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Is the Mac Mini a Change of Strategy for Apple?

January 20th, 2005

It’s long been known Apple hardware is rather expensive. You can get to $3,000 if you want a top of the line G5, and there’s still room to expand for another several hundred dollars. Apple hardware is long known for quality, and performance. It’s also known for cost.

The Mac Mini is the [...]

200,000,000 iTunes and a bunch of Silver iPod mini’s

January 18th, 2005

Its official, during the Superbowl Apple and Pepsi will be doing a promotion. Not only will there be free iTunes, but iPod Mini’s.

Here’s my quick interpretation of the rules (disclaimer: read them yourself, this is informational only)
According to the rules on the Apple website, there will be specially-marked 20 oz and 1 liter bottles [...]

MacVillage.net New Mac Startpage

January 18th, 2005

MacVillage.net is still finishing up the new start page, but there is a temporary page for anyone looking for a simplified Mac-Centric start page. Announcing MacVillage Search:

http://macvillage.net/search

Still in beta, this new page provides easy access to Macintosh information. From news, software updates, and search. Top iTunes are available on the Music page. [...]

Europeans Petition Apple over Mini

January 18th, 2005

As reported by News.com earlier, European Mac Users have started a petition
to complain about the Mac Mini’s pricing. At the time of this article it’s approaching 4,000 signatures.

This isn’t a new issue for European Mac users. For quite some time they have felt that they are paying more for the same product, [...]

No Aquafied OpenOffice Planned

January 16th, 2005

According to MacSlash, OpenOffice will not be Aquafied as previously announced.

While the Mac never had huge penetration the business sector, it does however hold a role in quite a few businesses, even if it’s just limited to the creative few. The Mac also has a large userbase in education, and home use. All [...]

MacVillage.net is Back!

January 15th, 2005

Over the next week MacVillage.net will be experiencing periodic downtime as the new MacVillage.net emerges. Please pardon any problems you experience over the next couple days as we iron out the kinks and get all core services off the ground.

iTunes Radio, a good idea?

May 11th, 2003

Slashdot is reporting of a new service on SpyMac that allows iTunes users to share music, and listen for free. A new debate has risen about if this is also privacy or not. Yes, this is clear piracy. Just because someone bought a CD, didn’t make Napster legal. They tried that [...]

Firebird Nightly Builds Available for OS X

May 5th, 2003

That’s right Mozilla Fans, Firebird (formally known as Phoenix) builds are here as promised in the new Roadmap. You can find a link to the latest build at the bottom of this article.Firebird is a lean and mean alternative to Mozilla. Firebird is just the web browser, rather than the traditional Mozilla suite [...]