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Apple TV Ship Date Moved Back to Mid-March

Apple Inc. has pushed the ship date of its long-anticipated Apple TV device to mid-March according to a report on Macworld News. “Wrapping up Apple TV is taking a few weeks longer than we projected, and we now expect to begin shipments mid-March,” commented an Apple spokeperson. The Apple TV was introduced during last month’s […]

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VMWare Raises Complaints About Microsoft DRM Policies

VMWare, makers of virtualization products such as Fusion for the Macintosh, has published a white paper on its web site condemning Microsoft’s use of digital rights management protetion to block competition in the virtualization marketplace, according to an article over at Macworld News. Specifically, the paper, which was released Friday to VMWare’s web site, challenges […]

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Camino 1.1 Beta Out the Door

The Camino Project has released the first beta of its Camino 1.1 open source web browser for the Mac. The new version, a 15.1 megabyte download, sports a slew of changes including the following: -Annoyance Blocking: A new feature that allows the user to disable specified plugins and block Flash animations until they’re clicked on. […]

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Extreme MacBook: MacBook Pro Stops Mugger’s Bullet in Brazil

Digg.com has a link to a Flickr post from a MacBook Pro user who was able to use the laptop to stop a bullet while being mugged in Brazil. The cool part: It still worked after the fact. While Apple doesn’t officially advocate its high-end laptop as body armor, it’s cool to see one go […]

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Firefox 2.0.0.2 Released

Mozilla.org has released version 2.0.0.2 of its Firefox web browser for the Mac OS X, Windows and Linux operating systems. The new version, a 17.6 megabyte download, provides fixes for a variety of security issues, improves Windows Vista support, repairs permissions for the German locale on the Windows operating systems as well as file tags […]