A pple has added a new article to the Knowledge Base explaining some of the tactics that spammers use. The article also provides links to documents with information on how to help protect yourself. Appleis Knowledge Base (sometimes referred to as the KBase) is a central location for all of Appleis support documents and other…
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MonkeyByte Releases Two Games From Mac-Yun-Soft
MBD is proud to announce a new partnership with independent game developer Mac-Yun-Soft! You can now find their popular games, iZadori and iCan You Find It?i, at our Online store front, VendorNation.com! These games are RegCode ready and available for immediate registration! Zador is a game in which you find pairs of matching tiles which…
Fortune Magazine Offers Positive Look At Apple's MWSF 2003 Offerings, Touts Keynote To Business Audience
We are always keen on seeing a bit of positive mainstream press about Apple, and Fortune delivered just such a treat today. The financial and business magazine has published a very positive outlook on Apple’s Macworld San Francisco 2003 product announcements that is fairly gushing with glowing remarks. The author, Brent Schlender, specifically looks at…
Apple Excommunicates iCommune: iTunes File Swapping Plug-In Violates SDK Terms Of Service According To Company
iCommune, a plug-in for Apple’s iTunes that allows users on a network to browse and share music files, has been shut down by Apple, according to an article on ZDNet UK. James Speth, the developer of iCommune, was ordered by Apple to discontinue offering iCommune for download, alleging that Speth violated the terms of the…
Apple Posts US$8 Million Loss; Aside From Non-Recurring Charges, Company Earns US$11 Million
Today at 2:00 PM PST, Apple held its quarterly conference call (see TMO’s live coverage for more information), where the company announced a net loss of US$8 million dollars or two cents per share. During the same quarter last year, Apple posted a net profit of US$38 million, or eleven cents per share. Apple was…
TMO Exclusive - Apple Switcher Star Survives Helicopter Crash (With Pics)
Apple Switcher Jeremiah Cohick ended Macworld Expo San Francisco 2003 with a bang, literally. Mr. Cohick survived a helicopter crash on Friday afternoon during an aerial tour of San Francisco. The star of one of Apple’s Switch ads — and the nemesis of fellow-Switcher Ellen Feiss according to an interview she gave a college newspaper…
In The Midst Of Economic Downturn, Macworld SF 2003 Attendance Tops 90,000
J ust when there is debate on the efficacy of Macworld Expo as a vehicle for Apple to get the word out on its products, IDG announces record attendance for the event. At the most recent Macworld Expo in San Francisco that was held last week, IDG says that 90,473 people attended the event. We…
Day 4 Macworld Attendance Higher, Vendors Report Higher Macworld Sales
F rom those of us hitting the floor of this yearis Macworld Expo, attendance on the first day of the show was off. Thatis not based on official numbers or comments from IDG World Expos, the Macworld Expo organizers, but rather our own observations, and comments from vendors. What makes this interesting is that attendance…
Shots From The floor Of Massive Tablets, Jaguar Drives, Cool Furniture, More
< /P> John F. Braun offers more pictures from the floor of Macworld Expo San Francisco 2003. Below we have the a huge tablet, some Jaguar themed drives from Maxtor, the very cool iGo iMac desk, and more. Check out our Special Report for Macworld Expo San Francisco 2003 for more image galleries, and other…
Shots From The floor Of Puppies, UFOs, More
< /P> John F. Braun offers more pictures from the floor of Macworld Expo San Francisco 2003. Below we have the UFO base for G4 iMacs, as well an image of the Puppy, a fingerprint ID device for the Mac. Check out our Special Report for Macworld Expo San Francisco for more image galleries, and…
MWSF 2003 - The Best MWSF 2003 Keynote Pics You Will See
width=”50%”> Itis time we posted our keynote pics, and once again we are proud to bring you images from our own Daniel Miller. Heis known as Photodan in the TMO forums, for obvious reasons, and we think these are easily the best images you will see from the keynote. These images were shot before, during,…
Apple Announces Final Cut Express: Mid-Range Professional Video Editing For US$299
Apple? today introduced Final Cut? Express, a new product based on Apple?s award-winning Final Cut Pro? and optimized for the DV format. Final Cut Express is aggressively priced at $299 (US) allowing small business users, educators, students and advanced hobbyists to edit video like professional video editors. Final Cut Express includes all the key features…
