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Why Apple Should Buy Adobe

9 March 2010, 2:00 pm by: Andrew Flocchini
The rumors of Adobe being bought by Apple come up every so often. Apple could easily afford such a purchase and the results would be interesting. I would love to see Adobe restructured by a company like Apple. Adobe has many applications that are the...

First Look: FileMaker Pro 11

9 March 2010, 12:00 pm by: Weldon Dodd
A year after the launch of FileMaker Pro 10, the Apple-owned database company is back to debut the latest version of its franchise product. FileMaker Pro 11 introduces long-awaited features and builds on the interface and engine improvements to creat...

Analyst: Apple “Disrupting” iPhone Competitors With Legal Threats

9 March 2010, 10:30 am by: Charles Jade
Via Apple 2.0, Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner asserts in a research note that Apple’s lawsuit with HTC over the iPhone interface was the culmination of “blunt talks” with other phone manufacturers. According to Reiner, starting in...

Not Every iPhone Apple App to Get the iPad Treatment

9 March 2010, 8:58 am by: Darrell Etherington
Like the iPhone, the iPad will have a default set of applications, but it won't necessarily include all the familiar apps you know and possibly love. Apparently, Cupertino couldn't come up with iPad-complementary large-format designs for the user int...

Apple’s iTunes LP 6 Months Later: LP What?

9 March 2010, 8:45 am by: Edit Staff
When it was first unveiled, Apple’s new iTunes LP format -– codenamed “Cocktail” and introduced at a “rock and roll event” in San Francisco -– promised to give consumers a new reason to buy albums instead of individual songs. Offering e...

My iPad Wish List: 10 App Requests

9 March 2010, 7:00 am by: Chris Ryan
Watching the iPad’s first television spot on the Oscars Sunday night, I got giddy all over again in anticipation of getting my hands on this hot new product. Though it’s still a few weeks away, I’m even more excited for the applications that wi...

Microsoft Courier Shaping Up as a Truly Novel iPad Competitor

8 March 2010, 3:00 pm by: Darrell Etherington
It may be a little early to say this, but to me it seems like Microsoft took all the disappointment and fear resulting from Apple’s dominance of the mobile devices category over its own products through the years and used that energy to create...

Apple at the Oscars

8 March 2010, 2:25 pm by: Liam Cassidy
Swapping turtleneck for tuxedo, Steve Jobs made a rare public appearance when he took to the red carpet at the Academy Awards last night, spotted first by eagle-eyed social media maven Wayne Sutton who posted to his blog; OMG it’s Steve Jobs!...

Snow Leopard’s Been Out for Six Months, Why Are So Many of Us Still Using Leopard?

8 March 2010, 9:30 am by: Charles Moore
So here we are, just past the six month mark since Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard was sprung last August 28, and I’m still using OS 10.5 Leopard. I have lots of company. The NetApplications HitsLink Market Share data for February 2010 shows that Leop...

Mac Developer Program Invites iPhone SDK Halo Effect

8 March 2010, 8:00 am by: Weldon Dodd
This past Thursday Apple announced sweeping changes to the Developer Program. The old Select and Premiere programs have been replaced by a $99/year Mac Developer Program that is similar to the iPhone Developer Program. The old ADC programs were subst...

Social CRM on the Cheap

8 March 2010, 7:42 am by: David Klein
Mac users are missing out on cheap (read: free), social customer relationship management. Windows users have xobni, a simple tool that integrates with Outlook, and Microsoft will also be releasing a solution in Office 2010 called Outlook Social Conne...

Android Rising, Sony Poised to Join the Smartphone Fight

6 March 2010, 7:35 am by: Darrell Etherington
Yesterday Apple announced the arrival date of its much-ballyhooed tablet, the iPad. It will have a staggered release throughout April, beginning on the 3rd in the U.S. Once it does arrive, we’ll see what effect it has on the mobile landscape. B...

Lingering iPad Question: Who Gets to Sell It?

5 March 2010, 3:37 pm by: Dave Greenbaum
Woo hoo! Now we know when we get to buy the iPad. However, we haven’t been told where we get to buy it. Of course the Apple Stores (both online and off) will carry it, but the end of the press release has a cryptic statement that the iPad wil...

Save the Date: Apple’s iPad Launching April 3

5 March 2010, 8:07 am by: Chris Brandrick
This morning, Apple finally announced the release date for its anticipated iPad, detailing that the tablet device will be available starting Saturday, April 3. The early April weekend launch will see only the Wi-Fi model of the touch-screen device be...

How-To: Get the Most From Get Info

5 March 2010, 8:00 am by: Nick Santilli
If you’ve ever Control-clicked (also known as ‘right click’) a file, you’ve seen a listing of actions presented to you that can be carried out on that file. This menu is called a contextual menu, but that’s not the point...

Apple “Genius Squad” in the Works?

5 March 2010, 6:00 am by: Dave Greenbaum
Over at Patently Apple, Jack Burcher Purcher reports that Apple is applying for a trademark called “Joint Venture.” The trademark application indicates that this will most likely be some kind of new service offering by Apple. Might App...

Penguin Plans to Make Books Shinier with iPad

4 March 2010, 11:00 am by: Darrell Etherington
Penguin doesn’t want to just continue releasing your standard, garden-variety e-books on a new platform with the iPad. CEO John Makinson showed off what his company had in mind for the platform at a presentation earlier this week, as reported...

Steam and Valve Games Headed to the Mac

4 March 2010, 9:15 am by: Darrell Etherington
Us Mac gamers are a much abused, much maligned lot. We get titles late, and most never at all. By the time most titles do come to the Mac, we’ve probably already broken down and played them using Boot Camp or that gaming PC we hide in the close...

Sponsor post: LogMeIn Free Lets You Work From Anywhere

4 March 2010, 9:00 am by: Edit Staff
You know what’s a bummer? Being tied to an office answering to the man. After all, getting work done on a beach, at a café or at home is still getting work done. That’s why LogMeIn Free is perfect for the remote or flex-time worker. It provides...

How-To: Use Time Machine Over a Network

4 March 2010, 6:40 am by: Andrew Flocchini
I love Time Machine for its simplicity and the fact that it’s free. Apple did the right thing in creating a backup utility that was integrated into the OS and was actually useful. Anyone who has fought with Windows Backup can tell you, this has...

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