News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
Bjango has released Jobs, a new iPod touch and iPhone app used to track time and time sheets. It’s available from the App Store for $5.99.
Peter Cohen | Oct 24, 2008
If you haven’t already, be sure to wrap your iPod in wool or copper foil—the substances that traditionally make up gifts given on the seventh wedding anniversary. (Today, y’see, marks exactly seven years since the iPod was first unveiled by Steve Jobs in Cupertino.) By way of tribute, I’d like to present a little history, pulled from my now out-of-print Secrets of the iPod (don’t worry, my just-as-jam-packed-with-iPod-goodness iPod and iTunes Pocket Guide is still alive and well).
Christopher Breen | Oct 24, 2008
It’s been a long while since I’ve owned a new Mac. In fact the last one I bought for myself was a 667MHz PowerBook G4, nearly seven years ago. I’ve used subsequent models (my job affords me the luxury to try before I buy) but haven’t been prepared to put down my money. Until now. It’s not that I haven’t thought the various PowerBooks and MacBooks were worth the money. It’s just that I, like everyone else in the technology-buying world, have been hesitant to part with my money for fear of something better around the corner. Yes, there is always something better around the corner – I know that as well as you. And I know it’s true now as well. It’s just that this time I don’t feel that a huge refresh is around the corner any time soon.
Matthew JC. Powell | Oct 24, 2008
Nvidia this week introduced a desktop variation of the same motherboard design that debuted as part of Apple’s new MacBook and MacBook Pro last week. Introduced Monday, the new GeForce 9-Series motherboards are coming from leading PC manufacturers this month.
Peter Cohen | Oct 23, 2008
Last week I thought I had lost my mojo. Or something. I was following Jason Snell and MJCP here on the AMW website as they detailed the Apple event live from Cupertino. Games? The only games I'm interested in are real ones. Like with some sort of ball in a real environment. Well, how about a new trackpad? Nup, always use a mouse. Will the nascent arrogance I am sensing morph into Microsoftian proportions? Get on with it.
Keith White | Oct 23, 2008
It’s not often that Steve Jobs appears on an Apple financial-results phone call. But there he was on Tuesday, appearing as a surprise “special guest” as Apple unveiled its fourth-quarter earnings. And he held court, making some scripted pronouncements, parrying with questioning analysts, and offering enough vague tidbits to whip Apple Kremlinologists into a frenzy.
Jason Snell | Oct 22, 2008
Besides contributing to more than 40 books as author, artist, or both, Bob Staake has also done illustrations for clients as diverse as The New York Times and US beer maker Anheuser Busch - and he’s done it all with a piece of software that’s almost 15 years old.
Dan Moren | Oct 21, 2008
Apple has a way of forcing everybody to do things its way – mainly by designing great products that we want enough to give up our old standby technologies – but its decision to abandon FireWire in its new MacBooks, coupled with its shift to an as-yet proprietary standard for external displays, shows the company is taking this approach to new heights.
David Braue | Oct 20, 2008
When the App Store opened its virtual doors in July, Tetris was one of EA Mobile’s first iPhone-geared efforts—and it showed. My review of Tetris suggested that iPhone users should probably take a pass on the iPhone version of the classic puzzle game.
Peter Cohen | Oct 20, 2008
Microsoft pushed out a 154MB update to its Office 2008 suite overnight, meaning the company is probably on your mind (and chewing up your broadband allowance). AMW sat down with Danica Aitken, ANZ product marketing manager with the Macintosh Business Unit (Mac BU), to hear her thoughts on the latest version of Office and her plans for building the Microsoft brand among the Apple faithful.
David Braue | Oct 17, 2008
Well, I got my wish. Last week, I wrote that I was hoping that Apple would finally give us a non-crippled video system in the MacBook, and on Tuesday, the company certainly delivered. The new MacBook will unquestionably perform better graphically in leaps and bounds compared to its predecessor. I’m not the only one who feels this way, either—a straw poll of Mac game developers shows unanimous support for the new graphics system.
Peter Cohen | Oct 16, 2008
No longer content to extol the virtues of Vista to customers in its “I’m a PC” campaign, Microsoft has now raised the spectre of an “Apple Tax.” This coincides with Apple’s announcement of new notebooks yesterday, with prices as low as $1499.
Larry Borsato, The Industry Standard | Oct 16, 2008
Myvu has announced that its Crystal video goggles now work with the iPhone. The Crystal glasses require a new cable which costs $US24.95.
