In what we see as an interesting, as in peculiar, article, Hiawatha Bray, long-time tech pundit for the Boston Globe, has written a piece called "Apple’s good, but that’s no reason to switch," that asks his readers why they should Switch to the Mac. The interesting aspect comes out of Mr. Bray’s technique for showing…
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On Xserve: Is Jobs Nuts Or What?
S teve Jobs is one crazy guy. Absolutely bonkers. Heis pissed off people with .Mac, angered others by charging full price for OS X 10.2, and heis making a foray into the server market in a time when most computer makers are pulling back on market exploration. Such behavior can only be the result of…
Buyers Return To Wall Street, AAPL Pushed Up 3%
< B>Wednesday Morning Trading The markets moved higher starting with the opening bell on Wednesday as bargain hunters scavenged the Street following Tuesdayis dramatic sell-off. On Tuesday, few stocks were left unscathed as investors returned from the last holiday weekend of the summer and were abruptly greeted by disappointing numbers from the economyis manufacturing sector.…
Country Of Greece Outlaws All Computer Games. Seriously
I n the midst of the assault on Fair Use in the US by the MPAA and the RIAA, and the assault on personal freedoms and privacy in the pursuit of security, itis sometimes easy to forget that other countries have their own bits of complete insanity. Fortunately, a ZDNet article reminded us of this…
Adobe Sues Over Emdedded Fonts In PDF Files, Company On Receving End Of DMCA Complaint
A dobe has announced a lawsuit against the International Typeface Corporation (ITC) concerning a dispute over PDF files. Adobeis Portable Document Format (PDF) allows users to design a document that can be read by anyone on any platform with a PDF reader. Fonts, images, and formatting are all embedded in the document itself, ensuring that…
Apple To Enter Best Buy For Third Time, Retailer To Sell iPod
Third time’s the charm, or so Apple appears to have said to Best Buy. Apple has entered into an agreement to sell its products at Best Buy for a third time. The company will be selling the iPod, its very popular MP3 player at both Best Buy’s retail outlets and Web site. Apple used to…
Boost That Legacy With Some Jag Juice
Other World Computing, a leading provider of products and services for the Macintosh marketplace, today announced the availability of version 2.2 of its industry-acclaimed utility, XPostFacto©. The software utility developed by Ryan Rempel and exclusively licensed through OWC, allows owners of computers unsupported by Apple to install and boot the latest Apple operating system, Apple…
Apple: 100,000 Copies Of Jaguar Sold, 50,000 People Visited 35 Apple Stores
A pple has released official numbers from its hugely successful "100 Minutes to Jaguar" party (the event has been posthumously renamed "100 Minutes of Jaguar") this weekend. Apple opened up its 35 retail Apple Stores at 10:20 PM this past Friday night for pre-sales of Jaguar. According to the company, some 50,000 people attended the…
Forbes Reports On... Steve Jobs' Wardrobe
Forbes Magazine has taken a closer look into an issue that many Mac users, and indeed tech observers everywhere, find important, Steve Jobs attire. Seriously. As an offshoot of a series on the best dressed billionaires (link leads to a slide show), Forbes has published a short series on those high tech honchos whose attire…
MacPlay Says Soldier Of Fortune II: Double Helix Has Gone Gold
MacPlay, a subsidiary of United Developers, announced today that Soldier of Fortune II®: Double Helix for the Macintosh has gone gold and that the product will begin shipping to retail within 2 – 3 weeks. Developed by Raven Software and Activision, Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix drops players into the ranks of Americais shadow…
XLR8 Closes It's Doors While EchoFX Releases InterView 2.2.2
Today, EchoFX, a Macintosh software developer, announced the immediate availability of InterView software for OS X version 2.2.2. This latest release fixes installation issues and corrects minor incompatibilities in the software. Last week after XLR8 ceased business, EchoFX announced it would offer continued OS X software support for the XLR8 InterView USB analog video capture…
Apple Certifies Financials Four Months Early
V eteran Mac users may remember August 15, 1998 as the day the original Bondi blue iMac became available to consumers. It was a day that re-launched the Mac in the consumer space and revived a once ailing company. The iMac went on to become the most popular personal computer in history. August 15, 2002…
Griffin Tech Updates gPort Line With 10.2 Support
Griffin Technology, Inc. has released OS X Software version 1.2 for its entire line of gPort Serial Adapters, including the popular g4Port. Just in time for the international release of Apple’s newest operation system OS 10.2, this release brings complete compatibility to the new OS and further enhances performance and stability of all gPort devices.…
Whining 101
“Bartletts,” I told her, thinking that her confusion stemmed from an unfamiliarity with basic pear types. She smiled, punched a few keys and sat the pears on the built-in scale. The register rang up US$4.32. “I donit think thatis right. They should be 89 cents a pound and I only have 3 pears,” I told…
Wall Street Journal's Mossberg Loves Jaguar, Says Apple Will Introduce Family Pricing At US$199
The most interesting new Macintosh is the top-of-the-line, flat-panel iMac, which sports a 17-inch LCD screen instead of the 15-inch panel on the other iMacs. Thereis nothing special about most 17-inch screens, but the one on the new iMac is mesmerizing. It isnit square like most. Instead, itis much wider than it is high, so…
The Back Page - How Much Should Jaguar Cost? How Much Is A Customer Worth?
