Original Apple Macintosh launched on this day in 1984

Today, January 24, 2011 marks a birthday of sorts, and we genealogists are fond of birthdays. It’s the birthday of the original Apple Macintosh, the Mactinosh 128K. It launched on January 24, 1984. As Wikipedia points out, this marked the first successful launch of a personal computer with a graphical … Read more

Apple Event – Tuesday, November 16, 2010

This is currently the front page of Apple.com Speculation is either Apple will have their North Carolina data center online and will be announcing some kind of cloud service where you can access the content you buy through iTunes through any device or the web easily, or more likely the … Read more

Mac OS X 10.6.5 Released

Apple has released Mac OS X 10.6.5 for Snow Leopard today. For a full list of fixes, updates, and additions, see the links below. Some of the Mac OS X 10.6.5 highlights * Addresses performance of some image-processing operations in iPhoto and Aperture. * Addresses stability and performance of graphics … Read more

iPhoto 11 Update with Calendars

Apple has released iPhoto 9.1, which is actually iPhoto 11 9.1. iPhoto 8.0 is the version number of iPhoto ’09, so iPhoto 9.1 is iPhoto ’11 . Anyways, it’s an update for Apple’s iLife ’11 that resolves a few issues, and adds some additional letterpress holiday greeting card themes. The … Read more

Thoughts on “Back to Mac”

Earlier today I provied some live coverage of Back to Mac and now I want to mention a few things. I was curious to see if there would be an iWork update. There was not. Not too surprising. iLife ’11 – iPhoto ’11 This was the big thing to me … Read more

Apple’s Back to the Mac Event – Live Coverage

I’m going to provide updates here. If you’d like to watch it yourself and are on a Mac running Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard with Safari or an updated iOS device (iPhone, iPad, etc.), you can view it through Apple.com For details, please see the article I posted earlier … Read more