Dennis Sellers

Apple patents range from event recorders to garbage collection

Posted by Dennis Sellers Nov 27, 2009 at 11:00am Several Apple patents have appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. Patent number 20090289789 is for an event recorder for a portable media device. Operational parametric...

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Apple patent indicates adding sound effects to a user interface for certain tasks

Posted by Dennis Sellers Nov 27, 2009 at 10:00am An Apple patent (number 200902993) has appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office involving a graphical user interface having sound effects for operating control elements and...

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Study: Apple makes the most energy efficient computers

UK based sust-it, a site that tracks energy saving electronics, has announced their roundup of energy efficient computers, citing Apple products as among the most energy efficient models. In fact, the Mac mini tops the list.

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Macsimum Poll: what Apple product will you buy this holiday season?

In this week’s poll, we’re asking what sort of Apple product you’re planning on buying over the holiday season. You can find the poll at the right side of our home page beneath the “Macsimum Opinion” column.

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Economist: Psystar has sold less than 1,000 Mac clones

As we reported earlier, Apple has requested a permanent injunction against Psystar that would prevent the Mac clone maker from selling machines with Mac OS X and assisting others to install the operating system on unauthorized...

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Apple patent is for automatic equalizer adjustment settings

An Apple patent (number 20090290725) for automatic equalizer adjustment setting for playback of media assets has appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. In other words, Apple plans to beef up the graphic equalizer in...

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Apple patent is for a hot unpluggable media storage device

Tired of getting an error message that you’ve not properly disconnected a device from your Mac before unplugging it. A new Apple patent has appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office that could alleviate this. Patent number...

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Apple retail stores bring in $1.78 billion of revenue

Posted by Dennis Sellers Oct 19, 2009 at 12:36pm Apple had 262 stores open during its fourth fiscal quarter. They brought in US$1.78 billion of revenue. The stores sold 670,000 Macs compared to 596,000 a year ago. Chief...

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Mac sales way up—laptop sales way, way up

In its fourth fiscal quarter, Apple sold 3.05 million Macs, a record number and one that beats the previous record by over 440,000 units, Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer said in an interview with the media and analysts.

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‘MacVoices’ looks at taking control of syncing data in Leopard

Posted by Dennis Sellers Oct 19, 2009 at 2:01pm On the new MacVoices, Michael Cohen, author of the new Take Control book, Take Control of Syncing Data in Leopard, talks about his latest work. He explains why his book had to be...

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