Next-gen iMac to include new cooling module?

A new family of iMacs due early next year may include a more sophisticated cooling system, hints the latest reports from sources close to the company's Taiwanese manufacturing facilities.

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Download Boxer for Mac - Mac-friendly version of the DOSBox

Boxer plays MS-DOS games on your Mac. It’s based on the robust DOSBox emulator, with a lot of magic sprinkled on top.

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Download TV Row for Mac - Use Front Row on your TV or Plasma

TV Row... Give Front Row the freedom it deserves and turn your Mac in your own personal cinema.Have you ever dreamed about having Front Row on your TV or Plasma screen, without the hassle of re-arranging the displays in preferences? Well your dream is about to become reality. TV Row lets you use Front Row on your TV or Plasma screen,

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iFlicks Gets Your Videos Into iTunes, Effortlessly

When we reviewed MetaX back in August, it was the ultimate way of getting your videos into iTunes. The application is still awesome and works for most, but it does have one little flaw – It can only add/edit tags. The video conversion has to be done by Quicktime Pro or the now defunct VisualHub.

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LG readying multi-touch LCDs with Apple iMac in mind?

LG is developing full multi-touch screens that may have a specific client in mind, a claim from a magazine suggests. On a tour of one of the company's Korean factories, a reporter claims to have caught word that multi-touch capable panels are enroute and that the iMac is a good candidate for the display.

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Apple Lays Claim to Greenest Notebooks Ever in New Ad

Not one for modesty, Apple on Monday night launched a new campaign and TV spot touting its new aluminum MacBook lineup as the most environmentally friendly portables ever.

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Phillies Win World Series

The Phillies beat the Rays 4-1 to take the World Series Crown.

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Next-gen MacBook, MacBook Pro spotted in matching outfits

Production ready versions of Apple's next-generation MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks have surfaced stateside in matching attire, according to people who've been privy to early glimpses of some of the company's other hardware offerings.

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New MacBooks dropping plastic for aluminum | Apple - CNET Ne

The white and black plastic MacBook could be a thing of the past if new MacBooks expected in October follow Apple's recent design shift toward aluminum. Read this blog post by Tom Krazit on News - Apple.

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Apple confirms September 9 Special Event: Let's Rock

Apple has sent out invites to a Special Event taking place on September 9, which is exactly one week for today. The invite features the iconic iPod silouette along with the tagline "Let's Rock." It will be taking place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco—just down the street from the Moscone Center— at 10am next Tuesday.

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Kevin Rose Tells Us About the New iPod Rumors

With picture and a video. He starts with "here's what I know" - this sounds more like advanced knowledge than idle talk. "Revamp of entire iPod line," and a price drop below the new iPhone.

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Comcast Tech Accuses Grandpa Of Stealing Cable, Bill In Hand

He goes to hand the bill to the Comcast tech and he rudely replies "Sir, I don't want to see your fuc*ing bill. If you don't go back in your house and quit disrespecting me, I'm going to just leave."

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A new interface for web publishing: Squarespace.

My company just launched a new way to publish on the web. We really departed from the way everyone else is doing this. I suppose you'll all be the judge.

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Google: Web has 1 trillion unique URLs

Technically speaking the internet's infinite, the truth is definitely out there

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MobileMe Already Offline

Apple's MobileMe launch on Thursday morning may have been a bot premature. The Mac and iPhone maker began redirecting its MobileMe URL back to the service's promotional Web site only a couple of hours after taking the service online.

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New iPods soon?

It is that time of the season. Buy a Mac get a free iPod (after a mail in rebate). This sale has been an Apple Store staple for over three year. When the sale ends Apple has always updated it's iPod line. If trends hold true Apple should be rolling out new iPods around August of September just in time Christmas.
It very simple to spot the possible doomed iPods. First all the 8gb nano and 8bg,16gb and 32gb touch. All are up eligible for the rebate. I would say it's safe to say; new and hopefully larger capacity iPod will be on sale by Christmas. Personally I hoping for cheaper iPod Touch

Is SproutCore worth the Flash and Java iPhone snub?

