Archived Links for September 2006

9.27	MacScoop	Apple previews forthcoming .Mac features, Alexandros Roussos: Apple has started previewing today the forthcoming features of its .Mac service through a dedicated page.
9.26	bizhack	Podcasting dead, long live Zunecasting!, John Koetsier: I swear, Apple Legal does its level best every single day to do whatever it can in every way to do the maximum possible damage to Apple Computers Inc.
9.26	MacNN	Intel offers $1m to challenge Mac mini, Staff: At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel CEO Paul Otellini today offered a $1 million reward to the first computer manufacturer to develop a small, style-oriented PC using both Intel’s Core chip and Viiv home theater technology.
9.26	flickr	New Apple Ads, NickStarr: Apple is showing these ads in the Apple Stores already, but not on their website or TV yet.
9.26	Low End Mac	Jag’s House on the Future of the Mac, Tommy Thomas: Yesterday, Welcome to Macintosh started a series of interviews called The Legends of 68k. I sat down and interviewed Jag of Jag’s House. This is the second half of my interview.
9.26	Think Secret	Apple iPhone to be Cingular-exclusive at launch, Ryan Katz: Apple and Cingular have signed an agreement that will make the US’ largest cell phone provider the exclusive carrier of Apple’s forthcoming phone, sources report. Apple’s iPhone remains on track for an early 2007 release.
9.26	Times Online	Could financial scandal topple Apple CEO Steve Jobs?, Chris Ayres: With the iPod and the iMac, Steve Jobs has revolutionised the media world. But now a financial scandal could topple Apple’s inspirational chief executive.
9.26	Reuters	Nintendo’s Wii on Toys "R" Us hot holiday list, Nicole Maestri: Toy retailer Toys "R" Us has unveiled its "hot toy" list for the upcoming holiday season, and this year it includes a video game console for the first time - Nintendo Co. Ltd.’s Wii. Wii’s inclusion in the list comes as electronics play an increasingly prominent role in children’s toys.
9.26	Macworld UK	Apple enjoys catalytic opportunity - analyst, Staff: Apple’s shares led a US market rally yesterday on an extremely positive assessment from ThinkEquity analyst, Jonathan Hoopes.
9.26	Macworld	Lime Wire turns tables, sues record companies, Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service: Peer-to-peer (P-to-P) file-sharing software developer Lime Wire has countersued the biggest record companies, charging them with anti-competitive behavior.
9.25	Apple Matters	Evolution of Mac Pricing or Surprise! Apple Cares!, Chris Seibold: Besides the one button mouse the biggest debate in the history of the Mac has been the high price. Actually, calling the matter a "debate" is a like saying the sun is shiny, some things just are.
9.25	Tri-State Media	Board says no to Apple purchase, German Lopez: Despite expressed opinions of support for the idea in principle, the East Gibson board at a special meeting Friday voted to reject a proposal for the purchase of about 200 computers, citing displeasure with how Apple Computers and some EGSC administrators brokered the potential deal.
9.25	Low End Mac	Jag’s House, Where Older Macs Still Rock, Tommy Thomas: It all starts with a culmination of a dream. Then there’s that magic moment when the right idea comes along that’s shared by the right people. Then that idea in all it’s glory becomes reality!
9.25	Low End Mac	VisiCalc and the Rise of the Apple II, Tom Hormby: VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet, was one of the key products that helped bring the microcomputer from the hobbyist’s desk into the office. Before the release of this groundbreaking software, microcomputers were thought of as toys; VisiCalc changed that.
9.25	CNET	Apple squawks over "podcast" use, Staff: So you’ve just started making your own podcasts, and you think you’re the next high-tech audio star? Great, but you may want to think about changing the name.
9.25	Baseline	Study: Apple’s Exposure to Net Threats Rises, Todd Spangler: As part of its current ad campaign, Apple suggests that Macs aren’t vulnerable to the same Internet security problems PCs are. But according to a new study by security vendor Symantec, the number of vulnerabilities identified in Apple’s Safari browser in the first half of 2006 doubled over the prior six months - and it increased its window of exposure to Net-based exploits from zero days to five.
9.25	Next Generation	Apple’s Trojan Device, Aaron Ruby: While Microsoft and Sony battle to gain supremacy in your living room, Apple may yet be the one to triumph. Despite the company’s abysmal history in the games market it has the potential to slay the console kings through its iTV device.
