by Jacqui Cheng, Ars TechnicaAnother day, another patent infringement lawsuit. This time, Canada-based Wi_LAN has filed two suits against 22 total companies that it alleges hve infringed on its patents relating to WiFi and power consumption in DSL products.
by Michael DeAgonia, ComputerworldRevamped core technologies make coding easier, more exciting for software developers.
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.comMost Leopard users seem satisfied. But there have been a fair amount of complaints from those who were first down the road to Leopard.Count me among the satisfied. Yes, I have to choose a different desktop picture because of the stupid translucent menu bar. The computer did kernel-panic-ed on me once after, apparently, losing wireless network connection. But, overall, I'm satisfied.
by Bryan Gardiner, WiredWith more money on hand than it's ever had, the question is: What exactly will Apple do with that pile?It's easier to predict what the company won't do. If analysts agree on anything, it is that the company will not be making any major acquisitions. It's simply not in Apple's DNA.
by Lev Grossman, TimeThe thing is hard to type on. It's too slow. It's too big. It doesn't have instant messaging. It's too expensive. (Or, no, wait, it's too cheap!) It doesn't support my work e-mail. It's locked to AT&T. Steve Jobs secretly hates puppies. And—all together now—we're sick of hearing about it! Yes, there's been a lot of hype written about the iPhone, and a lot of guff too. So much so that it seems weird to add more, after Danny Fanboy and Bobby McBlogger have had their day. But when the day is over, Apple's iPhone is still the best thing invented this year. Why? Five reasons.
by Matt Neuburg, TidBITSSpotlight in Leopard is what Spotlight in Tiger should have been but wasn't.
by Daniel Jalkut, Red Sweater BlogDismissing a modal sheet in an application causes Spaces to awkwardly zoom that application's space back into vision.
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars TechnicaApple discreetly slipped out an update to the MacBook line overnight, which now sports Intel's MA X3100. This also means that the MacBook processor has been bumped to match the Santa Rosa architecture in the MacBook Pro.
by PyileTime machine has made a copy in your time machine backup that Mac OS X will cheerfully launch without a warning.
by Garry Barker, Sydney Morning HeraldWhat will it mean for us when the iPhone finally gets here.See Also:Australia's Telstra In iPhone Talks With Apple, by Andrew Harrision, MarketWatch.
by Adam C. Engst, TidBITSIn a notable about-face, Apple has changed its stance with regard to allowing Mac OS X Server to be run inside a virtual machine, much as Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion make it possible to run Windows and other PC-based operating systems on a Mac.
by Rob Griffiths and James Galbraith, MacworldTerminal, X11, and Disk Utility may not be the stuff of headlines, but there are enough significant changes here to radically affect how you interact with Mac OS X.
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.comIntego, a Mac security software company, issued an alert Wednesday warning Mac users of the OSX.RSPlug.A malware, which it describes as a Trojan horse.
by Rebecca Armstrong, IndependentThe new software update for the iPod classic has left many users at their wits' end.
by Jettison CanopyA few weeks ago with the release of Pixelmator, I dashed off a few first impressions comparing it to Acorn, a new contender in the Mac OS X image editing softscape. Since those first impressions, I have been giving a lot of thought to this, and other graphic and image processing applications have come to my attention. So here's the scoop.