by Galen Gruman, InfoWorldOnce confined to marketing departments and media companies, the Mac is spilling ove into a wider array of business environments, thanks to the confluence of a number of computing trends, not the least among them a rising tide of end-user affinity for the Apple experience.
by Peter Cohen, MacworldAllBookmarks installs in your Mac's menu bar and provides you with access to all your bookmarks from multiple browsers.
by Charlie Sorrel, WiredAccording to French newspaper Les Echos, Apple is pushing Orange to subsidize iPhone handeset prices in order to shift more units.
by Tom Foremski, ZDNet.comIt is high time that Apple recognized this demographic and offered discounts on new products, such as the coming G3 iPhone to its most loyal customers first.
by Robert McMillan, IDG News ServiceWhen Charlie Miller won US$10,000 for hacking into a MacBook Air laptop last month, he exploited a flaw that had beenpublicly disclosed nearly a year before the contest.The flaw, it turns out, lay in an open-source software library called the Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) library, which is used by many products including Apache, the PHP scripting language, and Apple's Safari browser, which Miller hacked to win the contest.
by GizmodoThere's a gem of a story—one of many—in Leander Kahney's new book, Inside Steve's Brain, about the biggest OS X mistake Apple never made: The original plan UI was to take the old crusty crap interface from Mac OS Classic and drop it on top of the core.
by Peter Burrows, BusinessWeekBesides selling off unsold stocks, Munster suspects the price cuts are Apple's way of running experiments to help it determine the right price for future iPhone models.And will Asia be Apple's "Little Unlocking Lab"?
by Leigh McMullen, Cult Of MacThe MacHeist bundle looks to be a real starter. If you have use for even just a couple of the full featured applications in the package, it's worth the money.
by Peter Bright, Ars TechnicaWriting software for Windows is a pain. Much of the platform is clunky and badly put together, and it makes development much less enjoyable than it should be.
by Scot Finnie, ComputerworldIt hasn't even been a full week since my MBA arrived, and I'm having a change of heart. While I continue to believe that Apple may have misfired on one or two important aspects, it's clear that I misjudged the appeal of the MacBook's finer points. In other words, the "undeniably sexy form factor" I described in my earlier blog post as not being enough to offset the loss of utility... well, let's just say it is enough.A lot of fine products need to be hold, handled, used, owned before they can be appreciated.
by Larry Dignan, ZDNet.comA reader visited the last address for Psystar and verified two things: There's activity and inventory on the scene. There is a business there and he noted headquarters "isn't located in a shady part of town." But a lack of signage and thefact he couldn't get in doesn't provide a confirmation that Psystar is actually at the address.
by Charles W. Moore, ApplelinksWith the Leopard release of Text Edit, many users may find that it meets all of their practical word processing needs without the necesity of buying Pages, Microsoft Word, or another third-party word processor solution.
by Jonathan Richards, The TimesMobile operators with exclusive contracts to sell Apple's iPhone are bracking themselves for significant losses on unsold stock as they clear the shelves to make way for a new, faster version expected this summer.
by Rob Griffiths, MacworldWhile it was fun to build the Frankenmac, the truth is that I'm not generally willing to live with the downsides of a build-your-own Mac over the real thing fresh from Apple's factory.
by Cynthia Irmen, School Board SoundingsAnd let's remember what this editorial is saying: Apple is making their machines capable of using Microsoft software. Let me say it again: Apple is redesigning their machines to be compatible with Microsoft programs. Are you understanding the situation a little bit better now? The Microsoft programs that our kids will begin to learn as we transition to a PC environment over the next 5 years will run on both Apple machines and PCs if the author of the editorial is correct.Please don't write "hate mails" if you feel the urge to reply.