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The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Macintosh: Part 1
A Brief and Warped History of the Mac, part 1(in which the Mac doesnâ€t appear). By Rick Tanner Welcome to the first column in my series. I would at this point like to tell you what the column is going...
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The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Macintosh: Part 2
A Brief and Warped History of the Mac, part 2 (in which the Mac is born) By Rick Tanner Welcome back to my column, where last week I left you all hanging in the story of the Mac. Appologies to anyone...
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The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Macintosh: Part 3
A Brief and Warped History of the Mac, part 3 (in which the Mac sucks) By Rick Tanner Welcome back to my column – I am surprised youâ€re still reading this given last weeks warning. Read on, but...
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The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Macintosh: Part 4
A Brief and Warped History of the Mac, part 4 (in which the Mac readies a come-back) By Rick Tanner Welcome back to my column – and if youâ€ve followed the story this far then you are truly a Mac...
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The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Macintosh: Part 5
A Brief and Warped History of the Mac, part 5 (in which the Mac is reborn) By Rick Tanner Welcome back to my column – by now Iâ€m sure only the dedicated Mac Geek will be with me so I can probably...
View ArticleAll You Need is Love… and iLife
by Ben Hampton (http://www.macfriends.com) The first time I heard that the Beatles’ AppleCorp had sued Apple Computer, Inc. back in 1981 over the “Apple” name, it stung. Then when AppleCorp and Apple...
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The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Macintosh: Part 6
A Brief and Warped History of the Mac, part 6 (in which the Mac rocks) By Rick Tanner Welcome back to my column – I imagine that many readers will be wondering when this insight into the past of the...
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The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Macintosh: Part 7
A Brief and Warped History of the Mac, part 7 (Soul of a Mac) By Rick Tanner Welcome to the HitchHikerâ€s Guide to the Macintosh. Firstly, I want to say thanks to all the people who emailed me or left...
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The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Macintosh: Part 8
A Brief and Warped History of the Mac, part 8 (My Favourite Mac) By Rick Tanner This week, Iâ€ve been in the mood to reminisce and have been thinking about all the Macs Iâ€ve owned, used or lusted...
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The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Macintosh: Part 9
A Brief and Warped History of the Mac, part 9 (WozCast) By Rick Tanner Taking a break from the Mac itself, this week the column is going to focus on something that may have been the PodCasting of its...
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The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Macintosh: Part 10
A Brief and Warped History of the Mac, part 10 (Future OS) By Rick Tanner With Mac OS X version 10.5, Leopard in the works and Windows Vista, er, having its name unveiled, my thoughts have turned to...
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The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Macintosh: Part 11
A Brief and Warped History of the Mac, part 11 (Single Button Simplicity) By Rick Tanner I’m a huge fan of the MacCast. There are several reasons why I favour it over pretty much every other Macintosh...
View ArticleVista On Intel Macs Looks Likely
By Matt Hoult (staff writer) Microsoft has released the required system specifications for running Windows Vista. Does this really effect Mac users you may ask? Well yes, possibly. Since the...
View ArticleThe Story Behind the iPod “Scratch” Lawsuit
The Truth is Out There So ask yourself how you would feel if overnight you were suddenly hated and villified by an entire community just for speaking your mind on a few Mac forums and blogs (the...
View ArticleThe Thermal Paste Debate Rages On
By Matt Hoult & Adam Christianson We have all heard (and even been a part of) the rumors that the MacBook Pros heat issues are stemming from the amount of thermal paste applied. Not too long ago an...
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Learn from my mistakes. Please.
Here is a story about why you should all do as I say and not as I do. About a week and a half ago my 20″ iMac G5 started to turn off by itself. I thought it was a fluke at first, but when it happened 2...
View ArticleWhen is it Bloatware?
With the official word from Apple that Steve will give us a glimpse of Leopard at the World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) in August the media frenzy to predict new features is starting to roll into...
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MightMouse goes wireless
Can losing the cord save the mediocre Mighty Mouse? Well at least Apple finally caught a clue and fixed one of my major complaints about the Mighty Mouse. It should have been Bluetooth from the...
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Saving the Mighty Mouse’s Day
by Erik Uetz Apple’s Mighty Mouse can’t seem to catch a break. I’m still amazed at the bad reviews it gets. And almost all the reviews of the new wireless version seem to have the same ‘Too little, too...
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FrontRow a no go on Pro?
I am not really sure how I missed this one, but I guess (like many others) I was so blown away by the awesome specifications of the new Mac Pro that I didn’t notice an interesting omission. Now I need...
View ArticleApparently the Mac bug bites hard
In his recent keynote Steve Jobs was quick to point out that 50% of the customers buying Macs at the Apple Stores are new customers. Now that is cool and Mac sales are obviously good, but one thing has...
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Apple Notebook Power Adapters: Dangerous By Design?
by Galen Zink In these days of countless stories of exploding Dell notebooks and massive Dell power adapter recalls, Apple has seemed relatively immune to these sorts of problems. Every once in a...
View ArticleA “cast” by any other name…
So you are all aware by now of the debate that Apple has opened up through their recent legal wrangling with the folks over at Podcast Ready (in case you missed it, you can catch up here). Now many...
View ArticleA Switcher’s Monologue and Introduction
Seeing as this is my first article for MacCast.com I thought I would take this opportunity to introduce myself. My name is John and I’m an 18 year old Photographer and Journalist from South Jersey....
