Hans Canosa: Two-Way “Conversations”

Hans Canosa’s “Conversations with Other Women” tackles an age-old theme: What would you do if you had a second chance with someone you once loved? To adequately address the question, he had no choice but to split the screen and multiply the angles to show all sides of the conversation.

published on Friday, the 11. August 2006

Jeffrey Kovel: Control Freaks, by Design

At Skylab, a fast-growing architecture firm in Portland, Oregon, led by Jeffrey Kovel, detail is everything. To ensure that the buidings they design accurately fulfill their architectural vision, Kovel and his team take an intensely hands-on approach, supported by Macs.

published on Friday, the 11. August 2006

A&E Networks TV Shows Now Available at the iTunes Music Store

Hit television programming from A&E Network, The Biography and History Channels is now available for purchase and download on the iTunes Music Store. iTunes offers 200+ TV shows for $1.99 per episode for viewing on a computer or iPod.

published on Wednesday, the 9. August 2006

Mac OS X Tip of the Week: Spruce Up Your Finder Window

Have a favorite photo you never tire of looking at? Why not use it to dress up your Finder window? Here’s how.

published on Wednesday, the 9. August 2006

Apple Launches “Summer of Music” in Japan

Today Apple launched the “Summer of Music” in Japan with free music from iTunes (Japan’s favorite online music store), collectible iTunes Cards and exclusive live performances at Apple Stores.

published on Tuesday, the 8. August 2006

iTunes Exclusive Pre-Order of Bob Dylan’s New Album

Bob Dylan’s new album “Modern Times” is available through an exclusive pre-order on the iTunes Music Store. Beginning today, iTunes customers who pre-order “Modern Times” can also participate in an exclusive Ticketmaster pre-sale for concert tickets to select dates on Bob Dylan’s upcoming fall tour.

published on Tuesday, the 8. August 2006

Apple Unveils New Mac Pro Featuring Quad 64-bit Xeon Processors

Apple today unveiled the new Mac Pro, a quad Xeon, 64-bit desktop workstation featuring two new Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors running up to 3.0GHz and a new system architecture that delivers up to twice the performance of the Power Mac G5 Quad. With advanced performance, greater expansion, higher performance graphics options and unprecedented customization, the newly designed Mac Pro is the ideal system for the most demanding user.

published on Monday, the 7. August 2006

Apple Introduces Xserve with Quad 64-bit Xeon Processors

Apple today announced the new Xserve, a quad Xeon, 64-bit server featuring Mac OS X Server Tiger on two Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors running up to 3.0GHz, resulting in performance that is over five times that of its predecessor. With an industry-leading high bandwidth server architecture that includes PCI Express, independent 1.33 GHz front side buses with 4MB of shared L2 cache, and fully-buffered DIMMs (FB-DIMMs), the new Xserve delivers up to four times the I/O bandwidth, up to three times the memory bandwidth and twice the storage bandwidth of the Xserve G5.

published on Monday, the 7. August 2006

Apple Previews Mac OS X Leopard

Apple today previewed Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard, the sixth major version of Mac OS X, to its third party developers. Leopard, scheduled to ship in spring 2007, extends Apple’s leadership in software innovation with groundbreaking new features, including Time Machine, a revolutionary new way to automatically back up and restore everything on your Mac, and Spaces, an entirely new way to instantly switch between groups of applications required for various tasks.

published on Monday, the 7. August 2006

Apple Previews Mac OS X Server Leopard

Apple today previewed Mac OS X Server version 10.5 Leopard, the next major release of Apple’s award-winning UNIX server operating system. Scheduled to ship in spring 2007, Leopard Server builds on Apple’s legendary ease of use with new Server Assistant and Server Preference features that make it easy for even non-technical users to set up and manage a server with just a few clicks of a mouse.

published on Monday, the 7. August 2006