Mac News: Software

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...]

Shutters Close on iPhone Peep Show

Friday - June 26, 2009

The blogosphere began buzzing Thursday when "The Hottest Girls," the Apple App Store's first iPhone app featuring nude women, suddenly became unavailable hours after it had won Apple's approval. Initial speculation was that Apple had finally decided to pull it for being too risqué. However, the app's developer, who styles himself AllentheGeek, said the app had simply been "sold out." [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...]

'Star Defense' Brings New Dimension to Classic Strategy Game

Thursday - June 18, 2009

Just about every "tower defense"-style game ever made can be described like this: You've got a base you need to protect. Wave after wave of bad guys keep on attacking it, running down a long and winding path before, I don't know, running face-first into the front door, or something. Point is, when they reach the gate, they do damage, and it's your job to strategically set up a bunch of defensive towers along that path. [More...]

Apple Pounds Palm, Sets Sights on Redmond

Monday - June 15, 2009

Apple is making an impressively strong statement that it can survive Steve Jobs' departure. While I still don't think it has the magic that Steve Jobs brings to the table in terms of execution, it is actually doing better at the moment than when he was there and active. Palm just took a major shot at its base and missed, and Apple is going after it with blood in its eyes. [More...]

Glad Works Makes Marketing Moves Through iPhone Apps

Monday - June 15, 2009

What do you do when you're a newly independent public radio station and your signal is only reaching 75 percent of your home state? For WRNI, Rhode Island's only public radio station, the answer was to turn to its advertising agency. The agency, Providence-based Glad Works, is glad the station did, because it opened up a whole new world of opportunity for the firm. [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...]

Clampdown Week: iPhone vs. Pre, China vs. Web, FTC vs. Worst ISP Ever

Friday - June 12, 2009

Google doesn't want you to use Bing to search the Web, and it would much rather see you using Gmail and Google Docs than Hotmail and MS Word. But if you want to use Google's Chrome browser, you have to run Microsoft's Windows operating system. Does the irony just kill you? Don't worry -- it's all temporary. Google has released versions of Chrome for the Mac and Linux platforms. [More...]

WWDC: iPhone Invigorated, Snow Leopard Spruced, AT&T Tarnished

Friday - June 12, 2009

The hottest news in the Apple-focused blogosphere this week all started with Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote. On Monday, the company -- sans still-on-hiatus CEO Steve Jobs -- announced the faster iPhone 3G S, multiple MacBook upgrades, and its next Mac OS X -- aka "Snow Leopard." All these announcments gave the online world plenty to talk about. [More...]

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