It’s funny how one’s preconceptions affect the way we interact with the world every day. I was watching an episode of Gunsmoke the other day, and the show opened up with an out-of-control stagecoach. The driver was doing his best to reign in the team of six horses that were racing pell-mell for some unknown…
The Back Page - Is Apple A Company You Can Trust?
I’ve been on vacation for the last two weeks, and boy did I have a blast. My girlfriend, who is finishing up a two year stint in Japan, met me in Vietnam where we proceeded to laze about in Hanoi, Hue, and Hoi An. There was the State-run (that capital "S" is there for a…
IBM Woos Apple With New, Powerful PPC
There are those who insist that the only way for Apple to compete is for them to start using Intel processors. There are those who believe that Motorola’s G4 processors have a lot of life in them and that a Mac isn’t a Mac if it doesn’t contain a processor from Motorola. According to News.com,…
PC Maker Offers All-In-One, Company Targets Mac Users
I n a somewhat unusual move, a company called Northgate Innovations has introduced a new all-in-one Windows XP machine that it is specifically targeting towards Mac users. In other words, Northgate wants a niche share of Appleis niche share. The PC is called the Integra, not to be mistaken for the wannabee sports car of…
Interview With Draganfly Creator
< A href="draganflyer-flying2.jpg">Apple.com has an article of cool use of iMovie to promote equally cool toys for adults. The company, Draganfly, makes some extraordinary products full of spirit of play that makes it no wonder that they are also Mac users. The Mac Observer (TMO) interviewed the founder, Zenon Dragan. TMO: Mr. Dragan, your company…
Apple's New Software Offering Requires Non-Apple Mouse -- One With Three Buttons
Apple announced Shake 2.5 yesterday, and buried in the technical specs is a little tidbit that we found both ironic and interesting, a three button mouse. The irony comes from the fact that Apple doesn’t offer a three-button mouse, despite cries from its customer base for such an Apple branded device. From the company’s technical…
Apple Stock Watch - NASDAQ Drops To Mid-1997 levels, Apple Continues To Fall
Monday Morning Activity The markets continued their broad decline Monday morning in the aftermath of Friday’s calamitous 390-point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. In early Monday trading the Dow dropped below the significant 8,000-point marker, falling just over 300 points to an intra-day low of 7,719.29 by early afternoon. The NASDAQ Composite Index…
iTools "Free For Life?" Well...
T his past MACWORLD Expo will likely go down in history as one of the most turbulent in Appleis history — after the infamous storming of Appleis booth by Joel Kocheris Power Computing mob in 1997 — all because of a marketing faux pas that has been exacerbated by managing missteps. Yet Apple can still…
Do Microsoft & Apple Have Problems Playing Together? Reactions From The Expo Floor
W e have taken note of recent reports from both the popular press and the Mac web suggesting that tensions are on the rise between Apple and Microsoft. The Wall Street Journal raised eyebrows when it published an article featuring Microsoftis Mac Business Unit head Kevin Browne accusing Apple of poor marketing of OS X.…