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QTFairUse

Thoughts on QTFairUse and what it might mean for Apple and the iTunes Music Store


On Safari

Notes about Safari, and how it could be improved.


New 20 Inch iMac, Dual 1.8Ghz G5

Apple releases new 20 Inch iMac, Dual 1.8Ghz G5 and updates to their professional software.


SpamSieve 2.0.2

Review of SpamSieve, an effective spam filtering tool for OS X email clients.


Lack of Style

We suffered from a severe lack of style on Thursday, since the server that hosted our style sheet died in a power outage. Since there really isn’t a good reason to have our style sheet on a separate server, we moved the style sheet to Geek Patrol’s server. However, there was a [...]


Panther: One Week Later

More thoughts and impressions after a week with Panther.


OS X 10.3.1 Released

Apple released OS X 10.3.1 via Software Update today. The update includes feature improvements to FileVault, Printing, WebDAV and FireWire 800 drives as well as the latest security updates. Note that the FireWire 800 data loss problem is not solved with this update, but rather by a firmware update from the appropriate vendor.


Toast 6 Titanium

Review of Roxio Toast 6 Titanium.


Backup 2.0

Backup 2.0 is now available to all .Mac Subscribers.


Panther vs. Jaguar Benchmarks

A new version of Mac OS X usually means a more responsive version of Mac OS X. We did some comparative testing between Panther and Jaguar to how big of a speed difference there really is.