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Filemaker hits version 10

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

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It’s been a busy week with all the rumours and all the Macworld hype that I somehow missed a press release in my inbox.  Filemaker hit version 10 which is awesome news for me, because I skipped version 9.  Filemaker is a database application that allows you to create all kinds of applications and reports [...]

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Apple leaving Macworld is a good thing for consumers

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

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Everyone has been lamenting the fact that Apple has decided to call it quits on Macworld.  No one really knows why, but I have a sneaking feeling that it has a lot more to do with release schedules than it does anything else. Macworld has become a Mecca for Apple fans, and the hype seems to [...]

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Itunes Store Goes DRM free…mostly.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

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Ten million is a big number. So big, in fact, that Apple was only able to convert 8 million of 10 million songs before the announcment of DRM free music at Macworld today (Relax, the rest is coming). iTunes is the pink elephant in the room that is “legal” music downloads, and users have been [...]

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iLife ‘09 Announced at Macworld

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

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Phil Schiller announced today at the Macworld Expo that Apple will be shipping iLife ‘09. A disproportionately large section of Schiller’s keynote was spent discussing and demoing the new features in iLife ‘09. He broke it down into three of the apps: iPhoto, iMovie, and Garageband. In iPhoto, Phil showed us two new ways of organizing [...]

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Macworld San Francisco 2009 Rumor Round up

Monday, January 5, 2009

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There is a litany of rumors flying just a couple days before the Phil Schiller Keynote at MacWorld 2009.  Instead of just running down each of the rumors, I’m going to go through the rumors that are floating and give each a percentage of likelihood.  The Scale for the likelihood is from 1 to 100  [...]

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