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Y esterday, we brought you an article looking at SCOis demand that Linux users pay them the hefty sum of US$199 for a desktop PC using Linux, or US$699 for a single-CPU server (US$1,399 after October 15th). SCO is demanding this money from end-users of Linux because the company says Linux includes code that is…

T he New York Times has published an interesting write up of Microsoftis annual financial analyst meeting. We were considering a general-interest reference article to the Timesi coverage until we noted one specifically interesting tidbit concerning Microsoftis own estimation of Windowsi robustness. According to the article, Mr. Gates says that 5% of all Windows installations…

C ompetition breeds a better product. Look at the battle for the best MP3 player, and how far the iPod is pushing its competitors. Unfortunately, when BuyMusic.com (BM) decided to toss their hat into the online music distribution game, they threw their heads in as well. We want to give BM a fair shake. They…

Antilog announced today Julius I.0.0, the first release of their free roman-number converter for the Macintosh. Julius is a simple converter for the translation of numbers written with arabic digits into roman digits. The use of Julius if very easy: you simply write the number (strictly positive, no decimal, under 4000), click on the convert…

If you want to see the commercial but havenit caught it on TV yet, Apple has posted the commercial to its QuickTime site. Below, we have a couple of screen shots from the commercial to give you a feel of what itis like.

T he booth that we were drawn to like people lost in the desert are drawn to an oasis, like moths to a flame, like Mac geeks to a new laptop bag… Well, if we mixed more metaphors it would make us dizzy. It seems that some of our Australian Observers may be a bit…

Fortunately, the good folks at CMS Peripherals offer such a backup system, called ABSplus, the ABS standing for Automatic Backup System. We had a chance to chat with Mike LaPeters, Vice President of Sales, to give us an update on whatis been happening with the product, and to receive a demonstration. ABSplus Portable

DEVONtechnologiesi new Internet search agent software DEVONagent is getting closer to the first public beta, and so the product page has been updated with new screenshots and a description of the forthcoming features. Based on DEVONtechnologiesi revolutionary DEVONtechnology, DEVONagent is the information finding tool of the next generation. It simulates the behaviour of a human…

Mozilla.org, the organization that coordinates Mozilla open source development, today announced the launch of a new foundation that will continue to promote the development, distribution and adoption of the award-winning Mozilla standards-based web applications and core technologies, including the Gecko browser layout engine. The Mozilla Foundation will continue and expand on the efforts of mozilla.org,…

O K, what does Apple, Microsoft, CNN, your local cable company, and Web based adult movie sites have in common? (This is not a trick question.) They all use technology to deliver digital content to you, and that is the reason why one company, Acacia Media Technologies, believes that its ship has come in. Who…

T he markets turned in a mixed performance on Wednesday as traders positioned themselves for the quarterly reporting season and continued looking for overall market trends for the summer months. At the close on Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 9,156.21, off 66.88. The S&P 500 Index finished at 1,002.21, down 5.63. The…

[Adobe CEO Bruce] Chizen, who has been running the company since December 2000, has learned from past mistakes. Heis spent the last two years redesigning products, replacing sales staff and buying up smaller firms to gird Adobe for a new assault on the corporate market. The grand plan: Convince companies that every single document they…

Best of all, iChat lets me bypass the phone company. For the few people on my instant-messaging buddy list who have iChat, I donit pick up the phone anymore to talk to them. I simply look to see if theyire available and, if they are, I click on the voice connection button in iChat. A…

According to the fine folks at As The Apple Turns, some PC folks are bent on defaming our CEO of choice by flooding the Forbes poll with negative votes. From As the Apple Turns: ALERT! It has come to our attention that apparently some Windoid site is attacking Steve Jobs in the only way they…

DEVONtechnologies releases version 4.0 of Christian Grunenbergis famous tool PhotoStickies. PhotoStickies displays one or more photos located on local drives or on the Web as frameless windows on the desktop, shows Webcam pictures, acts as a fast image viewer, and records and replays slideshows. Also, PhotoStickies can be used as a comfortable wallpaper utility. In…

About PalmApple is an open source Apple //e emulator for PalmOS PDAs. […] Current Status Complete rewrite using 68000 assembly for 6502 and video emulation. Apple //e with M65C02 CPU (not complete undocumented opcode emulation) 64K Memory (with 16K Language Card) 40×24 text mode, 280×192 hires mode, and mixed text/hires mode. Disk II controller support…

T he secondhanders and societal leeches will be out in force this Sunday, July 6th. The mi2g Intelligence Unit has issued a report saying that an international hacking challenge has been issued for that day, with a point system based on the OS of the target machine. Unfortunately for Mac system admins, Mac OS (and…

Mozilla on Windows now has support for NTLM authentication. This enables Mozilla to talk to MS web and proxy servers that are configured to use “windows integrated security”. Mozillais bookmarks have been overhauled. Bookmarks now include a root level folder, the ability to have two differently named bookmarks pointing at the same location, site icons…

T he discussion concerning the speed claims of Appleis new Power Mac G5 continues to churn on the Internet. Apple introduced the Power Mac G4 replacement last Monday during the WWDC keynote. During the presentation, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the new architecture by calling the Dual 2 GHz Power Mac G5 the "worldis fastest…

R AID: Redundant Array of Independent Disks. RAID is the technology that allows computer users to use multiple hard drives as one large and/or fast drive. The main two versions allow for speed (called striping), or for redundancy (called mirroring). A quick Google search offers this fairly accurate and concise explanation from Infortrend, a RAID…

In a somewhat rare move, an Apple executive has commented directly on the subject. In a recent phone interview posted to Slashdot, Appleis Vice President of Hardware Marketing Greg Joswiak claimed that Appleis G5 and P4/Xeon comparisons were designed to be as fair and balanced as possible, disclosing all details in an effort to prove…