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Telestream Lets Windows Media Flow Into Mac Platform

Monday - June 29, 2009

It took Telestream six years after its founding in 1998 to cook up an Apple application, but some 15 million Mac owners are glad it did. That first product, Flip4Mac, which allowed Mac users to import, export and play Windows media video files on their Apple machines, not only made Nevada City, Calif.-based Telestream a shining star in Apple's constellation, but it also marked a new area of business for the company. Prior to the introduction of Fip4Mac, Telestream concentrated on moving media files over the Internet. [More...]

Just Because I'm Paranoid Doesn't Mean My Mac Is Secure

Thursday - June 25, 2009

I was buying a fully loaded Mac to replace the 4-year-old Mac I had at home. Along with Microsoft Office for the Mac, I also wanted to buy a standard security AV and firewall application. The salesperson's response? Not necessary. I was sufficiently chastened by the $2,000-plus tab I had racked up that afternoon to let it go. But years of writing about online security had made me paranoid. [More...]

Agile Turns Labor of Necessity Into Best Seller

Monday - June 22, 2009

When some PC users move to a Mac, they occasionally can't find an Apple analog for a bread-and-butter application they had in the Windows world. In those cases, most users learn to live without their cherished app. The folks at Agile Web Solutions, though, learned how to build a business on theirs. [More...]

Safari 4 Goes to Eleven

Friday - June 12, 2009

Apple reports that in the past three days more than 11 million copies of the newly released Safari 4 have been downloaded -- including more than 6 million downloads of Safari for Windows. It is easy to see why -- at least from Apple's perspective. Safari 4 is the fastest browser on the market, the company claims. [More...]

Google Chrome Sprouts Linux, Mac Versions

Friday - June 5, 2009

Google this week released early developer channel versions of its Chrome browser for the Mac OS X and Linux platforms. Google emphasized that both new versions are very much rough drafts intended for developers, not consumers looking for a smooth browsing experience. [More...]

Is Windows App Envy a Thing of the Past?

Tuesday - May 26, 2009

A few years ago, a computer buyer who wanted an Apple Mac may have been forced back into the PC store in order to run the applications he already had, needed, or wanted. Now, though, the Mac and its OS X operating system have risen in popularity and permeate the consciousness of computer buyers around the world -- thank the iPhone and iPod for that. [More...]

Apple's Changes Can't Rattle These Bones

Monday - May 4, 2009

Text editors aren't the sexiest applications in the Apple Universe, but they have a knack for attracting loyal adherents. That's something Bare Bones Software has been able to count on for more than a decade. The Bedford, Mass., company's flagship product, BBEdit, is in its ninth version and is still going strong. [More...]

Omni Group: Charting a Course From NeXT to the Modern Mac

Monday - April 27, 2009

In an industry where what-have-you-done-lately is the norm, you might be hard pressed to find someone who remembers NeXT, the company founded by Steve Jobs in the mid-1980s before his triumphant return to Apple. That's not the case at the Omni Group, though, where the management team can trace its roots to the pioneering concern that developed the foundation on which much of Apple's OS X operating system is built. [More...]

Mac Enterprise Apps and the Evolution of Open Source

Tuesday - April 21, 2009

It's no secret that Apple has dominated the headlines in computing over the last several years, earning new devotees through consumer-aimed offerings like the iPod, iTunes and the iPhone. Whether purposeful or not, gradually or suddenly, Macs have now roared into the business world. [More...]

Now Software and the Mac/PC Office: Diversity in the Workplace

Monday - April 20, 2009

While it's always nice to be the first mover in a market, there's some satisfaction in grinding it out in a niche and watching a market move into your wheelhouse. That seems to be the case with Now Software. The Columbus, Ohio, maker of contact and calendar software is poised to take advantage of two burgeoning trends: information sharing and the increased presence of Macintosh computers on business networks. [More...]

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