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Future Fodder: Apple TV the Center of Your Media Universe

Written on September 29, 2009 by Alfredo Padilla and 32 people have commented

Looking through Apple’s current lineup of products, there’s one that stands out as the sad little orphan: the Apple TV. Apple itself has gone out of its way to lower expectations for this product, with Steve Jobs calling it a “hobby.”
The problem with the Apple TV is that its feature set just isn’t particularly compelling. [...]

Monitor Your Mac Remotely With iStat for iPhone

Written on April 27, 2009 by David Appleyard and 3 people have commented

If you’ve ever been interested in what goes on behind the scenes of a shiny new MacBook, you may be familiar with iStat Pro and iStat Menus. These two widgets for OS X allow you to monitor system performance and resources — either through Dashboard, or your menu bar.
A fairly new counterpart to these apps [...]

Apple Updates Xserve With Intel Xeon “Nehalem” Processors

Written on April 07, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 3 people have commented

It’s a Tuesday, and that means that if Apple is updating anything this week, it’ll happen today. And it has happened today. Apple announced early this morning that they’ve upgraded their Xserve-brand server hardware. The update includes new Intel Xeon “Nehalem” processors, which, when paired with a completely redesigned system architecture, are supposed to provide [...]

Set Up a Mac Server with MAMP

Written on January 08, 2009 by David Appleyard and 14 people have commented

For those of you who have dabbled with website design and development, you may be interested to know that OS X is bundled by default with the Apache web server. This allows you to easily develop websites on your own computer without the need to invest in a domain name or hosting package. However, the [...]

OpenServ – Psystar is at it again…

Written on June 20, 2008 by Jethro Jones and 4 people have commented

Psystar, you know, those crazy people that brought us the Open Computer Mac clone (and still have not been shut down by Apple) announced today that they are releasing OpenServ Rack-Mount Servers and OpenGamer Gaming Systems, which will run Windows Server (2003 and 2008) and Leopard Server, and your various varieties of Linux server distros.

The [...]

Create a WiFi Hotspot – Share Your Internet Connection in Leopard

Written on May 22, 2008 by Brandon Eley and 27 people have commented

In the last few weeks I’ve been in a situation twice where only one person had Internet access (me) and needed to share it with other people or devices. The first time we were at a convention center and only had wired internet access at the booth. We had several iPhones we needed to use [...]

New Xserve at MacWorld?

Written on January 07, 2008 by Sue Anderson and 3 people have commented

My engineering sources say to look for an announcement of a new Xserve sporting Intel’s Tulsa processor at MacWorld Expo next week.
After all, Apple is due to release another server.
At last year’s Macworld, Apple suggested that Intel’s Tulsa could find its way into future Xserves. The Tulsa is Intel’s dual-core Xeon 7100 series processor designed [...]