I n March of 2001, Apple bought the company that produced the education data management system, PowerSchool, for US$62 million. Thatis quite an investment. Until recently, there has been little mention of the product in the press. Today we noted just such a mention from a local Tennessee newspaper. In Maryville, Tennessee, Carpenters Middle School…
Apple Knowledge Base Article - Using 128 GB Or Larger ATA Hard Drives On Your Mac
Apple has added a new article to the Knowledge Base regarding the use of hard drives over 128GB in size. Apple’s Knowledge Base (sometimes referred to as the KBase) is a central location for all of Apple’s support documents and other important information. Hard drives that are larger than 128GB require an IDE controller with…
Ready For Macworld? Got Your TMO Mac Shirt?
M acworld is just around the corner, three weeks or so, for those keeping score at home. While sitting around the water cooler at the TMO Towers, Fact Checker Thomas Stafford suggested that Macworld might make a good excuse to hawk our line of TMO Mac merchandise again. The editorial staff [In this case, that…
Apple Stores Sales Grew To US$282 Million In 2002, Failed To Earn Profit
A pple released its Form 10-K SEC filing for fiscal 2002, a document that has revealed many things about the companyis operations. First and foremost of those things is the companyis retail operations. Appleis retail Apple Store strategy has been the center point of its quest for renewed growth. The company has looked at and…
AfterTen Software Releases WeatherMan X Menubar
AfterTen Software today announced the addition of WeatherManX Menubar to the WeatherManX Extras program suite. WeatherManX Menubar can display multiple weather icons in the menu bar for user selected U.S. cities. WeatherManX Menubar is an application that can put multiple icons in the menu bar representing the current weather conditions for many U.S. Cities. It…
TextArc: A Marriage Of Literature With Technology (With Pics)
CKQUOTE> Watching TextArc cycle through Alice in Wonderland is amazing. The text flows around the edge of the image, and as the words are drawn and associations are made in flowing color, the work of literature comes alive. This is one of the coolest things we have brought to you in some time. Itis a…
MCF Software Prevents Auto-Reply Loops With New App
MCF Software, LLC has released version 1.0 of its Auto Reply plug-in for EIMS (Eudora Internet Mail Server). The Auto Reply plug-in allows you to easily specify users for whom an auto-reply email message is to be sent, with the plug-in maintaining a list of those addresses to which it has sent a message. This…
Another PC Company Innovates By Copying Apple
In another clear-cut case of Apple’s innovation being borrowed by the Wintel camp, Sharp has unveiled a laptop that includes an amazing "new" feature that is just like something that Apple has been doing for years. Observer Brutno noticed in a PCWorld magazine article that Sharp was touting the ability to use its MM1-1 laptop…
Apple Germany Partners With Vobis Microcomputer To Sell Macs In 30 German PC Stores
T his week, Apple Germany announced that Vobis, a nationwide chain of PC stores, will start selling Apple products in 30 of its stores. Apart from Macs, the selected Vobis stores will also sell a selection of Mac software and peripherals. Vobis will not sell the CD-ROM iBook and the dual 1.0 and 1.25 GHz…
CMS ABSplus Makes Backups Easy For Everyone
Within 4 minutes of breaking the shrinkwrap on the box, we were backing up our files. Itis THAT simple. CMS has a real winner of an idea on their hands with the ABSplus, a self-contained backup drive that automatically starts backing up when you plug it in. We tested their FireWire unit (thereis also a…
A Month With A Mac Leaves Reviewer Longing For His PC
There have been many high profile PC users who have publicly switched to using Macs. One of the most notable of whom is David Coursey of ZDNet, who wrote a series of articles detailing his experiences in using a Mac for a month. In the end, Mr. Coursey switched and has become a rather vocal…
Apple Posts Signature iPods From Tony Hawk, Beck, & Madonna
W ould you pay extra to have Beckis name on your iPod? How about Madonna? Tony Hawk? Thanks to some eagle-eyed members of the TMO forums, that question has relevance today. On Appleis iPod promo site, the company has listed three new signature iPods, from Beck, Madonna, and Tony Hawk. Those Web pages: Click on…
Apple Updates Hot Deals Site With Mac Bundles, Software, Music Equipment, & Books
