May 31, 2009
Get down to your closest Apple Store and make a pest of yourself (just a little). What will likely be the year’s top title is running on every Mac there, even though it won’t go on sale for a couple days.
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Posted in Apple, Games, Mac, Mac Games, Mac software, Macintosh, Tips, news | No Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
May 29, 2009
Quo computer, a manufacturer of Mac clones, is planning to become the first Apple imitator to open a retail store to sell its product, with a storefront opening June 1 in the Los Angeles area.
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Posted in Announcements, Apple, Hacks, Mac, OS X, Tips | 1 Comment » Posted by: Michael W. Jones
May 29, 2009
Earlier this week Apple’s white $999 MacBook got a slightly faster CPU and RAM, as well as the larger hard disc drive. Today, we learn that the company has also recently upgraded the displays used in its unibody MacBook.
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Posted in Apple, Mac, MacBook, Macbook Air, Updates, news, opinion | 3 Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
May 29, 2009

You know it’s gonna be a slow news day when … the hottest, “that’s all we’ve got?” rumor on the Apple CEO’s well-being and whereabouts inexplicably comes from a Web site on the other side of the planet.
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Posted in Amusing, Apple, Rumors, Steve Jobs, news | 2 Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
May 29, 2009
Hulu has launched a fresh assault in the ongoing battle for online viewers’ hearts and minds. Though this latest effort merely highlights how far the company still has to go.
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Posted in Mac, Mac software, MacBook, OS X, Tips, news | No Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
May 28, 2009
Not long ago, there was some concern that Apple’s new retail store opening plans were slowing down in the face of the slow economy, but those fears were apparently baseless. Apple is back in retail build mode.
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Posted in Apple, Mac, news | No Comments » Posted by: Michael W. Jones
May 28, 2009

When it’s time to duplicate and, more often than not, convert DVD content into the multiple formats we use daily—DVD media, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV—Mac users have been confronted with an oft confusing array of incomplete, overlapping solutions. This application unifies and simplifies the DVD ripping workflow.
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Posted in Free Software, Leopard, MacBook, OS X, Tips | 5 Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
May 27, 2009
As Macs begin to creep into the executive suite where intensive support is a must, the software used to support Apples in large businesses has begun to improve.
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Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac software | 1 Comment » Posted by: Michael W. Jones
May 27, 2009
Our favorite fruit company has for the second time this year quietly improved the base specs of their white polycarbonate consumer notebook. This round sees this best-selling product get a faster processor and memory, plus a bigger hard drive.
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Posted in Apple, MacBook, Updates, news | No Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
May 26, 2009
Analysts at investment bank Morgan Stanley have upgraded Apple to an “overweight” investment, a positive move, due to hot prospects for the new iPhone over the next 18 months.
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Posted in Apple TV, iPhone, news | No Comments » Posted by: Michael W. Jones