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French Police Force replaces Safari with Firefox

There has always been Macs in the French gendarmerie (a police force depending on the Ministry of Defense). Recently, however, this institution has de

Apple iPhone FAQ

Just got done with an interview with some folks from Cingular on the iPhone and they tipped their hand just enough for us to compile a quick FAQ on th

Humorous take on Universals talks with Apple.

Daring fireball takes a (fictional) peek inside the discussions between Apple and Universal with regards to licensing "stolen" music on the iPod.

Cha...Ching!! Disney sells 23.7 million TV shows through iTunes Store

Walt Disney this week confirmed it continues to enjoy strong sales of its television shows and films through iTunes. Company CEO Bob Iger confirmed th

Oddsmodo iPhone: The Chances Cisco will Destroy Apple in Court-Gizmodo

Gizmodo has a story on the odds on the Cisco/Apple lawsuit. Go check it out to see whose favored!

Building a Game Engine with Cocoa

In this episode, we'll put together a generic, minimalist framework for setting up the board and moving the pieces around using standard Cocoa drawing

10 Ways to Trick out your Mac

Customizing your Mac is easier than ever these days. I started combing the web looking for new ways to “trick out” my Mac, and found these 10 links. T

Hackers Salivating over Apple iPhone

Technology fetishists aren ’t the only people itching to get their hands on an iPhone. Hackers want to play with Apple’s new toy too. “I can’t wait t

Ben Rudolph of Parallels gives video demo of new version of Mac software

Ben Rudolph from Parallels gives a demo of the latest Parallels Release Candidate, focusing on Convergence mode. If you are a Mac user, this is one to

Photograph: Infinite Loop

A beautiful shot of the Infinite Loop sculpture by an ex-Apple employee (I think).

Surprise, Surprise! RIAA Fires Back at Apple over DRM

Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs challenged major record labels to strip copying restrictions from music sold online, but the RIAA fired back Wednesday, sugg

Listening Test Compares iTunes Plus to iTunes 128kbps

Comparing these two compression rates was tough, even when using a pair of state-of-the-art Ultrasone headphones. In our decidedly unscientific compar

300 was made with Final Cut Pro, Shake, Quicktime, and Macs

Macs were preferred by the filmmakers of 300. Even though Final Cut Pro was not the main editing software used for 300 it was preferred over Avid. Sha

iTunes to Sell Short Films From Sundance

Nearly half of the short films being screened at this month's Sundance Film Festival will be available for purchase at Apple's iTunes store under a de

MacSanta brings discounts on Mac software

A group of Mac developers -- Rogue Amoeba, Bare Bones, Unsanity, and Potion Factory to name a few -- have got together to offer 20% off on all of thei

Apple Releases New Holiday Ad

Apple has just realeased a creative new holiday ad, one that doesn ’t involve a Mac and PC bickering. What are your thoughts?

Whats on Kevin Smiths iPod is too great, actually to be published

Kevin Smith was recently asked to make his celebrity iTunes playlist. "My contact (at Apple) said he ’s never had this problem before. He said yours

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New MacBook Pros with Santa Rosa and LED Displays

Submitted 6/7/2007 8:56:15 PM - www.macrumors.com

Today, Apple has introduced the new MacBook Pros as expected. The new MacBook Pros utilize the Santa Rosa chipset and come in the following configurations:

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OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X Released!

Submitted 6/7/2007 8:56:15 PM - porting.openoffice.org

After many many years OpenOffice.org has finally released the first download for Mac OS X that doesn't require X11!! It's just a first release, but go help these guys to test it out today, quash the bugs, and finally bring OpenOffice to OS X!

Views 398 Comment (11) | OpenOffice org Mac Released

Apple Interview: Details on the New LED Macbook Pro

Submitted 6/7/2007 8:56:15 PM - gizmodo.com

Apple's elves gave me more details about the Santa Rosa Macbook Pro. Here's some stuff you don't know about the revision.

