PUBLIC MARKS from alamat with tags blog & mac

1. You bring a Mac with you wherever you go. 2. You subscribe to a Mac blogs such as Cult of Mac, Wired, and Macworld. 3. Every time a friend or relative complains about their computer being slow due to spyware, adware and viruses, you tell them to use Mac.

Here are 15 signs that you are addicted to Mac…

Creative Labs, makers of the Nomad and Zen line of portable MP3 players, decided to sue its biggest MP3 competitor, Apple Computers. The suit that Creative filed claims that Apple infringed on patents over the interface that's used in Apple's iPods. Creative claims that it had designed the easy to use interface over 6 years ago. Many are asking why Creative waited so long if it had the patents 6 years ago.

Path Finder is a file browser for Mac OS X. It has many features, including labels, customized fonts and colors, a desktop trash can, spring-loaded folders, an image converter, a preview drawer, a menu key editor, an enhanced column view, and a built-in application launcher; and the ability to view invisibles, to compress/decompress, create disk images, add and remove thumbnail icons, open the program with the menu, view hex, copy paths, secure-delete, launch as root, find files, create aliases and symbolic links, delete as root, and to open in terminal. The program was previously named SNAX.

Ever since the iPod Nano, Apple has been introducing more and more "black" versions of their products. First it spread to the iPod with Video, and just a while ago to their top line Macbooks. Many complain about the last product, due to the price you pay just for the black coating being around $100, or even more in some blogs, but I'm no price genius so I don't what reasons are behind this.

With all the excitement of Boot Camp, and the ability to now run Windows on a Mac, what about the rest of us? Those of us that use Windows out of necessity, and lust after a Mac yet can't afford or justify the purchase of one. What to do? Well, you can make your Windows XP PC look as much like a Mac as possible.

Apple recently launched their series of ads that were so hilarious and worth checking. See all the ads here

Apple officially ditches iBook in favour of a slinky new MacBook, that’s also available in panther black. Grrr…

The iPod shadow dancers have some nasty habits these days. One of them's even shooting heroin, as you can see. It's all part of a guerilla campaign for Berlin Suchthilfe (which translates as "Berlin Addiction Help."

A U.S. judge ruled on Monday in favor of Apple Computer Inc. in the latter's right to use the apple logo on its iTunes Music Store.

Proving once again that real artists ship, artist Gautam Rao of Indianapolis has begun posting oil paintings of interface details from OS X.

Daniel Eran of Roughly Drafter recently posted a very well-argued analysis of the current rumors that OS X 10.5 Leopard would include a way to run Windows applications natively on Macs without rebooting.

Softbank Corp. and Apple Computer Inc. plan to jointly develop cellular phone handsets that have built-in iPod digital music players and can download songs directly from Apple's iTunes Music Store, The Nihon Keizai Shimbun is reporting.

Amazon has posted what appears to be the final cover to Steve Wozniak's memoir, I, Woz: How I Invented the Personal Computer and Had Fun Along the Way.

Apple said the 49.1MB QuickTime 7.1 update is an important release that delivers numerous bug fixes, support for iLife ’06, and H.264 performance improvements. This update is highly recommended for all QuickTime 7 users.

Owning an iPod in the first place is one of the top ways to conspicuously demonstrate your disposable income level (or at least that of your parents).

Sony Corp. on Tuesday announced a symbolic concession to Apple Computer Corp. on digital audio technology.

Aside from an awesome user interface and a great underlying architecture, Apple built OS X with security in mind. As part of that central security theme, OS X has been designed using three key isolation features:

There was a little speculation recently that McAfee had unnecessarily worried people into buying its products with the news that, from 2003 to 2005, the amount of vulnerabilities discovered on the OS X platform had increased by 228%, whereas Windows vulnerabilities discovered in the same time period had increased by only 73%. To the blind-sighted or Mac newcomers out there, this is a worrying fact, but rest assured the truth is being bent—quite a bit.