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- Apple Q3 2008 earnings: revenue up 38%; Mac shipments up 41% (updated)
- Apple announced their fiscal third quarter 2008 financial results today in a conference call with analysts. A press release and a re-broadcast of the audio webcast is available on Apple's investor relations Web site and you can subscribe to the Apple Quarterly Earnings Call podcast in iTunes. ...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Consumer Electronics, Desktops, Digital Media, Digital Music, Earnings, Finance, Financial Accounting, Hardware, jason D. O'Grady, Operational Accounting, Personal Technology, Sales, Sales Strategy, Revenue
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Apple to Psystar: See you in court
- Fellow ZDNet blogger Adrian Kingsley-Hughes broke the story that Apple has finally had it up to here with the shenanigans of Mac cloner Psystar. By shenanigans I'm referring to the Florida company's practice of shipping its US$399 Intel clones with Mac OS 10.5 Leopard pre-installed in direct violation of Apple's...
- Tags: 3G, Apple Inc., Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Desktops, Hardware, Ina Fried, jason D. O'Grady, Personal Technology, Psystar, Shenanigan, Apple Macintosh
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Calendar syncing problems with MobileMe
- If you're having trouble syncing iCal calendars with MobileMe, you aren't alone. In fact, the problem appears to be so prevalent that Apple has posted a knowledge base article (#TS1213) about the issue titled "MobileMe: Syncing calendar subscriptions." In it Apple acknowledges "unexpected results" when syncing iCal...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Calendar, Desktops, Hardware, jason D. O'Grady, Operating Systems, Software, Subscription Calendar
- Blog posts 2008-07-13
- MobileMe officially launching on 09 July
- Apple is planning to launch its MobileMe service on Wednesday 09 July 2008 between 6pm and 12am PT (9pm and 3am ET) according to a post in the Support area of the left sidebar of .Mac, once you've logged in: MobileMe Launch 7/9/2008, 6pm-12am PT ...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Desktops, Hardware, jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- DJ your Independence Day party with your Mac
- If you're having people over to your house this weekend to celebrate Independence day (04 July, here in the U.S.) – a few tunes are probably in order. Luckily the Mac is one of the best platforms for creating a great party environment thanks to its vast music playback options,...
- Tags: Apple iTunes, jason D. O'Grady, Music, Pandora, Radio, Apple Macintosh
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Overclock a Mac Pro or Xserve in software
- Our pals over at ZDNet Germany have released an overclocking tool for the Mac Pro and Xserve that raises the speed of the processor, front side bus and memory – all without opening the case. Although tons of overclocking tools are available for Windows, up until now, little...
- Tags: Apple Mac OS, Apple Macintosh, Desktops, Hardware, jason D. O'Grady, Operating Systems, Overclocking, Software, Apple Xserve
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Microsoft releases critical update for Office 2008 for Mac
- Microsoft just pushed out a 153.3MB update for Office 2008 for Mac that's labeled "critical." You will get notified of the updated via Microsoft AutoUpdate the next time it phones home or you can download the patch directly from the MS support knowledgebase. According to...
- Tags: Critical Update, jason D. O'Grady, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Office Suites, Software, Apple Macintosh
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- iPhone developers roundtable
- Macworld has posted an interesting Podcast with three heavyweights in the Mac/iPhone development world. Editorial director, Jason Snell then sits down with three key Mac developers—NewsGator's Brent Simmons, The OmniGroup's Greg Titus, and The Icon Factory's Craig Hockenberry—to talk about their experiences developing for the iPhone. by Jason D....
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Desktops, Developer, Hardware, Internet, jason D. O'Grady, Podcasts
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Snow Leopard specifics revealed
- Apple has released more information on "Mac OS X Snow Leopard" which was majorly glossed-over during yesterday's Stevenote at WWDC. The new OS now has product pages for both server and client which claim that it will "dramatically reduces the footprint of Mac OS X, making it even...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Multi-core, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, Apple Inc., Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- MobileMe: iPhone finally gets OTA syncing -Â for a price (updated)
- Ever since the iPhone was released a year ago I complained that it had to be cabled to a Mac to be synced. Here we had one of the most amazing mobile phones on the planet – with three radios (WiFi, Bluetooth and EDGE) – yet it had to be...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Desktops, E-mail, Web, Channel Management, Hardware, Marketing, MobileMe, Online Communications
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Fusion: new, tiny developer Mac?
