< /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…
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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 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…
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…
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…
System Support Now Shipping Stock Calculator 1.0 For Online Traders
System Support Products, Inc. announces the availability of Stock Calculator for Apple Mac OS X. Stock Calculator is a stock trade profit/loss and share price calculator application. Stock Calculator is designed to be the perfect assistant for anyone doing online stock trading. Besides total cash outlay and profit/loss calculations, Stock Calculator is ideal for performing…
Apple Puts Pressure On Australian Telco To Change Name
November 30th saw a News.com.au article regarding one Green Communications, formerly Apple Communications, and its recent legal wranglings with Apple Computer over the use of the name. According to the article, the company formerly known as Apple Communications — a telecommunications company set up to rival Orange — was ordered to pay $100,000 AUD to…
Maine's iBook Program Gets Good Press
Governor Angus King, Maine’s idealistic leader who proposed to give every Maine middle schooler an Apple laptop, must be feeling pretty good these days. Since implementing his plan to give Maine’s economic future a boost by investing in education through the copious use of technology in the form of iBooks, many of the people who…
Microsoft Eyes New Server Licensing Scheme, Apple's Remains Most Beneficial
One of the largest selling points of Xserve is that Apple, unlike Microsoft’s server offerings, does not charge a premium license fee for user-server usage. That policy has no doubt worried Microsoft to no end, especially since many of Microsoft’s customers are revolting over license fees. C|Net is reporting that Microsoft is about to change…
A Closer Look At Iceland's "Switch" Campaign
Many Observers would be excused for thinking that France, Germany or the U.K would have been a better choice for a Switch campaign, but this doesnit take into account Icelandis special position in the Mac universe. It also doesnit take into account Icelandis culture, and the dedication of an Apple reseller, because technically, these are…
Larry Ellison Bought 70,000 Shares Of AAPL Shortly After Resigning From Apple's Board
L arry Ellison resigned from Appleis board of directors in late September, but he exercised options for some 70,000 shares of the company two months later, according to a report from Reuters. The options were earned during Mr. Ellisonis 5-year tour as one of Appleis Directors. Larry Ellisonis day job is being CEO of Oracle,…
Microsoft Appoints Former Microsoft Employee For Antitrust Settlement Oversight Board. Seriously.
Imagine, if you will, a world where criminals go unpunished for their actions. Now, imagine if law-breakers could choose the people who were assigned to watch over their actions in the future. For those with little imagination, you don’t have to imagine, because we have an example right here in the US. In the Microsoft…
Apple European Exec Named To Online Bank's Board
Another Apple executive has been tapped to sit on a board of director. Pascal Cagni, Apple’s Vice President and General Manager Europe, Middle East and Africa, has been named to the board of Egg, a European online banking firm that has been aggressively expanding its operations throughout Europe. The firm cited Mr. Cagni’s work with…