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Google’s Picasa For Mac OS X Reaches Beta Stage

by Brad Cook on January 5th, 2009 at 6:34 PM

Google on Monday revealed that the Mac OS X version of its photo management software Picasa has reached the Beta stage and is available now as a free download.

 

EZQuest Announces Cinema Pro Rack-Mountable RAID

by Bryan Chaffin on January 5th, 2009 at 5:06 PM

SAN FRANCISCO - EZQuest announced Monday the Cinema Pro rack-mountable RAID solution, a RAID solution that can hold up to 16 hard drives with up to 24 TB of storage.  The device is hot swappable, and conforms to the 3U rack mount form factor. It connects via an external PCIe bus.

 

O’Reilly Highlights Photoshop Authors for Macworld Expo

by Jeff Gamet on January 5th, 2009 at 2:40 PM

SAN FRANCISCO -- O'Reilly Media and Book Passage started off their Macworld Expo activities a day ahead of the conference's official opening day with a special panel and book signing filled with Photoshop CS4 experts. The panel included Photoshop luminaries Lesa Snider King, Deke McClelland, Derrick Story, and Lightroom pro Mikkel Aaland.

 

Parallels Desktop 4.0 Build 3810 Released

by Chris Barylick on January 5th, 2009 at 2:25 PM

Virtualization software company Parallels released build 3810 of its Parallels Desktop for Mac 4.0 software. The new build, a 171.9 megabyte download, adds a number of new features and other improvements

 

Elgato Introduces New EyeTV Hybrid Adapter

by Chris Barylick on January 5th, 2009 at 2:01 PM

Long-time Mac accessory maker Elgato announced the next generation of its EyeTV Hybrid television and FM adapter for the Mac on Momnday. The adapter, which is immediately available in the United States and Canada, receives both analog and digital TV, including HDTV, by cable and antenna signals and can record said media for later playback.

 

AAPL Up 5% Following Steve Jobs Health Revelation

by Bryan Chaffin on January 5th, 2009 at 1:45 PM

Shares in Apple Inc. rose more than more than 5% on Monday following revelations from Apple Steve CEO Steve Jobs that he was on a treatment for a hormonal imbalance that had caused him to lose weight, and that he would begin regaining that lost weight starting in the Spring of 2009.

 

FileMaker Pro 10 Gets New Interface, More

by Jeff Gamet on January 5th, 2009 at 9:37 AM

SAN FRANCISCO -- FileMaker announced the immediate availability FileMaker Pro 10 at Macworld Expo on Monday. The new version of the database application gained a redesigned interface along with built-in SMTP support.

 

Apple CEO Receiving Hormone Imbalance Treatment

by Jeff Gamet on January 5th, 2009 at 9:06 AM

Apple CEO Steve Jobs offered the world a rare glimpse into his life on Monday when he revealed that he is being treated for a hormone imbalance. He claims the issue is under control, and is the cause of his weight loss during 2008.

 

Roxio Toast 10 Titanium Sports TiVo, AVCHD Support

by Jeff Gamet on January 5th, 2009 at 8:30 AM

SAN FRANCISCO -- Roxio announced the immediate availability of Toast 10 Titanium and Toast 10 Titanium Pro on at Macworld Expo Monday. The new version of the CD and DVD burning application added the ability to send video from your Mac to your TiVo, and supports AVCHD archives.

 

BusyMac Intros BusyCal

by Jeff Gamet on January 5th, 2009 at 7:48 AM

SAN FRANCISCO -- BusyMac introduced BusyCal on Monday. BusyCal is a calendar application that shares calendars on local networks or over the Internet, and synchronizes with Google Calendar.

 

Particle Debris (Week ending 1/2) Behind the Curtain

by John Martellaro on January 2nd, 2009 at 2:45 PM

No matter what we read the first time on the Internet, there is always more going on behind the scenes that remains elusive or undisclosed at first. This week, John Martellaro looks at some of the deeper stories behind the stories.

My Macworld Expo Keynote Predictions

by Ted Landau on January 2nd, 2009 at 1:13 PM

I am about to do something I generally criticize when I see others doing it: Make last minute predictions as to what Apple will announce at next week's Macworld Expo.

An Argument For an Apple Netbook

by Vern Seward on January 2nd, 2009 at 9:33 AM

Vern Seward sorts through the pros and some of the cons of an Apple branded netbook.

