Well, I like NetFlix, but I have to say that their lawsuit announced this morning against BlockBuster is beyond ridiculous. They are going after the classic business idea patent--I say classic sarcastically, if you can't tell. There seems to also be a method patent for the queue management system that …

It was only a matter of time, and the time has now come. Expect to see benchmarks within the hour or so of running games under XP using this technology, but for the time being, Apple has announced Boot Camp, technology that will be in 10.5 (Leopard) that allows …

Somebody should have told General Motors that it would be a bad idea to put content control in the hands of the entire world. That only works if you have no enemies. However, as CNet notes in this article today, Chevrolet is now realizing that not everybody approves of the …

Google's rolled out another new service, Google Romance, their bid for the online dating game. It looks like competing with eBay, iTunes, and Yahoo! just isn't enough for the multi-billion-dollar baby. Perhaps this is why they filed for another $2B in stock sales earlier this week?

OK, here's a great article from Slate talking about all of those claims that "it costs the US Economy $..." however much each year for some stupid thing that obviously doesn't cost the US Economy however much a year.

I've been using a MacMini running OSX Server to do VPN at my house for about a year now. It worked very well until I got my new MacBook Pro. Unfortunately, there have been problems since then. I now have a call into Apple and a nice work-around. I'm not …

It was announced yesterday on OnMac.net that Blanka and Narf (obviously not their real names) have won the prize of $13,854 for figuring out how to dual-boot a MacBook Pro (or Intel Mini, or Intel iMac) into Windows or OS X. The solution (downloadable here) is a bit …

Conroe, the CPU theorized to be at the heart of Apple's upcoming desktop line, is now being shown by Intel. The folks at ExtremeTech got a chance to take a look and were quite impressed according to their preview.

Ars Technica has posted a review of the MacBook Pro, which is notable in that: 1) it's the first one that I've heard complain about MagSafe; 2) speaks to battery life (3:17 to 4:57 depending); and 3) It compares the machine to a Dell laptop running a hacked …

Last evening, Apple released the first security update for 2006 (Security Update 2006-001 for Intel and PPC). Detailed information is online in About Security Update 2006-001. More details follow here, but the summary is that they have addressed a wide variety of problems, including just about every facet of the …

I'm happy to announce today that LoadMyTracks (ok, make fun of the name if you must, everyone will be making fun of the icon), a program to download GPS data to the Macintosh in GPX or KML (Google Earth) formats is now available from the ClueTrust LoadMyTracks web page. More …

An article from CBS News discusses a soybean-powered sportscar that apparently gets 50 MPG and goes from 0-60 in 4 seconds. Go auto shop!

The State Services Commission in New Zealand has put up a briefing this month (OK, last month, but with the International Date Line, who knows) about Open Source Legal Issues. The policy paper is well thought out, if lacking a bit in depth, but covers such things as the key …

An article from the Guardian details an ongoing lawsuit in the UK that pits the authors of a nonfiction book Holy Blood, Holy Grail against Dan Brown, best-selling author of the Da Vinci Code. The suit challenges Brown over his source material and claims that Holy Blood,Holy Grail is …

Google has released 3 new dashboard widgets for the Mac, including one that checks your Gmail, one that allows you to post to Blogger quickly, and one that lets you check out your search history.

Well, somehow I missed that OWC disassembled the MacBook Pro yesterday afternoon.

For those out there (you know who you are) who may have some time over the next couple of weeks and are looking to hone Macintosh programming skills, you might take a look at the iron coder contest. It's a timed contest wherein an API is disclosed and the participants …

Without further ado, the folks at Unsanity have described (in more excruciating detail than I did yesterday) the latest OS X malware threat and have not one, but two, solutions to the problem. UTISafariExploitFix is localized to helping Safari avoid doing bad things to your system, by stopping the problem …

This isn't intended to scare people in the least. In fact, it's intended to inform, and if we were talking about Windows, there's no way that I could comment on almost every threat of Malware that comes up on the platform. However, on the Macintosh, I feel some responsibility to …

This is definitely not for non-administrators. However, I spent some serious time today trying to track this down, so let me save somebody some time here with this tidbit. It all started when I noticed that some of my users on my OSX Server machine were unable to access private …