Apple features ‘Your Business on a Mac’ seminars
Apple is hosting short “Your Business on a Mac” seminars at locations around the country, to help business users get a leg on how the Mac can work for them. More: continued here
Month: March 2009
Review: Quad-Core and Eight-Core Mac Pros (2009 editions)
With its improved graphics, memory bandwidth, and reduced memory latency, the 2.66GHz quad-core Mac Pro was faster than the 2.8GHz eight-core Mac Pro, and at $2,499 costs $300 less. It would be a fine purchase for anyone replacing an older Mac or buying a new one for the first time. More: continued here
Scammer shuffles Apple out of 9,000 iPods
Nicholas Arthur Woodhams, a 23 year old from Kalamazoo, Michigan, was recently slapped upside the gord with federal charges of fraud and money laundering after he managed to con Apple into shipping him around 9,000 iPod shuffles. More: continued here
25 Years of Mac: Classic Macs Still at Work
The machines are rare examples of aging Macs that are still in daily use. They are a testament to the utility and longevity of the Mac, which celebrates its 25th anniversary on Sunday. More: continued here
iPhone Sales Hit 17 Million
Apple has sold a total of 17 million iPhones — including sales of both the original iPhone and iPhone 3G — since launch, according to the company’s vice president of iPod and iPhone product marketing. More: continued here
Why no iPhone support for Firefox mobile beta?
The beta version is still slow and has a ways to go before it can compete with Apple’s iPhone-ized Safari browser, but these are forgivable shortcomings, given its beta status.No, the real problem with Fennec is that it’s available only for one platform: Nokia’s N810 Internet Tablet. Who cares about that device? More: continued here
Did Lenovo invent Apple’s netbook?
A series of reports and rumors predict that Apple will ship a netbook this year. Lenovo suddenly “leaks” a two-year-old prototype with a unique form-factor that would be *perfect* for Apple’s netbook. Coincidence? More: continued here
Notebook keyboard protectors
Keyboard covers help keep your laptop’s keyboard clean and problem-free. We’ve rounded up a bunch of them to help you find the best one for your notebook. More: continued here
Safari 4 beta tweaks
Rob Griffiths demonstrates some tab tweaks for Safari 4 Beta—specifically, how to move the tab bar back below the bookmarks bar, and for those who prefer the new top tabs, how to use color to make the active tab more distinguishable from the inactive tabs. More: continued here
Dell’s iPhone Killer rejected by carriers as too dull
After signaling its intent to follow Apple’s wildly successful iPhone into the smartphone business, Dell’s first attempts to produce a phone have been rejected by the carries for being too dull and lacking enough differentiation to stand out in a competitive environment, according to a report. More: continued here
Bugs & Fixes: iWork ’09 documents can crash an iPhone
Some iWork ’09 documents may not display correctly on your iPhone, even causing the device to crash. Until a permanent fix comes out, Ted Landau shares the recommended work-around. More: continued here
How the iPhone 3.0 Will Create a New Mobile Economy
he iPhone 3.0 software includes the ability to copy-and-paste, a landscape keyboard, and push notifications. However, none of these updates were as revolutionary as the new features Apple offered to iPhone application developers. The one to watch however is the ability to purchase items within an application. More: continued here
iPhone 3.0 Beta OS Walkthrough Video
The biggest point to get out of this video is that the copy part of copy and paste works fine, but the paste part is tricky. It’s not incredibly clear (right now, in the beta) where you should double tap to enable it. It seems like you need to be doing this inside existing text….
The road to the Final Four runs through FileMaker
Peter Tiernan has developed a FileMaker 10 database that includes the results of every NCAA men’s basketball tournament since 1985. The database can be used to predict this year’s results. More: continued here
Vonage Pro now Mac-compatible
Vonage Pro, the VoIP phone service, now offers a Mac-compatible “softphone” so you can send and receive calls from anywhere your Mac is, including your Mac laptop. More: continued here