News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
Since the day the iPod classic debuted a year ago, with essentially minor tweaks over its predecessor, I’ve been saying it’s Dead iPod Walking. Even the name implies at much: When a product carries the label “classic,” it’s a pretty good bet the company doesn’t see that product as anything more than a legacy offering for, um, classic customers.
Dan Frakes | Sep 15, 2008
Apple has officially decided to be a monopolist, and to abuse its monopoly power to the detriment of its partners, competitors and, ultimately, its customers. I feared this would happen, and had heard intimations that it might, but I held out hope that it would not be true — that good old Apple would not be like big bad Microsoft, that Obi-Steve would not follow the dark path of Darth Bill. I was wrong. And now that Apple has chosen this path, forever will it dominate its destiny. It's a pity.
Matthew JC. Powell | Sep 15, 2008
So you have you brand new wireless ADSL router installed and connected to the 'net. The iMac in the study and the MacBook Pro in the lounge are talking to each other and the internet. All is right with the world.
So what now? A number of possibilities await.
Tony Williams | Sep 15, 2008
It was my first Apple Store opening, but many in the queue at Chadstone Shopping Centre this morning were long-time fans and veterans of other launches. Yet that didn't stop everyone from turning up early on a Saturday to get a glimpse at the latest shiny addition to Apple's growing Australian retail franchise.
David Braue | Sep 13, 2008
Australian Macworld's David Braue is at the opening of the Apple Store in Chadstone shopping centre, where an estimated 200 people were waiting expectantly for the first Apple Store south of the Murray to open. Here are some "world exclusive" images from the scene, with more to come as the day progresses. For now this is what the media saw at the "preview" of the Store, which took place an hour before its official opening to the public at 10am. Check back for more.
David Braue and Matthew JC. Powell | Sep 13, 2008
Whether or not it engulfs the world in an all-consuming black hole when experiments begin in earnest next month, the organisers of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) super-experiment can be credited with taking the technological high road by using an application virtualisation solution to put Mac-using LHC scientists on the same footing as their Windows-using peers.
David Braue | Sep 12, 2008
This is the place to come for our live update of the "Let's Rock" event in San Francisco as it happens. We'll be bringing you text and images from the event live from 3am. As soon as we know Australian pricing and availability of any announced products, it will appear right here as part of this feed. Just keep hitting refresh to keep it coming. UPDATE: 4:14am The event has now concluded. Read on for details of the new product announcements, including Australian pricing. Thanks and good night.
Matthew JC. Powell | Sep 10, 2008
The only clue we have to Apple's launch tomorrow is the invitation caption: 'let's rock'. Does this suggest iTunes updates, new iPods, new applications -- or, at last, the portable or lounge-room gaming-cum-media platform Apple just has to have?
David Braue | Sep 8, 2008
Given that it's now even closer to 1am on a school night than it was when we started writing this blog, we're quite excited about this news, even though it was really last week when it happened. What news? The news that the Apple iPhone is now, finally, supported by an enterprise-grade management system that will let system administrators do policy and network access stuff. As you'll know if you have been following this blog, one of the main reasons holding back the already extremely popular iPhone from actual world domination was its lack of support for enterprise applications, and the wariness that created in the average system administrator of business networks as a result.
Fleur Doidge | Sep 4, 2008
This is the second in a series of retrospectives on prominent Mac-using musicians. David Bridie is arguably one of the most substantive musicians in Australia. He's just released a new album calledSuccumb so it's timely to take a look back at his approach to songwriting and Macs. This Pro File originally appeared in the September 2006 issue of AMW.
David Bridie has been writing songs for well over twenty years, and what a discography he has. Best known for his work with Not Drowning Waving, Bridie has for the past 17 years been a pivotal part of My Friend The Chocolate Cake as well as releasing solo albums and composing for film and TV. His most recent project has been RAN (Remote Area Nurse) for SBS TV that featured a range of Torres Strait Islander performers and music. AMW caught up with Bridie at his home in suburban Melbourne.
David Holloway | Sep 3, 2008
The long-anticipated lawsuit brought by Apple to stop Psystar selling unlicensed Mac clones has begun in earnest. Of all the lawsuits Apple is involved with at the moment, this is the most interesting, calling into question the license agreed to by every user of Mac OS X. All along, Psystar has implied it had an ace up its sleeve that it wouldn’t reveal until the time was right, and last week, the time came: Psystar has counter-sued Apple for abuse of its monopoly power. Hang on … what?
Matthew JC. Powell | Sep 3, 2008
Many would have seen the recent news from Forrester Research that Apple had nearly quadrupled its share of the enterprise market, from 1.2 percent of operating systems in January 2007 to 4.5 percent in August 2008. Enthusiastic Forrester analyst Ben Gray took the figures — which were self-reported by Forrester's (corporate) clients in an online survey — as an indication that enthusiasm about Apple's populist technologies is indeed helping it trickle into businesses of all size.
"There's a mind-shift happening in IT, and we're starting to see that change," he commented. "They're loosening up their policies on what's acceptable."
Businesses? Relaxed? About desktops? Since when?
David Braue | Sep 1, 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.
