The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has approved a new high-speed version of the IEEE 1394 standard, more commonly known as FireWire. In recent years, FireWire has been ... Read More

Remember the mysterious unnamed source within Apple who was writing the MobileMe blog? Well, he’s added his byline, revealing himself to be none other than David G. Courtesy of Apple I have ... Read More

Adobe has just announced Lightroom 2, the latest update to its popular image management software. Lightroom 2 offers a bevy of new or enhanced features that will be popular with ... Read More

AppleInsider reports that Apple may move away from the Intel chipsets it currently used in mobile Macs, and instead use AMD or VIA Technologies for the next generation of the ... Read More

An unnamed source within Apple has started blogging about the problems the MobileMe service is experiencing. Courtesy of Apple Unlike other unnamed sources, this unnamed source has little to worry about, because ... Read More

Ever since Apple’s last quarterly financial update was released, the web has been buzzing with speculation about new Mac products. You can’t blame the folks who are running with these ... Read More

Apple has posted a support document in response to the MobileMe email outage that’s been occurring on and off since the launch of the service. Courtesy of Apple The email outage only ... Read More

Virginia Tech is at it again. (Well, actually, it never stopped.) The university recently rolled out another supercomputer based on Macs. Its original Mac cluster, an 1100-node system based on ... Read More

Who said “Redmond, start your photocopiers”? If you said Apple’s marketing department, in a promotional banner at the World Wide Developers Conference in 2004, you are so behind the times. Those ... Read More

Apple has released an update for all of the iLife ‘08 applications (iPhoto, iMovie, iWeb, iDVD, and GarageBand). Information on what the update entails is minimal, but suggests that it ... Read More

I recently reviewed Bento, FileMaker’s new personal database application, awarding it a four-star rating. To complement the review, I’ve added an image gallery that shows some of the Bento features ... Read More

Apple not only beat the Street with record revenue and profits, it also beat my prediction of $1.12 earnings per share. The actual amount reported by Apple was $1.19, or ... Read More

Apple will be releasing its quarterly earnings report later today, after the markets close. Bloomberg is predicting a 36 percent rise in year-over-year earnings. That would put earnings for the ... Read More

Loosely translated, Bento means ‘a single portion,’ which is an apt description of FileMaker’s latest database application. Bento is a personal relational database, with a focus on personal. Bento doesn’t ... Read More

Sonoma Wire Works has just released RiffWorks T4, a new free edition of the company’s popular RiffWorks series of guitar recording software. RiffWorks takes a great deal of the technical ... Read More

Forbes reports that the Commercial Times, a Taiwan-based newspaper, has announced a 20% increase in orders for motherboards used in Apple’s MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops. Courtesy of Apple At the ... Read More

Apple has acknowledged that the rollout of the new MobileMe service was less than stellar, and apologized for its rocky start in an email sent to current MobileMe subscribers. The ... Read More

There weren’t any warning shots, no cease-and-desist letters that we know of. On July 3, cutting straight to the chase, Apple filed suit against Psystar in the U.S. District Court ... Read More

The new iPhone 3G broke the one million mark during the first three days of sales (Friday-Sunday). Apple CEO Steve Jobs said, “It took 74 days to sell the first ... Read More

Apple is in the process of releasing the first update for MobileMe, the next generation of the .Mac service. MobileMe 1.1 was briefly available from Apple this morning, via the ... Read More

Courtesy of Apple Sam Costello, the About.com guide to everything iPod, was lucky enough to get his hands on a new iPhone 3G. And rather than spend the whole day just ... Read More

The iPhone 3G’s first day of sales got off to a slightly rocky start. While sales have been brisk, the activation process has been experiencing delays and outright failures. Courtesy of ... Read More

Apple has released the iPhone 2.0 software upgrade for the original iPhone and the iPod touch. To update your iPhone or iPod touch, you’ll need the latest version of iTunes ... Read More

If you haven’t already done so, download the latest version of iTunes (version 7.7), which includes support for the new iPhone 3G and the new App Store, Apple’s marketplace for ... Read More

The iPhone 3G goes on sale in the U.S. market on Friday morning, with Apple retail stores and AT&T stores stocked and ready for potential stampedes.

According to a note posted on the .Mac System Status web page, MobileMe is about to go live. This is the first time Apple has listed an official end date ... Read More

Doug Field, Segway’s Chief Technology Officer, will be the new VP of Product Design at Apple. Doug headed up the engineering and design group at Segway since its inception, and ... Read More

Apple recently posted a guide to replacing an original iPhone with the new iPhone 3G. While the process differs slightly from country to country, and carrier to carrier, the basics ... Read More

Recently, Mary and I decided to add a solar hot water and radiant heating system to our home. We’re tired of both the ever-increasing cost of heating oil and the ... Read More

If you’re a .Mac user, Apple encourages you to sync your .Mac bookmarks back to your Mac by July 6, to ensure that you don’t lose your bookmark data during ... Read More

One of the hidden gems that Microsoft provides for Macintosh users is its RDC (Remote Desktop Connection) client. This application lets you connect to any Windows XP or Vista computer ... Read More

AT&T has officially revealed pricing plans for the new iPhone 3G. As has already been reported, new wireless AT&T customers can purchase the iPhone 3G 8 GB model for $199, ... Read More