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Report: Apple Falsified Jobs’ Stock Options Authorization

Apple Computer’s stock fell $1.64 per share, or two percent, following a report that indicated that Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who returned to the company in 1997, was awarded 7.5 million stock options in 2001 without proper authorization from the company’s board of directors. The revelation was made public via a recently released Financial Times […]

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Software

Updated VirtueDesktops Build Released

VirtueDesktops, the donationware open source virtual desktop manager for Mac OS X, has received another update, bringing the current version to 0.53r265a. Like the long-awaited Spaces feature in Apple’s upcoming Mac OS X 10.5 operating system, VirtueDesktops helps switch between applications and provides additional screen real estate to the selected application. The new version includes […]

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Fun

Apple Includes Hidden Games in Terminal

Well, it’s more a part of emacs and code written by Richard M. Stallman, but a cool article over at digg.com shows a full video of how to access hidden games within Mac OS X’s Terminal program: Mac OS X Hidden Games – video powered by Metacafe Otherwise, just follow the following instructions: Type into […]

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Software

Apple Looks to Improve Synching, Bluetooth, Fix Bugs in 10.4.9

An article over at AppleInsider fleshes out details as to how Apple has begun contacting its developer communities and asked for feedback as to current builds to a Mac OS X 10.4.9 operating system update. Sources familiar with Apple stated that as of last Thursday, the company began distributing the first external software compile of […]

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Review

17″ MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo Wins in Macworld Review

A full review over at Macworld News put the 17″ MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo laptop through its paces with Henry Norr liking what he found. Apple’s 17″ laptops, long the lusted-after portable of choice, have been on the market for two years now and an overhaul was in the works. In this case, the […]