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Apple Launches Mac mini, iWork

By Timothy R. Butler | Jan 11, 2005 at 1:55 PM

UPDATED. According to live coverage of MacWorld in San Francisco by Mac enthusiast sites as well as official Apple information, three of the most pervasive Mac rumors in recent weeks will come true and soon. In his keynote speech today, Jobs announced the company's new office suite, low-cost Macintosh and USB key iPod would be available on January 22.

Tim's Site Dies

By Timothy R. Butler | Dec 23, 2004 at 8:23 PM

Tim's personal blog, asisaid.com, has died. Until it returns, this OfB post will serve as a way to leave comments regarding the announcement of the blog's death. This article will be deleted after the blog returns to the world of the living… hopefully later today, but maybe not.

Zinside announces the Zen Box server : the hassle free all-in-one solution.

By Staff Staff | Dec 16, 2004 at 8:15 PM

Zinside (with the appropriate slogan “the Zen side of computing”) announces the debut of the Zen Box server, a 100% open source alternative to Microsoft Exchange© and Lotus Domino©. The French company uses an accessible and revolutionary approach to the server industry, which is frequently considered as too technical and is often dreaded by end users.

PowerPC development from the bargain basement

By Staff Staff | Dec 16, 2004 at 8:05 PM

The Kuro Box promises something fairly interesting: a usable single-board PowerPC computer, for only US$160 — when other PowerPC development boards often cost ten times as much.

The Five Gifts of Christmas

By Timothy R. Butler | Dec 16, 2004 at 1:26 AM

With just a short time before Christmas, you may be wondering what little stocking stuffer you can get for your technically obsessed co-worker, computer savvy boss or geeky family member. It is not too late to pick out a gift that will stay out of the closet of useless gifts after the party's over. OfB's Timothy R. Butler looks at five great gift ideas below.

Microsoft: Plodding Behind Into Eternity

By Timothy R. Butler | Dec 11, 2004 at 12:04 AM

Perhaps in the long term, the MSN Music Store will come to overshadow Apple's iTunes Music Store. But even if it does, Apple already made it's mark on the industry. Many analysts compare today's music battle with Microsoft's war against the Netscape Web browser, which was seen as a challenge to Windows. Microsoft feared that software engineers would gravitate to developing applications on Netscape, thus circumventing Windows. The same possibility with iTunes is throwing a shadow over Microsoft's media hub plans for Windows.

The Stealth Desktop Part IV: Removable Drives and Scanners

By Eduardo Sánchez | Dec 10, 2004 at 11:53 PM
I would like to thank our kind readers for the encouragement and the appreciation. This time, we turn to issues more related to hardware. First we will see how to enable removable drives in our Slack installation, with especial attention to floppies; and then we will examine how to setup new hardware, using our scanner as an example, since its setup was tricky.

Perspectives on KDE Multimedia

By Eduardo Sánchez | Nov 23, 2004 at 11:30 PM
Multimedia has now become an essential part of every computer, including those within the enterprise. While aRts was, for along time, hailed as the answer for multimedia within KDE, it fell out of favor as it became obvious that it was hopelessly inefficient. Associate Editor Eduardo Sánchez sits down with Scott Wheeler of the KDE Project to find out where the KDE multimedia department is headed in general, and concerning a replacement for aRts, more specifically.

Safari supports new CSS properties

By Staff Staff | Oct 07, 2004 at 5:50 PM

I have been experimenting a lot with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) lately to see what can be done in designing a simple Web site. If you are using Apple's Safari 1.1 or later, you are seeing things on this Web page that people using Camino, Firefox, Internet Explorer and most other browsers don't: text shadows. Using shadows for story headlines is nothing knew; people have used Photoshop for years to make graphics with sophisticated layers and drop shadows, but the text shadows you see on this page are all done with CSS — not a graphic in there at all.

Tech Investor on Apple

By Staff Staff | Oct 07, 2004 at 5:48 PM

A growing number of computer users, fed up with the attacks on Windows computers, have been buying or at least taking a look at buying Macintosh computers from Apple Computer. Even USA TODAY's own tech columnist, Kevin Maney, recently wrote about how his Windows computer was taken down by malicious code.

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