Safari Inches Towards an 8 Percent Market Share in Dec

by Jeff Gamet on January 2nd, 2009 at 9:00 AM

Apple's Safari Web browser worked its way up to a 7.93 percent market share in December, reaching its highest level to date. Firefox also hit a new high with 21.34 percent of the market, while Microsoft's Internet Explorer continued its downward spiral with a drop to 68.15 percent of the browser market.

Happy New Year from TMO

by Jeff Gamet on January 1st, 2009 at 10:15 AM

Happy New Year from the staff of The Mac Observer! It was a great 2008, and we're looking forward to 2009. Covering the world of Apple the Mac, and the iPhone and iPod wouldn't be possible without you, our readers, and we appreciate your support.

An Apple Wish List for 2009

by John Martellaro on December 31st, 2008 at 4:50 PM

Here are ten things I'd like to see in 2009 from Apple. These may not be the top ten most important things ever, but they are the items that have been on my mind lately.

Economy-x-Talk Releases Strõm Flow Chart Software 1.0

by Chris Barylick on December 31st, 2008 at 2:40 PM

Software company Economy-x-Talk released Strõm Flow Chart Software 1.0 on Wednesday. The software allows users to create multi-purpose flow charts by clicking on a button to create a shape, drag the shape into the right place and create powerful diagrams in the process. 

Post-Christmas Hard Disk Management

by John Martellaro on December 31st, 2008 at 1:44 PM

If you've received a new Macintosh for Christmas or perhaps one of those terabyte hard disks, the task now is managing all that hard disk space. Managing is the key word here, because while Time Machine can help back it all up, a schema for intelligently assigning years of files and directories to all that new storage is vital. This article will help you sort it all out.

Urban Design Intros Qu-s

by Jeff Gamet on December 31st, 2008 at 10:16 AM

Urban Design announced the immediate availability of Qu-s on Wednesday. Qu-s is an application that stores and organizes information, ideas and lists.

Filemailer 2 Adds Contact Groups, More

by Jeff Gamet on December 31st, 2008 at 8:22 AM

 

Altomac announced the immediate availability of Filemailer 2.0 on Wednesday. The new version of the Internet file transfer application added the ability to organize contacts into groups to send files to multiple recipients, added TLS authentication, and fixed several bugs. Filemailer 2.0 is free and available for download at the Altomac Web site.

 

IDG to Hold Town Hall Event at Macworld Expo

by Jeff Gamet on December 31st, 2008 at 7:54 AM

IDG World Expo plans to hold a special Town Hall Meeting during Macworld Expo & Conference 2009 to discuss expo plans for 2010 and beyond. The event will be held in the Moscone Gateway Ballroom (room 102) at 5PM pacific time on Wednesday, January 7, and will be open to all Macworld attendees.

Goldman: Jobs Health Rumors are Wrong

by Jeff Gamet on December 30th, 2008 at 7:17 PM

Following rumors that Apple CEO Steve Jobs handed over his traditional Macworld Expo & Conference keynote to Phil Schiller because his health is failing, CNBC's Jim Goldman claimed that the information is flat-out wrong, and that the reasoning behind Apple's pull-out is exactly what the company claims it to be.

Rumor: Jobs Health Behind Macworld Expo Keynote Change

by Jeff Gamet on December 30th, 2008 at 6:29 PM

The rumor mill is working overtime leading up to Macworld Expo, and the latest tidbit seems to indicate that Apple may have misrepresented its reasons for handing over keynote presentation duties to Phil Schiller, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing. According to Gizmodo, Mr. Jobs is suffering from rapidly declining health, and the company is trying to control when that information is publicly released.

Two Bay Area Apple Stores Robbed in Smash & Grab

by Bryan Chaffin on December 30th, 2008 at 4:07 PM

Two Apple Store retail locations were robbed in the middle of the night over the weekend, with two smashing the windows in the front of the stores and running off with stolen Mac laptops and iPods. The thieves hit the Palo Alto Apple Store 4:11 AM on Sunday morning, and then one hour later the Los Gatos Apple Store was hit by what may have been the same two men.

Sci-Fi Strategy Shooter EV Nova Updated as Universal Binary

by Brad Cook on December 30th, 2008 at 4:05 PM

Ambrosia Software on Tuesday updated its science-fiction strategy shooter Escape Velocity (EV) Nova as a Universal Binary capable of running natively on Intel and PowerPC Macs. Version 1.1.0 also includes bug fixes and feature improvements.

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