To call it a preview would seem to be inappropriate, as Apple used the 19th annual Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference in Los Angeles to let the Macintosh speak for itself on issues of access by the blind. The move will secure Apple's ability to work with the visually impaired …

Thanks to Rob for passing this one along. This is a Christmas movie about the Apple iPod merged with Star Wars Episode I.

This is a pretty technical article for those who are interested in putting SSL facilities on a Panther Server. So, you have obtained a certificate for your XServe or other OS X server and you want to use that certificate for the built-in email services. Unfortunately, if this is documented …

An article from MacWorld UK contains quotes from the PalmSource VP of Business Development indicating that Apple's much-discussed secrecy makes it too difficult to keep up on the Macintosh platform. The article goes on to say they still consider the Mac community important and will try to work with Apple …

Although Windows seems to be continuing its growth in education markets (a sad slide for the venerable Apple stalwart), the scientific community is beginning to become a new battleground for the Mac vs. PC argument. An article from E-Commerce Times quotes NASA scientists, among others, who are finding the power …

Unreal Tournament 2004 is now available for Windows and MacOS X. The betas were posted just hours apart (the Mac world only lagged 6 hours behind the Windows world on this one).

In comments made at the PalmSource conference last week, representatives of the company said that they will no longer be supporting Macintosh synchronization in the OS. Instead, they indicated that third party products (such as Missing Sync from Mark/Space) will have to be used in the future. Marc/Space …

Verisign, the company that has a government-granted monopoly to control the root-level domains for .com and .net, is looking at reviving its SiteFinder service, according to an article in the Washington Post. With claims like "Site Finder was not controversial with users, 84 percent of whom said they liked it …

For those interested in such things, the folks who do Cheetah3D for the Macintosh just came out with a version that includes a hardware renderer. It's a fairly nice package in terms of features and it's hard to beat the $59 price.

The venerable NPR program Car Talk has stopped providing streaming versions of their programs in RealAudio and has switched instead to Windows Media Player. As noted in the comments from the site, you can access WMP from the Macintosh, so they aren't cutting Mac users out. Interesting (and hopefully informative …

The IBM PowerPC 970 (the chip called the G5 by Apple) has been out for about a year and has made many a Macintosh aficionado very happy with its performance. However, judging by the amount of air movement necessary (see the wicked-cool cooling in the G5) to keep the G5 …

It's the 24th of January and that means the 20th anniversary of the day that changed desktop computing. OK, it might sound like an exaggeration, but it is important to remember that Windows wasn't really a force until after the Macintosh had been out for a while (1.0 was …

Apple's new iLife '04 contains an interesting music program called GarageBand. With it, you can create music via a number of different methods, including MIDI keyboard input. However, if you're not yet ready to plunk down real cash on a keyboard and still want to play, look at microSynth, a …

According to an article in Wired, it certainly was for Jonathan Caouette. The 31 year old made his Sundance Film Festival entry for a total of $281.32 (in supplies, not counting his Mac). Caouette's film, Tarnation, recounts his troubled childhood in a highly dysfunctional family. Sundance is showing a …

For those unfamiliar with the nickname, Tog (Bruce Tognazzini) is one of the original Macintosh UI designers and is still considered to be one of the finest authorities on UI design available today. After long avoiding posting an official review on OS X, he has finally done so in this …

Sick of hearing the accolades for Apple in 2003? Don't read this article from InfoWorld. Tom Yager gives the Apple G5, Panther, and Panther Server scores of 8.8, 9.2 and 9.3 respectively. For the G5, he likes the memory bandwidth and processing power, noting that for his …

An article from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette describes the ordeal of a college student and her fish trying to get home for the holidays. Suffice it to say that the TSA wasn't particularly helpful or supportive and the fish's life was at stake.

For those who like Python and AppleScript, AppScripting is now available which allows the use of normal Python mechanisms to control AppleScript.

MacMice has a very cool new mount for the iSight, called iFlex. Check it out!

For those who keep track of the graphics world, ExtremeTech has a new head-to-head review of the current crop of mobile GPUs. The ATI Mobility 9600 came out on top. For mac aficionados, that means you're in good shape if you have the most recent PowerBook G4 15" or 17 …