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T-Mobile offers Europeans discounted iPhone for pricey plans
T-Mobile announced it will sell the iPhone 3G for as little as €1 to German, Dutch and Austrian customers who sign up for one its more expensive service plans.
iPhone Central
Will current iPhone owners upgrade to 3G?
The new iPhone arrives on July 11, which gives current owners three weeks to figure out whether they’ll upgrade to the latest model. Peter Cohen has already made his decision.
EVE Online ushers in the Empyrean Age
EVE Online, the massively multiplayer online game set in outer space, has introduced a new expansion pack called The Empyrean Age.
PiddlePup Games releases Crumb for Mac
Crumb is a new adventure puzzle game for the Mac.
Kensington offers new laptop accessories
Kensington is offering a slew of new laptop accessories including a Bluetooth mice, new laptop bags and more.
Little Big Disk Quadra offers 1TB of portable storage
LaCie's Little Big Disk Quadra -- a portable drive which has four interfaces on its back -- now comes in a 1TB configuration.
Mac 911
Buying Macs to run Windows
Your company plans to purchase hundreds of Macs so you can use Outlook. Huh?
Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties headed to Mac
Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties is a new expansion pack headed to the Mac next month.
New iPhone still faces corporate disconnects
Apple still has both hardware and software issues to work through before the iPhone is likely to be widely adopted in corporate environments, according to IT managers interviewed by Computerworld.
New Nokia phones targeted at enterprises
Nokia has introduced two enterprise phones, which come at time when Apple, RIM and Microsoft are trying to court users in that space.
United connects iPods, iPhones on int’l flights
United Airlines will add 30-pin dock connectors to in-flight entertainment systems so first and business-class passengers can use their iPods and iPhones on international flights.
EBay to open up merchant tool to developers
EBay will for the first time open up its Selling Manager tool to outside developers at its developers conference this week.
Nvidia unveils new GeForce GTX 200 graphics processors
Nvidia has unveiled its new GeForce GTX 200 series graphics processors.
JVC launches new AVCHD camcorder models
Two of JVC's new HD Everio camcorders record in both AVCHD and MPEG-2 video modes.
Sequence captures images, movies of your screen
Sequence is a new screen capture application coming soon from app4mac.
Support grows for universal power adapter
Westinghouse said on Friday it will use Green Plug's "universal power adapter" technology in its future LCD TVs.
Hypercube helps you manage Web widgets on desktop
Amnesty Hypercube lets you manage Web-based widgets and Flash games from your Mac desktop.
PopChar X 4 character finder offers new view mode
PopChar X 4.0 features a new view mode that lets you find special characters regardless of font, and other enhancements.
Nolobe releases Iris image editor
Iris is a new image editor that eschews palettes in favor of a one-window interface.
Review: Contactizer Pro 3.6 info manager software
IContactizer Pro 3.6.1 is a single application that includes integrated features for managing contacts, tasks, calendars, e-mail communication, syncing, and projects. It's a nice-looking and largely intuitive program that includes nearly all of Address Book and iCal's features. It also comes with some unique extras not found in Apple's offerings.
Mac Gems
Lingon 2.1
For years, the way to schedule tasks in Unix was through a scheduler known as cron. While cron is still supported in OS X, the approved method of scheduling tasks is a program known as launchd. Unfortunately, writing a launchd task is much more complex than writing a cron task. Enter Lingon. Using a simple GUI, Lingon lets you easily create launchd tasks.
Mac Gems
The Summer of Mac Gems
This summer, the Mac Gems blog will feature a low-cost or free Mac program every day until the middle of August. Some programs will be simple, some will be niche programs, and some will just be programs that have been waiting too long for coverage. The one thing they have in common is that all are Mac Gems.
iPhone Central
Twitterrific will tweet on the iPhone
Iconfactory is poised to launch their award-winning iPhone version of Twitter client Twitterrific.
iPhone Central
Mariner Calc brings Excel editing to the iPhone
Mariner Software is bringing its spreadsheet program to the iPhone. And with it comes the ability to edit Excel files in their native format.
Seven open-source Mac apps you need right now
CIO.com looks at seven enterprise-ready open-source solutions that are must-haves for Mac users in the workplace.