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RSS macintoshMac OS X Panther Edition: Organizing Your Stuff
White Paper The icon for the hard drive (usually called Macintosh HD) may appear in the upper-right corner of the screen. All the user finds in the Macintosh HD window is a set of folders called Applications, Library, and Users - folders he or she didn't put... [25 Oct 2007]
Microsoft Office for Mac update on its way
News Microsoft said Monday that it has wrapped up development work on Office 2004 - the latest Macintosh version of Office - with the software slated to hit stores next month. Jessica Sommer, a project manager in Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit... [06 Apr 2004]
No more IE for the Mac, says Microsoft
News Microsoft said on Friday that it is halting development of future Macintosh versions of its Internet Explorer browser, citing competition from Apple Computer's Safari browser. Sommer said that, with the emergence of Apple's Safari browser... [15 Jun 2003]
PowerPlant White Paper
White Paper Object-Oriented Application Framework for PowerPC and 68K Macintosh Overview and Architecture. This paper presents an overview of PowerPlant, Metrowerk's object-oriented application framework and its class library for 68K and PowerPC Macintosh. [24 Feb 2004]
Hackers claim to use iTunes for music sharing
News Apple Computer's iTunes software has apparently opened up a new way for Macintosh owners to share music collections across the internet. The songs are not downloaded permanently but do allow computer users to listen to any song on another network... [13 May 2003]
Executor Internals: How to Efficiently Run Mac Programs on PCs
White Paper Executor is a commercial Macintosh emulator that uses no software from Apple, but is still able to run much 680x0 based Macintosh software faster on Pentiums than the same software runs on 680x0 based Macs. [20 Apr 2004]
Apple users to get their own digital music service
News Apple Computer is preparing an online music-buying service for Macintosh and iPod users and is close to winning many of the licences it needs from major record labels, sources familiar with the negotiations have said. [05 Mar 2003]
Microsoft's Mac man steps aside
News Microsoft has transferred the head of its Macintosh business unit to another division, leaving open the question of who will lead the company's Mac efforts. Kevin Browne, who has headed Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) for the past three... [14 Oct 2002]
Minority Report: Jef Raskin and the Mac revolution
Comment Jef Raskin, who died this week, was among those who gave birth to the Apple Macintosh. After a series of clashes with Steve Jobs, who gradually wrested control of the project from him, Raskin quit Apple in the summer of 1981, three years before the... [03 Mar 2005]
Microsoft readies MSN for Mac OS X
News After years of eschewing the Macintosh internet service market, Microsoft will announce its intention later today to offer MSN Internet access and content to users of Apple's Mac OS X - though the service won't be available until early next year. [22 Aug 2002]
Apple pioneer dies at 61
News Jef Raskin, the computer interface expert who launched the Macintosh project for Apple, died Saturday at age 61. Raskin, who named the Macintosh after his favourite fruit, joined Apple in January 1978 as employee number 31. [28 Feb 2005]
AppleTalk
White Paper AppleTalk, a protocol suite developed by Apple Computer in the early 1980s, was developed in conjunction with the Macintosh computer. The devices that supply these resources are called servers, while the devices that make use of these resources... [24 Feb 2004]
Developing a Java API for Digital Video Control Using the Firewire SDK
White Paper FireWire is a standard on the Macintosh platform, with most Digital Video cameras supporting the FireWire interface. The authors believe that it would be of great benefit to the Macintosh community to have a simple programming interface between the... [23 Jun 2007]
Microsoft announcement gives Apple a leg up
News Kevin Browne, general manager of Microsoft's Macintosh division, said the OS X version of Office will start to ship in the autumn of this year. According to Steve Jobs, founder and CEO of Apple, most of the modifications requested were for a return... [11 Jan 2001]
Apple bytes: The Mac at 20
Comment Apple's initial offering, the 128K Macintosh, heralded the first popular graphical user interface (GUI), characterised by its use of windows, icons, menus and a pointing device (WIMP, if you must). The form of the original Macintosh, and the... [23 Jan 2004]
