Install OS X on Your Hackintosh PC, No Hacking Required!

Two months ago I walked through how to build a Hackintosh Mac on the cheap using PC parts. Since that post, the OSx86 scene has changed rapidly, and now you can install Leopard on your computer about as easily as installing Leopard on a Mac—no command line hacking required. In addition, the resulting installation is—theoretically, [...]

NBC’s Zucker hints at return to iTunes?

After a very public cat-fight resulting in the discontinuation of NBC content on iTunes, the relationship between NBC and Apple seems to be on the mend. Perhaps you recall NBC Universal’s CEO, Jeff Zucker, saying that Steve Jobs and iTunes had “destroyed the music business.” This in retaliation to Apple’s damning press release in which [...]

Apple introduces iTunes Movie Rentals

Apple on Tuesday introduces iTunes Movie Rentals, a new feature of the iTunes Store that enables users to download movies and watch them for a short time rather than having to buy them. Movie rentals will be priced at $3.99 for new releases and $2.99 for older films. High Definition (HD) movies will be downloadable [...]

Apple introduces MacBook Air

During his Macworld Expo keynote address on Tuesday morning, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the MacBook Air, a computer that the company billed as the world’s thinnest notebook — small enough to fit inside an interoffice mailing envelope. It’s priced starting at $1,799 and will be available within two weeks.
Sporting a silvery finish, the MacBook [...]

Best Buy to double number of stores selling Apple’s Mac line

Leading U.S. electronics specialty retailer Best Buy said this week it plans to increase the number of stores carrying Apple Inc.’s Mac computer line twofold in the next several weeks, signaling robust demand for the Windows PC alternatives in the broader consumer market.
The comments came courtesy of Best Buy executives who held a session at [...]

An Apple TV With a Blu-ray Player?

Rumors are flying fast and furious over what Steve Jobs will pull out of his blue-jean pocket a week from Tuesday at his annual speech at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. These include a movie rental service for iTunes, a super small notebook computer perhaps with a solid-state hard drive, a notebook docking station, [...]

The 15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007

From on-demand video services that were overly demanding, to underwhelming operating-system updates, 2007 was full of disappointments. We surveyed the landscape and polled some old friends to come up with the 15 products, companies, and industries that left the most sour taste in our mouths.
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The 20 Best iPod Utilities

With a new generation of iPods on the market this holiday season, your reliable old iPod may not seem as shiny as it once did. But with the help of third party applications and utilities, you can unlock tons of useful functionality you never knew was there and revive that aging iPod so it doesn’t [...]

Complete Guide to Zune 2’s Software and Firmware

Zune 2 and its batch of new features are finally upon us, bringing new players and an entirely new experience. On the device side, there’s 4/8GB flash-based and 80GB hard drive-based Zune with fancy form factors and increased storage, as well as new firmware for your old first-gen 30GB players. On the software side, the [...]

Benchmarks: VMware Fusion trounces Parallels

In a new set of benchmarks comparing SWsoft’s Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac, Apple’s Boot Camp 1.3 Beta, CrossOver Mac 6.0 from CodeWeavers and VMware’s Fusion, Boot Camp (as a native Windows environment) unsurprisingly shows the best performance overall, but VMWare’s Fusion shows a dramatic advantage over other virtualization solutions, including Parallels. The tests, performed [...]

Ultra-portable Apple notebook to splash down at Macworld Expo

Unlike last year, the annual Macworld Expo and Conference that rolls around in January will actually serve as a launch pad for some new Macs, including a chic and ultra-compact notebook design long under development by Apple Inc.
The 13-inch portable, which AppleInsider first detailed back in February, will mark the Cupertino-based Mac maker’s re-entry into [...]

Top 100 Mac Apps

I’ve compiled a list of my top 100 Mac apps for your perusal, since so many people have been asking for it. Thanks to Taylor Olson and Jason for helping me put all the icons and links in place! These apps are certainly Tiger compatible, and most of ‘em work inside Leopard (though the VNC [...]

Massive Data Loss Bug in Leopard

Leopard’s Finder has a glaring bug in its directory-moving code, leading to horrendous data loss if a destination volume disappears while a move operation is in action. I first came across it when Samba crashed while I was moving a directory from my desktop over to a Samba mount on my FreeBSD server.
I’ve now run [...]

Apple, Google vs. Big Wireless

Mac software developer Craig Hockenberry has never been very interested in creating applications for cell phones. “It’s a lot of politics, and less money” to be made compared with creating software for computers, he says, explaining that programmers have always been forced to bow to a litany of requirements set by wireless carriers, handset makers, [...]

Top Ten Leopard Tips

Guy Kawasaki breaks down 10 Leopard tips. Some of them include: Opt out (not in) for additional fonts, back up first, and reconsider spotlight.
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