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According to this source, Mr. Jobs’s recovery “is coming along.” More importantly to Apple observers, he is on schedule to return to work at the end of June, which would be the end of the six-month leave of absence time frame he announced shortly before Macworld in January of this year. “He was one real…

Snow Leopard The latest iteration of Apple’s UNIX-based OS is primarily focused on squeezing the best possible performance out of your Mac. So there won’t be a truckload of new features. In fact, I’d suspect that some features will be missing, the most obvious of which may be the lack of support for PowerPC based…

For those working out the numbers in their head, if the Post’s numbers are correct, the Fifth Avenue Apple Store is bringing in an average of $1.2 million in sales each and every day, numbers the Post referred to as “mind-boggling.” In the March quarter of 2009, Apple’s planet-wide Apple Store retail sales clocked in…

Yes, it is hugely important for Apple to communicate (in a small, controlled way) with the people who develop software and hardware for the Mac platform, for developers to communicate their needs and wants to Apple (whether Apple listens or not is a whole different column) and, to a smaller extent, to the Macintosh user…

By now, the word has gotten out that on new MacBooks, MacBook Pros and Mac mini with DisplayPort protected video content, typically HD TV shows and movies, purchased in iTunes need an HDCP compliant display. The easiest way to achieve that with the new Apple LED Cinema Display (24-inch). It also has DisplayPort and is…

Adam Jackson managed to snap a few shots through the lobby windows at the Moscone West building in San Francisco where the annual conference for developers will be held next week. The images are available on his Flickr Web page.Image from Adam Jackson’s Flickr page.Along with iPhone app-related banners, Apple is also adorning the outside…

Features like MovieMaker have been me-too additions to Windows desperately intended to match iLife features. Zune was an iPod-wannabe. The Zune Marketplace was an App Store gambit. And on and on. This is all old stuff, but there’s one area where I think Microsoft would be best-served by picking one thing (to copy) and sticking…

Even though the state isn’t officially saying that the tax breaks are aimed at Apple, word has leaked out from the government that the legislation is aimed squarely at drawing the Mac and iPod maker’s new server farm into the state.The deal could amount to about $46 million in tax savings for Apple, but the…

It’s not that I expect Bing to be a better search engine than Google, or even that Microsoft has any real shot at making Bing be better than Google — but I think Bing has a shot at being better than Yahoo!, and it’s this sort of competition that will push Google and other competitors…

The logic I used to forecast an Apple netbook, MacNetBook, is that it’s a growing market that Apple can’t afford to ignore. It is illogical to argue that if Asus, Acer and MSI can make some money on a US$250 netbook that Apple cannot make money on a $699, 10-inch MacNetBook. I’ll go even further…

— David Ogilvy There is a known market for notebook computers, and that market had been soaring until the economy went bonkers. There is a known and growing market for netbooks, and Apple can, if it wishes, carve out a piece of that market as well. But what is the market for an iTablet? When…

The developer also noted some changes that are still in progress, including modifications to trade routes, a redefinition of asteroid densities to change the dynamics of resource gathering, event registration, improvements to the faction system, player-owned stations and capital ships, and tweaks to piracy in neutral space. Vendetta Online is a free download. The game…

According to InfoWorld, Microsoft has put together new “maximum requirements” for netbooks running Windows 7 that limit the devices to displays no larger than 10.2-inches, but allowing 32GB solid state drives or 160GB hard drives. Vendors selling PCs that fall within Microsoft’s guidelines will be eligible for lower-cost Windows 7 pricing, which translates into potentially…

The bankruptcy documents were filed with the Federal Courts in Florida on Thursday, and Apple’s legal team was most likely made aware of the situation over the Memorial Day weekend.The Florida court will hold a hearing on June 5 where Psystar’s equity creditors will be revealed — which means if there have been deep pockets…

“We expect a price cut to the current generation iPhone to drive 50 percent to 100 percent (two million to four million units) incremental unit demand,” Huberty said.Some of those iPhones will go to current owners, making for a significant number of upgrades once the new models ship. “Our survey data suggests 15 percent plus…

The exploit, known as CVE-2008-5353, is an issue with Sun’s Java Virtual Machine (JVM), which is incorporated into Mac OS X. Sun released a patch for the vulnerability in December of 2008. Mr. Fuller wrote in a blog post, “CVE-2008-5353 allows malicious code to escape the Java sandbox and run arbitrary commands with the permissions…

However, an unscrupulous developer could create a Java applet that executes some “evil” action, such as deleting files from your hard drive. In Safari, the first time a Java applet attempts to launch, a message should pop up asking whether or not your “trust” the app. This is a security protection. If you are visiting…

After years of winning (and losing), a car company learns an awful lot about engines, why and how they fail, and that expertise seeps into their regular product line for consumers — making for better products. I’ve always believed that the same applies to Apple. The analog for computing is the High Performance Computing (HPC)…

Virgin America is using Gogo’s in-flight wireless Internet service and will allow users to surf the Web, participate in text-based chats, and check email, but will block Voice Over IP services so users can’t participate in audio or video chats.AirTran announced earlier in May that it planned to be the first airline in the U.S.…

Apple Training Series: iLife ’09 uses real-life material and lessons to take readers step-by-step through all aspects of iLife ’09, from organizing and sharing photo libraries to creating video and soundtracks. Readers also learn to produce movies, photobooks, podcasts, websites, blogs, and DVDs. The book retails for $28.79 ($26.39 – Amazo.com.) Apple Training Series: GarageBand…

The first thing to know is that the domain names we use every day are just human friendly, memorable names for Internet addresses that use the Internet Protocol (IP). For example, we tell our Web browser to got to Filemaker.com because that’s easy to remember. However, the Mac has to convert that to an IP…

MacVoices episode 973 is available as a free download at the MacVoices Web site.

Cult of Mac’s Leander Kahney contacted the popular psychic to the tech industry to get her take on Mr. Jobs’s future with Apple. Along with her prediction that he really is returning, most likely at the end of June just as Apple executives promised, she also said that someone else would surface as part of…

Highlight text in your photos so WhatTheFont knows what to check out.To identify fonts with your iPhone, you’ll need the WhatTheFont application. It’s available for free at Apple’s iTunes-based App Store.Verify the WTF is correctly recognizing each letter.Once the app is installed on your iPhone, you can use its built-in camera to snap a photo…