Carol and I had a chance at the OWC booth to speak to the CEO of Axiotron, the German manufacturer or the ModBook, about the new device. In short, it's going to be a great portable tablet for people who need or want one. If you are even thinking about …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This is very good news for those of us in the Mac community that have been pining after some of the high-performance RAID systems available on other platforms. For a long time, 3ware has been a vendor of choice for hardware RAID in both the SATA and ATA arenas due …

Yesterday, the Paulsen household had one of those annoying, all-day, computer problems. On Wednesday, I'd upgraded the RAM in Carol's PowerBook from 768MB to 1.25GB in order to increase performance. The change was supposed to have no negative effects... unfortunately, a disk drive fault left Carol without a functional …

For those of you with Intel Macs, a need to run Windows-requiring software, and a disgust for having Windows actually running on your Mac, this might be your lucky day. CodeWeavers has announced the beta of their Crossover software for the Mac. What is it? This goes one step further …

Despite an email from Apple yesterday indicating that my Mac Pro would be shipping next week, it launched last night and is expected in house later today. More details as they come... now to find some tasty RAM.

Many of you know that I was at Apple's World Wide Developer's Conference last week in San Francisco. According to the rules, I can't say much in detail about what happened at the conference, but it was a good time. For those who missed the Stevenote address (you can view …

One of the continuing discussions about Wikipedia is whether it is useful as a real source of information or not (as you would expect, say, the Encyclopedia Britanica or the World Book Encyclopedia to be). Another recent piece has emerged from the blog of Keith Stattenfield that describes the back-and-forth …

Well, not that anyone's all that surprised, but Apple finally recalled the MacBook Pro batteries. Batteries sold between February and May are likely to qualify (those whose serial number ends in U7SA, U7SB, or U7SC). The web site indicates that it is performance issues and not safety that is the …

Flip4Mac, the plug-in that allows QuickTime to play Windows Media files (.wma, and .mwv) is now available for download as a Universal Binary, so those of us with Intel Macs can also enjoy it. I haven't finished testing it yet, but chances are that it's every bit as nice as …