Sometimes your friends open up a network port on their Macs and let you see some of what you’ve been missing. And no matter how savvy or cool you think you are with your shareware, workarounds and free programs, they demonstrate something that blows you away. Recently, a friend showed me Perian, a set of […]
Adium, the free multiple-protocol chat client with support for environments such as AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk and Novell Groupwise, has been updated to version 1.0.4 and includes bells and whistles such as tabbed messaging and encrypted chat modes for privacy. The new version, a 13.2 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and […]
Episode 43 of the PowerPage Podcast is now available. You can either download it from the iTunes Store or directly (01:01’42, 21.9MB, AAC). Your panel: Jason O’Grady, Rob Parker, Chuck Freedman and Youngmoo Kim. Topics include: new MacBooks, notebook HDDs and subnotebook rumors. Subscribe to the PowerPage Podcast directly in iTunes or add the Podcast […]
With the launch of the iPhone less than a month away, Bear Sterns analyst Andy Neff has returned after a sit-down meeting with Apple executives Ron Johnson (the head of the retail division) and Tom Boger (the Director of the Mac Product Division) with news that the handset will be available in about 2,000 stores […]
A December, 2006 patent submitted to the United States Patent and Trademark Office offers a view of what Apple may have in mind for its future notebooks. While the trend has historically been to make laptops lighter, companies know this is a trade off in terms of durability. “Unfortunately, increased weight may lead to user […]