30 pivotal moments in Apple’s history

1976: Jobs and Woz Found Apple On April Fools ’ twenty-four hour period , Apple Computer Company is set up in a residential garage by Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak , both college drop - out . Fearing financial dilapidation , the third co - laminitis — Ronald Wayne — relinquishes his 10 percentage post in the partnership for only $ 800 less than two weeks by and by ....

March 29, 2006 · 12 min · 2371 words · Kelly Edwards

AirTunes for any application and multiple Expresses

When Apple first introduce the AirTunes feature film of iTunes , which lets you stream iTunes ’s audio frequency wirelessly to an AirPort Express , the most vernacular complaint was that you could n’t pullulate sound from other applications . In other Good Book , you could connect a stereo organisation or powered speakers to an AirPort Express , but the only matter you could listen to was euphony playact in iTunes ....

March 29, 2006 · 6 min · 1143 words · Deborah Hunt

Apple: The first 30 years

The last 30 years have been interesting ones for Apple Computer , with the company moving from a Los Altos , Calif. , bedroom to a broad campus in Cupertino . How did the company get from there to here ? Here are three decade ’s worth of events that avail shape Apple , turn it into the troupe we know today . Which of these events were the most vital 1 in Apple ’s history?...

March 29, 2006 · 21 min · 4329 words · Sergio Anderson

Deep Freeze Mac 2.03

If you ’ve ever tested bad software system , downloaded a single file you should n’t have , manure about in the Terminal with unpleasant results , or if you manage a clump of Macs whose users do all that and more , you ’ve probably wished you had a wizardly Undo control that could reverse the damage and restore your heavy thrust to a pristine land . That ’s precisely what Deep Freeze Mac does ....

March 29, 2006 · 3 min · 534 words · Andrew Wallace

Orange key caps, Keyboard Viewer limitations, and Chasing it away

Paint it orange Reader Don Smith marvel about the orangish primal capital that appear in a screenshot from a late column . My badness , I could have chosen a more representative stab or explained why those key are orange . countenance me to do so now . Those orangish keys indicate a exceptional two - key combining — one where you press the Option headstone , one of these quality ( tilde , e , u , i , or n ) , and then espouse it up by pressing the letter key that the special orange cardinal symbol should be applied to ....

March 28, 2006 · 3 min · 550 words · Daniel Martinez

Testing the 2.16GHz MacBook Pro

Macworldhas already had its say on both the 1.83GHz and 2GHz MacBook Pro laptops . But as telling as those role model are , neither the 1.83GHz configuration nor the 2.0GHz translation can lay title to being the fast MacBook Pro . That honor goes to the built - to - monastic order MacBook Core Duo/2.16GHz . The news that Apple would volunteer fast - than - expected MacBook Pro exemplar caught many by surprisal — especially since it came before the previously harbinger configurations even shipped ....

March 28, 2006 · 4 min · 686 words · Anthony Jackson

Analysts: Music download services may abandon France

A digital right of first publication bill winding its way through the French legislature may aim digital right direction technology like those used in Apple ’s iTunes Music Store and iPod offering . But psychoanalyst warn that the bill , if voted into law by the French Senate , could have far - reaching effects on medicine auditor in France — including the opening of online music services empty that country ....

March 27, 2006 · 4 min · 648 words · Arthur Haynes

Distinguish docked URLs

One ready to hand group O X feature is the ability to drag a uniform resource locator from a vane browser app straight off to the right deal side of the Dock , creating something yell a web positioning file , or webloc for brusque . you could do this from Safari , Camino , and OmniWeb ; it does n’t work in Firefox ( though the following hintwillwork in Firefox ) ....

March 27, 2006 · 4 min · 676 words · Jonathan Hoffman

EyeTV 2.1

For the past four eld , Elgato ’s EyeTV line of products , and hardware partners like Plextor that license the software , have been the aureate standard of TV catch and transcription for Macs . With the release of EyeTV 2.1 ( which runs on both PowerPC and Intel Macs ) , Elgato adds a phone number of useful features , such as a built - in programing template , that make the update worthwhile for most EyeTV users ....

March 27, 2006 · 3 min · 615 words · Jake Haney

Mac users in Jeopardy online?

at times , when the deadlines around here get to be overwhelming and the nine - to - five number threatens to become too much of a donkeywork , I daydream of pursuing a 2nd career — that of a extremely - compensated plot show protester who can put my knowledge of Potent Potables and State Capitals to use compete for fabulous hard currency award . I dream of go bad onJeopardy !...

March 26, 2006 · 4 min · 643 words · Peter Bridges

‘Tweaking’ utilities roundup

You say about them on message boards and vane sites , in Old World chat room and e-mail : Someone ’s Mac is suffer problem , and a helpful soul writes , “ DownloadXYZand clean your caches . ” Or a substance abuser want to know how to tweak a specific setting in Mac OS X , and several masses chime in with suggestions for obscurely named utility such as Onyx , DoktorKleanor , and TinkerTool ....

March 26, 2006 · 6 min · 1259 words · Kenneth Evans

Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0

With an center toward its meat audience of non - professional photo enthusiast , Adobe has made improvements to its quaternary version of Photoshop Elements that make it easy than ever to redact , organize , and portion out digital photos . Despite its consumer - level price rag , Photoshop Elements 4.0 sport some new tools that Guru wish the full - blown Photoshop had . Indeed , this release , which adds a snappy red - eye repair and simplified selection tool , stay on to blear the distinction between those who really demand the powerfulness of Photoshop CS2 and those who could dwell contentedly in the ground of Elements ....

March 23, 2006 · 5 min · 1019 words · William Pham

First Look: The XP experiment: Running Windows on a Mac

First , Intel - build processors wrap up in the Mac . What ’s next — Windows XP die hard on an Apple - built machine ? Exactly , thanks to theWindows XP on Intel Mac challenge . That contest , to get the Microsoft operating system running on an Intel - base Mac , has been pull ahead , meaning it ’s now at least theoretically possible to run Windows natively on your Intel - free-base Mac ( while still keep back a freestanding OS ex installation ) ....

March 22, 2006 · 26 min · 5385 words · Amy Rodriguez