News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
Attending a Macworld Expo without Apple may seem like going to a rock concert to see the opening acts, but despite lacking the rock star presence, the show will go on nonetheless.
Dan Moren | Feb 12, 2010
A few years ago I brought my MacBook into an Apple Store to get it serviced—this was a first-generation model, which had the rather unenviable habit of spontaneously rebooting for no apparent reason.
Dan Moren | Feb 2, 2010
Even professional skeptics like me are reaching the point where we have to admit that Apple is probably about to release some sort of tablet device, even if there’s little consensus about what it will look like or precisely what niche it will fill. Me, I find myself wondering about one aspect of the tablet idea in particular: text entry.
Dan Moren | Jan 12, 2010
As promised, the Google Chrome for Mac beta has just made it in under the wire for a 2009 release. Of course, it’s still just a beta, not a first release—and, as we know, it’s missing some features—but it’s a step beyond what we’ve seen so far.
Dan Moren | Dec 9, 2009
As the controversy over the best-selling phenomenon App Store and the Approval Process of Mysteries (take that, Harry Potter) continues, Apple has awoken legendary hero and senior vice president Phil Schiller from his slumber beneath 1 Infinite Loop for some damage control. In an interview with BusinessWeek’s Arik Hesseldahl, Schiller discusses the App Store approval process, its raison d’ętre, and what Apple’s doing to improve the situation.
Dan Moren | Nov 24, 2009
Google is ambitious, there’s no question about that. It has both the privilege and necessity of being so and, given its position as a major player in multiple facets of the technology arena, it’s got resources and opportunities that most other companies can’t hope to match. So if you had to pick one company to enter the operating system market, a product category that’s been largely bifurcated for the last two decades, Google’s a pretty good bet.
Dan Moren | Nov 23, 2009
Safari may have stolen much of the browser thunder in recent years, but that doesn't mean that other players aren't still plowing ahead, as evidenced by Wednesday’s release of Camino 2.0.
Dan Moren | Nov 20, 2009
Antwerp, Belgium is well known as one of the diamond capitals of the world (host to at least one major heist in the past decade). But the latest place in the city to be pilfered wasn't a vault full of gems, but a warehouse full of iPhones.
Dan Moren | Nov 18, 2009
As impressive as the iPhone has been since its debut two years ago, the device has never been without its flaws. Apple’s regular updates to the software have polished some of these rough edges, while other needs were addressed when Apple opened the platform up to third-party developers in 2008. But much of what makes the iPhone such a revolutionary mobile device is more or less the same today as it was two years ago.
Dan Moren | Nov 18, 2009
This just in: Apple's iTunes 9.0.2 update not only allows Palm Pre syncing, it embraces it wholeheartedly, offering to let you transfer all of your content to one of Palm’s devices to make it easy to switch to the rival handset and ditch your iPho—oh, whoops; apparently, I started reading my Bizarro World RSS news feed this morning.
Dan Moren | Nov 3, 2009
You have questions about your Mac: Why’s my Bluetooth keyboard always acting wonky? How come I can’t sync To Do items between iCal and my iPhone? Why the love for Marker Felt? Apple knows you have questions. It's just not going to answer those particular questions.
Dan Moren | Oct 22, 2009
If you looked around the room at the C4 independent developers conference this past weekend, you’d certainly see no lack of iPhones—it seemed like every attendee had at least one. But just because the indie developer crew were all packing Apple’s handset for personal use doesn’t mean that their professional opinions were quite as enthusiastic.
Dan Moren | Oct 2, 2009
As I type these words, I am waiting for Apple's Developer Connection web site to ease up sufficiently for me to download the long-awaited Software Developer Kit for the iPhone (and iPod touch, just by the by). In a way, I hate developer-oriented announcements — "here's a really cool thing we're working on, and it's available now, and hoi polloi can have it in about six months". Actually, it's the six months I hate.
