Free Apps of the Day – 4th of July Edition!
Happy 4th of July! Enjoy these free apps that developers have chosen to give away just for the holiday!
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Life With the Apple Watch – a Parody
Practically everyone’s excited to get their hands on the Apple Watch, but there will always be some doubts. Personally, I am not going to join the early adopters this time, as I am still scarred with my experience with the Pebble (as I think I’ve mentioned before, it made me feel like Pavlov’s dog every…
Steve Jobs and Minimalism
The death of Apple founder Steve Jobs brought to light many facets of his life. And one of these is his great belief in minimalism. In fact, it is a philosophy that he has followed when helping develop many of the products Apple released all throughout the decades. Minimalism is a very strict design aesthetic…
Create a Wi-Fi Hotspot With Your Mac
Why on earth would ever need to create a Wi-Fi hotspot with your Mac. If you’ve had the privilege of staying in a high-end hotel, you know the answer to this question. Ethernet connectivity is cheap: Wi-Fi connectivity is inexplicably more expensive.
Apple Gazette Daily 194 – 1st Quarter Results, stock stumbles, and more
A look at the 1st Quarter results for Apple, the resulting stock tumble, and a little bit of news as well. You can subscribe via iTunes, or by RSS feed, or… you can listen to the episode right here: right here In addition to that, you can also download the Apple Gazette Daily Widget and…
OS X Quick Tip: Make your Screen Saver your Wallpaper
Here’s a Quick Tip from MacResearch.org 1) Set your screen saver to something cool (I use the RSS Visualizer) 2) Fire up terminal 3) Type the following: /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background Look at your Desktop. To stop the whole thing and return your desktop to normal just stop kill the process (^C). Do you have a…
Halloween at the Jobs House Shows Off His Fun Side
I’d never heard that the Jobs family opened its Palo Alto home to trick-or-treaters on Halloween night every year, but not only is it true, but his family has continued the tradition this year — even though public interest in the family was higher than ever.
Belkin TuneFM Review
I wasn’t really planning to get an iPod anytime soon, but all my siblings were snapping up latest-generation iPods of their own (2 second-gen Shuffles, one second-gen Nano, and one fifth-generation/Video). They got theirs cheap because of educational discounts (about 20% off) so I was actually considering riding on their discount since I no longer…
Apple’s designer Jonathan Ive wins National Design Award
This week Apple designer Jonathan Ive won the 2007 National Design Award for product design. He was selected for his innovative design work over the past 11 years on Apple products, from the iPod, iPod nano, iMacs, the iBook, and upcoming iPhone. The nominations were solicited from a committee featuring more than 800 leading designers,…
Roxio Announces Toast 9 for Mac OS X
Roxio today unveiled the latest version of Toast for Mac OS X. Toast 9 features a variety of new enhancements and features including Blu-Ray support, video streaming for the web and iPhone, and much more. Blu-Ray support comes to Toast 9 in the form of a $19.95 plugin that allows you to burn HD TV…
Pardon Our Dust – Apple Gazette 3.0 under construction
Pardon our dust as we install Apple Gazette 3.0. The site may flicker on and off for a few minutes. Thank you for your patience. We’ll be at 100% very shortly.
Boot Camp upgrade for Tiger users $29?
According to a MacScoop report, Tiger users who do not wish to upgrade to Leopard will be offered the final version of Boot Camp for $29. Apple has never remained clear on if Bootcamp would remain free after the Beta ended, and has done something similar to this by offering Jaguar users iChat for $29.99…