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The Joy of Tech has posted a cute comic countdown to the second that you will lose your dot-Mac account if you haven't coughed up the dough yet....
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It's possible that Quartz Extreme -- Apple's new acceleration-technology -- isn't running on your Mac with OS X 10.2, but how can you tell for sure? I must tell you that I haven't tried this application yet. My copy of Jaguar has not yet arrived in the m...
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I'm always rady to admit my mistakes. A gent' named "PCI Hack" responded to my last post with this message: Someone on the Ars Technica boards reports having found a hack that enables QE on PCI cards whose AGP cousins will support QE. This was also repo...
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MacSlash keeps the Quartz Extreme saga going by showing folks how to enable QE on PowerBooks driving external displays. This is quite a trend. The next thing you know, someone will tell us he's got Jaguar and Quartz Extreme running on an original "pizzab...
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CNet reports that Other World Computing has stopped distributing their DVD Enabler software -- a product that patched Apple's iDVD software to permit a user to burn DVDs on external DVD burners. The product was seen as a boon to thousands of Mac customer...
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Okay, it didn't eat my battery. But it appears to be devouring power from helpless Powerbooks and iBooks at an unholy rate. Just take a look at this XLR8 Your Mac page, for example. There are two schools of thought on the problem. First, that running Jag...
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The news was posted on MacOS Rumors of all places.... Yes, it appears to be true. The Sci-Fi Channel has cancelled their highest rated show ever. The transcript of the September 6th 2002 chat with David Kemper, Richard Manning and Ben Browder is online. ...
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Mac OS X 10.2 arrived in my mailbox this weekend and I have been busily testing it on my TiBook DVI. Quartz Extreme does make a huge difference. Where my CPU Monitor had previously been showing maximum use just opening a Finder window, now it leaps up bri...
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HP has announced their success in creating a working memory chip through a lithographic (printing) process that may one day allow 10 times the density of current computer circuitry to be printed onto a silicon wafer. Their experimental chip is already a m...
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Microsoft has traded in its black cowboy hat for an Indian Jones fedora and unearthed a bit of archeological history. The first ever smiley -- created in September, 1982 -- was unearthed from tape-backups this week. The smiley is not the first emoticon, ...
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Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States: The Congress shall have power to... promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings an...
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In a landmark case, the U.S. 2d Circuit Court of Appeals has held that "[W]here consumers are urged to download free software at the immediate click of a button, a reference to the existence of license terms on a submerged screen is not sufficient to plac...
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In a move that surprised just about everyone, Apple has announced that they will not participate at Macworld Expo in Boston, 2004. The expo was recently moved back to Boston – where it was held until 1998 – because the present New York venue was consi...
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Verbatim has released some really neat looking CD-R discs that resemble 45 RPM records. These "Digital Vinyl" discs are an entertaining way of distinguishing copies of your old vinyl bootlegs from your new downloaded-bootlegs. Sure, we could be writing a...
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Making predictions about the Macworld keynote is a time-honored tradition and I'd like to put my money down now on the top 5 announcements: 1. The sure bet: If you aren't in the educational channels - or willing to pay a hefty premium - you'll be stuck r...
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Every three years, the Librarian of Congress is pemitted to add some narrow exceptions to the enforcement of the DMCA anti-circumvention provisions. For the 2003 update, the public was allowed to make comments and suggestions per a Notice of Inquiry on th...
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Due to the continued downtime at Headliner.net, we have switched to a Moreover news feed for Mac Headlines. Additionally, we have added a BigNews newsfeed for intellectual property issues (See IP-News in the left column on the main page.)...
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Moreover's news servers aren't consistently responding. We're going to try a MacVillage feed for awhile. The news-service at MacVillage hasn't been updated since September, but is starting up again on Monday, January 6th -- so don't be surprised if you se...
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haven't been absent for the last month. We've been making some subtle changes to the site. There's a new Mac Headlines newsfeed from Mac Observer, the forums (which were pretty dead) have been eliminated and a bunch of tweaks have been made under the hood...
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Apple and Microsoft seem to be going their separate ways. Safari is Apple's device to smash Internet Explorer's dominance on the Mac platform. Now Microsft has struck a return blow. On February 19th, Connectix Corp. announced that their emulation technol...