A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for Outpost.com, Sweetwater, CompUSA, and OiReillyis at the Macintosh Product Guide. The Mac Product Guide is a list of Mac compatible hardware and software products on the market. The Hot Deals section of the Product guide feature several Mac retailers and special offers that one can only…
Sacrifice No Goats When Buying A Mac
T hereis a Wired News article titled Worshipping at the Altar of Mac, in which the author, Leander Kahney, discusses one of the more emotionally charged issues of Mac ownership: dealing with the Mac-As-A-Cult perception many people seem to have. The article gives a voice to many who believe that Mac ownership, in general, implies…
Intel Microscope Plug-In Update Features QuickTime Movie Support
Microscope 1.1 is a Mac OS X freeware application written specifically for the Intel Play and Digital Blue QX3/QX3+ USB Computer Microscope. Microscope 1.1 allows you to capture images as jpeg or tiff, create time-lapse QuickTime movies, and add a text comment and/or time stamp to the image or movie. Version 1.1 adds a .5…
FlashGO! Media Reader/Writer Packs A Lot Of Punch In Small Package
Introduction One of the great features of todayis portable devices (such as your authoris recently acquired Palm i705) is that many of them support memory expansion via one of several media card formats. This opens up the possibility of being able to transfer data between the device and your Mac. But the variety of media…
System Support Now Shipping Stock Calculator 1.0 For Online Traders
System Support Products, Inc. announces the availability of Stock Calculator for Apple Mac OS X. Stock Calculator is a stock trade profit/loss and share price calculator application. Stock Calculator is designed to be the perfect assistant for anyone doing online stock trading. Besides total cash outlay and profit/loss calculations, Stock Calculator is ideal for performing…
Apple Puts Pressure On Australian Telco To Change Name
November 30th saw a News.com.au article regarding one Green Communications, formerly Apple Communications, and its recent legal wranglings with Apple Computer over the use of the name. According to the article, the company formerly known as Apple Communications — a telecommunications company set up to rival Orange — was ordered to pay $100,000 AUD to…
Apple Brings IP Over FireWire To FireWire Macs; What Does That Mean?
T he gearhead community has been asking for IP over FireWire from Apple, the company that invented FireWire, and today Apple delivered it. The company released a preview release of IP over FireWire that works on FireWire enabled Macs. This is similar to FireNet from UniBrain, a commercial product that effectively does the same thing.…
Maine's iBook Program Gets Good Press
Governor Angus King, Maine’s idealistic leader who proposed to give every Maine middle schooler an Apple laptop, must be feeling pretty good these days. Since implementing his plan to give Maine’s economic future a boost by investing in education through the copious use of technology in the form of iBooks, many of the people who…
TMO Reports - Mac Users Turn Out In Force For After-Thanksgiving In-Store "Free Stocking Stuffer" Event
Apple’s in-store event last Friday was another success. The company held its after-Thanksgiving "Hello Stocking" event at all of its 50 retail operations. Based on the successful midnight Jaguar event held in August, Friday’s event was also a success, if not as big as the Jaguar roll out. At the Valley Fair Apple Store in…
Default Folder Update Adds Dock Menu
St. Clair Software has released version 1.6.4 of Default Folder X, its popular utility for enhancing Open and Save dialogs in Mac OS X. Default Folder X 1.6.4 adds a convenient menu to the Dock for quick access to folders, includes the ability to exclude Default Folder X from certain applications, and delivers significant improvements…
Microsoft Eyes New Server Licensing Scheme, Apple's Remains Most Beneficial
One of the largest selling points of Xserve is that Apple, unlike Microsoft’s server offerings, does not charge a premium license fee for user-server usage. That policy has no doubt worried Microsoft to no end, especially since many of Microsoft’s customers are revolting over license fees. C|Net is reporting that Microsoft is about to change…
A Closer Look At Iceland's "Switch" Campaign
Many Observers would be excused for thinking that France, Germany or the U.K would have been a better choice for a Switch campaign, but this doesnit take into account Icelandis special position in the Mac universe. It also doesnit take into account Icelandis culture, and the dedication of an Apple reseller, because technically, these are…