9.25	San Francisco Chronicle	Wozniak book reveals the core of Apple, Ellen Lee: As teenagers, before they co-founded Apple Computer Inc., Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs would listen to Bob Dylan and the Beatles and debate which one was better.
9.25	MacDailyNews	Down, dumb Dell, Staff: Dell has its marching orders,"Colin Barr reports for TheStreet.com in his article, "The Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week."
9.24	Engadget	Virgin Atlantic revises complete Dell, Apple laptop ban, Cyrus Farivar: Virgin Atlantic has altered its sweeping policy of banning all Inspiron, Latitude, iBook, PowerBook, MacBook and MacBook Pro batteries from its flights, saying "If the battery is identified as being from the affected batch as identified by Apple and Dell, the battery must be removed."
9.23	MacMegasite	Worst apple products ever, etomic13: It’s well known that our favorite products around here are Apple’s. But Apple has made some seriously terrible products. Lets take a look at the Worst Apple Products of All Time.
9.22	The Seattle Times	Apple unveils new store design, Connie Guglielmo, Bloomberg News: Apple Computer is unveiling a new store design to add more show room for iPod music players and Macintosh computers and stations where shoppers can get technical help for their products.
9.22	Low End Mac	Apple’s Pippin and Bandai’s @World: Missing the Mark(et), Joshua Coventry: Pippin was a multimedia player developed by Apple Computer in the mid 90s. Apple decided to create and license the technology (named Pippin after a type of Apple smaller than a McIntosh) due to their belief that home computers were becoming more and more important and popular with customers.
9.21	Macworld	Dunn to ’set the record straight’ in HP case, Robert Mullins, IDG News Service: Embattled Hewlett-Packard Co. chairman Patricia Dunn told an appreciative audience in San Francisco Wednesday night that she looks forward to the opportunity to "set the record straight" regarding allegations that she oversaw an internal investigation of the company which may have broken the law.
9.21	Macworld	Nintendo could beat Sony in console race, experts say, Martyn Williams, IDG News Service: Its low price and innovative controller could push Nintendo’s Wii console to the top spot in Japan’s multi-billion dollar video gaming market, two industry watchers said Thursday.
9.21	Bloomberg.com	Advanced Micro Will Sell Chips to Apple in Future, Ruiz Says , Ian King and Ron Day: Hector Ruiz, chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices Inc., said Apple Computer Inc. will eventually buy its semiconductors to provide an alternative to Intel Corp. chips.
9.21	Woz.org	Woz Book Signing Schedule Posted!, Staff: Meet Woz. Steve Wozniak posts his book signing schedule.
9.21	BusinessWeek	Who Is Jonathan Ive?, Staff: An in-depth look at the man behind Apple’s design magic.
9.21	Switch To A Mac	Apple’s Mac OS Market Share Rises 24 Percent Year Over Year, Staff: Several outlets this week have reported that Apple’s market share is declining or has flattened out, especially when compared to December 2005 data. At first glance it may appear so but there’s more to the story and the data. This post will clear up the confusion by analyzing Apple’s market share on a month to month basis during 2005 and 2006.
9.20	USA Today	With iPods, Apple refuses to rest on its laurels, Edward C. Baig: The best of breed portable media players and jukebox software have gotten better. I reached that conclusion after testing a new iPod, iPod Nano and iTunes 7 software, all launched last week in San Francisco. Along the way, Apple continues to distance itself from rivals with a host of relatively small but pleasing improvements.
9.20	Computerworld	Hands on: The 24-inch iMac -- talk about a wow factor, Ken Mingis: A few days ago, Apple Computer Inc. sent along one of its new iMacs for review purposes, offering up the 24-in. version just released this month. (That’s the top-of-the-line iMac powered, in this case, by an upgraded 2.33-Ghz Core 2 Duo processor, including the Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT video card with 256MB of video RAM, and stuffed with 2GB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive.)
9.20	New York Times	When Apple Hit Bottom, Pogue’s Posts: Nowadays, Apple is a media darling. The critics like the company’s direction, and so does Wall Street. But it wasn’t always so.
9.20	PC Magazine	Apple iMac (24-inch) Review, Joel Santo Domingo: PC Magazine has given the new 24-inch iMac a 4.5 rating out of 5, saying that the performance of Intel’s Core 2 duo CPU ship is worth the added cost: "If you’ve been waiting to upgrade a G4- or G5-powered iMac, or even if you’re looking to replace a G4 or single-processor G5 Power Mac, the new 24-inch Apple iMac ($2,794 direct) should be at the top of your list.
