Archive for the 'Mac Tips' Category

MacInTouch: timely news and tips about the Apple Macintosh

Friday, August 11th, 2006

Macintouch has improved the contents of its reports…

Thursday, August 10, 2006   19:00 EDT: “We have now added Photoshop CS2 tests to our Mac Pro Preliminary Notes and Tests page, along with a Geekbench comparison between the Mac Pro, a dual-core G5 and a Dell 2.8GHz Pentium D (as well as Rosetta translation in [...]

Front Row Envy?

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Feeling envious of the Front Row feature of new Mac models, but not enough cash to upgrade? Fear not! Here’s CenterStage – The Mac Media Center to the rescue!

This free, Open Source software is made of two components:

“CenterStage is the Media Center Application that allows you to use the digital content stored on your [...]

AMD to buy ATI

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

From Ars Technica:

At the beginning of the summer, an industry analyst made headlines by saying that an AMD acquisition of ATI was imminent. As is usually the case with such rumors that do not immediately come to pass, the story simmered down after a couple of weeks. It looks as though the deal may be [...]

Skype creators to launch online TV service

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

The founders of peer-to-peer network KaZaA and VoIP phenomenon Skype are working on an online distribution model for network TV programming, according to a recent article in BusinessWeek. The new venture, codenamed “the Venice Project,” is reported to aim really, really high: “The idea is to become a dominant TV distribution company for the Internet [...]

The Sexy iPod Vending Machine In Action - Consumerist

Sunday, May 7th, 2006

Alright, we were skeptical of the iPod vending machine. But we take it all back — this has to be the coolest vending machine we’ve ever seen.

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iPod relief for trapped miners - National - theage.com.au

Sunday, May 7th, 2006

Two men trapped in a Tasmanian mine for more than a week are listening to iPods while rescuers prepare to start a new drilling operation in a bid to free them.

Drilling to free the pair, who are trapped in a cage beneath 12 metres of rock, is expected to begin at about 3.30pm.

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