We?ve Got 8 Cores!

Good Morning Apple! Thanks for the 8 Core Mac Pros! Now I just need to figure out where the money to fund one of these puppies is coming from… Brought to you by: TrackThePack - Package Tracking 2.0

published on Wednesday, the 4. April 2007

Google Desktop for Mac OS X Released

Finally, one less reason to use my Windows laptop at work. Late last night, Google released the long-awaited Mac OS X version of their popular Google Desktop application, enabling Mac users to break away from Apple’s bundled Spotlight application and use the familiar Google interface to search local documents, e-mail, Web history and GMail archives [...]

published on Wednesday, the 4. April 2007

MacHeist Showing Life Again

When MacHeist dropped their huge software bundle late last year, it seemed to be the end of the marketing game. But there was one Briefing left untouched and not much else came from the website. But on April 1st my feed reader picked up on some activity which begins a mini heist. [...]

published on Tuesday, the 3. April 2007

Shuffling Past iTunes

This isn’t a new bit of software (according to the release date, it’s coming up on it’s 1 year birthday), but it’s something I hadn’t been aware of until I caught a blip about it on LifeHacker. The iPod Shuffle Database Builder is handy in case you don’t dig on iTunes all that much. You [...]

published on Tuesday, the 3. April 2007

Not to Brag, but?

It appears I was right. DRM-free, 256kbps tracks from EMI for $1.29. You’ll still be able to buy the DRM’d 128kbps tracks for $0.99. You can upgrade tracks you already bought fro $0.30. Complete albums will still be $9.99 for the DRM-free high-quality version. This is an interesting move. I’m surprised they’re offering both formats, but I’d [...]

published on Monday, the 2. April 2007

EMI Music to Become DRM-Free on Monday?

The BBC is reporting that EMI is having a media event on Monday, with Steve Jobs appearing as a special guest. Many people are saying this means the Beatles will finally sell their songs on the iTunes Music Store. However, I don’t think that warrants Steve Jobs flying to England to appear at a media event. No, [...]

published on Sunday, the 1. April 2007

Experts: OS X still safe but ?does it matter??

Between the Month of Apple Bugs, the ‘Hacking a MacBook in 60 seconds’ controversy and Bill Gates’ Newsweek interview where he claimed “security guys break the Mac every single day,” one could be forgiven for thinking that maybe Macs are insecure and unsafe. But InformationWeek’s Sharon Gaudin interviewed a number of security experts and all agree [...]

published on Saturday, the 31. March 2007

BusinessWeek: Greenpeace claims inaccurate

In his latest Byte of the Apple column for BusinessWeek, Arik Hesseldahl dissects the latest efforts by Greenpeace to “shame Apple into taking what it considers corrective action on environmental practices.” Greenpeeace has been focusing on Apple because of how the company rates on the group’s environmental score card, but Hesseldahl points out that their [...]

published on Friday, the 30. March 2007

Call Me Skeptical

But I didn’t know it was this simple! All I had to do was ask a friend for their PowerBook and I could’ve gotten one for free. Or not. Does anyone know somebody like this? I’m getting ahead of myself. In case you haven’t clicked the link and read the [...]

published on Friday, the 30. March 2007

Mac Podcatcher Roundup

I have been on a search for the perfect podcatcher for some time now. I watch video podcasts as an alternative to traditional television programming since I have a Mac mini connected to my television. I choose the larger versions of video files because they look better on a television. I first tried out [...]

published on Friday, the 30. March 2007