Posted by Sam Dweck on Aug 24, 2008 3:17 pm
Filed in Apple, Mac OS
The iPhone may be looking a little shaky with all of those cracks and dropped calls (yeah, we totally went there), but it appears that an Apple a day keeps the… buyer’s remorse away. The University of Michigan’s National Quality Research Center found that Apple was the number 1-rated in customer satisfaction on the American [...]
Posted by Zach Epstein on Aug 23, 2008 11:19 am
Filed in Apple, Mac OS, Rumors
Alright, we know what you’re thinking; Rose wasn’t all that on point last time he dished about Apple. That’s true, but he has a decent track record and some of what he talks about in this latest round of link fishing coincides with rumors that have been floating around for a while. Let’s have a [...]
Posted by Zach Epstein on Jul 20, 2008 10:22 am
Filed in Apple, Handsets, Mac OS, Software
Everyone’s favorite iPhone dev team - err - the iPhone Dev Team, has released the Mac version of its latest conquest. That’s right people, just like we told you last week the Dev Team has made quick work of Apple’s 2.0 firmware and the latest version of its Pwnage Tool is now available to the [...]
Posted by Joshua Karp on Jun 28, 2008 4:40 pm
Filed in Mac OS
If you’re in the market for an ultra-portable machine running OS X, but the Macbook Air is a bit outside of your budget, you might want to take note. The MSI Wind, one of many recently introduced low-budget UMPC machines, has been caught in the wild running a full version of OS X. According to [...]
Considering all that Mozilla has done for us - displaced Internet Explorer by giving us what is arguably the best and most versatile web browsing experience, for free - the least we can do is help them out when they ask us for help. What is it they want us to do? Download the latest [...]
Posted by Joshua Karp on Jun 4, 2008 6:56 am
Filed in Apple, Mac OS, Rumors
We admit, this seems a bit unlikely, but TUAW is reporting that the next iteration of Apple’s OS X operating system could debut as early as next week. According to the site, Apple is preparing to seed developers with an early version of the new OS. 10.6 will reportedly focus “solely on security and stability”, [...]
Posted by Zach Epstein on May 15, 2008 4:06 pm
Filed in Apple, Hardware, Mac OS, Rumors
DISCLAIMER: The image above is not real. It is a mock up. An artist’s rendering, if you will. We repeat, it is not real.
Sorry, some readers need it spelled out as we’ve learned recently… Intel has decided to pop up and crush our dreams once again as they disavow any knowledge of the alleged Mac [...]
Posted by Zach Epstein on Apr 27, 2008 10:08 am
Filed in Desktops, Linux, Mac OS, Windows XP
We can’t remember the last time a company had to spend so much time proving that it was real. We recently posted about a telephone interview with Psystar president Rudy Pedraza, a man becoming webfamous for all the wrong reasons. In the interview, Pedraza insisted that Psystar was the real McCoy despite a flurry of [...]
Posted by Zach Epstein on Apr 15, 2008 10:52 am
Filed in Apple, Mac OS, News, Software
File this one under "friggin awesome". In a surprise move today, the folks at fring have announced the availability of a native iPhone application that supports all of the basic fring functionality that we know and love. SIP / VoIP, check. Skype, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ, Twitter, Yahoo! and AIM support, check. Skype Out calling, [...]
Posted by Zach Epstein on Apr 11, 2008 7:30 am
Filed in Java, Linux, Mac OS, Services, Software, Windows XP
It seems like a new VoIP service pops up every few minutes in this day and age. In some ways that is a good thing as it drives advancement. In other ways, it’s just annoying. Why? Member to member calls are always free but when there are thousands of services to choose from, it’s unlikely [...]
Posted by Zach Epstein on Mar 28, 2008 4:08 pm
Filed in Apple, Mac OS, News
What do you get when you hold a contest and offer up $10,000 and a free laptop to the first person to hack an OS? You get a MacBook Air hacked in two minutes flat. Yesterday was day two of the CanSecWest security conference’s PWN 2 OWN hacking contest and Charlie Miller made quick work [...]
Posted by Joshua Karp on Mar 22, 2008 1:03 pm
Filed in Apple, Mac OS, Rumors
Just when you thought the little bugger was going to be relegated to the junk yard, Apple shows a little heart. According to AppleInsider, the company is getting ready to apply a series of updates to the Mac Mini line, bringing the specs up to date and saving the tiny box from extinction. Among the [...]
Posted by Zach Epstein on Mar 14, 2008 10:23 am
Filed in Android, Handsets, Mac OS, News
Rich Miner, Google’s VP of Mobile, used eComm yesterday to rekindle buzz surrounding Google’s upcoming mobile OS Android. How did he attempt to accomplish this? The same way most others do these days; he talked about the iPhone. Some might say that a truly innovative product speaks for itself. Creators can discuss its capabilities, as [...]