Tag archive: Tiger

The House and Senate voted Thursday to mostly de-fund President Obama's high-speed rail project, which sought to bring ultra-fast trains nationwide, reports the Associated Press. Obama had requested $8 billion for the project for next year, and $53 billion over the next six years. Republicans are claiming victory for the death of plan, which was achieved through a deal with Democrats on a broader spending bill for the Transportation… Read More

The old joke is that it takes practice, practice, practice to get to Carnegie Hall. But now YouTube is offering a few lucky and talented musicians a shortcut. They’ve launched a competition to discover new classical music talent, and the prize is participation in a three-day musical summit at the legendary New York venue. Contestants have until January 28 2009 to submit a video of themselves playing, with the final votes coming from… Read More

I often get a kick out of the fact that people repeat the same mistakes over and over again. When Xerox executives first saw a Graphical UI and a mouse they thought it was a toy that no one would want. Yet today Microsoft and Apple are household names and besides, when was the last time you saw the Xerox brand on anything? When Windows came out, folks just couldn’t see the advantage of moving away from the perfectly good command… Read More

With much fanfare—and several months of delay after shifting engineers over to its iPhone effort—Apple shipped Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard,” the latest version of its operating system for Macintosh computers. Now, four months later, the company has released Mac OS X 10.5.2, a substantial update to its “Leopard” operating system. Apple is recommending it for all users of Mac OS X 10.5 because of numerous… Read More

Apple has announced it will begin shipping Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” on Friday, October 26 for $129. Mac OS X 10.5 was originally slated to ship earlier in 2007, but last April the company delayed the release until October after shifting developers and resources to its high-profile iPhone. Apple has also announced it will be shipping Mac OS X 10.5 Server (a.k.a. Leopard Server) on October 26. As with previous released of Mac OS… Read More

Apple has updated its MacBook line of notebook computers aimed at consumers, students, and other everyday computer users, including bigger hard drives, more RAM, and speedier Intel Core 2 Duo processors. “The MacBook is a huge hit with customers, and is one of the reasons that Mac sales are growing three times faster than PC sales,” said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior VP of Worldwide Product Marketing. “The new… Read More

Apple Computer today refreshed its MacBook of notebook computers, adding Intel Core 2 Duo processors at speeds of 1.83 and 2.0 GHz, with prices starting at just $1,099. “MacBook has helped drive Apple's notebook market share to over 10 percent in US retail, and the new MacBooks will be among this holiday season's most exciting new products,” said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior VP of Worldwide Product… Read More

Apple Computer today upgraded its entire line of MacBook Pro notebook computers to Intel Core 2 Duo processors running at 2.16 GHz (for the 15-inch model) or 2.3 GHz (for either the 15-inch of 17-inch model) wit 4 MB of L2 cache. Apple claims the new systems offer up to 39 percent faster performance than the previous generation of 2.16 Ghz Intel-based MacBook Pro notebooks, and up to seven times fastr than the 1.67 GHz PowerPC G4-based… Read More

Electonic Arts EA Sports has announced that Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 video game has shipped for the Playstation 2, Xbox, Sony PSP, and Windows PCs, and is available on store shelves right now. Got an Xbox 360? Don't get your freaky polo shirt in a bunch: your version is due October 17. Tiger Woods 07 enables uplayers to compete available 21 of the worlds top golfers, including Tiger Woods (imagine that!), Vijay Singh, Anika Sorenstam,… Read More

When it comes to the Macintosh, let's face it: Microsoft is better known for what it doesn't do rather than what it actually does. Mac versions of its Office productivity applications have been money makers for coming up on two decades, but, gosh, where's Outlook for Macintosh? Business tools like Access? Heck, even cute consumer services like MSN are missing in action! Internet Explorer? Mothballed. Windows Media Player?… Read More

Years ago, Apple CEO Steve Jobs promised to do away with cathode ray tube (CRT) displays across Apple's product line in favor of flat screen LCDS…and the company succeeded for a few months when it rolled out its first flat-screen iMacs in 2002. But then came the eMac, a CRT-based all-in-one unit aimed specifically for the education market where economic realities didn't make flat-screen systems practical. Since then, LCD… Read More

Computer book publisher In Pictures has released 22 books in its In Pictures series for free download through August 1, 2006, under Creative Commons licenses. The ebooks are not protected by DRM: under the terms of the licenses, users can share and distribute the ebooks for free, so long as they don't alter them or charge for distribution. “We could have spent a hundred thousand dollars on advertising thatmost people would… Read More

Microsoft's hardware group has been threatening to make Mac products for a long time

Apple Computer has released Security Update 2006-001 for its Mac OS X operating system, patching problems recently exploited by both the Leap.A/Oompa-Loompa worm and the recent shell script exploit which could effect both Apple's Safari Web browser and Mail applications. Security Update 2006-001 is available for both Mac OS X 10.4.5 (Tiger) and 10.3.9 (Panther) via Mac OS X's built-in Software Update application as well as… Read More

Apple today, in yet another press conference focused on new products, unveiled updates to their PowerBook G4 line of notebook computers. Three models - a 12" screen ($1,499), a 15" screen ($1,999) and a 17" screen ($2,499) - are available now through Apple's website, Apple stores and resellers. Chief among the features on these new PowerBook G4s are higher resolution displays and longer battery life. The 17-inch… Read More