What was Apple holding back at MacWorld Expo and why? My theory is that basically everything not related to the iTV (as announced in September with a "more in January" promise) and the iPhone were off the table because of messaging requirements. Apple knew that they had one big message …

I'm officially jealous. He managed to actually get his hands on an iPhone and here's the post that he wrote about it.

There have been a number of articles about the Apple TV and it's "one missing feature", the television tuner. As much as I can see why people would be interested in having a DVR on it, I think Apple chose wisely in not putting one (or more) into the box …

One word is on everyone's lips: iPhone. Love it or ... well, does anyone hate this product?... the big question seems to by "why Cingular?" Click though for more of a blow by blow. Carol and I arrived at 4am outside of Moscone West convention center with 250 of our "closest …

It might not be from Apple, but there will be a tablet Mac at this year's MacWorld Expo. Axiotron and Other World Computing will be showing the ModBook, a combination of a MacBook, WACOM pen input subsystem, and a SiRF III GPS device. I would otherwise have been uninterested in …

Here's a story that I just don't think has any downside. MacWorld is reporting Adobe is bringing it's video editing program Premier back to the Macintosh. Even if you're an avid (no pun intended) user of Final Cut Studio, it's great to have some competition, and with the Intel versions …

MacSanta just keeps getting better, but you have only TODAY to get it. So run, do not walk, to your browser and browse up the site for some new Macintosh software joy. Click through for more details. At the last minute, some of my old favorites have shown up, so …

It looks like MacSanta is a good place to grab the RSS feed from, because it's getting new goodies every day. Full article has some other choice software programs you should think about getting at a discount. But wait, there's more! iRecordMusic from BitCartel iRecordMusic will capture internet-based audio content …

IndieHIG is an open source attempt to extend Apple's well-known (and a little long in the tooth) Human Interface Guidelines. So far, not a lot up there, but some good folks are contributing and all the content is available under the MIT license so it is free free.

I don't often advertise for people on this site, but I figured that this one's good for everybody. MacSanta is coordinating the use of a coupon code of MACSANTA to reduce the price of popular (and useful) Mac software by 20% through Christmas day. Read the full story and I'll …

According to a report from MSNBC, the FCC has responded to a Freedom of Information Act Request for cellular outage reports by denying access to those reports and claiming terrorism is the reason. Yep, looks like the FCC and software vendors have something in common in that they both thing …

There's a good article by Patrick McFarland on archival storage using recordable DVD and CD media. The upshot is that (for some pretty sound technical reasons) he strongly recommends DVD+R over DVD-R and specifically suggests Taiyo Yuden brand (less strength in that argument).

So, according to Snopes, it is indeed true that the Canadian postal code for Santa is "H0H 0H0"... See, those whacky letter-number combinations come in handy at the Holidays.

An article from Zatz Not Funny! covers a trend in the selling of the new PS3 and Wii consoles that may be as old as sales itself. It turns out that ebay requires PS3 and Wii listings be accompanied by photographic (photoshopic?) proof of ownership (receipts, photos of boxes, etc …

I'm pleased to announce that after nearly three months of sitting in the upstairs library in "test mode", my Mac Pro has finally graduated to the number one spot in the house. The venerable G5 Quad (all of one year old) is, even as we speak, headed to California to …

Alan Odgaard, the author of TextMate (a very cool text/code editor for OS X), has mostly decided that version 2.0 of TextMate will require Leopard. I cannot say that I'm surprised, as Leopard contains many features that will lure developers to it. More interesting is that this program …

Let your fingers do the clicking and get yourself over to The Eggcorn Database where you can see details about this and other eggcorns, such as fullproof and other greats. Some of these are from non-native speakers, but many are just misinterpretations of words never seen by the user in …

Reading on the net today about a blog entry from a Microsoft employee about the importance of backward compatibility, I was struck by how absurd the assertion was. The premise was that an IT department had showed up in Redmond and had indicated they had over 9000 install scripts for …

Apparently Apple Japan thinks that what's good for the US is good for Japan. Check out the "Get a Mac" ads. You probably won't be able to understand exactly what they're saying, but you'll get the drift. Does anyone else feel a "1.1" aspect to these with the PC …

CNet has published an article rating senators and representatives based on how they voted for and against technology issues. It leads to some interesting conclusions, including high marks for George Allen (R-VA)--whose stance on net neutrality is up for grabs, but who's definitely in the camp of not calling …