9.20	Electronista	Microsoft: iPod will not undercut Zune price, Staff: The revelation that Apple was lowering its higher-end iPod pricing likely caught Microsoft off-guard, according to analysts; a recent Wal-Mart price leak discovered online indicated a $284 price tag for the Zune, pointing to a considerably higher official price than Apple’s new $249 player. Late yesterday, however, Zune project worker David Caulson emphatically denied that the Zune would be priced higher than the iPod despite its built-in WiFi and larger screen.
9.20	Playlist	Review: Fifth Generation iPod (Late 2006), Dan Frakes and Jason Snell: Improved hardware and software features make this the best full-size iPod yet.
9.20	Mac Night Owl	The Unholy Trio: Mac OS X, Parallels Desktop and Windows Vista, Gene Steinberg: A couple of weeks ago, I made a promise on The Tech Night Owl LIVE to attempt to install Windows Vista RC1 with the latest version of Parallels Desktop for Intel- based Macs. I like to keep promises, but their support for Vista remains purely experimental, according to Parallels, and Microsoft’s installer crashed shortly after it launched. This was a known problem.
9.20	Time.com	Apple iPod 80GB: Gadget of the Week, Wilson Rothman: There were sexier announcements made by Steve Jobs last week, like the new line of nanos - super slenderized, brushed aluminum 4GB models that come in pink, green, blue and silver (for $199) and the bold black one ($249) with 8GB capacity. However, I thought the 80GB iPod was more situated at the center of Apple’s big picture: movie downloads at the iTunes Store and a future in the living room.
9.19	MacUser	Warning: iTunes pricing is seriously buggy, Dan Moren: In what appears to be a flub by Apple, it seems that the price of movies on iTunes can vary, depending on what listing you look at.
9.19	Macworld	iTV: What you need to know, Dan Frakes and Jason Snell: It’s not every day that Apple gives use a preview of a piece of hardware that’s not going to arrive for at least three months, and maybe as long as six. But the release of the new iTunes Store, including the sale of full-length motion pictures, wouldn’t have had as much impact of Apple didn’t also announce a way to watch those movies on your TV set.
9.19	Computerworld	Safe storage, Mac style, Simson Garfinkel: In recent years, I’ve had a compelling reason to avoid Windows and use the Mac: security. Apple has taken its legendary attention to detail and usability and applied it to eliminating some of the most important security threats facing computer users today.
9.19	MacNN	Briefly: 125K Disney movies from iTunes, Staff: Walt Disney has sold 125,000 movie downloads worth $1 million in revenue through Apple’s iTunes store and now says it expects the movie downloads to generate $50 million in added revenue during the first year.
9.19	Playlist	Apple’s iPod updates: What’s new, Philip Michaels: Apple has overhauled its entire iPod line, unveiling new versions of the video iPod, iPod nano, and iPod shuffle. Having a hard time keeping up on all the changes? Here’s a summary of the key changes to all three iPod offerings, including how they compare to their predecessors.
9.19	MacNN	Intel’s "Core 2 Quadro" due in mid-Nov., Staff: Intel is expected by the end of this month to officially name its "Kentsfield" quad-core desktop processor as the "Core 2 Quadro," according to a new report.
9.19	MacDailyNews	Fortune: Amazon Unbox movie service ’unfun,’ a horror show, two thumbs down, Staff: "Amazon.com’s Unbox is a horror show. The Unbox service appears not so much to have been introduced as to have escaped from the laboratory," Peter Lewis reports for Fortune.
9.19	Macsimum News	Apple will open three new retail stores Saturday, Dennis Sellers: Apple will open three new retail stores this weekend.
9.19	MacDailyNews	Microsoft to launch YouTube rival, Staff: "Microsoft is aiming to capitalize on the user- generated video phenomenon by launching an online service to compete with YouTube, Google and Yahoo," BBC News reports.
9.18	Low End Mac	A $25 Mac, Growing Up Macintosh, and a Complete Mac Addict, Tommy Thomas: Since the last Welcome to Macintosh, I’ve received a lot of reader’s stories of how they came to the Apple world. This week I thought I’d dig into the mailbag and pull out three stories to share with you.
