Filed under: Business, Apple
You may have heard of Psystar, an infamous manufacturer of Mac clone "open computers." They're best known for frequently getting into legal hot water with Apple over everything from trademarks to copyrights to selling Apple's OS X operating on non-Apple computers. Apple just took Psystar to school on that last issue, winning summary judgment in a California court on copyright violations and Digital Millennium Copyright Act Violations. Psystar's losing argument really splits some hairs, and the court wasn't buying it. Here's what happened: Psystar bought one copy of OS X and loaded it onto a Mac Mini. Full story...
Filed under: News, Freeware, Search, Web
Who do you think of when you want to search for what's happening now? Increasingly people are searching social networks like Twitter and Facebook, and Google has increased the speed of its index to offer more up-to-date real-time information.
Filed under: Fun, Internet
In what must surely be a sign that schools and universities are under-funded, a network security dude at the University of Georgia has just been arrested for shaking down multiple file-downloading students.
Filed under: Developer, Utilities, Productivity
Firebug is one of the most popular add-ons for Firefox: it's a web development tool that highlights elements in a page's HTML source, allows for live editing of CSS, and more.
Filed under: Utilities
Here's a Windows tip for you, in case you didn't already know it: If you open up an Explorer window and start typing up the first few letters of a folder or filename, selection will immediately jump there.
Filed under: Mozilla, Browsers
We've already seen some photo mockups showing a few of the changes that could appear in Firefox 4.
Filed under: Google, Social Software, web 2.0, Microblogging
Google is working on something mysterious that has to do with Gmail and social networking, but the details are still under wraps.
Filed under: Photo, Commercial, Imaging Tips, iPhone
Liquid Scale is an iPhone / iPod Touch app that allows you to resize images by removing unimportant elements in the photo, leaving the important ones untouched.
Filed under: Business, P2P
Grooveshark is a fantastic music service; it lets you immediately listen to almost any song or album you can think of.
Filed under: Business, News, Microsoft, Social Software
Microsoft and Facebook have worked together for two and a half years now, with Microsoft selling display ads on the social network.
Filed under: News, Adobe, Apple, Analysis
I almost (not quite, but almost) feel bad for Adobe right now.