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Apple's Xserve hits end of life, order yours before Jan, 31

by Sam Abuelsamid (Nov 5th, 2010)

Farewell, Xserve. While the G5 version was once the server behind one of the world's fastest parallel supercomputers, Apple's powerful but slow-selling line of rack-mount servers has now reached the end of its life cycle and will no longer be offered after January 31, 2011. As an ...

MacMiniColo will host your Mac Mini server for just $10/month for 6 months

by Sam Abuelsamid (Oct 31st, 2010)

Colocation facilities are typically stuffed full of various rack-mounted servers running all manner of websites and other tasks with fat pipe connections to internet backbones. One company, MacMiniColo, offers colocation services and is dedicated to hosting Mac mini servers. Long before Apple ...

TUAW's Daily App: Plex

by Mike Schramm (Aug 31st, 2010)

Plex's big tease last week turned out to not be an Apple acquisition, but instead a big release, of both a rewritten Mac client to keep all of your media together in one place, and also a brand new iOS app, available now on the App Store for $4.99. Sure, the app's a little pricey, but if you use ...

New Windows Home Server beta improves Mac support

by Richard Gaywood (Aug 19th, 2010)

How many TUAW readers have ever considered running a Windows server at home? I'm guessing not many. I'm hopefully going to convince you that's a shame because they can offer many features not easily (or cheaply!) replicated with Apple's own products. Engadget reports that a new beta version of ...

Soda machine controlled by iPhone app

by Mike Schramm (May 23rd, 2010)

Recent MIT comp sci grad Chris Varenhorst found a cheap soda machine on Craigslist a while back, and he decided to do what any self-respecting computer science student would do nowadays: hook it up to the Internet. He created wiring to make the machine believe it had credits whenever a circuit was ...

TUAW Faceoff: Streaming video on the iPad with Air Video and StreamToMe

by Michael Rose (Apr 12th, 2010)

In the few days that I've had an iPad, I've found a favorite way to demo it for friends, family, and people I stop at random in the hallways: fire up the Netflix app and start streaming Wargames. I can't say why this particular movie works well, but it just looks and sounds so good. "That's ...

Twelve things to do with an old Apple computer

by Mark Bowytz (Apr 7th, 2010)

As I type this article on my MacBook Pro, I can't help but glance over at my poor PowerBook Lombard G3 with its awesome translucent bronze keyboard, sitting in its dusty laptop bag. The battery is long toast. When I last booted it up, the clock thought that the system time was close to 1970 thanks ...

Eye-Fi Pro X2 cards have arrived, and you probably want one

by TJ Luoma (Mar 23rd, 2010)

I pre-ordered an Eye-Fi Pro X2 from Amazon a few weeks ago. (Don't be too jealous, I did it when I decided that I was going to have to wait for an iPad for financial reasons.) This is not my first Eye-Fi card, as I bought a 2GB version a few years ago -- and quite frankly, I hated it and thought it ...

Parallels gets down to bare metal with new server software

by Brett Terpstra (Feb 25th, 2010)

Parallels has announced a new version of Parallels Server for Mac called the Mac Bare Metal Edition. It's optimized to provide better performance for virtual machines running on an Xserve, and allows multiple, isolated virtual machines to run simultaneously on the same server. Using "hypervisor" ...

Zimbra and VMWare get married, cloud-shaped kids expected

by Steven Sande (Jan 13th, 2010)

In the world of Mac email and collaboration servers, there are some big names -- Apple (of course, with Mac OS X Server's mail and calendaring features), Kerio, and Zimbra. Zimbra Collaboration Suite is a popular and powerful email server and shared calendar for Linux and Mac OS X. The features of ...

Apple post server-related updates for Xsan and Mail Services

by Joachim Bean (Dec 18th, 2009)

Apple yesterday posted a few new server-related updates for Xsan and Mac OS X Server. The first, Xsan 2.2.1, improves file system reliability and cvfsck repair utility. This update is available for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. There's also an updated version of the Xsan ...

Working with the new Apple Mac mini Server and Snow Leopard Server

by Steven Sande (Nov 19th, 2009)

It's always nice when, as a Mac consultant, I can play with the latest hardware and software and get paid to do it. Last week was no exception, and when I received a call from a new client who wanted assistance with a Mac mini Server, I jumped at the chance. Since the introduction of the Mac mini ...

Poll: What do you use your Mac mini for?

by Joachim Bean (Oct 23rd, 2009)

Here at TUAW, as you probably know, we really love the Mac mini. Some of us have a mini hooked up to our TV, some are used as servers, and some are used as great desktop computers (including mine). We wanted to ask you what exactly you use your Mac mini for, so we came up with this in-depth poll. ...

Apple posts two new updates

by Joachim Bean (Oct 23rd, 2009)

Just days after all the hardware updates on Tuesday, Apple has posted two new support downloads. The first, Pro Applications Update 2009-01, contains several updates for applications in Final Cut Studio. This update includes Final Cut Pro 7.0.1, Motion 4.0.1, Soundtrack Pro 3.0.1, Color 1.5.1, ...

Mini gets a server-style upgrade

by Tim Wasson (Oct 20th, 2009)

Apple has given the mini a bit of a bump this morning, including a mini without an optical drive, twice the storage and of course a copy of OS X Server. It is meant to be a solution for those small businesses out there that are too small to need an Xserve, as well as media enthusiasts who are ...