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Many of us use small, convenient USB jump drives to store files off our computer. But if such drives are lost or stolen, their contents can easily be accessed if the files…

The history of Pixar, thus far, can be divided into two sections: money sucking hobby of Steve Jobs and incredibly successful movie studio. The dividing line between the two parts of Pixar’s history is the movie Toy Story.

The brain child of John Lasseter, Toy Story…

Gates and Sculley had reached an agreement on October 24 of the previous month that would allow Microsoft to use Mac technology in Windows in exchange for a promise to upgrade Word for the Mac and not to release Excel for the PC until at least 1990.

One of the most oft-heard arguments about Mac pricing concerns economies of scale. The theory is that Dell's huge volume allows them to purchase mass quantities of PC components and glean the volume discounts.

The game was a bit different when it came to digital audio…

The story of Apple retail stores is one of maximum secrecy followed by snowballing success. The skeptics, and there were many, were quickly silenced when the profits started rolling in.

Even with all the success, the Apple Stores were a US only enterprise. Citizens of foreign…

You can tell that we've moved from the Halloween to Christmas shopping season as soon as the $29.99 animatronic skeleton that sings a horrible version of Monster Mash is marked down to a cool $15. At the same time as that warbly, non-scary ghoul is being marked…

Many see Steve Jobs's performance since his return to Apple as nothing less than miraculous. It is important to remember that he did plenty before selling NeXT and moving back to the Apple campus. Fortunately, there are awards for just such achievements and Steve jobs received two…

The first iMac featured a 15" inch CRT screen and translucent plastics. The design motif took over the world for a time (even stud finders were encased in pastel see-through plastic), but Apple moved on.

The next generation of iMacs eschewed the CRT and added a…

Carl Sagan had a knack for presenting high-minded physics and astronomy to the masses. Well, masses may be too strong a word, but he was certainly one of the few who could explain technical topics in such a way that the generally interested could follow.

Engineers…

Apple’s App Store approval process has left many developers frustrated, clueless, and even skeptical about publishing its applications on the iPhone/iPod touch’s flagship online store. 

While…

Jef Raskin and Steve Jobs had many disagreements about the Macintosh that finally resulted in Jef Raskin leaving Apple altogether.

One thing they agreed upon, however, was the name "Macintosh." The name was given to the project by Jef and was carefully chosen. Jef even went…

The iMac gets credit as the machine that saved Apple, but the machine that returned Apple to profitability was a dull platinum box.

Of course, it wasn't the box that had people excited; it was what was inside: the new G3 processor. Replacing the 604 chips,…

The One Laptop per Child initiative is a noble pursuit with the goal of providing a Wi-Fi enabled laptop to the poorest and most remote children in the world.

The purpose is to provide educational opportunities for the less advantaged, and as such, price is…

Larry Ellison has been, or is, a lot of things. Founder of Oracle, Silicon Valley billionaire, Steve Jobs’s best friend, and someone who talked about buying out Apple.

Ellison was also, for a time, an Apple board member. Since his tenure included the CEO search,…

It's really too bad that Automator is probably one of the most underused of Apple's applications. Because it is very useful for non-developers who don't know a bit of AppleScript or Objective-C code. 

The newest version of Automator in Snow Leopard makes it a little easier to…