He says “So, whatis not to like [about the earnings report]? Plenty, especially when you consider that iPod unit sales, from a quarter ago, tumbled 5% — the second straight quarter of declines.” iPod sales are down for the second quarter in a row, and iPod revenue was down 13 percent. Compared to last year,…
Jeff Gamet
Jeff Gamet is the Mac Observer’s Managing Editor, and co-host of the Apple Context Machine podcast. He is the author of “The Designer’s Guide to Mac OS X” from Peachpit Press, and writes for several design-related publications. Jeff has presented at events such as Macworld Expo, the RSA Conference, and the Mac Computer Expo. In all his spare time, he also hosts TMO’s Daily Observations podcast, co-hosts The iOS Show podcast, and makes guest appearances on several other shows, too. Jeff dreams in HD.
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Apple Sells Parallels in Stores [Updated]
Parallels Desktop is proving to be a popular item at the New York SOHO Apple Store. It sold out the same day the software hit the shelves. Parallels Desktop lets you run additional operating systems, like Windows XP, on Intel-based Macs while Mac OS X is running. Appleis free Boot Camp software lets you boot…
Macs to Drive Apple Shares Up
Even though Apple’s stock is lower than it has been for months, market analysts see Mac sales as a driving force behind an expected rebound. Shares could climb 45 to 75 percent over the next 12 months, according to Reuters. Earnings growth for Apple is expected to average 20 percent year over year for the…
Monster.com Says Mac Skills Handy for Getting Hired
Brian Vaughn, executive vice president of network support and IT solutions provider Dataprise, says “The Mac will be coming soon to a company near you, if it hasnit already.” System administrators, network engineers, database administrators, programmers, and support professionals all need to have some level of Macintosh expertise. The Monster.com article shows a trend towards…
Keep Your Mailboxes Healthy
Appleis Mail does its best to keep track of your messages, but sometimes it takes a little maintenance to keep things running smoothly. Rebuilding your mailboxes goes a long way in preventing crashes and lost messages. Hereis what you do: Launch Mail. Itis probably in your Dock, but you can also find it in Applications/Mail.…
Apple VP in Japan Resigns
Appleis successful iPod marketing push in Japan was credited to Mr. Sakito. Phil Schiller, Appleis senior vice president overseeing worldwide marketing, will take over his duties in Japan until a replacement is hired.
Explorer drops, Firefox and Safari Gain in June
Safari gained market share in June, as did Firefox, while Microsoft’s Internet Explorer returned to its downward trend. Safari inched back up from 2.53 percent to 3.19 percent – back where it was in March of this year, according to statistics from Market Share. Firefox also took back some market share in June, climbing from…
Tiger "Phone Home" Features Raise Privacy Concerns
Mr. Jakult uses a utility called Little Snitch to monitor his network and Internet activity, and it detected the new communication between his Mac and Appleis servers. His research, along with others, determined that a new process called dashboardadvisoryd is initiating the communication to verify that certain Dashboard widgets are the same versions as the…
Behind the Scenes: Screen Shots
Capturing My Screen Every screenshot starts with an image capture of all or part of my display. Mac OS X includes a screen capture feature (Command-Shift-3), but it doesnit offer as many features as Snapz Pro X. This utility lets me capture only what I need, select which format the images are saved in, and…
Duplicate Your iDVD Projects
iDVD makes it amazingly easy to burn your movies to DVD. If you burn one disk, and then later on decide you want to make a couple more, however, you donit have to spend time waiting for iDVD to re-encode your movie. You can save a bunch of time by using Disk Utility instead. Launch…
Apple iPod Factory Would Set Good Example
Apple’s ongoing investigation into “sweatshop” allegations at the Foxconn plants that manufacture iPods is commendable, but building its own factory would remove the potential for poor working conditions. Writing for BusinessWeek Online, Arik Hesseldahl thinks that the best way for Apple to ensure good working conditions is to build its own manufacturing plant in China.…
Apple Financials Leave Some in the Dark
Apple always provides information about operating profits based on regions and not products. For products, it only offers total sales data. Operating profit for its retail stores is also broken out as a separate item. Accounting standards indicate that any segment that generates more than ten percent of a companyis revenue, like the iPod, should…
TMO Quick Tip - Erasing a CD-RW or DVD-RW
Every Mac made today can burn CD and CD-RW (rewritable CDs) discs, and if your Mac has a SuperDrive, you can burn DVD and DVD-RW discs, too. The problem with reusing a rewritable CD or DVD is that Apple didn’t exactly make it easy to figure out. If you want to erase a CD-RW or…
Apple Hot Deals Update For Several Companies
The new B&H Photo Video Hot Deals page has offers on the Kodak EasyShare Z650 6.1-megapixel digital camera with 10x zoom, the Epson Stylus Photo R800 photo-quality inkjet printer that also prints on CDs and DVDs, the new Etymotic ER6iB sound-isolating stereo earphones for black iPods, the Avid Xpress DV 4.0 Basic Kit, the iM3…
Sofa Control 1.0 Available
Sofa Control is available for download at the CASE Apps Web site, and is priced at US$9.99.
iPod Sewer Durability Test
Spring semester at the Santa Clara University in California left students a little backed up while maintenance crews worked to free an iPod mini that was accidentally flushed down a toilet. Once stuck in the College of Arts and Sciences building plumbing, the diminutive iPod proved next to impossible to extract. According to NBC 11,…
Analyst: Apple to Enter Cell Market, But Not Today
Appleis entry into the cell phone market will require FCC approval, and Apple would have to file for approval at least three months in advance. To date, no filing has been made. Since the filing is public, the company would likely make a product announcement at the same time as the filing, offering consumers several…
Mac Author Michael Bartosh Dies
The Macintosh community suffered a tragic loss on Sunday with the untimely death of Mac OS X Server expert and author Michael Bartosh. AFP548.com is reporting that he fell from a balcony in Tokyo, Japan, in what police are ruling as an accident. Mr. Bartosh was a former Apple systems engineer, and traveled the world…
Apple Hot Deals Update For AudioMIDI
The new AudioMIDI Hot Deals page has offers on an exclusive Wave Artsi sale with special pricing on FinalPlug 5, MultiDynamics 5, TrackPlug 5 and Panorama 5; Antares Kantos; the Edirol R-09 Portable Recorder with built-in stereo mic; Classic Console Strip LE – Native from URS; the Saffire audio interface from Focusrite; and more. You…
TMO Quick Tip - Fine Tune Your Sidebar
The Sidebar in Finder windows is a handy place to store commonly used files and folders. All you have to do is drag an item into the Sidebar for it to appear, and drag it out to make it disappear. You can do the same thing with the disk icons in your Sidebar, too. For…
Google Video Player for the Mac
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Adobe, Microsoft Offer Perspective On PDF Discussions [Updated]
Microsoft spokesperson Stacy Drake commented “Adobe has long claimed that PDF is an open standard and dozens of companies, including a number of our competitors, have implemented that standard, but Adobe insists we need to charge a price.” Microsoft offered to make the PDF export module available as a free download, instead of bundling it…