COO Tim Cook received a salary of $696,880, a $525,000 bonus, and restricted stock valued at $21.6 million. Senior VP of Retail, Ronald Johnson was paid $592,476, earned a $450,000 bonus and was awarded $14.4 million in restricted stock. The company also received several shareholder proposals including a request for the election of seven members…
Jeff Gamet
Jeff Gamet is the Mac Observer’s Managing Editor, and co-host of the Apple Context Machine podcast. He is the author of “The Designer’s Guide to Mac OS X” from Peachpit Press, and writes for several design-related publications. Jeff has presented at events such as Macworld Expo, the RSA Conference, and the Mac Computer Expo. In all his spare time, he also hosts TMO’s Daily Observations podcast, co-hosts The iOS Show podcast, and makes guest appearances on several other shows, too. Jeff dreams in HD.
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Apple Announces Final Cut Studio 2, Introduces Color
Final Cut Studio 2
Sharing Address Book Locally
Address-O-Matic is an application that lets you share your contacts on your local network through Appleis Bonjour networking protocol – which means your Mac handles the networking stuff in the background so you donit have too. Use Address-O-Maticis preferences set how often your shared groups update.
Adobe InDesign User Group Comes to Denver
The meeting will be hosted by Erica Gamet, InDesign trainer and contributing writer for InDesign Magazine and Design Tools Monthly, and Brian Reyman, Adobe Certified Expert and Content Development Manager at Aimco. The meeting is free and is scheduled for Tuesday, April 24 at the Front Range Community College Westminster Campus. It will run from…
Google Desktop beta 1
Why, oh, why do we need another application to search the contents of our Macs? Because not everyone uses search tools in the same way, and not all search tools work the way we want. Now Google is taking a stab at bringing its Google Desktop search application to the Mac, and even though this…
Analyst: Teens Hot for iPod, iPhone
Based on the survey results, the iPod is the preferred portable media player among teens. 78 percent of high school students own a portable media player, and of those 82 percent are iPods. Sony comes in second at about 4 percent. “We believe that the teen demographic is a critical component of long-term growth in…
MacJournal 4.1.1
A journal can be as personal or public as you want, but if you plan on keeping a journal on your Mac, it is easier when you have a dedicated application. MacJournal from Mariner Software aims to be that application – for both public or private journals – and it throws in some blogging tools,…
TMO Quick Tip - Mac OS X Startup Modifier Keys
For the most part, starting up your Mac involves nothing more than pressing the power button, and away you go. But there are a few options for modifying how your Mac starts up – if you know which keys to press. The Mac OS X Finder Here’s how this works: Start up your Mac, and…
Safari Drops, Firefox Gains in March
Safari slipped from its high of 4.85 percent in February to 4.51 percent in March. Compared to last year, however, Safari is still up substantially over March 2006is 3.19 percent. Appleis Safari continues to hold the number three slot just has it has since 2005. Firefox moved from its previous all time high 14.18 percent…
Apple CEO: Where's the Beef
The move comes as a shock to vegans and vegitarians throughout the central California region. Greenpeace representatives fear this may be just the beginning, and began speculating that Mr. Jobs will eventually reveal that he drives a Hummer fueled by cute small animals with big teardrop eyes. Other experts have already begun to analyze Mr.…
Living Without Safari Week 4: Camino
After spending a week with Opera, which was obviously punishment for some horrible transgression I committed in a past life, I was ready to move onto anything. As it turns out, I found Camino to be a capable browser. I didnit really get excited using it, but at least it wasnit Opera. Week 3: Camino…
Analyst: 2Q iPod Sales Between 10 and 11M Units
Mr. Munster lowered his estimate after reviewing NPD sales data for January and February, and then extrapolating March sales based on historical averages. Despite anticipating that Apple will report lower than expected iPod sales, he feels Apple is maintaining its 70 percent market share for portable digital media players. “While iPod units fell slightly month…
Adobe Announces Creative Suite 3 Production Premium
The Universal Binary applications in the suite include Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, Adobe Device Central CS3, and Adobe Bridge CS3. The Intel Mac-only applications include Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, Adobe Soundbooth CS3, Adobe Encore CS3, and Adobe Dynamic Link. The company lists Adobe…
Adobe Unveils Creative Suite 3 Lineup
InDesign CS3 The new version of Adobeis professional page layout application adds several features to help improve design workflows including Multi-file Place, enhanced Quick Apply, Advanced Find/Change, and fast frame fitting. It also includes improved table and cell styles XHTML export to Dreamweaver CS3, automated bullets and numbering for lists, text variables, support for Photoshop…
DasBoot 1.0.2
System repair utilities are great because they can fix annoying issues that in some cases keep your Mac from booting. If you like to use more than one system repair utility, like DiskWarrior and Drive Genius, you have to reboot your Mac twice – once for each CD. Thatis a problem DasBoot from SubRosaSoft aims…
How Sweet: Sugar-charged Laptop Batteries
Electrochemist Shelley Minteer, Ph.D., is heading up the project and notes that in addition to running on nearly any sugar source, the batteries are also biodegradable. “It demonstrates that by bridging biology and chemistry, we can build a better battery thatis also cleaner for the environment,” she said. The batteries work in a similar fashion…
The Most Secure OS Is... Windows?
Symantecis report looked at the number of operating system patches, and the shortest average time for patch development for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Red Hat Linux, HP-UX, and Sun Solaris over the past six months. The conclusion was that Windows had 39 vulnerabilities, 12 considered high priority or severe, with an average fix time…
Possible Delay Looms for Leopard
The supposed delay will give Apple time to rework Boot Camp to support Windows Vista, unlike the current version which is designed to be compatible with Windows XP. Boot Camp is Appleis software that allows you to install Microsoftis Windows XP operating system along with Mac OS X on Intel-based Macs, and then choose which…
Selective Printer Sharing
If you have an inkjet or laser printer connected to your Mac via USB, you can share that printer with other users on your network. And if you have multiple printers connected to your Mac, you can share all of them. Your Mac must be turned on and awake for printer sharing to work, but…
Apple Hot Deals Update For B&H, GadgetLocker
The new B&H Photo Video Hot Deals page has offers on the 5.1 Surround Sound/Dolby Digital/Dolby Pro Logic FireWave system from Griffin Technology, the G-Drive Q 160GB eSATA external hard drive with FireWire 800/400 and USB 2.0, LoJack for laptops (1-year subscription) from Computrance, the Creature 2 40-watt 3-piece speaker system from JBL, Quicken 2007…
Living Without Safari Week 3: Opera
Where I found Firefox to be a capable Web browser, and OmniWeb good enough to make me comfortable abandoning Safari, Opera was an exercise in pain. In fact, I was forced to break self-imposed rule number 3, No launching Safari “just to check this one page.” Living in a single browser is non-negotiable, more than…
Using Keywords in iPhoto Part II: Keyword Assistant
If you arenit familiar iPhotois keywords, my last Quick Tip will help to get you up to speed. The Keyword Assistant menu in iPhoto
MicroNet Announces Platinum NAS 4.0 Network Storage System
MicroNetis Platinum NAS 4.0
Analyst: Apple Ready to Lead In the Digital Living Room
Mr. Munster estimates there are about 110 million iTunes users – the key market for AppleTV. In comparison, there are only about 12 million Windows Media Center users, even though the software is pre-installed on about 23 million PCs. Based on those figures, Apple already has a 10x head start over Microsoft in gaining control…