Google has released 3 new dashboard widgets for the Mac, including one that checks your Gmail, one that allows you to post to Blogger quickly, and one that lets you check out your search history.

Well, somehow I missed that OWC disassembled the MacBook Pro yesterday afternoon.

Without further ado, the folks at Unsanity have described (in more excruciating detail than I did yesterday) the latest OS X malware threat and have not one, but two, solutions to the problem. UTISafariExploitFix is localized to helping Safari avoid doing bad things to your system, by stopping the problem …

This isn't intended to scare people in the least. In fact, it's intended to inform, and if we were talking about Windows, there's no way that I could comment on almost every threat of Malware that comes up on the platform. However, on the Macintosh, I feel some responsibility to …

Now that things are starting to become much more clear about the Oompa-Loompa "virus" (AKA, Leap.A), I figured I'd try to put things into perspective and give a few of my thoughts on the whole thing. For those who haven't heard, there has been concentration this week on reports …

According to an article in today's Washington Post (read it fast, 'cause the Post'll charge you if you wait too long), Grants.gov, the Federal Government's clearinghouse for grant applications is not compatible with anything other than Microsoft's Windows operating system. Apparently, the contractor (Northrop Grumman) felt that their implementation …

In an interesting move, Apple has decided to give the top 12 contributors to the Webkit open source project brand spanking new MacBook Pro computers and has invited five of them to come to Apple's WWDC as Apple's guest. This according to a posting on Surfin' Safari.

I'm sure you're all getting sick and tired of my publishing everything I can about the new Intel iMac and are expecting me to finally get some real news or at least movie reviews in here, but I just can't pass up this article from MacSpeedZone that specifically addresses the …

Not surprisingly, since David Pogue (columnist for the NY Times) is a well-known Macintosh zealot, he's got the new Intel iMac and he says it's really fast. Like him or not, he seems to have done a legitimate end-user comparison and warns about which applications you can take with you …

Apple's Aperture product page now states that upgrades to the Universal Binary version of the product (released in November) will be available for free from software update instead of for $49 with a DVD distribution, as originally announced at MacWorld earlier this month. Thanks to MacFixIt for the pointer. Final …

There's a lot of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) going around, and not a small number of benchmarks. Frankly, the two benchmarks I've cited in previous posts are a good example of the two ends of the spectrum, with MacWorld's being pretty shallow and Ars Technica's being well thought out …

Ah, yes, the market. If Apple and Microsoft don't give you what you want, put a bounty on it and see if the Internet will provide. This is exactly what Colin NederKoorn has decided to do, and he's getting help. As of 10pm last night, people had pledged (and paid …

An article from C|Net News.com indicates that Apple's recently-updated iWork "suite" of Pages and Keynote has grabbed 17.4% of the Macintosh office applications market and almost 2.7% of the unit share of office suite sales worldwide, edging out Corel's WordPerfect Office.

An interesting article from Apple Matters takes a comment by Steve Jobs about Microsoft being able to win in the iPod wars if it would release music playing hardware and thinks it through. The result is well thought out and interesting, and probably the first good description of why Apple …

Not that I expect that the folks at Macworld magazine are technical rocket scientists, but this latest piece of "lab" work has me puzzled as to what they're trying to prove and who they're working for. In a series of "tests" performed on the iMac Core Duo and the iMac …

Ars Technica has a review of the new Apple iMac with Intel CPU(s). The review is pretty favorable, with reasonable caveats for non-native code (running under Rosetta) and the fact that it won't be replacing the big iron (G5 Quad or Dual).

So, what's an ExpressCard/34? Can I use my PCMCIA (PCCARD) cards in it? Apple's latest laptop announcement, the MacBook Pro has what is referred to as an ExpressCard/34 slot on it in the place of the usual PCCard slot. So, what is it? ExpressCard is a new standard …

Another Stevenote, another controversy about benchmarks. An commentary by Tom Yager on InfoWorld states that "Apple used multiprocessor benchmarks to skew the performance advantage." I have some issues with this. First, Apple has this time almost completely disclosed the information about their benchmarks, including compilers (IBM optimizing compilers vs. Intel …

Want to import that Access database to your Macintosh software? Wait no longer, if you're using an ODBC-capable package (like Excel or Filemaker Pro), you can now use the new ODBC for Access from Actual Technologies to do it.

Some of us know that Apple has had what it calls "Ink Services" for the Macintosh since 10.2 at least. Ink Services is handwriting recognition for graphics tablet users. Now, Apple announced today that they've updated the documentation to provide an API for customization. This is their first documentation …