The Macalope Weekly: Gates!

No , notBillGates . Who wish about that frumpish sweater - wear thin placard tyke for an anti - slouching campaign ? No , the Macalope ’s talking about Apple -gates . You cognise , the Apple scandals everyone loves to talk about . The smash summer hit ANTENNAGATE ( the AP Style Guide assert that all -gates be capitalized to maximise the scandalous implications ) was followed by the lusterless sequelGLASSGATE , but do n’t concern !...

October 30, 2010 · 4 min · 790 words · Joshua Brewer

Remains of the Day: Tricks of the trademark

You might mean that Apple can escape all those endless lawsuits about trademark and intellectual belongings when it does business overseas , but no such lot . Also , a former POTUS loves his iPad , and look ! Up there in the sky ! It ’s a dame … it ’s a carpenter’s plane … well , actually , it ’s Steve Jobs ’s planer . Get ready to go up , up , and by with the remainders for Friday , October 29 , 2010 ....

October 29, 2010 · 2 min · 324 words · Joshua Jensen

Opinion: Don’t switch the iPad’s switch

We can all accord that cell phones should have devoted mute buttons . We frequently encounter state of affairs — coming together , movie theaters , put the kids to bed — where our phones ’ claxon and boops must be silence , and rapidly . That ’s why it makes perfect sense for the iPhone to have its Ring / silent toggle permutation . When the iPad was introduced , what had at one spot been delineate as a similar wordless switch was repurposed as an preference ignition lock switch instead ....

October 26, 2010 · 7 min · 1395 words · Rebecca Walker

Could the Mac App Store create a new kind of Mac?

The talking around the practical water cooler these days among the Mac developer crowd is all about the forthcoming Mac App Store . Announced on Wednesday by Steve Jobs , this store will extend the current Io App Store concept to Mac OS X. software program developers are of two minds about this twist of events : Many see the Mac App Store as creating a new , level playing field among developer where low and large companies likewise will be capable to present their wares to Mac users ....

October 25, 2010 · 5 min · 915 words · Gregory Bell

Is the MacBook Air a peek into the future of laptops?

“ We believe all notebooks will attend like these one day . ” Those were Steve Jobs ’s words when he take the stage on October 20th to bring in a refresh version of the MacBook Air , take it clean that Apple ’s novel computer were a herald of things to get . Many people take a firm stand oncalling the Air an overpriced netbookdespite the fact that every single one of its spec would easily blow any other computer in that family out of the urine ....

October 25, 2010 · 8 min · 1574 words · Joyce Davis

The Mac App Store: The devil will be in the details

But as I meet on in that article , whether the Mac App Store is well or sorry on equaliser — for usersordevelopers — and whether it turns out to be hugely successful or a proportional failure will depend on quite a few factors . Perhaps the biggest business concern right now relate tothe developer guideline for relegate software system , as well as restrictions the computer storage places upon developers when it comes to many of the stock drill imply in break and selling software program ....

October 23, 2010 · 9 min · 1781 words · Michael Brown

The Macalope Weekly: The curation of all fears

A big name leaves Microsoft and the folks there are sure gon na neglect his butt keep on that seat warm . And did you know Apple had a few announcement this workweek ? Well , it did . Apparentlyit ’s doing a middling good jobsellingstuff and also has some ideas on how tosellstuff in the time to come . Interesting ! One idea , though , fret this fabulous wildcat ’s hide out the wrong way ....

October 23, 2010 · 7 min · 1319 words · Sara Daniels

Bugs & Fixes: Troubleshooting MobileMe Calendar

Last week , Apple moved itsnew MobileMe Calendarfrom beta status to prescribed freeing . After working with the software for the past week , I ’m thinking that the move may have been a bit untimely . The biggest difference between the quondam and raw Calendars is under - the - hood . Rather than having your calendar data based on your Mac and synchronise to MobileMe , your data are establish in the MobileMe swarm — which now employs a CalDAV format ....

October 22, 2010 · 6 min · 1150 words · Shawn Mckay

First look: iMovie ’11

iMovie ’ 11 also includes surprisal , large and small . The main draw is the ability to quickly reduce together movie trailers , but just as exciting are features for identifying when people appear in clips , correcting for roam shutter side effect , and the return of a traditional timeline using the new Single Row sentiment . Hear, here After far too long , it ’s now possible to correct audio levels within a time ....

October 22, 2010 · 6 min · 1259 words · Jennifer Boone

Developers have hopes, questions for Mac App Store

Mac developer confront a brave raw humankind now that Apple plans on commence into the software retail business . The news came Wednesday when chief executive officer Steve Jobs announced his company ’s plans to establish a Mac App Store modeled after Apple ’s online retail issue for iPhone and iPad apps . While tie to next summer ’s launching ofMac OS X Lion , the Mac App Store will debut in the next 90 days for Snow Leopard user ....

October 21, 2010 · 7 min · 1433 words · Mr. Jeremy Sawyer

First look: GarageBand ’11

Taking it from the top Those familiar with GarageBand ’ 09 want n’t fear that they ’ll be show with a wildly different interface . In fact when you launch the modish version of GarageBand , it seem identical to the late version . The Project screen for each version is exactly the same , containing the same New Project , pick up to spiel , Lesson Store , Magic GarageBand , iPhone Ringtone , and Recent projection listings ....

October 21, 2010 · 8 min · 1624 words · Joel Dunn

First Look: 11.6-inch MacBook Air

Wednesday was a whirlwind . The amount of Mac clobber that come down out of the sky was noteworthy : A tease of a new version of OS X , a young Mac app store , iLife ’ 11 , apublic beta of FaceTime for Mac , and two new MacBook Air modelling . I ’m still trying to process it all . My coping strategy : playing around with the new 11 - column inch MacBook Air , the smallest Mac laptop computer Apple ’s made since the days of the 12 - inch PowerBook ....

October 20, 2010 · 10 min · 2015 words · William Williams

Hands-on: FaceTime for Mac

call up FaceTime ’s interface spartan may be generous . The primary window — including its claim bar — is black , and the leftover side is satiate with your own face , live from your iSight television camera . ( Worth noting : Apple has apparently rechristened it the FaceTime camera in the just - announce MacBook Air , although the name iSight still shows up in FaceTime on other systems ....

October 20, 2010 · 6 min · 1087 words · Amber Mckenzie