A Windows user, tested a new iMac, recalled fond memories of the original Bondi Blue iMac, was impressed with how the iMac has grown up, and was almost ready to make the leap, according to a story published by the Associated Press on Wednesday. However, there were some flies in the ointment. Rather, “maggots in…
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Columnist: The Digital Media Shortcomings of the New iMac
The old iMac was chintzy plastic, but the new iMacs are once again physically desirable, according to a columnist at Tech.co.uk on Monday. Even so, he said the digital media features customers have come to expect from Apple are missing in the new iMac. “Now that weive all recovered from the effects of Steve Jobsi…
New Apple iMac Earns C|Net Editors' Choice Award
C|Net gave the new Apple iMac itis Editorsi Choice Award on Wednesday. The iMac was cited for its best-in-class design, solid feeling, thin but solid keyboard, iLife i08, and performance in multimedia benchmarks. C|Net noted that, regarding the internal hardware, the changes have been simply generational, with new CPU speeds and graphics card updates. Except…
iMac: Disassembled
Kodawarisan tears down a new iMac.
Apple Introduces Mac Pro RAID Card
The PCI Express-based expansion card supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 0+1, and JBOD. It includes a 256MB cache and a 72-hour battery to protect the cache in the event of a power outage, and connects to the four internal drive bays in the Mac Pro. It is priced at US$999, and is available now at…
Your Mac Life Features "What the Duck?"
Your Mac Life (YML), with Shawn King, which airs every Wednesday night, will feature a chat with photographer Aaron Johnson, creator of What the Duck? “What the Duck is a daily comic strip that debuted a year ago and, much to its creatoris surprise, is still going strong 260+ strips later,” Shawn King said. “What…
Galbraith: MacBook Pro Has the Best Laptop Display
Photography pro Rob Galbraith put the LED backlit display in Apple’s new 15-inch MacBook Pro through its paces, and was thoroughly impressed. So impressed, in fact, that he called it the best laptop display available. Mr. Galbraith stated “Okay, let’s end the suspense: the new Macbook Pro 15 inch’s screen is very, very good.” On…
Parallels Posts Humorous Mac AND PC Video
Taking a cue from Appleis own Get A Mac TV commercials, Parallels has posted their own humorous video which emphasizes how the customer can have the best of both worlds. “We took a different approach than the real ads, so instead of having PCs and Macs argue over which is better, we decided to show…
Default Folder X 3.0.5 Improves Spotlight Support, More
The new version also added support for Mac OS X 10.5, fixed a problem with modal dialogs, improved processor usage, and more. Default Folder X 3.0.5 is priced at US$34.95, and is available for download at the St. Clair Software Web site. The update is free for version 3 users.
TMO Quick Tip - Disabling a Built-in iSight Camera
Apple didn’t give us an overly obvious way to disable the iSight camera that’s built in to the iMac, MacBook, and MacBook Pro, which is a problem for some people that work in sensitive environments. Covering the camera with a piece of tape will do the trick, but in some work places, that isn’t enough.…
Apple Graces Windows Users with Safari [Updated]
Safari 3, which presumably will be released along with Mac OS X 10.5 in October, will offer faster HTML rendering than Internet Explorer and Firefox, according to Mr. Jobs. In fact, Safari 3 is to be twice as fast as Internet Explorer 7. Like previous versions of Safari, Safari 3 retains familiar features like tabbed…
MaxUpgrades Introduces Memory Cooling for Mac Pro
max_flow for the Mac Pro upper (left) and lower (right) memory risers
MacBook Pro Gets LED Display, Faster Processors [UPDATED]
Apple unveiled its new MacBook Pro lineup on Tuesday with thinner, lighter 15-inch models thanks to new LED backlit displays. The new models also sport Core 2 Duo processors at up to 2.4GHz, and up to 4GB of RAM, but the 17-inch models will continue to use CCF backlighting. The new MacBook Pro lineup offers…
TMO Quick Tip - Mac Security: Protecting Virtual Memory
Your Mac is pretty secure out of the box, but there are several things you can do to help make it even safer. One potential weak point in your Mac’s armor is virtual memory. Should a bad guy get ahold of your Mac, there is a possibility that he could recover data from virtual memory…
US-CERT Reports HTTP Vulnerability, Macs Safe
The vulnerability takes advantage of HTTP content scanning systems that donit properly scan full-width/half-width Unicode encoded HTTP traffic. An attacker that sends properly designed HTTP traffic to a vulnerable content scanning system could potentially bypass the scanning system and gain remote access to the network device or computer. The US-CERT advisory states that Apple systems…
#1 Temporal Loop - Birth of the iMac
The iMac almost singlehandedly cemented Apple’s redemption in the eyes of the press. Though Jobs had unveiled the brand new “Think different” marketing strategy on September 28, 1997, Apple had not released any products that were particularly different. Faster and easier to use, perhaps, but not different. Over 800,000 of the translucent all-in-one computers were…
Parallels & Windows XP Preinstalled on Macs by Tech Data
Parallels, maker of the Desktop Virtualization software for Mac OS X, announced on Wednesday that their exclusive U.S. distributor, Tech Data, has just started selling Parallels Desktop plus Windows XP in 13 pre-configured packages, preinstalled on Macs, to resellers. The Macs include: Apple Mac mini, iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro and Mac Pro. No reseller or…
SmileOnMyMac Releases DiscLabel 4.2
“DiscLabel 4.2 offers more flexible image manipulation with the new Effects and Filters dialog. Effects and Filters allows users to preview and combine over 40 visual effects, including blurs, sharpening, color effects and masks. Also new in this upgrade is the ability to add a drop shadow to any object and to apply a stroke…
Analyst: Incremental Mac Growth is Big Money
“Street estimates currently assume Mac market share of 2.7 percent for calendar year 07,” he said. “In our estimation, an increase in Mac market share to 3.5 percent for the year would lead to an upside to Street calendar year 07 EPS of US$0.44 or 12.3 percent.” The analyst consensus is that Apple will show…
You talkin' to me? (Make Your Mac Listen)
At this point, I suspect at least a few of you are skeptically thinking: “Why bother? I donit have carpal tunnel syndrome or any other disability that prevents me from using my hands. I am quite comfortable with a keyboard and mouse and I donit see any big reason to use speech instead.” Perhaps you…
Caring For Your Mac's Battery Backup
As a rule of thumb assume that the battery in your UPS will last between two and five years, depending on use. If you overload a battery backup, however, you will likely see a much shorter life-span for your battery. For example, ganging up multiple computers on a UPS designed to handle only one machine,…
Panic Releases Coda 1.0
announced on Monday the release of Coda 1.0, a one-window Web development tool. Coda 1.0 is designed for hand-coders and brings together all the major features needed to develop Websites in a single interface. “Coda includes a complete built-in file browser based on the Transmit engine that allows users to work locally or remotely; a…
Mac Hacked In Contest... Sort Of
The CanSecWest 2007 security conference hosted a “Hack a Mac” contest where contestants worked to gain unauthorized access to a Mac OS X system. Yes, there was a winner, but not until the contest rules were relaxed to the point that someone actually could win. Shane Macaulay and Dino Dai Zovi won a US$10,000 prize…
Just A Peek - Mariner Write
I write a lot of articles and one of the things I hate is for the word or text processor that I use to get in my way. By getting in my way I mean that I don’t want to think about the tool, I just want to get my thoughts down as quickly and…