On January 24th, the Walt Disney Company announced the acquisition of Pixar Animation Studios. The sales price has been reported as $7.4 billion. The acquisition puts Steve Jobs, Pixar's majority share holder, on the Disney Board of Directors...
It looks like Apple has added a new feature to the Airport Express. With the 6.3 Firmware Update, it is now possible to stream music from iTunes to more than one Airport Express simultaneously. So if you have more than one Express in your home, and they are hooked up to stereos, you can essentially broadcast your music throughout the house...
RSS, or Real Simple Syndication, has been making a lot of headlines lately. The idea is simple. News and information sites are constantly updating their pages with the latest news of the day. Now, most sites generate an RSS feed that contains their most recent stories. And since most major news sources now provide RSS based content, it is easier than ever to use a single application to aggregate the latest content into one easy to access location...
Apple announced a new Intel processor based iMac's and PowerBook's (now called MacBook Pro) at MacWorld last week. As part of the product demonstration, Phil Schiller (Apple Vice President) joined an video iChat session with Steve Jobs from a wireless MacBook Pro. Schiller was sitting out in the audience watching the keynote address with the rest of the press and the Mac faithful.
According to a story posting on AppleInsider.com, Schiller was connecting to iChat via an 802.11a access point in order to avoid signal overlap with all of the 802.11g access points on the show floor...
When Office 2004 was first announced for OS X, many new features were touted. One set of services centered around synchronizing Entourage data with handheld devices. I was excited because it meant that I would finally be able to sync my Entourage address book with my cell phone. It would also mean that I could import dates and appointments into my PDA. But when Office 2004 shipped, these features were missing. Furthermore, no one really acknowledged the missing features. It was as if the information I had read prior to the release has simply never been...
So far this month, we have seen both CES (Consumer Electronics Show) and MacWorld Expo. Somewhere in the middle of all of this, Google made an announcement that is of great importance to the Mac community. Though the announcement was big, news of it seems to have taken a back seat to other headlines.
On Tuesday, January 10 Google announced that Google Earth is finally leaving its beta stage...
Apple fans have heard stories about Steve Jobs. The press sees him as a visionary. Some employees at Apple see him as a tyrant. What made Jobs decide to abandon the PowerPC architecture in favor of an Intel based...
Project Motorsport started out as a fun way to spend an afternoon. We set out to shoot some motorcycle video and have a good time. Once when we brought the video back and began to edit, we realized we had the making of a music video.
Check out the video and see for yourself. And, if your interested in further information on the project, we give you that too!
The Freedom to Switch:
In 2003 Apple Computer released a marketing campaign with the intention of showing Wintel users how easy it would be to "switch" platforms.
One of the Mac's main selling points, ironically enough, was Digital Video Editing. Apple wanted the world to see how easy it was to edit video on the Mac platform. And, in overwhelming response, Mac users set out to show the world just how easy it really was.
The campaign was effective for Apple, but also spawned a unexpected parody campaign in the Mac underworld. Users from all of the world whipped out their camcorders and set to work making spoofs in the same cinematic style as the acclaimed commercial line.
With this, Maclive.net rose to the challenge and shot our own spoof. We think it proves that a Mac can be a powerful tool in the wrong hands. It also shows how far a couple of Mac fans will go for a laugh. We hope you enjoy our contribution, aptly named The Freedom to Switch.
On January 24th, the Walt Disney Company announced the acquisition of Pixar Animation Studios. The sales price has been reported as $7.4 billion. The acquisition puts Steve Jobs, Pixar's majority share holder, on the Disney Board of Directors...
It looks like Apple has added a new feature to the Airport Express. With the 6.3 Firmware Update, it is now possible to stream music from iTunes to more than one Airport Express simultaneously. So if you have more than one Express in your home, and they are hooked up to stereos, you can essentially broadcast your music throughout the house...
RSS, or Real Simple Syndication, has been making a lot of headlines lately. The idea is simple. News and information sites are constantly updating their pages with the latest news of the day. Now, most sites generate an RSS feed that contains their most recent stories. And since most major news sources now provide RSS based content, it is easier than ever to use a single application to aggregate the latest content into one easy to access location...
Apple announced a new Intel processor based iMac's and PowerBook's (now called MacBook Pro) at MacWorld last week. As part of the product demonstration, Phil Schiller (Apple Vice President) joined an video iChat session with Steve Jobs from a wireless MacBook Pro. Schiller was sitting out in the audience watching the keynote address with the rest of the press and the Mac faithful.
When Office 2004 was first announced for OS X, many new features were touted. One set of services centered around synchronizing Entourage data with handheld devices. I was excited because it meant that I would finally be able to sync my Entourage address book with my cell phone. It would also mean that I could import dates and appointments into my PDA. But when Office 2004 shipped, these features were missing. Furthermore, no one really acknowledged the missing features. It was as if the information I had read prior to the release has simply never been...
So far this month, we have seen both CES (Consumer Electronics Show) and MacWorld Expo. Somewhere in the middle of all of this, Google made an announcement that is of great importance to the Mac community. Though the announcement was big, news of it seems to have taken a back seat to other headlines.
Apple fans have heard stories about Steve Jobs. The press sees him as a visionary. Some employees at Apple see him as a tyrant. What made Jobs decide to abandon the PowerPC architecture in favor of an Intel based...