9.18	planet sab	How Apple can take the cell phone market with one feature, Sebastian Keil: I have written about the lack of Mac software to effectively manage the setting of my Sony Ericsson phone before. And it is no secret that I am very much looking forward to the day Apple introduces its own version of a phone.
9.18	RDM	Greenpeace Apologizes For Apple Stink, Daniel Eran: Just over two weeks ago, I published the critique "Top Secret: Greenpeace Report Misleading and Incompetent," where I examined the accuracy and usefulness of the "Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics," as well as its accompanying press release spin that bent over backward to attack Apple on its environmental record. Here’s an expensive apology and the somewhat ineffectual rebuttal I received from Greenpeace International which concedes that my original expose was right on the money.
9.18	USA Today	Apple goes back to its core in touting Macs, Theresa Howard and Jefferson Graham: Apple’s marketing has been so focused on growing its iPod/iTunes business that it had been four years since the company put some national ad gusto behind its Mac computer line.
9.18	Low End Mac	MacHome Magazine: 1991-2006, Steve Watkins: I’m surprised to have read very little about the recent demise of a pillar of the Mac community: MacHome magazine. Closing its doors after publication of the June 2006 issue, the Macintosh community has lost a valuable citizen.
9.18	InformationWeek	A Bite Out Of Apple? Mac OS Share Goes Flat , Gregg Keizer: Even with the buzz surrounding Apple Computer Inc.’s move to Intel processors, the company’s share of the operating system market has remained flat since December 2005, a metrics vendor said Monday.
9.15	Low End Mac	eWorld: Apple’s Overpriced, Poorly Marketed Online Service, Joshua Coventry: eWorld was Apple’s short-lived group of online services. Launched in June 1994, eWorld was an intuitive, easy-to-use, and heavily GUI-dependent new way to take advantage of the Internet. It included its own email service, bulletin board system (BBS), and more.
9.15	Apple Matters	Apple Will Never Surprise Us Again, James R. Stoup : I have bad news for everyone, we have officially reached the end of an era. Light a candle, sing a song and call your mother because today is a day of mourning. From hence forth Apple will never surprise us again.
9.15	mac geekery	How a Malformed Installer Package Can Crack Mac OS X, Adam Knight: There exists a pretty significant interface problem with the Apple Installer program such that any package requesting admin access via the AdminAuthorization key, when run in an admin user account, is given full root-level access without providing the user with a password prompt during the install.
9.15	Mac Night Owl	Microsoft’s Zune: Is This Any Way to Promote a New Product?, Gene Steinberg: Maybe you haven’t noticed, but rather quietly, I thought, Microsoft has taken the wraps, such as they were, off its latest "iPod Killer," the Zune player.
9.14	MyAppleMenu	What is iTV?, David K Every: A lot of people are very excited about it. I must admit, the features sound quite convenient. But there are a lot of things it could/could-not be.
9.14	Apple Matters	How the iTV Can Replicate the iPod’s Success, Devanshu Mehta : So how can the iTV, together with the new movie store, replicate the iPod/iTunes success story. Here are a few ideas-some of which are improbable, some may be impossible, but all of which would make for an interesting 2007 and beyond.
9.14	eWeek	Apple vs. Dell: When Support and Innovation Fail, David Morgenstern: How long can a solid-gold brand take a beating and keep on ticking? Apple Computer will find out this quarter with the growing list of user complaints about its recently released MacBook notebook model randomly shutting down.
9.13	The iPod Observer	Looking at the iPod’s Other New Genre, Brad Cook: iTunes movies may be getting a lot of attention right now, but Apple on Tuesday also addressed a genre that was also rumor mill grist: iPod games. Nine of them are available now, and Macworld’s Peter Cohen gave all of them a try, concluding that the games are worthwhile, but the platform needs more original development to really shine.
9.13	The iPod Observer	Apple Waiting on 802.11n to Deliver iTV?, Brad Cook: Apple CEO Steve Jobs broke tradition on Tuesday when he discussed an upcoming product, code-named iTV, months before its release, leading some to speculate why it isn’t ready now.
9.13	MacUser	iTunes movie quality is, well, sucky, Aaron Freedman: To the enjoyment of many people, including myself, you can now download full-length movies from the newly named iTunes Store. Of course, you’ve been able to get movies onto your Mac before, buy ripping a DVD with a free program called Handbrake.
