Last week, selected members of the press were invited to a “Mac Product Event” scheduled for Tuesday, August 7. Speculation and rumor websites are predicting an assortment of updates to the Mac product line. The most significant is a rumored update to the iMac, featuring a new brushed aluminum finish and a new thin MacBook-like [...]

This morning I scheduled a Genius Bar appointment because the home button on my iPhone was defective. The Genius swapped out my iPhone for a new one (actually my third iPhone) and he told me that I needed to go back to iTunes to reactivate the iPhone for the third time.
So, after reconnecting to iTunes, [...]

A half a year ago, Appleology featured a rumor in an article, titled “Leopard’s Illuminating Graphical User Interface: Illuminous, discussing a possible user interface that could present itself in Leopard. The article was built off of speculation from Apple’s design themes in their recent software releases, including:

Aperture
Apple Pro Apps
Front Row
iTunes 7 (including Front Row)
Leopard Quicklook
iPhone [...]

Apple has officially released a beta version of their upcoming Safari 3, also providing full support for Windows XP and Vista, in attempts to raise global Safari browser marketshare. Apple is promoting the new Safari 3 by claiming its speed advantages over Firefox and Internet Explorer. Safari 3 for Mac improves on PDF controls, tabbed-navigation, [...]

Along with today’s exciting announcements, Apple has redesigned their entire website, to shed its old “gray-lined theme” and opening it up to a new streamlined theme that reflects much of Leopard’s new iTunes-7-esque user-interface. The new website also includes some Coverflow-esque navigation and some AJAX-implementation.

Brian Boyko, an author for the website, “Enthusiast“, recently published a review of OS X based on his initial thirty day experiences with the operating system, titled “30 Days with Mac OS X“. The article was published as part of a series that reviews the latest operating systems. The author didn’t come of as if [...]

Today it seems the classic game ROM community is growing and growing as more and more are discovering how to play classic arcade and console games on their computers. For a long time, the Mac platform has lacked great emulators that feature solid compatibility and a full-set of features. However, some developers are working hard [...]

6. Apple TV 2.0 and iTunes Movie Downloads
The Apple TV is a great example of the typical first generation Apple product. At first it seems to lack features that make it worth the high price Apple is asking for. Just like the iPod and many other Apple products, the Apple TV will probably follow in [...]

Every now and then I’ve come across a quicktime movie, an MP3 audio file, or even a flash file that I’ve wanted to save to my desktop for use in situations when I’m not connected to the internet. In Safari, just open the URL of the file and select “File>Save As…” and choose your destination. [...]

I am really not a fan of negative news, and it really hurts when I hear a Mac developer or team decides to cease development of a great Mac application. A few weeks ago, the Bitpim development team has announced their inability to produce any further updates to the Mac binary version of Bitpim, a [...]