Views 528 Comment (30) | Apple Interview Details Pro

ZFS To Become Default File System In Leopard

Submitted 6/7/2007 8:56:15 PM - www.macrumors.com

Perhaps overcome with excitement (and forgetting that Apple doesn't like such pre-emptive disclosures), Sun's Jonathan Schwartz announced today at Sun event in Washington D.C. that Apple would be making ZFS the file system in Mac OS 10.5 Leopard.

Views 417 Comment (9) | ZFS Become Default File System Leopard

New iPhone Ad Focuses on Safari

Submitted 6/7/2007 8:56:15 PM - www.macrumors.com

It looks like the iPhone ads that aired on Sunday night were just the beginning. Sam L and several other MacRumors readers report that a new iPhone ad just aired on CNBC.The unpublished iPhone ad focuses on the iPhone's ability to browse the interne

Views 356 Comment (11) | iPhone Focuses Safari

MacBook Pro backlight comparison: LED vs CCF

Submitted 6/7/2007 8:56:15 PM - www.engadget.com

Engadget's compares new LED technology from Apple with their old CCF technology. Includes pictures, side by side

Views 447 Comment (34) | backlight comparison CCF

Parallels Desktop v3 release for Mac now allows Windows apps to open in OSX

Submitted 6/7/2007 8:56:15 PM - www.macupdate.com

Parallels is a Windows virtualization software that allows you to seamlessly run Windows applications on Mac OS X without rebooting your machine. Version 3.0 allows you to open both Windows and OSX applications from within either OS: both OSX and Win

Views 360 Comment (31) | Parallels Desktop release now allows Windows apps open OSX

iPhone May Allow 3rd Party Applications?

Submitted 6/1/2007 11:08:51 PM - www.macrumors.com

Another comment by Apple's CEO Steve Jobs today indicated that Apple is still putting serious thought into allowing 3rd party application development for the Apple iPhone. His statement today reinforced previous hints that they were still reconsider

Views 409 Comment (9) | May Allow 3rd Party Applications

New MacBook Pros on Tuesday, June 5th 2007?

Submitted 6/1/2007 11:08:51 PM - www.macrumors.com

While we had heard convincing reports that the MacBook Pro updates would have to wait until WWDC (June 11th), a few new reports have started trickling in that the MacBook Pro could see updates as soon as this Tuesday (June 5th).

Views 197 Comment (426) | Tuesday June 5th 2007

YouTube for Apple TV uses H.264, not Flash

Submitted 6/1/2007 11:08:51 PM - www.macrumors.com

The reason for the delay is that Youtube will be encoding all of their videos into a "H.264 streaming-efficient compression format" specifically for the Apple TV. All of Youtube's videos are currently encoded in Flash Video (FLV) format.... Interesti

Views 161 Comment (0) | YouTube uses 264 not Flash

Breaking down 52 ways to speed up your Mac - A great list of tips.

Submitted 5/17/2007 2:43:15 AM - www.macuser.com

"It looks like I may have to make debunking Mac speed tips a regular feature. I already criticized a list of 11 things, finding a large portion that were really not helping. With a list of 52, I 'm going to be doing a lot of typing. Follow me down t

Views 185 Comment (0) | Breaking down ways speed your great list tips

5 Things NOT to do on your Mac

Submitted 5/17/2007 2:43:15 AM - www.tuaw.com

I'd like to discuss some things to avoid -- 5 common Mac-istakes that can stop you in your tracks.

Views 163 Comment (0) | Things

Apple.com sees a whopping 46% increase in US visitors

Submitted 5/16/2007 6:15:11 AM - www.macuser.com

comScore's data shows that the number of American visitors at Apple.com went from 27.3 million in March to 38.8 million in April, making Apple the 13th most visited web property in the US. What can explains this big spike?

Views 182 Comment (0) | com sees whopping increase visitors

52 Ways to Speed Up OS X

Submitted 5/16/2007 6:15:11 AM - www.imafish.co.uk

"After Apple recently announced a delay to OS X 10.5 Leopard I had to delay my iMac upgrade until the Autumn. This led me to thinking about how to speed up Tiger to get the most out of my ageing G5."