9.13	MacUser	Quad core Macs? That’s so yesterday., Dan Moren: Yesterday was arguably a day of too much news. Had I been an early 20th century journalist, I would have been entrapped in a mass of tickertape, unable to ever go home to see my wife and family. Of course, that news would have been about the latest in indoor plumbing instead of high tech devices, but still.
9.13	AppleInsider	Merrill Lynch ups Apple target to $88, Staff: Based on rising estimates and a view that existing and forthcoming products are likely to create earnings power in excess of $4, Merrill Lynch has increased its price target on shares of Apple Computer from $72 to $88.
9.13	AppleInsider	Software remains Apple’s secret sauce of success - analyst, Slash Lane: Despite of flurry of new iPods and other digital media announcements made by Apple Computer on Tuesday, its most significant introduction was a dramatically improved version of its iTunes software, one Wall Street analyst says.
9.13	BenSinclair.com	What’s inside an iPod Game?, Ben Sinclair: I’m interested in developing iPod games, but Apple doesn’t have any developer information available. I emailed them and they replied promptly.
9.13	TUAW	First impressions: buying a game from the iTunes Store, David Chartier: Scott beat me to buying a movie from the store and posted his first impressions, so I thought I would move on to the new games section (iTS link) of the store.
9.13	BBC News	Apple video move divides industry, Mark Ward: Currently generating most heat on blogs and discussion boards is the slim video streaming gadget code-named iTV. The final version, due 2007, will have a different name.
9.13	Mac Night Owl	An iTunes and Movie Download Reality Check, Gene Steinberg: All right, the dust has settled. Many of you agree with me that Amazon Unboxed is poised to be an abject failure, although you never know about such things.
9.13	MacOSXrumors	Steve Jobs interviewed on CNBC (UPDATE), Alexandros Roussos: After his keynote presentation for the September 12 media event, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs was interviewed by CNBC on the latest announcements and on Apple’s stock options internal probe.
9.13	MacRumors.com	Apple’s Phone Revealed? [Updated], arn: Rumors of an Apple Phone have been ongoing for years with Apple laying claim to the domain iPhone.org since 1999 and the trademark for iPhone in 2002. Meanwhile, a number of Phone related patents have also surfaced showing that Apple has been researching this option.
9.13	Low End Mac	Nintendo and Apple, Industry Leaders, Matthew Jay: Two amazing companies, one similar dream: To create the best computing or gaming experience on the market.
9.13	Apple Matters	Mac or PC? PC Google Ads Suggest a Mac, Chris Howard : There’s an interesting little poll running to gauge whether people given $3,000 would buy a Mac or a PC. Not surprisingly it is running way in favor of Macs. 74 percent at the moment.
9.12	Playlist	New iPods get bigger, brighter, cheaper, Mathew Honan: Apple on Tuesday announced an update to its top-of- the-line iPod models, releasing two new models with brighter displays, enhanced battery life, new earbuds, and new software features, including games.
9.12	Low End Mac	30 Days of Old School Computing: Computing at Work with a PowerBook 170, Ted Hodges: Last time I talked about how I was having problems with my servers, and how one of my managers at McDonald’s wanted to join me in 30 days of "old school" computing.
9.12	AppleInsider	Apple introduces updated video iPod, Staff: Apple on Tuesday introduced its new iPod featuring a 60 percent brighter and more vibrant 2.5-inch color display for watching TV shows and now Hollywood movies right in the palm of your hand.
9.12	TUAW	Aqua is dead, long live Aqua!, Dan Lurie: Apple seems to use iTunes as a test-bed for new user interface design styles, and iTunes 7 brings with it an almost complete overhaul the Aqua look we have all grown to love/hate/tolerate. While on the surface, the iTunes 7 interface may seem very similar to that of previous versions, there are a few very distinct differences that I think forebode greater system wide changes to come in 10.5 Leopard.
9.12	GigaOM	Is Steve Jobs Bill Gates 2.0?, OM Malik: Yet another masterful Emmy winning performance by Steve Jobs, which met most if not all the expectations of the Mac faithful. GigaOM readers were once again proven right, and Apple launched a movie download service, albeit a watered down version than what most had expected or imagined.
9.12	Macworld	Apple previews iTV home theater playback box, Mathew Honan and Peter Cohen: Following Tuesday’s release of iTunes 7, which adds movie purchases to the newly-renamed iTunes Store, Apple CEO Steve Jobs previewed a new device -- code-named iTV -- which will allow iTunes customers to view movie and TV shows on flat-screen televisions.
