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   Show Bizness By now, many of you have made the altogether foolish decision to come here to Boston for Macworld Expo. And when I call this idea Foolish, I of course am saying nothing against the show itself. Macworld Expo promises to be a palace of delights as always — more on this Palace…

Australian newspaper the Herald Sun has published a very positive look at the iPod phenomenon. The paper heaps praise on Apple, Steve Jobs, the iPod, and the iTunes Music Store, including positive words from analysts and competitors alike. From the article: If ever a single device has had an impact on the mindset of consumers…

Mozilla.org has released minor updates to its standalone browser and mail clients, Firefox 0.9.1 and Thunderbird 0.7.1. The Thunderbird release includes a fix for an OS X issue involving profiles from version 0.6. No changes for Firefox 0.9.1 were explicitly noted. From the Thunderbird release notes: Fix for 0.7 not recognizing profiles whose directory path…

If you have a fancy new G5 and don’t want a monitor that goes with the now-discontinued Power Mac G4, you’re in luck. At this morning’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC), Steve Jobs introduced a new line of Cinema Displays featuring a thin-bezel aluminum case. The line of widescreen displays include a 20″ display, a 23″…

Could more next generation game consoles have more in common with Apple’s Power Macs than with x86 based PCs? According to a report in eWeek, IBM believes so, and is marshaling its resources to concentrate on delivering processors for a core set of customers. One well known customer of IBM current 970 processor line is…

Psst! Wanna know a secret? If it has anything to do with Apple, uttering those words to some Apple watchers would elicit such a torrent of Pavlovian-induced saliva you’d be wise to wear a rain slicker and hip-boots. So when some poor schmoe at Toshiba got a wee bit loose in the lips about the…

Apple has added a veritable slew of refurbished Macs, as well as "new and unopened" discontinued models at the Apple Store. The company has also updated the Hot Deals page for ClubMac and O’Reilly at the Macintosh Product Guide. The Mac Product Guide is a list of Mac compatible hardware and software products on the…

If you were trying to run a search in Google, read your Yahoo mail, or buy a Mac yesterday morning, you may have had a problem doing so. These sites and others were affected by a Denial of Service attack that ultimately brought down the Domain Name Service (DNS) server at Akamai that references those…

Mozilla.org has made available Thunderbird 0.7 RC, a release candidate for the next milestone version of its standalone email software. The release includes many improvements, such as better performance and a bugfix for OS X users to address a sleep-related crash. Also, clicking its Dock icon will now automatically open a new mail viewer window…

[Authors Note: Owen and I are still behind in this series, but are working hard to catch up – Bryan] This is a relatively calm week in the annals of Apple history. It was this week in 1981 that The Woz tied the knot with Candice Clark, a marriage that would last almost 6 years.…

2nd verse, Same as the first! – Herman’s Hermits The L.A. Times has taken its turn to rip on Steve Jobs’ compensations. This is getting so common place, I almost made this one my trademarked "blah blah blah" articles. I didn’t, though, so if you don’t care to read about yet another article using selective…

[Authors Note: Owen and I are still behind in this series, but are working hard to catch up – Bryan] Every road is built with little steps; we’re certain there’s some sort of old phrase along those lines, but the point is that it was this week in 1969 that Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs…

Apple’s iPod, iPod mini, iTunes, and iTunes Music Store have, by nearly every measure, been tremendous hits. iPods have become the de-facto standard of portable music players, and no one has yet to match the combination of iTunes and iTunes Music Store. An editorial by Peter Burrows and Tom Lowry, appearing in BusinessWeek Online, examines…

So, I was thinking about doing the OS X 10.3.4 update when it occurred to me that it is entirely possible that the update could make my already slow 450mhz G4 Cube run even slower. "But how do I test such things," I asked myself. "Dude, benchmarks," was my reply, and I slapped my forehead…

[Authors Note: Owen and I are still behind in this series, but are working hard to catch up – Bryan] This week in Apple history, we look back at one of the few product failures in Apple’s past, the Apple III. It was this week in 1980 that the Apple III was introduced to much…

Once we relied solely on words to tell our tales; we chronicled our lives in journals for review and reflection. Sometimes, when we feel a story must be told, we again use words to tell it, forming a book that represents an aspect of our lives. These stories can be horrific, funny, sad, but usually…

Apple has formed a new division within the company dedicated to the iPod. Reuters is reporting that the new division will be headed by Jon Rubinstein, former Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering for Apple, while Timothy Cook, former Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Operations, will head the Macintosh division. From Reuters: Jon…