For those families that buy Macintoshes between now and August 10, they can enroll their kids in a free Apple Camp that will be held at local Apple Stores during the weeks of August 11th and 18th. The camps include two sessions, Standard and Advanced, each of which consumes some …

An article from Business 2.0 has an interesting idea for Apple and the record companies. Why not release specialized versions of the iPod with an entire music catalog for a particular group and a special engraving on the back. According to the author, neither the record companies, nor Apple …

One of the problems with Apple's 3G iPod is that the connectors are in a different location than the first two generations. This means that most after-market cases are inappropriate until redesigned. Continuing the flurry of post-iPod announcements is the latest set of releases from Speck Products, including three new …

The Philadelphia City Paper has an article about a local Philly DJ who uses iPods as a distribution mechanism for programmed music in eating establishments, stores, and the like. The benefits are small size, big capacity, and ease of programming as well as the LCD display that the current …

Ever since the release of Adobe's Photoshop, the last significant OS 9 holdout application on the Macintosh has been Quark Xpress, the page layout program from Quark. This week, Quark announced the shipment of their OS X compatible version and the design community has responded with a flurry of comments …

An article from MacMegasite confirms that the Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit is not planning on releasing any future version of Microsoft Internet Explorer for the Macintosh. Coming after the recent Microsoft announcement that there will be no further stand-alone versions for Windows, this isn't a big surprise. So, make sure …

The Open Group (also known as X/Open) sued Apple Computer 18 months ago, according to an article on CNET. The suit is over the trademark to Unix, a trademark owned by The Open Group, and whether Apple will have to: 1) pay a license to use the name; and …

As rumors intensify heading into Apple's WWDC, the IBM 970 and the next version of Apple's OS X are the chief concerns. This article from eWeek cites the likelihood that the 970 will initially be supported by a version of Jaguar (OS X 10.2) code-named Smeagol. The version of …

An article from Gnutella News summarizes Apple's meeting with independent music producers on Thursday. Lots of good information about the current state of the service and about how it is set up. Here are the points I found most interesting: 6-7 million copies of iTunes currently in use (presumedly iTunes …

If you, like I, have been wondering why some files that are clearly disk images download from Apple and leave only an application in their place, here is the answer: Internet Enabled Disk Images (or IDI's). If Then Software has released a tool to enable the bits that make IDI's …

Wired has a recap this morning of a variety of new ways to restore the internet iTunes sharing capabilities to your Macintosh. Of course, they don't point out that Apple's DRM still works correctly when this is used over the internet, so the only files that are completely shared outside …

It looks like there will be a third player in the Macintosh OS X Unix tool installation game soon. Gentoo (open-source creators of Gentoo Linux) is bringing their Portage software configuration and installation platform to OS X. For Gentoo, it will be their first foray off of the Linux platform …

I've had a chance now to run some existing Keynote files through 1.1 and export them into PDF, QuickTime, and PowerPoint. I'm happy to report that most of these have been improved significantly. QuickTime export looks great now (although, I thought it looked pretty darned good before). File sizes …

Continuing what has already been a fast-moving week for the software, pardon me, hardware manufacturer, Apple has released version 1.1 of Keynote, their presentation software. A quick review from Keynote User is available, and the update can be downloaded directly from Apple's Keynote page. Improvements are said to include …

The folks at Apple have been busy today. Along with the Bluetooth, QuickTime, and iSync updates, they've now released an update for iMovie, bringing it to 3.03. The update claims to increase performance and reliability and to add some new functionality to the well-liked "Ken Burns Effect".

An article on MTV is reporting that Apple has invited indie labels to Cupertino this coming week to discuss putting their songs on the Apple Music Service.

MacCentral is reporting that Virginia Tech is requiring the 17" Apple PowerBook for students majoring in Art and Art History. The department has required PowerBooks since 1998.

Apple has released version 1.1 of iSync for immediate download. Includes support for tons of new phones (including the P800, which I've only just recently finished doing a sync program for :-) ). Also included is syncing the bookmarks between multiple macs using .Mac.

With the ability to take standard composite or S-Video and turn them into DV signals (4:1:1, 720x480 at 30fps), the latest offerings from ForMac provide Mac users (and to a lesser extent Windows users) with the ability to read and write composite/S-Video while still concentrating on DV …

For those of us who have machines that cannot boot in OS 9, it comes as a relief to hear that Symantec is going to be releasing version 8.0 of Norton Utilities for the Macintosh, which will not only boot under OS X, but also include substantial speed enhancements …