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When running a race, one strategy is to get out front early and maintain your lead. If you are strong enough to stay ahead of the pack, you don’t have to worry about finding elbow room, or saving that little bit of reserve energy for the final sprint near the end; you just cruise and…

Feeling cramped? Is the world pressing in on you? Does it seem that your personal space, that imagined aura that separates you from the next guy, is shrinking? Maybe you should get an iPod. According to a BBC News report, Dr. Michael Bull, a lecturer in Culture and Media Studies at the University of Sussex,…

Apple is to Steve Jobs as Microsoft is to Bill Gates as Oracle is to Larry Ellison as Dell is to, well, Dell. All of those companies run with the blood of their founders, and are reflections of their boss. While Apple tried to get rid of Steve Jobs, and paid a big price for…

I was sitting in a bar with a buddy on a Friday night. My friend, Trevor, is a guy that has always used PCs at work, and so it made sense for him to buy PCs at home. Now, believe it or not, when I am just hanging out, I am not constantly evangelizing Macs.…

Colourfull Creations has released an update for Maxi Bidder, bringing it to version 1.84. Maxi Bidder is a utility designed for automated eBay bidding. The update features a message bug fix and other enhancements. According to Colourfull Creations: Colourfull Creations releases Maxi Bidder update for Macintosh OS X and Macintosh OS 9. Colourfull Creations updates…

The iPod portable music player could effectively be a US$1 billion business for Apple Computer by the end of this year and US$1.6 billion by September of 2006, according to the predictions of Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich. He further predicted the iPod is not a "one-hit wonder," and that Apple will see some Windows…

With all of the hoopla over the iPod mini recently, it is easy to overlook some of Apple’s other equally cool offerings that were announced during MacWorld in San Francisco this past January (like iLife ’04). Those of you who’ve bought iLife ’04 already know about the many improvements in iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD, and…

How many of you know about Window XP’s Remote Desktop feature, or use Windows Messenger? Being that you are an Apple audience, your ignorance of these features is understandable (note that 1/3 of our visitors are on Windows machines), but that shouldn’t be the case if you happen to run a PC with Windows XP.…

Thin, stylish LCD flat-panel computer displays will surpass the sales of bulky cathode-ray tube (CRT) monitors for the first time in the US later this year, according to researcher DisplaySearch. Sales of liquid crystal displays (LCDs) are expected to reach US$21 billion this year and projections are that prices will slowly fall on all size…

Lawyers representing rap superstar Eminem and the publisher of his music have accused Apple Computer of knowingly using one of his songs in a 2003 iTunes television commercial, even after the company and its advertising agency confirmed it did not have permission to do so. As a result, Apple is being sued along with three…

AllAfrican.com has an interesting report on Apple’s efforts to gain market share in South Africa. The media outlet says while Apple’s market share in the struggling economy of South Africa is at 2%, the company owns some 80% of the graphic design industry. From AllAfrica.com: Ten years after re-entering the South African market, Apple still…

C|Net is reporting that Motorola has introduced slightly faster G4 processors that should run cool enough for a laptop. This could allow Apple to release faster PowerBooks, but the processors clock in at only 1.42 GHz, 70 MHz faster than the 1.33 GHz processors currently offered in Apple’s top of the line 17″ PowerBook, and…

Elite Computers shut its doors last April, a victim, according to the company, of Apple’s unfair treatment to its resellers. A lawsuit from Elite’s Thomas Armes and MacAdam’s Tom Santos followed soon, with both retailers claiming that Apple was systematically and unfairly putting them out of business in order to make way for the company’s…

If you’re looking to download music, legally at least, your choices have never been better; the number of such services seemed to expand almost daily. It could be, however, that the salad days of iTunes Music Store wannabes, or at least one fairly prominent wannabe, are numbered. The San Jose Mercury News is reporting that…

Jason Cross is cross, if you’ll pardon the rather obvious joke, at Apple’s iTunes/iPod business model. Mr. Cross is a writer for ExtremeTech, a technology magazine, and he has penned a condemnation of iTunes/iPod based on Apple’s business model for the platform. Mr. Cross’s basic premise is that though iTunes is very good software, and…

Apple announced this morning that the iPod mini has shipped. Apple first announced the iPod mini at January’s Macworld San Francisco, and since that time the company says that it has received more than 100,000 pre-orders for the unit. The iPod mini has been somewhat controversial, with some criticizing it’s US$249 price tag for a…

Remember Dan Geer? He was part of a group of security experts who published a paper that warned that Microsoft’s overwhelming software dominance is bad for our country, and the computer industry as whole. Mr. Geer, who had been working for @stake Inc., was fired for his efforts, but his push to promote a more…

It’s been quite a while since we’ve heard our friends in Redmond warn us of a critical flaw in any of its software (over a week, in fact!), so it’s about time. According to an article at ZDNet, Microsoft has issued a patch for Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 that…