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Apple Reinvents the Phone With iPhone
Apple today introduced iPhone, combining three products — a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, searching, and maps — into one small and lightweight handheld device. Cingular, the largest wireless carrier in the U.S., will be Apple’s exclusive U.S. carrier partner for Apple’s revolutionary iPhone. [Jan 09, 2007]
Apple TV Coming to Your Living Room
Apple today premiered Apple TV, an easy and fun way to wirelessly play all your favorite iTunes content — including movies, TV shows, music, photos, and podcasts — from your Mac or PC on your widescreen TV. [Jan 09, 2007]
Apple Introduces New AirPort Extreme With 802.11n
Apple today introduced the new AirPort Extreme, a simple and elegant wireless networking solution delivering up to five times the performance and twice the range of the previous AirPort Extreme. [Jan 09, 2007]
iTunes Store Tops Two Billion Songs
Apple today announced that more than two billion songs, 50 million television episodes, and over 1.3 million feature-length films have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Store, making it the world’s most popular online music, TV, and movie store. [Jan 09, 2007]
“Review: Mac OS X Shines In Comparison With Windows Vista”
John C. Welch writes for InformationWeek, “I’ve yet to see anything in Vista that blows away the Mac OS, even a version of the Mac OS that’s over a year old.” [Jan 08, 2007]
Mobius 8: Invisible Touch
For Mobius 8, conventional instruments were never enough to satisfy his creativity. That’s why he invented Hydra, a multifunctional, multiheaded device driven by Logic Pro that has turned his stage show into a multimedia extravaganza. [Jan 05, 2007]
Parish Kohanim: Paradise on Earth
The award-winning Parish Kohanim, one of the country’s preeminent photographers, has been focusing his lense on the beauty life has to offer for the last 30 years. With Aperture to help, he’s able to capture it more easily than ever. [Jan 05, 2007]
Monkey Business
Some businesses are the result of rigorous focus-group research and meticulous business plans. Others tend to grow organically, filling niches no one knew existed. You can place fashion-industry phenomenon Paul Frank Industries emphatically in the latter category. [Jan 03, 2007]
“Nike + iPod Equals Smooth Runnings”
Giving the Nike + iPod Sport Kit five out of five stars, Matt Vella writes for BusinessWeek, “[The Nike + iPod Sport Kit] Could be as vital to a runner as a pair of sneakers” [Jan 03, 2007]
Mac OS X Tip of the Week: The Burn Folder Isn’t Burning Aliases
If you like to archive your files on CD or DVD (always a good idea, by the way), you’ll want to know what’s happening inside your burn folder. [Jan 03, 2007]
UC Berkeley on iTunes U Galvanizes Campus
Since its founding in the 1860s, the University of California, Berkeley, has established a renowned tradition of openness, encouraging innovation and exploration. Now, Berkeley extends that openness further by making educational audio and video content available to students and the public via UC Berkeley on iTunes U. [Jan 02, 2007]
The Logic Behind Lily
Don’t mess with Lily Allen. The chart-topping songstress has back-up, in the form of Future Cut, the London-based duo who co-wrote and produced much of her debut album using Logic Pro. [Jan 02, 2007]
Register for the Final Cut Pro Supermeet at Macworld
Join the Final Cut Pro User Group Network at its sixth annual Macworld San Francisco FCPUG Network SuperMeet on January 10, 2007. Featured guests include associate editor Sean Cullen — who is currently working with legendary film editor Walter Murch on Francis Coppola’s new film, “Youth Without Youth” — and film editor Angus Wall — who just completed editing of “Zodiac” for director David Fincher. [Jan 02, 2007]
Review: iPod Hi-Fi
Giving the iPod Hi-Fi a “Very Good” 4.5-out-of-5 rating, Mike Kobrin writes for PC Magazine, “I got my hands on one [iPod Hi-Fi] and took it for a spin in the PC Magazine audio lab, and I’m very happy with it…Though it costs about $50 more, it can thump, sing, and squeal with a lot more power than the Bose SoundDock, plus it’s portable.” [Dec 22, 2006]
Joseph Vella: Passionate Podcasting
Hardcore fans dream of meeting their favorite musicians. Joseph Vella does it for a living, turning their creative lives into gripping podcasts for every fan to experience. [Dec 22, 2006]
Maria Sharapova Declares Her Resolution
Tennis star Maria Sharapova is resolving to run more miles than LeBron James in January. Find out what she has to do if she doesn’t succeed in her resolution. Then set up and track your own New Year’s resolutions with Nike+. [Dec 19, 2006]
“Zune doesn’t shake iPod’s market lead”
Troy Wolverton reports for the San Jose Mercury News, “Microsoft’s Zune had a decent debut last month, but Apple Computer’s iPods continued to dominate the MP3 market, according to new data from market research firm NPD Group released this week.” [Dec 19, 2006]
Practicing Dentistry’s Future
Using Macs, innovative techniques, and new concepts in office design, Dr. Mark Friedman’s Center for Dental Aesthetics and Dental Sleep Medicine exemplifies the dental healthcare you’d expect to be practiced ten or twenty years from now. [Dec 19, 2006]
Review: Windows Vista
For the New York Times, David Pogue reviews Windows Vista, trying to prove in his video that “Microsoft did not steal ideas from Mac OS X.” [Dec 15, 2006]
Brian J. Terwilliger: Runway Romance
Made entirely on a Mac, Brian J. Terwilliger’s “One Six Right,” starring the iconic Van Nuys Airport, captures the breathtaking beauty of aviation. [Dec 15, 2006]
Spinning with DJ Scotty Boy
To DJ Scotty Boy, nothing feels or sounds quite like vinyl—velvety and tactile, warm and analog. LPs also weigh a ton, cost a fortune and scratch at the worst possible times. So the deejay’s ditched his disks for a Mac notebook, iTunes and some powerful deejay software called Rane Serato Scratch Live, giving him the convenience of digital files and the tangible feel of vinyl. [Dec 14, 2006]
Mac OS X Tip of the Week: Where are the © and ™ symbols?
You won’t find them on your keyboard, but they’re in your system somewhere. Here’s how you can easily access them. [Dec 13, 2006]
“New MacBook is the same — only better”
Gary Krakow writes for MSNBC, “Overall, I found that the new MacBook is just like the old MacBook — only better. It seems faster and has some new bells and whistles — all for the same price.” [Dec 12, 2006]
Review: MacBook
Reviewing the MacBook for PC Magazine, Cisco Cheng gives the notebook four out of five stars and writes, “It’s ideal for novice users, college students, and frequent travelers who are looking for something that’s easy on the wallet and looks absolutely fabulous. With the move to the Intel Core 2 Duos all finished, the Apple laptop line is now complete—and poised to give Windows-based laptops a real big run for their money.” [Dec 11, 2006]
“iPod Sighting Aboard the International Space Station”
Johnson Space Center and SpaceRef.com report, “If you look carefully at the large version of this image [of the International Space Station] you will see a 5th generation iPod attached to a Belkin external battery pack on the equipment rack directly in front of [astronaut] Thomas Reiter.” [Dec 11, 2006]