A little-known open-source project became the subject of intense interest recently, following a session at Apple's developer conference in San Francisco, California. That project? SproutCore.

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Classic Clips: Bill Gates Chews Out Microsoft Over XP

With Bill Gates saying good-bye to Microsoft this week, we're realizing more by the day how much we'll miss the guy. This email is several pages of Gates just laying into his design and programming staff for—among other issues—his personal experience when trying to install Windows Moviemaker.

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Apple proposes OpenCL as high-speed computing standard

Apple has signed on to an industry-wide alliance that will see many companies, including some of the Mac maker's processor and video card suppliers, work together to develop an open format for accelerating specialized computing. Dubbed the Compute Working Group, the organization managed by Khronos Group has been formed this week and includes...

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Local investors to rescue Philly wi-fi

A group of local investors will rescue the city's trailblazing wireless network from what seemed like imminent shutdown, with a new for-profit company that will replace Earthlink Inc. as the system's operator, according to multiple sources close to the deal.

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Apple's open secret: SproutCore is Cocoa for the Web

One of the biggest revelations at WWDC was quietly unveiled in a session on Friday morning entitled "Building Native Look-and-Feel Web Applications Using SproutCore." While Apple maintained high security during the entire NDA-sealed WWDC session, the secret of SproutCore is out because it is an open source project and people can't stop talking abou

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Cocoa for Windows + Flash Killer = SproutCore

Dan Digler of Roughly Drafted explains how Apple's recent announcement of Mobile Me also heralds the rise of a web-based Cocoa bringing OSX style applications to Windows and Linux via open web standards.

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What's new in Mac OS X Snow Leopard?

Apple’s public introduction of Snow Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X, was decidedly brief at WWDC, with only passing public mention of its new feature set. Apple is advancing a new software product that improves upon its fundamentals rather than advancing a lot of marketing features. Nothing New, Everything Newer.

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Yahoo, Microsoft talks have "concluded"

Yahoo on Thursday afternoon revealed that talks between itself and Microsoft have come to an end, putting an abrupt halt to prospects of a renewed deal between the two companies. The early search engine pioneer says that "numerous" meetings were unsuccessful in negotiating a partial transaction.

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Source: OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Will Support PowerPC Chips [R

Contrary to rumors that Apple would drop PowerPC architecture support with its newest OS, A tipster and possible Apple insider was able to get his hands on the most recent build of the yet to be released 10.6, and found some evidence that Cupertino might be keeping the chip alive.

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LOOPRumors - Apple to make .Mac free and change name?

There has been speculation of an update to Apple’s .Mac online service in recent days.

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Apple set to serve up first builds of Mac OS X 10.5.4

Apple is preparing to begin widespread testing of Mac OS X 10.5.4, its fourth maintenance and security update to the Leopard operating system, AppleInsider has learned. People familiar with the matter say developers could have the first pre-release copies of the operating system update in their hands by week's end.

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Five Ways Steve Jobs Can Turn On Apple TV Sales

Apple TV does a lot of other things too, such as photo viewing, AirTunes audio streaming, YouTube, and podcasts. However, none of those things compare to five killer applications Apple could quite easily add to the box, turning it into a hot seller and subsequently driving iTunes media sales and rentals. Here’s what they are.

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2012: The Year The Internet Ends

How the industry will kill the Internet in about 4 years from now.

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YouTube suit called threat to online communication

A $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit challenging YouTube's ability to keep copyrighted material off its popular video-sharing site threatens how hundreds of millions of people exchange all kinds of information on the Internet, YouTube owner Google Inc. said.

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GameStop to stop selling Zunes

Microsoft is in for more bad news regarding its Zune personal music players, as GameStop on Thursday announced it decided to stop selling the flash-memory digital music player in its stores. The video-game retailer said lack of consumer demand and the device's ill fit with its existing offerings prompted the decision, whi

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Apple to release special multi touch keyboard for Apple TV

Apple is rumored to release a new, wireless keyboard specifically for Apple TV, with multi touch capabilities.

