Apple has always shown its best results in Quarter 4, but the transition to the new year will be a landmark in the Mac’s history as millions of switchers will purchase their first Mac and current Mac users purchase another system for the holiday season. MacBooks and MacBook Pros have seen an extraordinarily strong demand [...]

Today Apple updated its MacBook product line, introducing three new models all with Core 2 Duo processors. Apple claims the new Core 2 Duo processors give the MacBook a 25 percent performance advantage over its predecessors. The update also bumps the Ultimate Macbooks to 1GB RAM and Superdrive Dual-Layer standard, as well as a hard [...]

One of the benefits of Cocoa applications is its compatibility with one of my favorite utilities, Afloat. Afloat offers several benefits to Cocoa applications, such as the ability to adjust the transparency of a window and keep the window “Always on Top”. Other features include a “Keep Afloat” action, which actually dims the window until [...]

For the past few days the iTunes Store hasn’t been accessible for many (including myself) across the States and around the globe. Users experiencing this connectivity issue are making their voice be heard on several threads on the Apple Discussion forums. The threads haven’t reached any form of conclusion on why this is happening and [...]

Apple admitted that less than 1 percent of iPods shipped after September 12 are carrying a Windows trojan horse with the filename of RavMonE.exe. RavMonE.exe infects the target computer by means of external storage drives and the famous “autoplay” function in Windows XP. The trojan horse can spread to other external drives when attacking a [...]

It was exactly one year ago on October 8th, 2005 when Appleology was first started. In celebration of its birthday I wanted to go back in time and reflect on my experiences for the past year.
Appleology has spans 246 articles and 289 comments, bringing the comment ratio above 1 comment for each article. Appleology’s had [...]

For the past two months, I’ve been on a quest to find a way to use my Bluetooth Modem capabilities on my LG vx8300 with my MacBook Pro. It wasn’t able to connect until the other day when a reader referred me to a HowardForums thread on how to setup Bluetooth DUN with a LG [...]

I’ve always been an UNO fan. But for a while I got annoyed with its inconsistencies with some applications: Adobe’s Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, preference windows, dialog boxes, etc. Many also complained about its shrunken Spotlight and Apple menu icons, and lack of support for Mozilla apps. So, I uninstalled UNO until later when there [...]

UsedMac.ca the web site that offers a place for Canadian Mac users to buy and sell used Apple and related products has relaunched with a brand new look and improved search capabilities. Visitors can now search by Category, Province and Postal Code which will allow you to find that used Mac you were looking for [...]

iTunes 7 users are complaining to Apple about the new issues and bugs in iTunes 7. Threads on Apple’s Discussion forums have shown how the new iTunes 7 has many new issues including frequent crashing, poor audio playback, and some minor issues with the new iTunes 7 GUI. The noticeable cause of all this seems [...]