Mini Review: MarsEdit

For those of you who are into blogging as a “profession” or something more than a hobby, blogging clients are the absolute way to go. On the road? Write a post and submit it for later when you’re back online. No internet connection? Same there. Tired of WordPress’ visual editor? Use a visual client. Well, [...]

Essential background applicaions

There are several small, simple applications that, by themselves, do very small tasks but serve an important purpose. Things like Growl, probably one of the most popular background applications, is something most people consider ‘essential’.
The first of these applications is a menu bar item called Caffeine. The concept seams simple, click it to prevent your [...]

Change Your Dock For Free With Dock Library

When Apple released Leopard, one thing that people did not like was the new dock. Apple totally revamped the dock for Leopard. Now, not only do we have a new dock, but people now have the ability to change the dock to match their personality.
The only problem is that all of the programs that do [...]

Intel confirms, then denies, Atom powered iPhone?

Last week, at Munich’s BMW World, Intel Germany CEO Hannes Schwaderer revealed that Apple would in fact be using Intel’s Atom processor in an upcoming iPhone. This particular iPhone would be bigger than the current model, but not because of the Atom processor, because of a bigger screen. Now though, only days later, Intel is [...]

Interesting new Apple patent really introduces a digital revolution

Apple Inc.’s iPhone can already playback video, browse the Internet, and place phone calls, but a new filing by the handset maker suggests it may one day take your lunch order and serve as a tour guide at the local zoo.

What do same day digital DVD releases mean for brick and mortar stores?

This week Apple announced that the iTunes store will have digital copies of DVD releases the same day as the hard copy release. It has also been reported that Apple TV owners will now be able to purchase movies from their Apple TV, without the use of a computer. This is all fantastic news, but what does it mean for brick and mortar stores such as Best Buy and Circuit City? Do they still hold a place near and dear to our hearts or will they soon be a thing of the past?

Your Mac: The Next Media Center

With Equinux’s TubeStick Hybrid launching in North America (which I’m getting a review unit in for another site of mine), it seems as if computers are to be the next DVRs. Pretty obvious statement really. Essentially all a DVR is is a computer with the provider’s software for decoding the signal anyways. But your home [...]

Acrylic Apps Releases Times 1.0

On May 2nd, Acrylic Apps released Times 1.0. Times 1.0 is the first publicly available version of the application.

Times is another Mac RSS reader, but Times is very different from its competitors. Times has the viewing format of a newspaper. Times allows you to select your favorite RSS feeds, and drag them onto a dropbox [...]

Apple Parody Hidden Within GTA IV

Rockstar Games has included an Apple parody within Grand Theft Auto IV, found by accessing one of the computers in the game’s internet cafe. The mocks the Mac with Fruit and the iPhone with the iFruit phone, which apparently has “No buttons. No reception. No storage capacity. All ego.”

Microsoft finally giving up on Yahoo

Back on February 1st, 2008, Microsoft announced, to the dismay of just about everybody, that they were bidding on Yahoo for $44.6 Billion.