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9to5Mac Toys Father’s Day Guide

Who bought you your first Apple product?  For a lot of us it was dear ol’ dad.  This year, give the dad’s in your life what they really want….some great new gadgets.  We’ll be updating this section as the week goes on but you can always check the latest toys here.
iPhone:
The iPhone launch is so [...]

Apps: MyMacTime, Flock, BannerZest

MyMacTime 1.2 ($20) is a tool for tracking time spent on different projects. Users can enter all the tasks they are currently working on and then either enter the time spent on each one manually or have the application log it. Tasks can then be synchronized with iCal for printing or sharing. The update has [...]

17 Reasons Why Your Mac Runs Slower Than it Should

Day by day, bit by bit your Mac has got slower and slower. You don’t really notice because it has happened so gradually.
Until one day you have a chance to use another machine, that’s when you realize what your beloved Mac has become, as slow as an asthmatic ant carrying some heavy shopping.
Well all [...]

NVIDIA unveils $1800 Quadro FX 4800 card for Apple’s Mac Pro

Filling a void for a true professional video card on the Mac platform, NVIDIA on Monday announced plans to begin shipping its Quadro FX 4800 ultra-high-end solution for the Mac Pro next month.
The $1800 card boasts 192 parallel processor cores and a massive 1.5GB frame buffer with memory bandwidth of up to 76.8 GB/sec. NVIDIA [...]

Apple jumps 32 spots to Number 71 in Fortune 500

Apple hasn’t been in the Fortune 100 since its revenue generating freefall in 1990’s.  It has been gaining steadily in the 2000’s until the recession hit and knocked out a significant swath of competitiors.  Today, it finds itself at #71, its second all time highest (it was #67 in 1994).  Will we see Apple in [...]

Apple Worldwide Developers Conference set for June 8-12

Apple announced Thursday that its annual developers conference will kick-off on Monday June 8th and run through the 12th at the Moscone West convention center in downtown San Francisco.
Tickets for 5-day event will run $1295 through April 24th, at which time Apple plans to increase the price by $300.
Snow Leopard at WWDC
Apple is expected to [...]

Tablet announced tomorrow?

It basically goes like this:  Apple has said it is increasing its embedded device list this year.  Ten-inch touch screens seem to be flying around Asia en route to Apple for late Summer.  If there is a tablet with resolution independence, developers are going to need a few months to tweak their apps for launch.  [...]

Dow Jones corroborates Apple Netbook, adds juicy details

Adding fuel to the Apple Touch Netbook fire, Dow Jones reporter, Wei Yi Lim is reporting that Apple indeed is building a touch netbook.  The screen size is about 10 inches.  OK, mockup artists…what else do you need?!  From Dow Jones:
Apple Inc. (AAPL) is planning to launch a netbook computer with a touch screen monitor [...]

6 Tips to Make MobileMe Yours

Apple announced MobileMe in June 2008 with big promises that it would become the data-sync service “for the rest of us.” But when it launched on June 30, those promises quickly turned hollow when problems plagued the service. In an uncharacteristic mea culpa, Apple admitted in mid-July that it had released MobileMe before it was [...]

More Mac mini details: soldered processor, drive upgrades

Fixit has discovered a number of extra details about the new Mac mini after having taken it apart the other day. There were a few omissions in our previous coverage that make be the difference between you buying a new mini or not, so we thought we would highlight some of the more interesting discoveries.
First [...]