The Lustrous Lure of the New iMac

Apple has dropped "Computer" from its name, but its computer business is still growing, even if the iPod player is the company's real star. Apple's resurgence started with the first iMac, in 1998. Little by little, Apple has been persuading people to opt for Macintosh computers over Windows PCs. After Apple refreshed its iMac line last week, I decided to test one from the perspective of a Windows user.

published on Saturday, the 18. August 2007, macnewsworld

Cookbook For Third-Party Apps On iPhone

a_skripko suggests this easy step-by-step procedure for adding third-party applications to an Apple iPhone. While the article claims "this procedure can be performed by the average user," it might at least have to be an average user with no fear of the command line.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

published on Friday, the 17. August 2007, apple-slashdot

EA Ships Four Games for Mac, Two to Come

As originally noted on Page 2, Electronic Arts games Battlefield 2142, Command and Conquer 3, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and Need for Speed Carbon are all now available for order at the Apple Store. ...

published on Friday, the 17. August 2007, macrumors

Apps: Sticky Windows, Billings

Sticky Windows 2.3.3 ($16) shrinks your windows into tabs when you drag a window towards the edge of your screen, providing you with a completely clutter-free workspace. The tab can be created by dragging a window to any edge of the screen (Sticky Windows also supports multiple screens). When the mouse reaches the margin of the screen a tab will ap...

published on Friday, the 17. August 2007, macintosh-news-network

First wave of EA Mac games finally en route to stores

Following a month-long delay, Electronic Arts said Friday that its first wave of games for Apple's Mac OS X operating system are finally in transit to Apple retail stores nationwide. Need for Speed Carbon and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoe...

published on Friday, the 17. August 2007, appleinsider

Bear Stearns study shows iPhone overcoming corporate barrier

Although some executives still see the lack of explicit business e-mail support as an obstacle to buying the iPhone, a growing number of these users are sidestepping corporate demands and buying iPhones for their own use, Bear Stearns reports in a ne...

published on Friday, the 17. August 2007, appleinsider

PC Mag chief editor tires of Windows Vista

PC Magazine editor-in-chief Jim Louderback today chose to express his frustration with Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system as he passed down the publication's leadership to his successor, Lance Ulanoff. Louderback said he is tired of Vista's broken features, and that he may even switch to Linux moving forward. "The litany of what doesn't wor...

published on Friday, the 17. August 2007, macintosh-news-network

iWeb 2.0.1 update fixes publishing woes

The easy-to-use web page publishing tool has had a hard time actually publishing pages, but this update helps.Read More...

published on Friday, the 17. August 2007, ars-technica

Apple's expanding tech influence

Apple's influence in the technological community continues to rise as a wide array of businesses and individuals alike utilize as well as discuss the company's innovations. WSJ.com today introduced a free video podcast titled "Tech Diary" aimed at documenting the results of people and technology coming together, with one of the first episodes follo...

published on Friday, the 17. August 2007, macintosh-news-network

Lotus ND8 coming to Mac OS X Leopard in '08

Earlier today, IBM released Lotus Notes Domino 8 for Windows Vista and XP. The new release features a redesigned user experience, a new look and feel, as well as dramatically enhanced functionality for organizing messages and threads with the intent of structuring inboxes to deal with floods of email. A Mac OS X release was conspicuously absent fro...

published on Friday, the 17. August 2007, macintosh-news-network