I was sure that I'd seen it before, but then I couldn't find it, the elusive "Just Added" page on the iTunes Music Store. The key is to go to a genre first, and then you will see the Just Added link and can see what has been added in …

As the number of media switchers continues to appear to climb, this Matrix- styled article from CBS News is a fun, if not entirely informative read. Warning, your Windows friends probably won't like it, because he likes the Mac and loves the iPod

As previously reported here, there was a bug in Apple's Safari browser. It has now been remedied (according to Apple) and should be replaced with the new version available at Apple's site.This is a strongly recommended update for anyone running Safari.

If you're a Mac person who wants to use AutoCAD, read this article from MacCentral. It tells you how to state your opinion to the folks looking in to the AutoCAD release.

An Apple press release today confirmed that they have moved about 2 million songs so far (about half of them as parts of albums). The rate is slightly slowed from the first week (2 million in 16 days vs. 1 million in 7), but is still a very strong showing …

I've been wondering what it would take to upgrade the disk drives in an Xserve. Since Apple charges an arm and a leg for the 180GB replacement drives, that just wasn't a reasonable option. So, I set out with an 8MB cache 200GB drive and a pocket screwdriver to see …

A bug that affects users of Apple's Safari browser has been discovered. The bug results in sophisticated sites being able to masquerade as other sites even when SSL is being used. Although the bug is considered moderately severe, and should be fixed immediately, it is unclear that the risk …

Book (and web) publisher O'Reilly has announced the second MacOS X Innovators Contest. The contest ends June 16, 2003 and winners will be announced in July.

Sound of stop watch clicking Almost two weeks. I can't believe it took that long. A little less than two weeks into the new era of Apple's iTunes, the first service to act as a clearing house for iTunes 4 servers is now up and running on SpyMac site …

Want to see what Phil's team put together without taking a screwdriver to your brand new Airport Extreme Basestation? Today's your lucky day. A chap in the UK has taken his apart so you don't have to.

An article on MacFixit this morning tells of a test carried out using the OS X 10.2.6 incremental (6MB) and combo (86MB) updaters from Apple. The author claims that there 2800 files that are different after installing each on two identical copies of 10.2.5. From this …

For those of you who use NFS (the Network File System) under OS X for file sharing, here is a hint from MacOS X Hints that describes how to improve performance. The key is an old unix trick of doubling the number of NFS daemons running on the machine in …

Apple has updated the eMac computers (the only models with CRTs) today. The new machines run from $799 (800MHz G4/128MB/40GB/CD) to $1299 (1GHz G4/256MB/80GB/DVDR) for the standard configurations with up to 1GB RAM available in build to order. The new machines are also Airport …

After switching to an Apple PowerBook last year, InfoWorld reporter Tom Yager is planning on making his switch permanent and following it up with a change in servers. His plan is to move to an OS X-running XServe, followed by adding a second one in a cluster. According to Yager …

Those with Macs that don't have SuperDrives may be interested in the review from MacWorld of a variety of external (FireWire) DVD recorders. All drives are between $350 and $399, but there are some significant differences, especially to the Macintosh user, who will need to find appropriate DVD content creation …

After a long wait, the folks at DiVX.com have released the Macintosh version of the DiVX software for encoding and decoding movies. For those unfamiliar with the format, it claims to provide DVD-quality for a fraction (1/10th to be precise) of the space. In the past, the Macintosh …

iMimic has announced that it is moving it's Reactor product line to the Macintosh. Their products provide edge caching as well as streaming in order to goose up the performance of web services.

Are they real? We won't ever really know, but the folks at MacBidouille have been known to be rather prescient in the past. However, they are a very Mac-happy bunch, so it might just be propaganda or wishful thinking. Their latest story contains benchmarks from a series of supposed 970-based …

Continuing a successful launch, Apple announced that their new Music Store has shipped over 1 million songs. They have also sold about 20,000 iPods at Apple Stores and taken 110,000 orders online. The press release on Apple's site provides additional info, including the following interesting stats: over half …

If you are using an Apple iPod and have taken the time to update your entire library with album covers, don't be surprised if you get a long download the next time you plug in your iPod. The pictures are stored in each individual song, and therefore each song has …