Daniel Drew Turner

Sun Microsystems president and CEO Jonathan Schwartz, speaking at a company event, said that Suns ZFS file system will be “the” file system for Apples upcoming Leopard version of Mac OS X. Apple will announce this, he said, at Apples Worldwide Developers Conference June 11-15 in San Francisco. Some Mac observers, including John Gruber of […]

Apple released on June 5 updates to its 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pro laptop computers based on Intels Santa Rosa chip sets that feature speed bumps to 2.2GHz and 2.4GHz, 2GB of standard RAM, 802.11n wireless networking, and improved graphics capability. Pricing remains the same as the previous generation, starting at $1,999 for the basic […]

Steve Wozniak is sometimes thought of as “the other Steve,” the one who isnt currently head of Apple Inc. and a media maven. Wozniak—or Woz—stays mostly out of the public eye, working with his local school districts and charitable institutions. He also is currently executive vice president, chief technology officer and chief visionary officer for […]

Full disclosure: I did not own a personal computer until well into grad school, and at most used one on occasion in college to type up a few papers. Its true I availed my childhood self as much as I could of my neighbors Apple II; this, however, was solely to play “Ultima,” or “The […]

OpenOffice.org, the coalition developing and maintaining the free, open-source OpenOffice office suite, released on June 5 a first alpha of a Mac OS X-native version of the OpenOffice productivity suite. Although the project has an existing version for Mac OS X, it requires installation of the Unix-based X11 system (also known as X Window System). […]

With the introduction of the new Office 2008 productivity suite for Mac OS X, planned for late 2007, companies that rely on Visual Basic for Applications scripts and macros on Macintosh and Windows clients will lose transparent cross-platform compatibility. This will happen because Microsoft is abandoning VBA script and macro support with the introduction of […]

Apple officials have offered no detailed explanation regarding the source of a memo sent to Apple employees the morning of May 16 that falsely claimed that there would be a delay in the release of the companys iPhone and the Mac OS X Leopard operating system. Soon after the purported internal Apple e-mail was published […]

Apple has legendarily been mum on its future product plans, but its relatively recent switch to Intel processors in its Macintosh line of computers has tied these products, as least in processor capabilities, to Intels public product plans. Though Apple will no doubt have surprises to reveal, looking at Intels plans can at least give […]

Two weeks after its introduction, the Axiotron ModBook, which reseller Other World Computing called “the One and Only Mac Tablet” computer,” is starting to lure independent Macintosh dealers. “We have had significant reseller interest,” said OWCs Lawrence R. OConnor. “We would prefer not to disclose the number of pre-orders, but to say the least—we are […]

Macintosh developers gained a new Mac OS X software programming tool with the release of MacFUSE, an open-source Mac version of the FUSE file system module for Linux. Amit Singh, engineering manager of the Macintosh Group at Google and author of “Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach,” developed MacFUSE and released it at the […]