and supports both Mac OS X and Windows.
Management of images happens, of course, through iTunes. eWeek reveals that
there are several [...]

Apple has announced the Tiger Early Start Kit for Developers. You’ll get the kit free with an ADC Select Membership ($500) and gives you all sorts of goodies like pre-release version of Tiger and Xcode 2.0. If you write apps for OS X get the tiger-like jump on your competition.

Those of you who are lucky enough to be using both Mac products and an In Motion BlackBerry (www.blackberry.net) will be glad to know that you can now sync your BlackBerry with your Mac running 10.3 or higher.
Unfortunately there are a few more stipulations. First, you have to be running Office 2004 for Mac. [...]

Move over mini, or at least make a bit of room for some competition. The new Rio Carbon totes a 5GB, 1in. (Seagate) Hard Drive and claims to get 20 hours of play time. Needless to say that it’s quite the improvement over the iPod mini’s 8 hours.
Only problem I see is that both [...]