- TUAW posted some blurry photos of what appears to be a diminutive new Mac targeting developers called Fusion. I'm not a big fan of fuzzy (camera phone?) pictures of anything on WWDC eve – they make it too easy to hide fakery – but it's worth...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple Macintosh, Developer, Camera Phones, Desktops, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Mac OS 10.6 to be Intel only?
- There's a rumor circulating that Apple may either demo or release to developers a build of Mac OS 10.6 that's fully 64-bit clean and Intel-only. "10.6 will not include any new significant features from 10.5; instead, Apple is focusing solely on "stability and security" writes TUAW. 10.6...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS, Apple Macintosh, Intel Corp., Desktops, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Rumor Mill: no iPhone content (updated)
- Hey, Jake here. It's Friday, which means that its time to round up all the latest Mac rumors. I don't know about you, but I'm already sick of the iPhone 3G. Aren't you? I'm already so over it. Granted, I'm guilty as any for being part of...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, Desktops, 3G, Notebooks, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Apple releases Mac OS 10.5.3; includes Google contact sync (updated)
- Apple today released Mac OS 10.5.3 via Software Update advisory. The 10.5.3 Combo Update weighs in at 536MB while the regular 10.5.3 Update is 420MB. The 10.5.3 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Issue, Reliability, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Apple Macintosh, Google Inc., Apple Inc., Hardware, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- MacMinute to close
- After its publisher and editor Stan Flack died unexpectedly on 14 April 14 2008, Mac news site MacMinute.com will be closing its doors according to Stan's sister Julie E. McKenna. Flack founded MacMinute in 2001 after selling his original Mac news site MacCentral to Macworld in 1999....
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Goodbye, Apple Macintosh, Desktops, Web Site Development, Hardware, Internet, MacMinute
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Rumor: Tablet Mac coming this fall (updated 5x)
- I don't often publish first hand rumors, but today I've something special for you, if you like tablets that is. A little birdy tells me that Apple will announce a 12 or 13-inch tablet in the fall of this year. Most likely in the September...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Tablets, Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Notebooks, Apple Macintosh, Intel Atom, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Mac OS 10.5.2 a lemon for music
- Long time colleague and editor of CreateDigitalMusic.com Peter Kirn confirms what I've been saying for a while: Mac OS 10.5.2 is a dog. Granted, my issues with 10.5.2 were mostly with Skype audio, but they're audio-related nonetheless. Kirn's piece today on CDM Leopard Audio Woes and Digidesign; 10.5.2 is...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple Macintosh, Music, Apple Mac OS, Apple Inc., Operating System, Desktops, Operating Systems, Hardware, Kirn, Software
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Geekbench: Psystar v. Mac mini (and all three MacBooks)
- Yesterday I posted Xbench benchmarks of the Psystar Open Computer against the latest shipping Mac mini and all three Apple notebook computers and the Open Computer beat the Mac mini 147 to 99. Some suggested Geekbench 2 benchmarks should also be run. If you're not familiar with...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple MacBook, Apple Macintosh, Apple Intel Mac Mini, RAM, Notebooks, Desktops, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Xbench: Psystar v. Mac mini (and all three MacBooks)
- I've completed some initial Benchmarks of the Psystar Open Computer. The results below are from Xbench 1.3 running on the following systems: Psystar Open Computer, 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 10.5.2 Mac mini, 2GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 10.5.2 ...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple MacBook, RAM, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Apple Macintosh, Notebooks, Memory, Components, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Microsoft: Office '08 sales skyrocket, SP1 released, VBA coming back to Mac
- According to CNet Microsoft is selling copies of Office 2008 for Mac at a clip three times higher than the former 2004 version. "The company wouldn't disclose sales numbers, but said the sales are the highest in the 19-year history of the unit. That continues a trend that has been...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Visual Basic, Desktops, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Sales, Microsoft VBA, Hardware, Mac BU, Office Suites, Software
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
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