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Multitouch Goodness: Full-Screen Multitouch Mac OS X Is Here

It's not from Apple, but it gives a pretty good idea of what to expect from the Cupertino company: a band of developers called the NUI Group have developed Lux, a platform that shows the power of a free open framework that will enable true multitouch interaction in Mac OS X.

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Software Notebook: Apple blossoms with growing cash balance

The biggest cash pile in the technology industry has historically belonged to Microsoft Corp., but now it has some company, and it's a familiar name: Apple Inc

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Why Apple is now worth four Dells

But Micheal is worth 3.01 Steve's.

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Microsoft Withdraws Its Bid for Yahoo

Microsoft said Saturday that it was abandoning its blockbuster bid to acquire Yahoo after the two companies could not agree on a price.The breakdown followed a meeting in Seattle on Saturday morning between Microsoft C.E.O. Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, and Yahoo C.E.O. Jerry Yang, Yahoo's co-founder and chief executive.

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Blu-ray sales tank

Who cares quality and much, much higher prices. Just wait 'til downloads start to bite...

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Microsoft-Yahoo merger said to be underway

Microsoft and Yahoo are in genuine talks to agree on a merger, the New York Times says. The report claims to know people involved in the negotiations who say that Microsoft has agreed to raise its $31 per share bid by "several" dollars, in effect overcoming resistance by Yahoo to a deal.

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Adobe Opens the FLV and SWF Formats

The Open Screen Project is working to enable a consistent runtime environment – taking advantage of Adobe® Flash® Player and, in the future, Adobe AIR™ -- that will remove barriers for developers and designers as they publish content and applications across desktops and consumer devices

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Apple releases Common Criteria Tools for 10.5.

Apple released Common Criteria Tools for 10.5, an internationally approved set of security standards which provides a clear and reliable evaluation of the security capabilities of Information Technology products.

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'Other companies no longer relevant'

According to Jim Cramer, Apple utterly dominates the youth market

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10% of Broadband Users Eat 80% Bandwidth, P2P Not to Blame

No, p2p is no longer the single biggest traffic whore, responsible for only 20 percent of total traffic. It's streaming video, like YouTube and Hulu, which is now 50 percent of total traffic. Which explains Comcast's flip on network management and why it's a total smokescreen.

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Apple Buys Chip Designer - Forbes.com

Apple buys a chip company that could give its devices a powerful edge.

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A new reason to hate Comcast

Press 1 if you are stealing content, 2 if you are using too much bandwidth, 3 if Comcast hates your guts, 4 if you're a criminal. (I don't remember the exact wording, this wasn't it, but the word "criminal" was actually part of the presentation, to me, a paying customer, in good standing. Amazingly bad customer service.)

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Watch the Sunset From Google Earth 4.3

There's a new beta version of Google Earth available which features revamped navigation controls and some slick new layers like 3-D photo-realistic buildings in major cities and time-lapse views of sunsets and sunrises.

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USPS to discontinue postage-free Mac shipping...

Mac owners may soon find themselves inconvenienced when trying to ship packages online, a note from the US Postal Service indicates. For some time the USPS has let people pa

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Warner wants net music tax

Pay forever music, at five bucks a pop, as a line item on your monthly broadband bill

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Apple to break 8800GT impasse

Don't stand there gawping like you've never seen the hand of Jobs before!?!

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ClearChannel implements iTunes tagging

340 HD-radio stations today from one broadcaster. CBS Radio, Cumulus, Cox, Entercom and Greater Media planning roll outs...

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ClearChannel implements iTunes tagging

340 HD-radio stations today from one broadcaster. CBS Radio, Cumulus, Cox, Entercom and Greater Media planning roll outs...

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Net4Mac: Social network for the rest of us

Meet new people! Slick OS X integration! Do cool stuff! Do we need it?

