Apparently 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...
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