View ArticleMac OS X: 11 Years Ago
by Alex Curtis I love the Internet as an amazing tool for learning. Dale told us about students podcasting down-under. The Internet community encyclopedia, Wikipedia shows the value of collaborative...
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iPhone: Practically Speaking
by Alex Curtis I know Adam isn’t the biggest fan of the concept the rumored Apple iPhone. So, instead of talking about rumors, let us leave them aside for a moment and practically consider a scenario...
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Switched Again (Part I)
by Scott McGrath Hey, I realize that switcher stories are getting so common these days, weâ€re all at risk of fatigue from the influx of new Mac fans and fanatics among us. Forgive me then for adding a...
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Switched Again, Again (Part II)
by Scott McGrath As a longtime Windows user who has owned, built and used hardware with pretty much every version of Windows OS (starting from 2.1 I think), one of the most impressive features of the...
View ArticleApple wants to fix your Mac, for FREE.
…but you need to tell them it’s broken. by Matt Hoult Editor’s note: When Matt sent me the following piece I was grateful because the timing could not have been better. Just this week I answered at...
View ArticleThe Universal Watershed: Audio Plug-Ins on Intel
by Scott McGrath Much has been made of the delays in getting Adobe’s mission critical pro apps, including Photoshop, onto the Intel platform, a gating item for many PowerPC Mac users considering the...
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FT.com: Hollywood wants More Restrictive Controls for iTunes Movies
By Alex Curtis I’m sorry, but this is going to be a bit of a rant…here goes. Today’s article in the Financial Times titled Studios push anti-piracy rules on Apple reports that the studios are pushing...
View ArticleWho cares if it’s true, lets Digg it!
Seems like the best way to get publicity (and hits) for your web site these days is to report on a highly questionable story with no supporting evidence or facts, tack on a Digg worthy headline about...
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Hack enables Mac Users access to TiVoToGo
by Alex Curtis Just in the past few days, the digital protections (or DRM) in which TiVo wrapped its recorded programming were defeated to allow the content to be played on a consumer’s networked...
View ArticleThoughts on Digital Convergence
Scott Downs (Men’s Note – The Men’s Lifestyle Review) The MacCast always seems to get me thinking. This time, Adam, you got me thinking more and more about the topic of Digital Convergence. There are...
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Macs and Integrated Card Readers
by Iyaz Akhtar One of the early “Get a Mac” ads featured the Mac being able to communicate with a new digital camera while the PC just looked on, bewildered. Apple computers are supposed to “just...
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What’s running on your Mac right now?
by Jack Hodgson Looking at the application dock just now it occurred to me that that was an interesting collection of apps. Maybe not. But for better or worse, here they are (show us yours too if you...
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Why Mac Gamers Pay More
The other day I needed to run to my local Apple store in Oak Brook, Illinois (The one in Orland Park is not open yet, but I digress) to pick up some A/V cables for the good old iPod and of course drool...
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Late WWDC Predictions from the MacCast Crew
Who knows whether you MacCast readers will even see this before the actual Apple World Wide Developers Conference Keynote happens, but a few of us on the MacCast crew thought we’d take a shot at some...
View ArticleEA Makes Big Announcement at WWDC
Bing Gorden co-founder of Electronic Arts announced that they want to and are going to be in the Mac game(no pun intended). This is what I’m talking about and what some of you said in the comments...
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Apple UK open store in PC World
Apple’s website detailing a new shop they have opened within PC World at Enfield, Middlesex, UK. My previous experiences with buying Apple kit from a PC World has left a lot to be desired, so this news...
View ArticleReticent Switcher? Give ’em your Mac.
Last week, on the first “I have something to say” segment, we discussed some strategies for convincing our PC using friends and family to make the switch to Mac. In that conversation we briefly touched...
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Advertising Agencies Notice Apple
Ad-Blocking has been a subject of much debate since its conception. On the one hand we want to support the free sites we enjoy, yet cannot stand obnoxious ads. All the more so when they disguise...
View ArticleDeforestation courtesy of iPhone
AT&T has begun sending out bills and to iPhone customers and it is not pretty. To manipulate a quote from Star Wars, “I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of trees suddenly cried...
View ArticleApple next on the EC’s radar?
Microsoft, on Monday lost it’s three year long appeal case (full extremely long document can be read here) against the EU anti-trust order which was imposed in 2004. The order will make the enormous...
View ArticleApple Announcements and Marketing 101
by Chris Christensen I have heard a number of people express the opinion recently that Apple has changed the way that it announces products. This comes from the fact that Apple recently pre-announced...
View ArticleGuitar Hero 3 Rocks the Mac
I know, who would have thunk it, but when I was cruising Apples online store, there it was. Plus it was $20 cheaper than the retail versions for the consoles at $79.99. Guitar Hero is a REALLY great...
View ArticleiPhone: Six Months After The Fact
When the iPhone first came out, you couldn’t go any website without seeing loads of stories surrounding it. People loving it, people hating it, people having love/hate relationships with it, everyone...
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Analysis of Psystar’s Open Computer Video
So over the last week Psystar has created a lot of buzz, controversy, and skepticism with their new Open Computer. They claim their system will run an unmodified retail version of OS X Leopard on...
View ArticleMaking the most of a jailed iPhone
Until the SDK comes out I’m stuck in envy of my friends who can play games like Labyrinth and use native apps such as iFlickr, iFlix, and MobileChat. Getting used to web apps can be difficult, but I’ve...
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WarGames
When Apple announced last week that they had updated the “new” iPad after just 7 months it caused a small uprising of complaints from some customers. I understand having some frustration since it...
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