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Script Cops, Ep 12: Laptop Rescue

From Crackle: Script Cops, Ep 12: Laptop Rescue

Publisher purges thousands of unlicensed fonts

Faber & Faber, the London publishing house, found 11,000 unlicensed typefaces on their machines being worth 80,000 pounds ($156,000).

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Poll: Which is better, Aperture or Lightroom?

The good news is that there's some competition again for software to edit and catalog raw images, the detailed and flexible file formats from higher-end cameras. The bad news is that anybody buying the software has a harder choice to make.

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R.I.P. HD DVD: Toshiba reportedly ends the war

Toshiba appears to be pulling the plug on HD DVD

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Panel: iPhone poses problems as model for success

The iPhone may be a great success, but emulating it could prove a challenge, a panel at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona has concluded. Addressing other technology and behavioral experts, technology marketer Anup Murarka of Adobe noted that 77 percent of iPhone buyers have labeled themselves as "very satisfied" wit

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Macworld | Inside Net Neutrality: Protect your privacy when

You might think that when you sign up with a high-bandwidth service plan with an ISP, you’ll be able to transfer data at the advertised speeds. Yet that’s not always the case:

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Macworld | Starbucks-AT&T deal could benefit iPhone users

Starbucks’ decision to tap AT&T to provide wireless hotspots at its retail outlets could pave the way for an expanded, potentially free network for users of the iPhone and possibly the iPod touch.

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The Coffee Cup PC Concept.... Hot!

The coming flexible-screen industry is all fun and games until someone actually builds something like this (don't worry: It's still a concept only). The Yuno PC mug is a PC BUILT INTO A COFFEE CUP. It lets you get weather, time, traffic reports and stocks on a touch-screen display, right on the cup.

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Apple to cut iPhone, touch prices

8GB models may be scrapped, move could come in weeks

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Safari 3.1: 'This thing is fast'

Newest WebKit to offer features, lots of speed

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Macworld | Report: Yahoo to reject Microsoft's buyout bid

Yahoo’s board of directors plans to reject Microsoft’s unsolicited $44.6 billion takeover bid, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, citing as its source “a person familiar with the situation

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Macworld | Editors' Notes | Macs at the Grammys: And the win

Macs are a critical element in producing the live ceremony

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Comcast changes terms to allow traffic throttling

Comcast has changed the wording of its terms of service to allow controversial behavior on its part, reports say. The company was accused late last year of sabotaging BitTorrent traffic, in some cases making it unusable regardless of the intended purpose. In keeping with some of the company's excuses for traffic shaping

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BitMicro announces 1.6TB solid-state drive - CNET News.com

Now THIS is cool! DDNew drive crams enormous storage capacity into standard 3.5-inch format, but it's not ready for delivery just yet.

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Obama loses Silicon Valley to Clinton: Is anyone surprised?

It must have come as a surprise to the boisterous Barack Obama supporters who were flagging down commuters at light rail stations south of San Francisco after work on Tuesday, but Hillary Clinton won far more votes in Silicon Valley than did her rival from Illinois.In Santa Clara County,

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Danish Police Befuddled by 1G iMac

The police wanted to confiscate the author's computer. When the author's roommate agreed to also let the police look at her first generation iMac, they were frustrated because they thought the iMac was just the screen. They wanted to know where the actual computer was and got rather heated about finding it.

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First Proof Apple Making Zero on AppleTV (And $$$ on iTunes)

We went to teardown masters iSuppli for a fresh estimate to see how much of that $70 price chop on Apple TV was paid for by falling component costs over the last year. Surprising answer: Not that much. Apple really is subsidizing Apple TV, a significant shift in strategy.

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IBM, Apple Team to Take on Microsoft

IBM will release Lotus Notes and its Lotus Symphony productivity package, a free alternative to the documents and other software in Microsoft Office, for Apple’s Macintosh computers.

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Flickr brings tagging to vintage images - CNET News.com

Pilot project puts hundreds of public-domain pictures on photo-sharing site. In return, Library of Congress asks for tagging help.Photos: Library of Congress uploads

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