One small step for Apple. An article from ComputerWorld Australia that details plans by the DMV (called the RTA, Road and Traffic Authority) in New South Wales, Australia. Cause appears to be an intentional move to open source by the government there. From the article, "Apple OSX 10.3 was …

It's been about 14 months since I posted this article on the 'Pages about the PDF plugin from ShubertIT. In that time, the product has continued to get better and now it is down-right indispensable. The plugin works great in Safari and is free of charge for non-commercial use.

Some of you out there who heard earlier this week of a virus aimed at MacOS X, might be wondering why I didn't write about it earlier, unlike Wired did in their article. However, this new article, OS X Trojan Horse Is a Nag, is why. Although somebody has released …

To call it a preview would seem to be inappropriate, as Apple used the 19th annual Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference in Los Angeles to let the Macintosh speak for itself on issues of access by the blind. The move will secure Apple's ability to work with the visually impaired …

Apple released a press release last week indicating that they have sold 50 million songs through their iTunes music service. However, BBC News is reporting that Apple CEO Steve Jobs believes they will only sell between 70 and 75 million songs by April 30. Of course, the run rate of …

Thanks to Rob for passing this one along. This is a Christmas movie about the Apple iPod merged with Star Wars Episode I.

MacNN is now reporting in an article that Apple/Pixar CEO can breathe a sigh of relief because Pixar has finally decided to go to Macs starting this year. It appears that the combination of the video workhorse, the G5, and the introduction of OS X Panther's new Pixlet technology …

This is a pretty technical article for those who are interested in putting SSL facilities on a Panther Server. So, you have obtained a certificate for your XServe or other OS X server and you want to use that certificate for the built-in email services. Unfortunately, if this is documented …

An article from MacWorld UK contains quotes from the PalmSource VP of Business Development indicating that Apple's much-discussed secrecy makes it too difficult to keep up on the Macintosh platform. The article goes on to say they still consider the Mac community important and will try to work with Apple …

Although Windows seems to be continuing its growth in education markets (a sad slide for the venerable Apple stalwart), the scientific community is beginning to become a new battleground for the Mac vs. PC argument. An article from E-Commerce Times quotes NASA scientists, among others, who are finding the power …

In comments made at the PalmSource conference last week, representatives of the company said that they will no longer be supporting Macintosh synchronization in the OS. Instead, they indicated that third party products (such as Missing Sync from Mark/Space) will have to be used in the future. Marc/Space …

Apple today released a beta version of iChat that will exchange video with Windows users who use AOL's AIM version 5.5. Seems to work... pretty cool. Also included is Direct Connect, but it appears to not always connect directly between two macs.

Apple has released (available through Software Update) a new version of their Bluetooth drivers for the Macintosh. Bluetooth Update 1.5 (available for Panther users) will allow you to use a Bluetooth headset for your iChat connections and other sound I/O. Further, if you are near a Bluetooth printer …

When I initially read this article from OverClockers (a generally-PC site about souping up PCs in all sorts of interesting ways), I thought that it was a hoax, so I delayed publishing anything here about it. My thoughts were confirmed, and although somebody did put a PC inside of a …

Bob Massey of the Washington Post has a favorable review of Apple's new GarageBand (part of iLife '04). He ends the review with "The GarageBand name hides a certain irony -- it's hard to make a song sound any way but slick and seamless in this program. But this same relative …

The IBM PowerPC 970 (the chip called the G5 by Apple) has been out for about a year and has made many a Macintosh aficionado very happy with its performance. However, judging by the amount of air movement necessary (see the wicked-cool cooling in the G5) to keep the G5 …

It's the 24th of January and that means the 20th anniversary of the day that changed desktop computing. OK, it might sound like an exaggeration, but it is important to remember that Windows wasn't really a force until after the Macintosh had been out for a while (1.0 was …

Apple's new iLife '04 contains an interesting music program called GarageBand. With it, you can create music via a number of different methods, including MIDI keyboard input. However, if you're not yet ready to plunk down real cash on a keyboard and still want to play, look at microSynth, a …

It may just be $50, and not $6M, but Apple's upgrade to iPhoto works as promised, it is bigger (handles larger libraries), stronger (does a bunch more stuff, like photo sharing), and faster---oh, so much faster! So, if you have a lot of photos (or if you will have a …

Have you ever wanted iCal to email you about an event a week in advance and beep at you 15 minutes before it happens? Well, wait no further. It turns out that the software allows multiple alarms for the same event. After setting up the first alarm, just click on …