Maybe not applicable to everyone, but for those with network monitoring needs, the folks in Australia at Lithium Corp. are showing a nice commercial client-server network monitoring system. What's the big deal? There are a ton of these and most of them are free? Well, this one has an XML-based …

Cisco Systems's general counsel has stated online that the company is suing Apple over the name "iPhone". Sounds reasonable, as we all know that Cisco's iPhone has been shipping (most recently) for the past 9 months or so (after an hiatus in the previous five years or so). But …

For those curious about high-speed wireless connectivity, you can check out Apple's 802.11 FAQ where they inform us that all Core2 Duo machines (except the 17" 1.83GHz iMac) are capable of N.

Carol and I had a chance at the OWC booth to speak to the CEO of Axiotron, the German manufacturer or the ModBook, about the new device. In short, it's going to be a great portable tablet for people who need or want one. If you are even thinking about …

What was Apple holding back at MacWorld Expo and why? My theory is that basically everything not related to the iTV (as announced in September with a "more in January" promise) and the iPhone were off the table because of messaging requirements. Apple knew that they had one big message …

I'm officially jealous. He managed to actually get his hands on an iPhone and here's the post that he wrote about it.

There have been a number of articles about the Apple TV and it's "one missing feature", the television tuner. As much as I can see why people would be interested in having a DVR on it, I think Apple chose wisely in not putting one (or more) into the box …

One word is on everyone's lips: iPhone. Love it or ... well, does anyone hate this product?... the big question seems to be "why Cingular?" Click though for more of a blow by blow. Carol and I arrived at 4am outside of Moscone West convention center with 250 of our "closest …

It might not be from Apple, but there will be a tablet Mac at this year's MacWorld Expo. Axiotron and Other World Computing will be showing the ModBook, a combination of a MacBook, WACOM pen input subsystem, and a SiRF III GPS device. I would otherwise have been uninterested in …

Here's a story that I just don't think has any downside. MacWorld is reporting Adobe is bringing it's video editing program Premier back to the Macintosh. Even if you're an avid (no pun intended) user of Final Cut Studio, it's great to have some competition, and with the Intel versions …

MacSanta just keeps getting better, but you have only TODAY to get it. So run, do not walk, to your browser and browse up the site for some new Macintosh software joy. Click through for more details. At the last minute, some of my old favorites have shown up, so …

It looks like MacSanta is a good place to grab the RSS feed from, because it's getting new goodies every day. Full article has some other choice software programs you should think about getting at a discount. But wait, there's more! iRecordMusic from BitCartel iRecordMusic will capture internet-based audio content …

IndieHIG is an open source attempt to extend Apple's well-known (and a little long in the tooth) Human Interface Guidelines. So far, not a lot up there, but some good folks are contributing and all the content is available under the MIT license so it is free free.

I don't often advertise for people on this site, but I figured that this one's good for everybody. MacSanta is coordinating the use of a coupon code of MACSANTA to reduce the price of popular (and useful) Mac software by 20% through Christmas day. Read the full story and I'll …

According to a report from MSNBC, the FCC has responded to a Freedom of Information Act Request for cellular outage reports by denying access to those reports and claiming terrorism is the reason. Yep, looks like the FCC and software vendors have something in common in that they both thing …

There's a good article by Patrick McFarland on archival storage using recordable DVD and CD media. The upshot is that (for some pretty sound technical reasons) he strongly recommends DVD+R over DVD-R and specifically suggests Taiyo Yuden brand (less strength in that argument).

So, according to Snopes, it is indeed true that the Canadian postal code for Santa is "H0H 0H0"... See, those whacky letter-number combinations come in handy at the Holidays.

An article from Zatz Not Funny! covers a trend in the selling of the new PS3 and Wii consoles that may be as old as sales itself. It turns out that ebay requires PS3 and Wii listings be accompanied by photographic (photoshopic?) proof of ownership (receipts, photos of boxes, etc …

I'm pleased to announce that after nearly three months of sitting in the upstairs library in "test mode", my Mac Pro has finally graduated to the number one spot in the house. The venerable G5 Quad (all of one year old) is, even as we speak, headed to California to …

Alan Odgaard, the author of TextMate (a very cool text/code editor for OS X), has mostly decided that version 2.0 of TextMate will require Leopard. I cannot say that I'm surprised, as Leopard contains many features that will lure developers to it. More interesting is that this program …