Top Stories
Duncan Sheik: Awakening Spring with Rock
?Spring Awakening? shocked its audience when it debuted 100 years ago in Germany. Now revived on Broadway as a musical, it gains a new edge with Duncan Sheik?s hard-hitting rock ?n? roll score. [Feb 02, 2007]
Brand Your Business Better with Apple
The secret is out: Macs make it easy to create cool stuff, and Macs adapt to the way you live and work. With iLife and iWork, small businesses of any size can appear to have big design departments. Learn how easy it is to leverage Apple designed tools and templates to show off your brand. [Jan 31, 2007]
â??Greatest hits, in the palm of your handâ??
Jayson Stark writes for ESPN, â??Itâ??s hard to say exactly which moment it was that we realized the iPod had taken over our entire civilization. But it might have been this one: The day we first heard, last summer, that baseball players were using their iPods to do their pregame video studies â?? as opposed to, say, their pregame Shakira video studies. What we have here, friends, is one of historyâ??s most amazing gizmos ever.â?? [Jan 31, 2007]
Mac OS X Tip of the Week: Resize Photos Within Mail
When you email photos, you want to make sure they?re not so large that they make your friends groan. There?s an easy fix ? you can resize your photos right within Mail before sending them off. [Jan 31, 2007]
iPod shuffle Now Available in Five Brilliant Colors
Apple today announced that the worldâ??s most wearable digital music player is now available in five brilliant colors: blue, pink, green, orange and the original silver. [Jan 30, 2007]
â??Vistaâ??s pretty, but itâ??s a shameless Mac OS X imitatorâ??
Reviewing Windows Vista for St. Paul Pioneer Press, Julio Ojeda-Zapata concludes, â??Get a Mac with [Mac] OS X unless your home-computer needs are Windows-specific, or if the fine Media Center is a must for you. You likely wonâ??t regret a Vista-PC purchase, but Iâ??m betting youâ??ll enjoy a Mac much more.â?? [Jan 29, 2007]
D-Fuse: Cold Fusion
At D-Fuse, concept rules. Uprooting convention, the London-based studio mixes motion and still imagery, music and video, and anything else you can imagine to form a new kind of design expression. [Jan 26, 2007]
High-Definition Endoscopy
High-def endoscopy images and videos on Macs allow physicians at the Palo Alto Veteranâ??s Hospital to see subtle indications of early cancer lesions, improving their ability to make timely diagnoses. [Jan 24, 2007]
Mac OS X Tip of the Week: Look Inside Multiple Folders
Ever wish you could see inside more than one folder at a time? You can. Here?s how. [Jan 24, 2007]
Lyle Ritz: No Frills
Jazz ukulele master Lyle Ritz recorded his first solo album in 1957 for Verve Records. Some 50 years later, at the age of 75, he discovers the Mac and GarageBand and records his latest. [Jan 19, 2007]
â??You could call iPhone perfectâ??
Andy Ihnatko writes for the Chicago Sun-Times, â??The touch-interface works flawlessly, in terms of both technical function and user interface design. Whatever you want to do â?? select an album to play, make or take a call, compose and send an e-mail â?? your first impulse is almost always the correct one. This is the simplest phone ever.â?? [Jan 19, 2007]
Review: â??Uninspiring Vistaâ??
Erika Jonietz writes for Technology Review, â??Ironically, playing around with Vista for more than a month has done what years of experience and exhortations from Mac-loving friends could not: it has converted me into a Mac fan.â?? [Jan 17, 2007]
Apple Reports First Quarter Results
Apple announced first quarter financial results, with revenue of $7.1 billion and a net profit of $1.0 billion, or $1.14 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $5.7 billion and a net profit of $565 million, or $.65 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 31.2%, up from 27.2% a year ago. International sales accounted for 42% of revenue. Live audio webcast. [Jan 17, 2007]
Mac OS X Tip of the Week: Search by Colors
Color labels are a great way to remind yourself of the level of importance of your files. But did you know you can even search by them? This weekâ??s tip shows you how. [Jan 17, 2007]
Macworld 2007 Coverage
Watch Apple CEO Steve Jobs' keynote presentation announcing Apple TV and iPhone. See photos from the show. Hear what the press is saying about the new products. [Jan 12, 2007]
Inside the Image
A new section in the Apple Science site explores how the visual expression of scientific phenomenona advances our understanding of the world around us. The site will be regularly updated with new articles and images, featuring those by Harvard Senior Research Fellow Felice Frankel. [Jan 12, 2007]
Lauren Greenfield: Storyteller
Lauren Greenfieldâ??s photographs go beyond the captured moment to reveal the story behind the images. In â??Thin,â?? the renowned chronicler of youth culture focuses her lens on four women whose tales needed to be told. [Jan 12, 2007]
Mark Becker: Living La Vida â??Romanticoâ??
It was supposed to be just a ten-minute glimpse into the lives of Mexican mariachis who play for tips on the streets of San Franciscoâ??s Mission district. Instead, it turned into a three-year journey to document the life of an ordinary man facing extraordinary circumstances. [Jan 12, 2007]
Apple Reinvents the Phone With iPhone
Apple today introduced iPhone, combining three products â?? a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, searching, and maps â?? into one small and lightweight handheld device. Cingular, the largest wireless carrier in the U.S., will be Appleâ??s exclusive U.S. carrier partner for Appleâ??s revolutionary iPhone. [Jan 09, 2007]
Apple TV Coming to Your Living Room
Apple today premiered Apple TV, an easy and fun way to wirelessly play all your favorite iTunes content â?? including movies, TV shows, music, photos, and podcasts â?? from your Mac or PC on your widescreen TV. [Jan 09, 2007]
Apple Introduces New AirPort Extreme With 802.11n
Apple today introduced the new AirPort Extreme, a simple and elegant wireless networking solution delivering up to five times the performance and twice the range of the previous AirPort Extreme. [Jan 09, 2007]
iTunes Store Tops Two Billion Songs
Apple today announced that more than two billion songs, 50 million television episodes, and over 1.3 million feature-length films have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Store, making it the worldâ??s most popular online music, TV, and movie store. [Jan 09, 2007]
Mac OS X Tip of the Week: Need the First Available Printer?
If you work in an office where the printers are often busy, you?ll want to know about creating a printer pool. [Jan 09, 2007]
â??Review: Mac OS X Shines In Comparison With Windows Vistaâ??
John C. Welch writes for InformationWeek, â??Iâ??ve yet to see anything in Vista that blows away the Mac OS, even a version of the Mac OS thatâ??s over a year old.â?? [Jan 08, 2007]
Mobius 8: Invisible Touch
For Mobius 8, conventional instruments were never enough to satisfy his creativity. That?s why he invented Hydra, a multifunctional, multiheaded device driven by Logic Pro that has turned his stage show into a multimedia extravaganza. [Jan 05, 2007]
