20 Goofy USB Gadgets & Gizmos
Dress up your desktop and entertain (or annoy) your co-workers with these wacky USB-powered gadgets, from cubicle stink-busters to toasters that print the morning news on your breakfast.
Inside Mac OS X Snow Leopard: Exchange Support
Windows Enthusiasts like to spin Apple’s support for Exchange on the iPhone and in Snow Leopard as endorsement of Microsoft in the server space. From another angle, Apple is reducing its dependance upon Microsoft’s client software, weakening Microsoft’s ability to hold back and dumb down its Mac offerings at Apple’s expense.
Penguins, Lizards and Apple’s X Factor: How Famous OS Logos Got Started
Ronald McDonald and the NBC Peacock may get more TV air time, but today’s operating systems have cool logos, too. Google, Apple, Microsoft and the Linux crowd crafted mascots ranging from cute lizards to circles of life. Here we look at the origins of the logos and look ahead to their future.
Mac Engineers Lament Snow Leopard in the Enterprise
Mac engineers across the country worked to certify Snow Leopard in their enterprise computing environments for an anticipated late September release. When Snow Leopard hit the market a month early, they were duly blindsided.
Inside Mac OS X Snow Leopard: GPU Optimization
As jingle-pundits desperately try to denigrate Snow Leopard as a "Service Pack," Apple’s new operating system reference release actually expands the reach of the Mac platform in several important and under-reported new directions. Here’s the third in a series looking closer at some of Snow Leopard’s well-known, but often misrepresented or misunderstood features.
AT&T to enable MMS for iPhone 3G and 3GS on Sept. 25
AT&T confirmed Thursday that multimedia messaging capabilities will come to the iPhone a few days late, on Sept. 25 -- just after the end of summer -- bringing to an end months of waiting and speculation.
Snow Leopard Built for Touch Screen Macs?
Some tweaks to Exposé, Stacks, and an infinitely resizable Keyboard Viewer could be signals that Apple is thinking about touch input. We’re not convinced it makes Snow Leopard a touch-tablet OS just yet, though.
Snow Leopard touchscreen "evidence", trademarked Apple chat bubbles
A new report alleges that a large on-screen digital keyboard could be a sign that Snow Leopard sets the stage for Apple’s upcoming tablet device; and Apple rejected an App Store submission for its chat bubbles.
Inside Mac OS X Snow Leopard: QuickTime X
As jingle-pundits desperately try to denigrate Snow Leopard as a "Service Pack", Apple’s new operating system reference release actually expands the reach of the Mac platform in several important and under-reported new directions. Here’s the first in a series looking closer at some of Snow Leopard’s well-known, but often misrepresented or misunderstood features.
Google’s Curious Chrome Gambit
Google has long insisted that Android is not just for smartphones, that it’s an able-bodied OS for netbooks as well. Strange, then, that it’s also promoting a newcomer OS, Chrome, for use in netbook computers. Does Google have a clever strategy up its sleeve, or is it just throwing OSes at the wall to see what sticks?
Inside Mac OS X Snow Leopard: 64-bits
As jingle-pundits desperately try to denigrate Snow Leopard as a "Service Pack," Apple’s new operating system reference release actually expands the reach of the Mac platform in several important and under-reported new directions. Here’s the second in a series looking closer at some of Snow Leopard’s well-known, but often misrepresented or misunderstood features.
Snow Leopard Versus Windows 7
This is shaping up to be the autumn of new operating systems. The latest version of Mac OS X, Snow Leopard, ships to customers this Friday. Windows 7, the follow-up to the much-maligned Windows Vista, hits store shelves in late October. Neither operating system will drastically change the way you work.
Apple Snow Leopard support, problem software list available
Coinciding with today’s release of Apple’s latest operating system upgrade, Snow Leopard, support documents, printer drivers, and a list of incompatible software have been made available to ease the transition.
10 Reasons NOT to Upgrade to Snow Leopard Right Away
If that shiny Snow Leopard disk is singing its siren song, promising you a computing experience full of joy and love and pretty ponies for everyone, plus dazzling performance previously inexperienced by mere humans -- stop. You’re expecting way too much from what is a really nice but not earthshaking upgrade. You are going to be disappointed.
Apple’s Sleek Upgrade
Buying software is not like buying a vase or a comb or a lawnmower where you pay, you take it home, and the transaction is complete. No, buying software is more like joining a club with annual dues. Every year, there’s a new version, and if you don’t upgrade, you feel like a behind-the-curve loser.
Apple’s Snow Leopard sports subtle improvements
Critics are praising Apple’s latest OS X upgrade, Snow Leopard, as a bargain-priced improvement that will help users get better performance out of their Mac, though there are some problems.
USB 3 chip will bring RAID to external drives
Symwave, one of the first companies to design silicon for USB 3.0, is revealing more details about its SOC (system on a chip) using the high-speed standard at the Hot Chips conference.
Microsoft confirms Xbox 360 price drop in the US
Microsoft dropping the prices of the Xbox 360 games console across the US.
The new prices will be:
• Xbox 360 Elite - $299.99 (was $399.99)
• Xbox 360 Pro - $249.99 while supplies last (was $299.99)
• Xbox 360 Arcade - $199.99 (same as old price)
Company officials confirmed the Xbox 360 you buy today will work with code-named "Project Natal" and controller-free gaming in the future. "With the holiday season right around the corner, it's already time to start looking for entertainment and gifts that everyone will enjoy," said Shane Kim, corporate vice president of strategy and business development for the Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft Corp.
In addition to the new pricing Major Nelson also announced the new Xbox 360 packaging that has been spotted in some US stores.
Snow Leopard to Prowl for Mac Malware?
Apple has reportedly built antimalware features into its upcoming Snow Leopard operating system. The feature apparently patrols for known Mac Trojans. Tight security is an oft-touted feature of Mac OS X, though users must still be wary of malware like Mac Trojans, which have been known to exist in the wild.
No App Store, No Cry: Great Apps You’ll Only Get By Jailbreaking Your iPhone
Don’t get me wrong—the App Store is incredible and unmatched. There truly is an app for just about everything on the iPhone. Well, everything that Apple approves of anyway.
Evolution and the Truth About Mobile Phone Development
Developing a good mobile platform is really about making a long and complicated series of trade-offs. Software implementation in this world of trade-offs is a challenge. In associating with groups like LiMo, OHA and Symbian, experts can work together with an extensive focus on usability to move away from the assembly-line approach.