Apple sells fewer Macs, but boosts revenues with iPhone, iPod Touch
April 23, 2009Apple Inc. today announced that Mac sales fell last quarter, the first time in nearly six years the company has reported a year-to-year drop-off in Mac sales. But even in a down economy, revenues climbed 9% and profits were up 15%.
Microsoft to retire Mac Office 2004 in six months
April 21, 2009Microsoft will drop Office 2004 for Mac from its support list in October, the company confirmed today.
Apple to concede Mac sales shrinkage, analyst predicts
April 21, 2009Apple will report on Wednesday that it sold fewer Macs in the first quarter of 2009 than it did in the same period a year earlier, marking the first time in nearly six years that the company will have acknowledged a sales slide, a Wall Street analyst said.
Apple clobbers Windows PC makers in customer service survey
April 21, 2009Apple beat out rival computer makers such as Hewlett-Packard and Dell by wide margins in a recent customer satisfaction survey, a Forrester Research analyst said today.
iWork '09 Trojan horse turning Macs into zombies?
April 17, 2009Two researchers claim to have discovered a Mac zombie botnet that stems from a Trojan horse embedded in an iWork '09 trial version that was making the rounds on file-sharing networks earlier this year.
VMware bug allows Windows hack to attack Macs
April 16, 2009A bug in VMware's Fusion virtualization software could be used to run malicious code on a Mac by exploiting Windows in a virtual machine, an exploit researcher at Immunity said today.
Microsoft sets Office 2007 SP2 release for April 28
April 15, 2009Microsoft has set April 28 as the release date for Office 2007 Service Pack 2, the first update to the company's popular application suite since December 2007.
Get efficient with the Finder's sidebar
April 14, 2009Whenever you've got a Finder window open, the sidebar can give you one-click access to the items you use most. Items here are arranged by category--Devices, Shared, Places, and Search For. Hide or reveal a category's items by clicking on the disclosure triangle next to the category name. Click and drag any item away from the sidebar to make it disappear in a puff of smoke. If you want to rearrange items in a category, just slide an item up or down. You can also select Finder: Preferences, click on Sidebar, and then select--or deselect--items in the list there.
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Quick shortcuts with the Finder's toolbar
April 10, 2009At the top of each Finder window is a toolbar. It's visible all the time, unless you hide it by pressing command-option-T (this also hides the sidebar). By default, the toolbar contains a number of useful buttons, as well as the search field. Click on the back and forward buttons to navigate to folders you've visited recently, as in a Web browser. Click on any of the four View buttons to set your Finder view to Icon, List, Column, or Cover Flow view (see "Get the most out of Finder views" for more on views and when to use each). Click on the Action menu (labeled with a gear icon) to quickly create a new folder, make a file alias, move something to the Trash, and more. I find the Action menu particularly useful when I want to compress a file or folder. Click on the Path button to jump up to another folder in your hierarchy. Or click on the Quick Look button (labeled with an eye icon) to view the contents of a file,
The hidden features in Apple's latest iPhoto update
April 10, 2009Apple did more than bolster stability in iPhoto with its recent update: It also added some cool and useful features to Faces and Places. Computerworld columnist Ryan Faas details what's new.