News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
Sun Microsystems on Monday announced the release of StarOffice 9, their office productivity software suite. It’s available for download for $US34.95; volume licensing is available.Sun Microsystems on Monday announced the release of StarOffice 9, their office productivity software suite. It’s available for download for $US34.95; volume licensing is available. StarOffice 9 and its open-source OpenOffice.org counterpart were developed as an alternative to Microsoft Office and other productivity software packages. StarOffice 9 incorporates word processing, presentation, spreadsheet, database an...
Apple on Wednesday night released an update to its Apple TV set top box software. The Apple TV Software Update 2.3 makes four changes, as detailed on the “About Apple TV software updates” support page.
Jonathan Seff | Nov 21, 2008
Apple first announced Mac OS X Snow Leopard in June and said it would ship in about year. However, a slide presented by an Apple employee at a recent conference suggests Snow Leopard may be ahead of schedule.
Jim Dalrymple | Nov 20, 2008
Google Tuesday said it plans to archive as many as 10 million photos from Life Magazine's archives dating back to the 1750s—many which have never been published before.
Heather Havenstein | Nov 20, 2008
Zenoss on Wednesday announced the addition of a native Mac OS X installer to Zenoss Core 2.3, an open-source IT monitoring tool.
Peter Cohen | Nov 20, 2008
Flash memory developer Spansion has filed patent infringement suits against Samsung seeking to ban the U.S. sale of more than 100 million iPods, cell phones, digital cameras and other consumer devices containing flash technology.
Jon Brodkin | Nov 20, 2008
Opera is seeking user feedback over how its User Interface appears on different platforms and how the company can improve the look and feel of the web browser.
Oliver Garnham | Nov 20, 2008
Judge William Alsup dismissed a Psystar lawsuit against Apple alleging the company violated US federal and state antitrust laws.
Jim Dalrymple | Nov 19, 2008
Though the “techlectic” SC08 crowd at Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant Monday night was thirsty for cold beer and hungry for nachos and quesadillas, they were equally famished for information on OpenCL, the Apple-spearheaded parallel computing API produced by the Khronos Group.
Dale Roe | Nov 19, 2008
Apple officially discontinued its 23-inch Cinema Display on Tuesday, making way for recently announced 24-inch LED Cinema.
Jim Dalrymple | Nov 19, 2008
After a bungled buyout offer from Microsoft, a deal with Google that fell apart and two rounds of layoffs, Jerry Yang is calling it quits and stepping aside as chief executive of the company he cofounded, Yahoo said this week.
Martyn Williams, Nancy Gohring and James Niccolai | Nov 19, 2008
Apple this week released an update for its newest MacBook and MacBook Pro line of notebooks. Specifically, the firmware addresses an issue where clicks are not being recognised.
Jim Dalrymple | Nov 19, 2008
Adobe Systems, facing greater competition from Microsoft, is updating its Flash platform with new tools for building user interfaces for Web and enterprise applications.
James Niccolai | Nov 18, 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.