Apple Announces Keynote Presentation App
Apple? today unveiled Keynote, a new generation of presentation software that brings the ability to create stunning, professional-quality presentations to everyone. Featuring Appleis legendary ease of use, Keynote includes professionally designed themes, amazing typography, pro-quality image resizing, animated charts and tables that can be created in seconds, and cinematic-quality transitions. Available immediately for $99 (US),…
Snowmint Updates Budget With QIF Importing
Snowmint Creative Solutions LLC, a publisher of personal productivity software solutions, announced today the release of Budget version 3.3 for MacOS X. This release adds many new features such as QIF file import, a long term planner, currency conversion, a redesigned Preferences window, and a new localization for British English. Various bug fixes were also…
Lindows Attacks Microsoft's Claim On Windows Trademark
Microsoft’s legal team will ring in the new year with its ongoing complaint against Linux distributor Lindows.com. Lindows has asked for a summary judgment, to be delivered in January, that would invalidate Microsoft’s use of the term Windows as a trademark. That trademark is the basis for the suit from Microsoft that actually launched this…
Local Newspaper Coverage Of PowerSchool Reflects Software's Growing Importance
I n March of 2001, Apple bought the company that produced the education data management system, PowerSchool, for US$62 million. Thatis quite an investment. Until recently, there has been little mention of the product in the press. Today we noted just such a mention from a local Tennessee newspaper. In Maryville, Tennessee, Carpenters Middle School…
Apple Stores Sales Grew To US$282 Million In 2002, Failed To Earn Profit
A pple released its Form 10-K SEC filing for fiscal 2002, a document that has revealed many things about the companyis operations. First and foremost of those things is the companyis retail operations. Appleis retail Apple Store strategy has been the center point of its quest for renewed growth. The company has looked at and…
MCF Software Prevents Auto-Reply Loops With New App
MCF Software, LLC has released version 1.0 of its Auto Reply plug-in for EIMS (Eudora Internet Mail Server). The Auto Reply plug-in allows you to easily specify users for whom an auto-reply email message is to be sent, with the plug-in maintaining a list of those addresses to which it has sent a message. This…
TextArc: A Marriage Of Literature With Technology (With Pics)
CKQUOTE> Watching TextArc cycle through Alice in Wonderland is amazing. The text flows around the edge of the image, and as the words are drawn and associations are made in flowing color, the work of literature comes alive. This is one of the coolest things we have brought to you in some time. Itis a…
Another PC Company Innovates By Copying Apple
In another clear-cut case of Apple’s innovation being borrowed by the Wintel camp, Sharp has unveiled a laptop that includes an amazing "new" feature that is just like something that Apple has been doing for years. Observer Brutno noticed in a PCWorld magazine article that Sharp was touting the ability to use its MM1-1 laptop…
CMS ABSplus Makes Backups Easy For Everyone
Within 4 minutes of breaking the shrinkwrap on the box, we were backing up our files. Itis THAT simple. CMS has a real winner of an idea on their hands with the ABSplus, a self-contained backup drive that automatically starts backing up when you plug it in. We tested their FireWire unit (thereis also a…
Apple Posts Signature iPods From Tony Hawk, Beck, & Madonna
W ould you pay extra to have Beckis name on your iPod? How about Madonna? Tony Hawk? Thanks to some eagle-eyed members of the TMO forums, that question has relevance today. On Appleis iPod promo site, the company has listed three new signature iPods, from Beck, Madonna, and Tony Hawk. Those Web pages: Click on…
Intel Microscope Plug-In Update Features QuickTime Movie Support
Microscope 1.1 is a Mac OS X freeware application written specifically for the Intel Play and Digital Blue QX3/QX3+ USB Computer Microscope. Microscope 1.1 allows you to capture images as jpeg or tiff, create time-lapse QuickTime movies, and add a text comment and/or time stamp to the image or movie. Version 1.1 adds a .5…
FlashGO! Media Reader/Writer Packs A Lot Of Punch In Small Package
Introduction One of the great features of todayis portable devices (such as your authoris recently acquired Palm i705) is that many of them support memory expansion via one of several media card formats. This opens up the possibility of being able to transfer data between the device and your Mac. But the variety of media…