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Five New MacBook Configurations for Tues, May 15th?

Submitted 5/16/2007 6:15:11 AM - www.macrumors.com

Tuesday, May 15th is the most recent date-on-the-calendar for those awaiting Apple notebook updates. Questionable rumors posted last week indicated that we would see Apple laptop updates this week, while other rumors pointed to "sooner than expected

Views 168 Comment (1) | Five Configurations Tues 15th

Apple Releases New MacBooks

Submitted 5/16/2007 6:15:11 AM - www.macrumors.com

As predicted, Apple released revised MacBooks today.Apple(R) today updated its MacBook(R) consumer notebooks with faster Intel Core 2 Duo processors, 1GB of memory and larger hard drives in every model. The MacBook is just one-inch thin and features

Views 137 Comment (3) | Releases MacBooks

How to boot your mac from your iPod

Submitted 5/16/2007 6:15:11 AM - lifehacker.com

To get it going you'll need to set your iPod to run in disk mode, and then install OS X on it using the original installation disks. If you're willing to lay out some cash for extra bootable iPod features, pricey software Protogo ($135, yikes!) can b

Views 177 Comment (0) | How boot from iPod

Apple ultra-portable to pack 13-inch display; next MacBook may be yawner

A forthcoming update to Apple Inc.'s 13-inch line of consumer MacBooks won't deliver much in terms of new features, AppleInsider has learned. Meanwhil

Top 5 Most Creative Uses for the Mac Mini

The sheer size of the Mini alone allows for some pretty clever mods, as seen here. Check out the guy who made it into a portable office in his DeLorea

Apples iTV may extend beyond streaming video

The iTV may have more to it than just streaming video...

Woz on the iPhone and Apple, Inc.

"As I was running down the street to dive into the throngs of nerds at Moscone South, I ran into Steve Wozniak. Yeah, you read that right... Woz, on a

AppleTV: answers to your questions

Ars Technica asks and answers the following AppleTV questions: Is the USB 2.0 for external storage? Is this HDTV only? Does it just scale down if hook

Think Secret Releases Re-Cap of Macworld 07 Rumors, iPhone: 90% Chance

With some 24 hours until Apple CEO Steve Jobs takes the stage at the Moscone Center in San Francisco to kick off Macworld Expo, Think Secret presents

Interview with Macworlds Jason Snell

Macworld Expo/Conference has come and gone, and Jason Snell attended [of course], so I asked Jason to answer a few questions about the Expo and his ex

Stephen Colbert makes play for iPhone at D5

Might we suggest working a company that's a little less stingy with prerelease units, Stephen?

Did Microsoft Copy the Wrong iPod?

If Microsoft only had time to produce one Zune model in time for Christmas, and if their goal was to lay claim to second place and establish the Zune

Finally: the Mac Vs PC debate is rationalized

I'm sure someone will chime in that it's a repost but it's new to me! :)

Download these cool Mac OSX Utilities

Includes iPod notes, slide show, secret folder, timer, etc

New AirPort Extreme has built in NAS

The new Airport Extreme (802.11n) base station has built in NAS (Network attached storage) capabilities! All you need to do is hook up an external HD

33 Amazing Quartz Composer Projects Make Great Mac OS X Screensavers

Japanese artist Zugakousaku has some amazing Quartz Composer projects posted online. Download the file and place them in you screensaver folder and e

LifeHackers Top 10 Mac Utilities

Today's top 10 covers the system utilities that add a extra polish and convenience to your Mac's working environment. Most (but not all) of these litt

New Nike+iPod product leaked by Mens Health

A wrist-mounted Bluetooth remote, which lets you browse through songs on your iPod or check your run times without fumbling with the player. It syncs

Full text of Microsoft execs Id buy a Mac e-mail

Remember that incident where a Microsoft Executive said that if he didn't work for Microsoft that he'd personally buy a Mac? Today's Seattle Pi has un

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Beta Available for Download on Friday

Adobe will make Photoshop CS3 available for download on Friday. The release is said to be a "screamer" on the new Intel-based Macs.