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Steve Jobs' keynote at the Worldwide Developers Conference was focused on Jaguar, the next major revision to Max OS X, but for many of us in the tech-industry, there was another big announcement that amounts to a torturous teaser. That's right, there was...
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As reported in New Scientist, Sony has done a 180 and decided to let people hack their Aibo pets operating systems. No, this isn't Mac-news per se, but look at it this way: Any time a monolithic corporation comes out in favor of the little guy is a minor ...
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You may recall my earlier story about Apple's rackmount server platform (If not then click here). Well, now the servers have been formally announced. The new Mac will ship in June and they call it an Xserve. Here are some of the spec's: * 1 Rack unit...
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The Xserve has impressive specifications and will probably be valuable in many facilities. But for a large number of multimedia professionals -- especially those in the audio-editing field, the long-awaited rackmount Mac is a big disappointment. The pro...
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The Register has reported that America Online will remove the bundled Internet Explorer browser from future releases of their AOL client software for Mac OSX. The news is not unexpected after AOL's licensing agreement with Microsoft expired earlier this ...
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While hampered by bad acting and dialogue, there are some entertaining moments in Episode 2 that make it significantly better than Episode 1, "The Phantom Menace."
Star Wars fanatics may still regard George Lucas as an immovable icon, but after Episode...
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KaZaA — the software company behind KaZaA.com, the KaZaA filesharing network and client software — has shut down operations because it can no longer afford to fight its legal battles. Of course, KaZaA hasn't seen fit to make a Mac client yet, but the...
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The BBC is reporting that NASA has discovered great quantities of water on Mars. The water was found with a gamma-ray spectrometer by the Mars Odyssey spacecraft. There is supposedly enough water, in the form of ice crystals just beneath the surface of t...
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I desparately want to buy a TiVo set-top box. It's a smart little device that can pause live tv, that picks up on a user's viewing habits and records what you might want to see, as well as working like a VCR and recording scheduled programming, popping up...
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We would like to take this opportunity to wish everybody a happy and safe Memorial Day. Our republic has been blessed with great fortune, largely due to our willingness to defend with our bodies those principles that keep us free. Memorial Day was inaugu...
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As of Thursday, May 30th, the domain for MacSlash is pointing to a placeholder page from a company called "Dotster, Inc." A few quick WhoIs searches confirm that this is not just a local name-server error. The domain has been transferred to Dotster. Whil...
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Mac Opinion has a thoughtful and detailed article on the state of audio CD copy protection and its impact on your rights....
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A letter posted to obzorg.org from the MacSlash crew indicates that the new site at macslash.net should be operational by tomorrow (friday)....
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MacSlash has been re-established at http://www.macslash.org/. It turns out that they let their domain expire because they did not receive expiration notices. The moment the domain expired, Vicente Peiro Crespo leapt in and registered it for himself. The...
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CNet News reports that the European Parliament has passed new internet regulations that limit the rights of European spammers. Under the new regulations, commercial e-mails may not be sent without prior permission of the recipient. Additionally, companies...
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The Streaming Media newsletter mailing list may have been hijacked in order to promote an advance-fee fraud scheme. If you subscribe to this popular newsletter, be on your guard against e-mail scams. In the first of possibly several e-mails that were se...
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In another move in a series of acquisitions of multimedia companies, Apple Computer has purchased Silicon Grail, makers of Chalice and RAYZ. The sale was initially announced in early June, but the purchaser was undisclosed at that time. Silicon Grail wa...
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Marty wrote us with the tip that XLR8YourMac.com is telling readers how to overclock their new 600 and 700 MHz iBooks to 800 MHz in software! As with all such tips, perform this hack at your own risk....
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The annual MacHack Conference, "The Annual Conference for Leading Edge Developers," takes place this weekend from June 20 through June 22nd. It's a combination of eclectic presentations and a 3-day endurance trial centered around creating original and use...
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If "A.I." bored or disturbed you, you'll be well off skipping Steven Spielberg's latest misfire, "Minority Report." Coming out of the movie, I couldn't help but think of how the bland colors of the film were so appropriate to the insipid characters and di...
