http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/13/apple.bans.jobs.flyers/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0901/bringbackjobsf.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The man behind "Bring Back Steve Jobs" flyers at last week's Macworld Expo says the stunt was not meant as a slam against Apple. Gleb Budman and his colleagues were told by Apple representatives to stop handing out flyers to Expo attendees lined up for Apple's keynote on Tuesday morning. Budman says the message was meant as a "compliment" to Steve Jobs -- and a plea for Apple to reverse its decisi... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/13/apple.bans.jobs.flyers/ Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:30:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/12/apple.ilife.upgrade/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0901/06-ilife.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple has announced a discount upgrade program for iLife '09 that is available to certain Mac purchasers. The promotion is designed to satisfy owners that receive computers bundled with the older version of iLife. The company will allow any customer that purchases a Mac between January 6th, 2009 to March 28 to upgrade to the latest software for $10. The systems must have been obtained from an App... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/12/apple.ilife.upgrade/ Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/07/real.server.2009.in.feb/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0812/realbasic-ver5.0-09.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />REAL Software, the producer of the REALbasic development platform, has announced plans to release updated server software in February. REAL Server 2009 is said to have been overhauled with an event-based asynchronous architecture, and now uses Multi-Version Concurrency Control, which is said to improve both concurrency and scalability. The latter aspect has been improved throughout the program, ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/07/real.server.2009.in.feb/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/07/analysts.on.mw09/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0809/itunesmoviesaustralia.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Only one real story came out of yesterday's keynote speech by Phil Schiller, write analysts with Needham & Co. Despite the announcement of new versions of iLife and iWork, as well as a 17-inch unibody MacBook Pro, the most important revelation is said to be the switch to DRM-free music and variable pricing at iTunes. Even this may have minimal impact, Needham suggests.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/07/analysts.on.mw09/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/06/ms.at.macworld.2009/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0808/office2008promostory.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Using Macworld as a jumping point, Microsoft has announced two new pieces of Mac software. The first is the Document Collaboration Companion, a Cocoa-based tool which should simplify uploading and downloading to Office Live Workspaces as well as SharePoint-based collaboration utilities. Users will be able to check documents in and out, cache them offline, and access services such as a Document L... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/06/ms.at.macworld.2009/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:40:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/06/itunes.at.mw09/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0812/ipodnano4g-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />In concluding its Macworld 2009 keynote, Apple has confirmed a switch to a variable pricing model for iTunes music, where previously the company charged a flat 99 cents per track. Beginning in April the company will offer three tiers of pricing: 69 cents, 99 cents and finally $1.29, with a greater proportion of tracks falling under the bottom tier than the top; all tracks aged less than six years... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/06/itunes.at.mw09/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/06/iwork.09.at.mw09/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0901/mw09-iwork.jpg ' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Complementing its iLife '09 debut, Apple has announced iWork '09, an upgraded productivity suite. The suite's presentation app, Keynote '09, has been enhanced with a new Magic Move feature, which lets users pick the start- and endpoints of objects, and in turn generate transitions automatically; some new transitions include text types such as swings and shimmering, and chart types like slides and... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/06/iwork.09.at.mw09/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:30:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/06/ilife.09.shown.at.mw09/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0901/mw09-ilife.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />In opening up its Macworld 2009 keynote, Apple today revealed iLife '09, an update to its core application package for Macs. Changes to the suite begin with iPhoto '09, whose new Faces feature lets users sort images by the people. After running face detection, the app lets users assign names to each of the people involved, and sort photo collections accordingly. Places, meanwhile, now lets user... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/06/ilife.09.shown.at.mw09/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/06/wd.mac.drives.at.mw09/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0901/mypassportmac.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Western Digital has launched two new external hard drives, oriented specifically at Mac users: the My Passport for Mac and My Book Mac Edition. Though only supporting USB 2.0 and not FireWire, the drives are pre-formatted for Macs and advertised as supporting Time Machine as well as other Mac backup software. The My Passport is a general-purpose portable drive, set inside a shock-resistant enclo... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/06/wd.mac.drives.at.mw09/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/05/software.dev.outs.mac.mini/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0901/intelmacmini.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />A software developer has, intentionally or not, fueled speculation that Tuesday's Apple keynote speech will see the announcement of an updated Mac mini. In promoting v4.6 of its namesake digital asset management (DAM) system, it describes "new Mac mini hardware" as being supported, with the option of bundling the two products together in a server bundle. In operating as a server, the otherwise u... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/05/software.dev.outs.mac.mini/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:15:00 GMT