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PARIS, FRANCE – Attendees at Apple Expo in Paris are impressed at the look of the new iMac G5, but mixed on whether it’s the right solution for their needs. An unscientific sampling of people mainly from Europe showed the wide variety of needs and desires of Mac users. "I like it’s look," said Edmond…

PARIS, FRANCE – Despite Apple knowing consumers will make comparisons of the new iMac G5 to its Windows counterparts, the Mac maker feels its not as simple as comparing apples to oranges, because as one company executive said Wednesday, “there is no comparison.” Apple’s director of worldwide product marketing told The Mac Observer, “This product…

David Coursey has weighed in with his opinions on Apple’s new iMac G5. Mr. Coursey is a one-time critic of the Mac who Switched back to the platform two years ago. In his newest column at eWeek, Mr. Coursey offers a mostly positive view of the new iMac, though he also has a couple of…

The first Mac Academy in Sydney’s inner city suburb of Darlinghurst has opened, according to ARN News The goal of the new facility is to provide customers with high-tech learning and support on Apple products, as well as those of its vendor partners, including Microsoft, Macromedia and Adobe. Apple Centre Taylor Square director, Ben Morgan,…

Many people know about great Pixar movies like Finding Nemo and A Bug’s Life, and almost everyone who has been to a movie in the last 10 years has seen the cute lamp that bounces around on Pixar’s logo before Pixar movie trailers. What some people might not know, however, is that this lamp is…

M-Audio has introduced a new 5.1 surround card for PCI Macs. The new card is called Revolution 5.1, and is based on M-Audio’s Revolution 7.1 technology. Revolution 5.1 offers Mac users 5.1 surround sound out from their Macs that have a PCI slot. M-Audio says the product supports games, DVD, and other products that offer…

In today’s column I am going to share some of my favorite hints and tips for using some of the basic OS X applications — Mail, Safari, Address Book, and iPhoto. Then, for good measure, I’m throwing in one for Microsoft Word for Mac. Sending Mail to a Group of People at The Same Time…

This week in Apple history (July 18-24), Apple introduced the last Mac based on the 68k processor family that had powered the Mac product line for 10 years. The Quadra 630 was powered by a 33 MHz processor, and shipped with Mac OS 7.1. Do you miss those days? Three years later, in 1997, Apple…

One of the items most mobile Mac users have on their wish list is a G5-powered PowerBook. Such a device, thus far, seems many months away, to say the least. The current crop of G5 processors, exclusively produced by IBM, require hefty heat management in the form of heat sinks and liquid cooling that can’t…

When it comes to creating drum tracks, GarageBand kinda sucks. Sure you can use loops and many of them sound fantastic, but if you want to record drum tracks from scratch, your choices are as follows: Record real drums one track at a time, which is both difficult and tedious. Record Software Instrument drums using…

   Studio Sessions Boy, the more I work with AppleScript Studio, the more I love the thing. I don’t use any commercial apps to maintain and manage my weblog. When I started YellowText in 1995, the word "blog" didn’t even exist. A simple script to automatically upload an HTML file to my webserver became a…

Apple announced today a long-awaited and much anticipated update to the Power Mac G5 product line. The company has announced a new lineup that includes 1.8 GHz, 2.0 GHz, and 2.5 GHz units, all with dual processors. The dual 2.5 GHz unit includes two independent 1.25 GHz front-side busses that Apple says supports data throughput…

The Mac is Dead, Long Live iPod! That’s the word from a lot of so-called Mac pundits concerning the news last week that Apple is creating a separate iPod division within the company. Once again, these guys must be in need of a boost in readers, because we all know that the easiest way to…