Category Archives: Apple News

News and stories about my favorite development platform.

One Computer – Multiple Operating Systems

By Gus | Published: Saturday, April 8, 2006
Imagine, one lowly laptop housing multiple operating systems. That’s what I see is the promise of Apple’s new Boot Camp beta software which allows one to run Windows on an Intel-based Macintosh. I currently use VirtualPC to test web sites, but to have a true fully operational Windows machine working within and alongside my Macintosh [...]
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It’s Over for Internet Explorer 5 for the Mac

By Gus | Published: Monday, January 23, 2006
Microsoft has “End-of-Lifed” Internet Explorer 5 for the Macintosh as of Tuesday, January 31, 2006. When released in 2000, it became one of the more advanced browsers capable of rendering to the W3C standards (CSS Level 1, DOM, etc.) but once developed it never really received too much attention from Microsoft and when OS X [...]
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Apple Matters | Comic Life bundled with Intel Macs

By Gus | Published: Sunday, January 15, 2006
I’ve been a huge fan (and registered owner) of Comic Life since its initial launch and mentioned its coolness when it came out. So it was great to hear that Apple has decided to include a copy of this unique and wonderful software on each new Intel-based Macs. Congrats to the Plasq team who created [...]
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The Seattle Times: Mac takes bite out of Windows

By Gus | Published: Saturday, November 12, 2005
This article states that the Macintosh is making inroads again (obviously not like in the glory days, but enough to be noticed) with a fresh awareness of Apple due to the popularity of the iPod. The increase in Mac purchases seems to be happening as people upgrade their home machines while still being required to [...]
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