Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 will be available in more than 100 countries around the world at the end of October. The suite will come in two retail editions – Office for Mac Home and Student 2011, and Office for Mac Home and Business 2011. The former includes Word for Mac, PowerPoint for Mac,...
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Guy Kawasaki’s seminal book The Macintosh Way is a classic for technology marketers (“evangelists”) and Apple geeks alike. It is fondly remembered from the Golden 68k Macintosh Era, and is used to this day as reference material for startup businesses and college courses. The book went out of print several years ago, and Guy...
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External trackpads aren’t exactly new, but Apple has managed to instill no small degree of excitement into their new Magic Trackpad by virtue of their multitouch technology. Essentially the trackpad from a MacBook Pro, sliced out and blown up, the wireless peripheral promises to bring gestures Apple’s mobile users have been enjoying to their...
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Apple released an update to its Safari web browser Wednesday. Safari 5.0.1 is available from Apple as a free download for Windows and for Mac OS X (Leopard or better). Mac users can also find it in Software Update. This is an incremental upgrade, but it comes with one big new feature: Safari now...
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There’s something about the idea of multiple screens surrounding me with green Matrix glyphs running down them that really appeals to me. When I’m sitting at work, I’ve got three screens in front of me — one for my Windows PC, and two for my Mac laptop that is my primary machine. When I’m...
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Firefox 4 Beta 2 was just released, and you can grab it from the Beta page. Every tab now has a “Make into App Tab” command in the context menu, which shrinks the tab down to just the favicon and puts it on the leftmost position (similar to Chrome’s pin tab feature). Also, tabs...
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Apple has begun to focus on small, local businesses as part of a newly evolved strategy that aims to expand the company’s sales past the consumer market. The company is currently looking to hire engineers in a handful of retail stores in the U.S., and those employees would specialize in assembling Mac-based computer systems...
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All-Time Record Revenue Earnings Increase 78 Percent CUPERTINO, California—July 20, 2010—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2010 third quarter ended June 26, 2010. The Company posted record revenue of $15.7 billion and net quarterly profit of $3.25 billion, or $3.51 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $9.73 billion and...
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With the Apple Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server ($999, list), the sort of flawless design and ease of use we expect from Apple comes to a space that usually offers neither: the server market. Apple’s home/SMB server is strong on looks and drop-dead simplicity (for a server, anyhow) and, as you’d expect, less...
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Celluloid-worthy beauty Anna Chapman, arrested by the FBI for belonging to an Russian espionage network called “the illegals,” may also go down in history as the spy who loved Macs. On January 25, the 28-year-old told her 175 Facebook friends: “My new Mac has been the buy of the year…Love it!” It wasn’t an...
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In the latest update to Snow Leopard, Apple included software to protect Mac computers from a Trojan horse that has been distributed by attackers disguised as iPhoto, but which opens a back door on the machine, security firm Sophos said last week. When Apple released OS X 10.6.4 last week, the company said it...
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Macworld – Apple announced a major update to the Mac mini line Tuesday morning, and we were lucky enough to get our hands on one. Here are our first impressions after a few hours of use. (You can also check out our slideshow on the new mini.) Slimming down The first thing you’ll notice...
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Windows 7 and Mac OS X each have a new, fundamental flaw that will be presented at the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam in July. These security holes are so close to the core operating systems that fixing them may be very hard. Windows 7 has an issue in the 64-bit edition...
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