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Apple nabs four of Engadget's 10 gadgets of the decade

by Mike Schramm (Dec 30th, 2009)

Our friends over at Engadget have selected their top 10 gadgets of the last decade (the naughts, as I like to call them), and Apple has come up big: four out of the ten choices are made by the company from Cupertino. The iPhone is on the list (of ...

Beware Photo Booth time stamps: It's a bug, not a feature.

by Mel Martin (Dec 29th, 2009)

One of our readers informed us that he was seeing some strangeness with Photo Booth time stamps. Photo Booth is the built-in Mac app that lets you grab stills or video from your iSight or attached USB or Firewire camera. It does the job dutifully, ...

Could Apple be moving to a spectrum of operating systems?

by Steven Sande (Dec 27th, 2009)

I was eating a late post-Christmas breakfast this morning and perusing my email when I came upon a note from my friend and fellow Apple Consultants Network member Michael Kimble. Mike's been involved with Apple products since before the Mac arrived, ...

Survey: 45% of iPod touch users running old firmware

by Mike Schramm (Dec 21st, 2009)

Chitika Research, a company that helps deliver online advertising, has released numbers from its network that claim 45% of iPod touch users still haven't upgraded to the iPhone 3.x firmware. Only 55% of the users measured have paid the cash to ...

Widgets: "iPhone apps, I am your father."

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 11th, 2009)

Don't get me wrong, I love the iPhone and its App Store juggernaut, it's just sometimes it seems that people have forgotten all about the iPhone app's father: the Dashboard widget. First introduced in Mac OS X Tiger in 2005, widgets changed the way ...

Create a fluid transition from login window to desktop in two easy steps

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 11th, 2009)

I always thought it would be cool if you could customize the background image of the Mac's login screen. That's the image you see behind the login panel when you turn your Mac on (if you have disabled Automatic Login in System Preferences). Why? ...

Join us Friday at 2 ET for a TUAW Hackintosh Clinic

by Erica Sadun (Dec 10th, 2009)

Did you get in on the recent Dell Mini 10v hackintoshable laptop deal? (Even if you didn't, that $279 regular pricing is still a pretty darn good deal.) Now that Black Friday minis are showing up at the door, TUAW is holding a live Hackintosh clinic ...

Quicksilver releases new beta 57

by Mike Schramm (Dec 2nd, 2009)

Macworld notes that my absolute favorite application, and one of the reasons I became a Mac user in the first place, is not quite as dead and gone as many people suspected. Quicksilver has released their first new stable version in two years, besides ...

Apple, Psystar reach partial settlement

by Lauren Hirsch (Dec 1st, 2009)

Details are still sketchy, but apparently Apple and Psystar have reached partial settlement in the ongoing saga between the two companies. It appears that in return for paying Apple unspecified damages on its copyright claims (most of which were ...

Boot Camp Drivers update 2.2 for Windows available

by Dave Caolo (Nov 19th, 2009)

Earlier today, Apple released version 2.2 of Boot Camp drivers for Windows. Installation requires Boot Camp 2.1 to have been previously installed as well as Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista. Boot Camp is included with Leopard and Snow Leopard and ...

It's alive: Intel Atom support returns to 10.6.2

by Aron Trimble (Nov 19th, 2009)

The day that Apple killed Atom support with the release of 10.6.2 was a sad one for many in the hackintosh community. Just as many expected, however, Atom support has returned; and no, Apple had nothing to do with it. InsanelyMac forum member ...

Psystar dealt crushing blow in ongoing legal proceedings with Apple

by Lauren Hirsch (Nov 14th, 2009)

Yesterday, Judge William Alsup, United States District Judge for the Northern District of California, dealt Psystar a crushing blow in its ongoing litigation with Apple over whether or not Psystar could market and sell non-Apple computers running ...

Psystar alienates the Hackintosh community, too

by Mike Schramm (Nov 12th, 2009)

Say what you will about Psystar, the community that continues to sell computers running OS X, despite bankruptcy, constant legal problems with Apple, and a case so slim even their own legal team gave up. Sure, they're out of reason, out of room, and ...