9.12	CNN	Warning to Jobs: Taming Hollywood not easy, Jon Fortt: Plenty of the usual "oohs" and "aahs" to go around when Apple Computer took the wraps off its movie download strategy Tuesday, but the iPod maker might have a harder time dominating digital movies than it has had ruling digital music.
9.12	Macworld	Disney CEO happy with Apple’s movie strategy, Jim Dalrymple and Philip Michaels: Apple may have launched its new movie download service through the iTunes Store with just four studios on board. But at least one Hollywood executive isn’t fazed by the lack of participation throughout the movie industry.
9.12	MyAppleMenu	iTunes Gets More Visual, Bakari Chavanu: There are and will be several articles about today’s expected iTunes upgrade, but I just want to take a little time to write about one my favorite features in this newest version.
9.07	Mac Night Owl	The 24-inch iMac: Are We Missing Something?, Gene Steinberg: All right, I’ll confess. I’ve not used the new, large- screen iMac, I haven’t even touched one, but I have a pretty good idea of the user experience, since I’ve worked on 23-inch and 24-inch LCD displays for several years. Since it’s a tad larger than the former, you can expect text to be a little more readable, especially in small sizes. It will also be supremely fast, as one expects of any computer equipped with Intel’s new Core 2 Duo chip.
9.06	MacMinute	Apple updates iMacs, announces 24-inch model, Staff: Apple today announced that its entire iMac line now features the new Intel Core 2 Duo processor in every model, delivering up to 50 percent faster performance than the previous iMac, notes the company. A new 24- inch iMac with a 24-inch widescreen display joins the 17- and 20-inch models, and iMac prices now start at US$999.
9.06	MacNN	Circuit City to sell Macs, Staff: A small number of Circuit City retail stores in the eastern U.S. will begin selling a selection of Macs including iMacs, MacBooks, MacBook Pros, and Mac minis next week.
9.06	MacNN	Apple, Amazon to sell movies online, Staff: Both Amazon and Apple are expected to unveil new movie-downloading services in the coming weeks with online movie offerings from both services expected for sale at the same time as DVD versions of movies are released.
9.06	MacNN	Intel to cut 10,500 jobs, Staff: Intel has said it will cut 10,500 positions over the next year responding to its arch rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which showed competitive gains in recent months.
9.06	MacNN	Apple offers faster Mac minis, Staff: As expected following reports of delays to bulk orders, Apple today also increased processor speeds on both models of the Mac mini, delivering dual-core performance across the line at no additional cost.
9.06	Mac Night Owl	The Online Music Report: How to Double-Cross Your Partners, Gene Steinberg: A lot of people have complained that Apple’s go-it- alone stance is bad for online music sales. Of course, the stellar sales picture shows the reverse, that having a relatively simple, unified method to buy and store your tunes is actually a good idea.
9.06	TUAW	Rig of the Day: iMac plus floating LCD, Scott McNulty: Bribing us by displaying TUAW on four screens doesn’t work, but having a cool iMac setup on the day that Apple announces new iMacs will get you featured.
9.06	The Mac Observer	Microsoft Gets Ready to Roll Out Vista RC1, Brad Cook: Microsoft will involve more than five million users in testing for Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 (RC1), more than doubling the pool for the Beta 2 roll-out. The company plans to make it available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers, as well as in magazines distributed worldwide, according to Computerworld.
9.06	InfoWorld	Apple ensemble hits the right note, Tom Yager: My city’s symphony orchestra is marvelous. In a lesser setting, any of the orchestra’s musicians would be a marquee soloist, front and center. But as an orchestra, about 100 consummately talented artists become one. The visual spectacle and the sociology of an orchestra is the reason I go to the symphony rather than buy the CD.
9.05	ZDNet	Two reasons why the iPod phone may not succeed, Russell Shaw: There’s some sort of a super-secret Apple event scheduled for San Francisco on Tuesday September 12. Some of us think that a wireless, cell or even WiFi- enabled iPod (maybe a bit like that patent sketch I show you up there) will be one of the announcements.
9.05	The Australian	Irwin family offered state funeral, Staff: The 44-year-old media personality and environmentalist died yesterday when a stingray barb punctured his heart while he was filming a nature documentary off the coast of Port Douglas in north Queensland. Rest in Peace, Steve...
