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Thursday, May 08, 2008
Latest Mac version of AOL's desktop is anemic and backward thinking.
 Welcome to the 21st century. Unless you're a Mac user on AOL. In that case, you're still stuck back in the last century using a desktop metaphor that was old a decade ago, ground up, mashed, and still ugly as Tommy Lee Jones' twin brother.
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008
3G iPhone is smaller, dual cameras, VoIP, works on any wireless carrier.
 Apple stunned the cell phone industry today by announcing a new 3G iPhone for $99. The new iPhone features 32 gigabytes of storage, dual video cameras, VoIP, and is available on any wireless carrier, not just AT&T.
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Monday, March 03, 2008
What's the price of an excellent RSS reader these days? Free.
 What's the price of free Mac software? What if the software is excellent, best-of-breed? Is it a bad thing when Mac software is free? With a few exceptions, we've noticed a trend regarding Mac software. The prices are going up.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
New, smaller, faster Intel chips find a home in Apple's notebook line.
 What's the price of speed on a personal computer these days? Nobody cares. Remember when megahertz, then gigahertz determined computer performance? Those days are gone. Today's Macs are just as much screamer machines as an Windows PC.
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Linux guru Linus Torvalds says so and calls OS X's file system 'utter crap.'
 In an enlightened world is there such a thing as too much free speech? Take Linux founder Linus Torvalds. Please. His latest point of view is that parts of Mac OS X are 'utter crap.' Guess what? He doesn't like Windows Vista, either. Surprised?
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
The secret is not in Mac software with lots of features. Think simple.
 From a rather simplistic perspective, we buy and use a Mac to get things done. The problem is multiplied by the fact that there are more things to do, and the Mac is capable of doing more things. Unfortunately, we're not.
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Friday, January 25, 2008
Is Apple's stock a good buy or the best of the worst to come in 2008?
 I've said it before, so it's time to say it again about Apple's stock price. What goes up, must come down. That applies to the basic laws of gravity and certainly to the high flying stock price of our favorite Mac, iPod, iPhone maker.
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Friday, January 18, 2008
The best office suite for the Mac is feature laden, with multiple versions.
 Microsoft didn't learn from Vista's crazy quilt of different versions which turns off buyers. Guess what? Microsoft's Office 2008 for Mac caught the same disease. Choose your poison. $500 to $150. Either way, you get what you pay for. Sometimes.
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
WiFi shows up everywhere Apple wants to be. Even backups.
 When I first heard the name of Apple's new ultra portable, I cringed. MacBook "Air?" Please. Apple, you've gone sophomoric. That's what I thought until I saw Steve Jobs' keynote presentation today. Then it struck me. It's a wireless world and Apple is moving quickly to own it.
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Thursday, December 20, 2007
Does the Mac have all the software we need? Is nothing truly new?
 One of our new Mac360 Forums readers posed the question: What Mac software do you want that doesn't exist yet? Not just features. There's always some feature we want. What applications or utilities do you want that just don't exist on the Mac? Yet.
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Monday, November 05, 2007
Leopard may be easier to use, but also loosens some security features.
 Since the Leopard launch, much has been written about Mac OS X security. There's new security features inside which users will never see, but Apple simplified access and usage to Leopard's firewall, which may have actually loosened security.
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Thursday, October 25, 2007
No Mac Classic OS on Intel Macs, and now, no Classic on OS X Leopard.
 The end of a Mac era is upon us. The dawning of the new Golden Age of Mac™ begins. Soon. With little or no fanfare, Apple quietly put to rest the Mac we all knew and loved. Well, some of us. Mac OS Classic is dead. Long live the Mac.
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