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The PandaWare Company has released an update to TimeCache, its popular time and expense tracking application for Macintosh users who bill clients for project work. PandaWare(r) TimeCache(tm) 4.07 includes a number of improvements, a new feature and bug fixes. Features: TimeCache makes it easy to enter data. It has an “Enter Job” window where you…

Apple has announced the much anticipated release of the next version of their multimedia player, QuickTime 5. QuickTime 5 is the latest upgrade to Appleis popular and powerful QuickTime technology. Version 5 shipped with Mac OS X, but this announcement marks the availability of QuickTime 5 for Mac OS 9 and Windows. Apple has also…

Eolake Stobblehouse [TMO]: David, you have long been a best-selling author of Mac books like iMac for Dummies and Mac Secrets. Now you write books about Palm and Windows too, and the latest is that you have become a New York Times columnist. Congrats on that. Tell us a bit about how you got that…

There is a war brewing, on these shores and abroad, that threatens our most basic need for security and autonomy. On one side is a tremendous superpower wielding political might with all the subtlety of a Cosa Nostra henchman. Squaring off against this formidable behemoth is a similarly large collective whose processes, shrouded in mystery…

when Apple announced the company had seen a major decrease in sales during the beginning of the December quarter (Appleis 1st fiscal quarter). The consensus since that announcement is that Mr. Mandich was ousted from his position, though Apple has been playing it straight. Mr. Mandich has apparently decided that he would rather rid himself…

Currently, the stand alone product is priced at US$499. Adding it to the high-end PowerMac G4 models will now cost US$250 extra (in place of a GeForce2MX), while adding it to the low end model will cost US$350 (in place of the less expensive ATI Rage 128 Pro). NVIDIAis Web site does not have pricing…

With the further weakness in consumer PC demand in March, we see moderate risk that Apple Computer will fall short of its heavily sought goal of a "slight profit" in the March quarter and see high risk that Apple will fall short of consensus estimates for the June quarter. We are maintaining our Street-low March…

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Group Logic, the leading vendor of network workflow software and services to the print media industry, announced today that it has released version 4.0 of its MassTransit Enterprise file transfer, remote proofing, and remote workflow software for beta testing by leading print media companies. The new product will be demonstrated at booth #2028 at Seybold…

Steve Wozniak designed the Apple I by himself motivated by the desire to make something he could show his geek buddies. Steve Jobs was able to sell 50 of the machines to a local computer store (one of the only ones in the country at that point), and Apple Computer was born. Back to CNBC:…

4D SA, publishers of the 4th Dimension RAD/RDBMS Environment and WebSTAR Server Suite, announced today that it has bundled Adobe? GoLive(tm) 5.0 software with several of its products to provide complete Web Server Solutions which will enable the integration of dynamic database content into HTML pages created with Adobe GoLive 5.0. The products bundled with…

After getting used to moving around the new Finder, described in our last installment, we then decided to explore some of the goodies in the Applications folder. We also posted some screenshots in an earlier article, but letis continue our date and meet some new friends. Old Friends We recognized some of the crew right…

Driving Around Before we delve into the Dock, learning how to navigate among your drives is a good place to start. If you double-click on a drive, youill be presented with a window that is definitely not what youire used to under good oli OS 9. What is familiar is the name of the drive…

Todayis entry comes from our own Editor-in-Chief, Bryan Chaffin. Launch CPU Monitor. Move CPU Monitor to the Dock. Get URL for Understanding and Working With The Dock for those who may not know how to add things to the Dock. Add it to Login Items in System Prefs. Open CPU Monitor prefs. Turn on Display…

Apple probably had good intentions. Prior to delivering Mac OS X 10.0 to the (early adopter) masses on Saturday, a new firmware update was made available some time Friday. It had the promise of better performance with Mac OS X, so many decided to apply the update before their new OS arrived. Potentially a big…

Version 4.6 of Snak has now been released. Version 4.6 provides support for NAT routers, multiple preference files for the case that multiple people use the program and more precise control of what is spoken, and from what channels. The fully updated server list is read from an external file which can be easily updated…

As we reported yesterday, OS X users wanting to use Eric Peytonis excellent IM application, Fire, have been finding the going difficult. Fire has been updated three times in the days since OS Xis release, and each update has been blocked by AOL, meaning that OS X users have no native AIM client available. While…

What is TextSpresso?TextSpresso is an easy to use, professional level text editor and cleaner. TextSpresso includes over 190 filters and can handle a wide range of tasks, including:Cleaning up E-mails, Web pages, MIME documents, and other Internet text.Preparing text for the Internet to insure that it is readable regardless of transport method or end destination.Fast,…

The highly-regarded Marathon Trilogy by Bungie Software has long held a near and dear place close to the heart of every Mac gamer. With its complicated story and timeless game play, Marathonis laurels are much deserved. Over the course of the six years since Marathon 1 was released, the gameis fans have worked long and…

"Apple and Sears have mutually decided to part ways and will be unwinding their relationship during the remainder of this year," Sears Roebuck spokesman Tom Nicholson said Thursday. Nicholson declined to elaborate. The move comes as Apple is changing its retail strategy, which includes plans to open its own line of stores. An Apple representative…

PowerSchool offers a host of features, and we took the liberty of providing links for your benefit. This system offers some seriously powerful tools for schools, teachers, students, and parents. According to PowerSchoolis Web site: Scheduling/Course Request Manager Integrated Gradebook and Attendance Parental Access via Internet or Phone Transcripts and Report Cards Electronic Daily Bulletins…

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That brings us back to the Reuters article. Reuters was reporting on how much those options would be worth once they were fully vested, assuming an average of a 5%-10% growth of the stock price per year. We arenit sure about their math, but it is interesting to see Mr. Jobsi compensation still making news…