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by Alexander Wolfe, InformationWeek
Apple should have staged the conversion from .mac to .me. It not only make technical sense, but it fits in with the Apple ethos.
by Pariah S. Burke, Macworld
Narrowly focused update features moderate enhancements.
by Heather Kelly, Macworld
Sometimes you just need to doodle, to be creative and make a little art without the complications of Illustrator or the mess of Crayolas.
by Walter S. Mossberg and Katherine Boehret, Wall Street Journal
There are way too many interesting apps to review here, but these are some we liked.
by John Markoff, New York Times
In recent weeks, Mr Jobs has reassured several people that he is doing well and that four years after a successful operation to treat a rare form of pancreatic cancer, he is cancer free.
People who are close to Mr. Jobs say that he had a surgical procedure this year to address a problem that was contributing to a loss of weight. These people declined to be identified because Mr. Jobs had not authorized them to speak about his health.
by James B. Stewart, Wall Street Journal
Attention, bargain hunters: Two technology darlings are on sale at steep summer discounts, Apple and Google.
by Timothy Lee, TechDirt
Refusing to serve iced espressos may be a good business strategy.
As Guy Kawasaki once wrote, if Apple had listened to its customers, the Macintosh will simply be a faster MS-DOS machine.
by Brent Smmons, Inessential.com
The problem is 100 times worse when it comes to deleting features.
by Loretta Chao, Wall Street Journal
Apple's approach seems to be working, with sales growing apace even as the company on Saturday opened its first full-service Apple store in China, in Beijing. Over the past two years, more Apple reseller have begun popping up in China's sprawling computer malls.
by Etan Horowitz, Orlando Sentinel
Don't believe the Apple availability page.
by Tim Bray, ongoing
There's a design flaw in Apple's current lineup of Mac keyboards; easily fixed though.
by Arik Hesseldahl, BusinessWeek
Idle, speculative and uninformed talk is feeding fear uncertainty and doubt, that is not worth serious consideration. Even so, given what's publicly known about Jobs' medical hidostry, questions about the condition of his health are certainly fair to ask, and the ones who should be doing the asking are Apple's outside directors.
by Jeff SMykil, Ars Technica
While the company will preinstall Ubuntu 8.0.4 or Windows XP, the computer the company claims to be Apple-compatible won't actually be able to do so with Mac OS X.
by MacJournals
Isn't accounting fun?
by Merlin Mann, 43 Folders
Is four digits (or a trivial password) enough to protect your irreplaceable private data? Are you willing to assume that risk? It's unbelievable that the question even needs to be asked.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
The addition of GPS made the iPhone much more effective for traveling and MobileMe is a godsend.
by Slash Lane, AppleInsider
Microsoft this week offered a window into the first phase of a mega million dollar advertising campaign designed to clear up 'misconception' about the quality of its Windows Vista operationg system exacerbated by in-your-face marketing efforts on the part of longtime rival Apple.
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet.com
The bottom line is that if you're an Apple investor and you don't like the "Steve's health is a private matter" statement made by CFO Peter Oppenheimer then there's only one thing you should do - sell your Apple stock and invest in a company that you trust more.
by Arik Hesseldahl, BusinessWeek
The main concern will be the warning over gross margin in Apple's fourth fiscal quarter ending in September and into fiscal 2009.
by Glenn Fleishman, Macworld
Software update offers dramatic security improvements, though gaps remain.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
New in Finale 2009 is streamlined workflow interface that makes it easier to create and enter music, move and edit what you've written.
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
... isn't it about time that Apple put those iLife "Shop For" commands to good use?
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
On Windows, MobileMe will always pop up a dialog telling it cannot do any sync whenever I do not have internet access. Which is a real irritation, if you ask me.
by Dan Moren, Macworld
With the addition of the App Store and third-party applications, the problem of how to move data around the phone has increased exponentially.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
Among the changes specific to Word are a fix for Spotlight keyword saving so that it works in Word 2008 Save As dialogs. The update also fixed a problem that caused Default Folder X to not include folders in its Recent Folders list when saving in Microsoft Word 2008.
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