9.05	Forbes.com	Apple Cell Phone Nears Debut: Analyst, Mary Crane: Skeptics beware. The kinks have been worked out of a new Apple-design smart phone and it may be ready for production, according to American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu.
9.04	TUAW	Safari’s market share up 46 percent from last year, David Chartier: TUAW has long agreed that Safari support is not optional, and MacDailyNews is reporting that Apple’s baby browser is continuing its market share march and has snagged 3.21 percent - up 46 percent from its 2.20 share in August of ’05.
9.03	TUAW	Found Footage: a Mac Classic booting, David Chartier: The Mac Classic was an early 90’s ’budget’ Mac running System 6 (check out Low End Mac’s history and profile of this model), and I’ve personally never seen one in action.
9.02	TUAW	SiteCrawler, Scott McNulty: SiteCrawler is the best application for downloading entire websites that I have ever used and I’ve used a few. It is straightforward and easy to use, but also incorporates advanced features such as automatically zipping whatever website you download.
9.02	Theocacao	Apple’s Secret Ingredient, Scott Stevenson: If you look at what Apple’s done over the last few years, there’s an almost absurd amount of fresh thinking and major leaps forward. At some points along the timeline, things just seem to magically click together at the right places.
9.02	Macsimum News	Safari, Firefox usage down though they top ’best browser’ survey, Dennis Sellers: Safari and Firefox web browser usage was down in August, while Microsoft’s Internet Explorer made a bit of a comeback, according to the latest figures from Market Share. which tracks trends for Internet usage.
9.02	Apple Matters	September 2, 1997, Clone Era Ends, Chris Seibold: During the clone era at Apple the company received a flat rate of $50 for each Mac compatible sold. An enviable sum for doing little more than providing a copy of the operating system but, in a classic example of opportunity cost[h1], one that CFO Fred Anderson said actually cost Apple ten times the amount in profit for each high end machine bought from a cloner.
9.01	AppleInsider	Intel’s Merom to power Apple’s next-gen iMacs, Kasper Jade and Katie Marsal: Apple Computer in September plans to unveil a new line of iMac computers with faster processors and a little surprise to boot, AppleInsider has learned.
9.01	Mac Night Owl	The Mac Hardware Report: Apple and the Entry-Level PC, Gene Steinberg: As I expected, as soon as I disposed of the myth that Macs were more expensive than comparably-quipped PCs, a few readers tried to dispute my arguments. In the end, however, their claims were limited to saying that the PC was generally cheaper, so long as some of the features that were standard issue on the Macs were eliminated.
9.01	Low End Mac	Death of a Mac Plus and Refurbishing Old Macs for Students, Tommy Thomas: A few weeks ago, my first ever Mac Plus (one I acquired just a few months ago) died. It was just sitting there, proudly displaying After Dark’s famous Flying Toasters, when the screen went blank and started making a rapid clicking noise.
9.01	Macworld	Music Challenge game uses Apple Remote, Peter Cohen: Casual game maker Ohana Games has released Music Challenge, a game show-style game that tests your music knowledge using iTunes - a bit like the music trivia game already built into the iPod. The game is available for download now and plays as a demo; an "unlock code" costs $10.
8.30	Apple Matters	Give Safari a Hand, Aaron Wright: For as long as us folks use the internet there will always to be a ’war’ between web browsers. Opera, Firefox and Camino are all fighting it out to take over the number one spot from Safari on a Mac. Now let’s face it, Safari might be the most convenient browser available, most likely down to it being preinstalled on our systems, but it’s certainly one of the most lacking.
8.30	Apple Matters	What If Apple Did Sell Macs with Windows Pre-installed?, Chris Howard: Apple may make jokes about Windows problems with viruses and other malware, but it has realized that the Microsoft fortress can be breached most easily with a Trojan Horse. And that is precisely what Apple intends to use to break through market barriers.
8.30	Mac Night Owl	Microsoft’s Invitation: A Threat or a Compliment?, Gene Steinberg: On Tuesday, I got a letter from Microsoft. No, it wasn’t personal. I was, in fact, one of 100,000 to receive an invitation to participate in the Windows Vista pre-RC1 test program.
8.29	MSNBC	Mac Pro: The ultimate in desktop computing, Gary Krakow: The new Mac Pro desktop is a thing of beauty. Inside and out this box looks like it is the ultimate desktop computer on the market today.