This is of course a personal viewpoint, because I can not really know what being a Macintosh user means to anyone else but myself. For me the beginning of my relationship with Apple Macintosh computers started in Bangkok about 25 years ago, when I needed a better way to communicate with a typesetter who kept [...]
CUPERTINO, California—July 20, 2011—Apple® today announced that Mac OS® X Lion, the eighth major release of the world’s most advanced operating system with more than 250 new features, is available today as a download from the Mac® App Store™ for $29.99. Some of the amazing features in Lion include: new Multi-Touch® gestures; system-wide support for [...]
Photos of People Staring At Computers Kyle McDonald wrote a stealthy app that captures a single photo every minute and sends it to his server if it contains a face. He then went around to different Apple stores around New York City and installed it on the computers, collecting more than a thousand photos. Before [...]
Apple MacBook Air, Mac Pro, and Mac Mini rumor control Hardly a week goes by without some widely disseminated rumor about an Apple product winding its way around the Internet. Typically it’s about future versions of the iPhone or iPad, but with the impending release of Apple’s OS X Lion operating system update, there’s been [...]
CUPERTINO, California—January 6, 2011—Apple® today announced that the Mac® App Store? is now open for business with more than 1,000 free and paid apps. The Mac App Store brings the revolutionary App Store experience to the Mac, so you can find great new apps, buy them using your iTunes® account, download and install them in [...]
I guess I knew it was happening but it still came as a shock. Apple announced the 27-inch Cinema Display in July (for delivery in September) and they have kept their word. But I was really hoping that the 24-inch Cinema Display would stay in the line-up and even more-so I was hoping for a [...]
Native Mac Product is Easier to Set up and Use; Supports More Banks, and Simplifies Transfer of Data from Previous Editions MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif – Feb. 25, 2010 – For those who manage their money on a Mac, Quicken Essentials for Mac now available from Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU). Built from the ground up with [...]
Calling the Apple Macintosh PowerBook Duo a computer that came ahead of it’s time, is a real understatement. I didn’t ever own a Duo myself but a friend of mine had the full Duo System, the Desktop Dock, several Mini Docks, third party battery chargers, external drives, everything he could get his hands on.
For quite some time now I have been waiting for Apple to revive the 12-inch Macintosh laptop, to use as a portable image storage device and on the road computer for website maintenance, photographic image workflow and for keeping up with my personal and business e-mail. Apple MacBook MB466LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop (2.0 GHz Intel Core [...]