Skype, the peer-to-peer VOIP client, is now available for OS X as a free download from their site. It's from the makers of Kazaa.

As predicted, Apple announced the iMac G5 this morning. Also as predicted (by the rumor sites), you could easily mistake this sleek computer for a display. Pricing runs from $1,299 for a 17" 1.6GHz version to $1,899 for the 20" 1.8GHz version. Technical specs are pretty …

An article from LinuxInsider goes through the cost differences between Macintosh and PC computers. When compared Apples-to-Apples (pun intended, of course), the Mac is less costly than the PC.

In an amusing twist, HP is giving away an Apple PowerMac G5, a PowerBook G4, and an iMac as part of a give-away to promote their "creative" printing products. Apparently, they've decided if they're going to spend money looking for an artist to render a demo page for their DesignJet …

An article on Apple-X.Net adds a lot of detail to the conjecture over the recently published "Chameleon patent" that a number of recent Mac sites have been talking about. The patent is probably best described (in layman's terms) in Apple Files for Chameleon Patent and Morph Trademark, an article …

MacMinute reports that Apple is at the top of the heap in this year's numbers from the ACSI. Dell, last year's winner, is now in second with most of the rest of the industry quite a ways behind.

For those of you who have purchased 15" PowerBook G4's this year, or bought batteries for them, you should check out the battery recall information page on Apple's site. There is a possibility of overheating and fire.

Apple's iTunes Music Store has (according to an announcement by Apple Computer) reached 1 million songs in its catalog for download in the US. They have also stated that they now have songs from over 600 independent labels on the US site.

A web site called Dear Steve has been set up to collect messages for Steve Jobs about his recent cancer surgery. Interestingly, it's not an Apple site, but a set set up by Varen Swaab, whose relationship with Steve Jobs appears on the site. Cool read. Thanks to Wired for …

BusinessWeek has a series of articles about Apple this week in a special report entitled Apple: The Next Generation. The five articles look at the company's performance since Jobs took over the reins (again), corporate and government prospects, the role of clustered Macs in supercomputing, and their current push toward …

PC Magazine, which despite the name does a reasonably good job of being non-partisan in covering equipment that doesn't qualify as PC-compatible, has released their 17th Annual Reader Satisfaction Survey results. The short form: Apple has a significant lead in basically every category (except servers, where they aren't represented in …

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and Pixar, underwent successful surgery to treat an early stage pancreatic cancer over the weekend. He is expected back to work in September (I guess he's waiting until the G5 iMacs come out). According to articles in the Wall Street Journal (Apple CEO Undergoes …

I'm pretty happy with a combination of IView MediaPro and iPhoto, but if you are looking to organize a large pile of photos or looking for a different set of tools that may be a bit more power-user friendly without being as pricey as MediaPro, here's a review of a …

Boston-based Tech Superpowers has created a highly-mobile digital editing station based on the merger of a Lexus IS300 and a Macintosh G5-based editing station, including an XServe RAID for 2.7TB of storage. To see how it turned out, they held a contest for best editing at the show, in …

Apple released their 3rd Quarter financial results last night and the news is quite good for them. Profits up (300%), revenues up (30%), unit sales for iPod up, unit sales for CPUs up, can't complain about that. Beyond the basic highlights, here are some other interesting tidbits from the announcement …

Initial user reports on AccellerateYourMac are good on Apple's new Airport Express with AirTunes. If you haven't heard of this, Apple's released a $129 802.11g (WiFi) gateway that allows you to play your iTunes through speakers attached to the device. Great if you don't have a wireless network already …

An upbeat article from Wired today recounts the throngs of people crowding Boston's new Convention Center. According to some reports, the crowd is standing room only and some vendors are pleasantly surprised at the turnout.

So, what makes one developer (NetNewsWire's Brent Simmons) so different in attitude from another (Konfabulator's Arlo Rose? Is it just basic bent? Viability of their idea? Or a lack of understanding of the creative and industrial processes. What's the deal? At Apple's World-Wide Developer's Conference (WWDC) this week, Apple announced …

Alias, formerly Alias|Wavefront, now owned by SGI (although in the process of being acquired by management) has released SketchBook Pro, a sketching program for free-hand artists. The software has been available for Windows for about a year, but Alias has decided to make it available to Macintosh users. Basically …

Apple announced Wednesday that they have had another profitable quarter, with revenues jumping 30% and profits increasing 200%, thanks to a 909% increase in iPod sales. During the quarter, the company shipped 749,000 Macintoshes and 807,000 iPods for revenues of $1.9B. And, to top it off, they're …