Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit launches blog site | MacMinute News

Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit launches blog site | MacMinute News: “August 31, 2006 – 12:23 EDT   Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit let us know about the launch of its new blog site — Mac Mojo. ‘Mac Mojo provides Mac enthusiasts perspectives from developers, testers, product managers, usability engineers, product marketers and the Mac BU executive team on a variety of topics — from product announcements to updates from inside the Mac BU.”

New FileMaker Campus Productivity Kit announced

August 29 – 09:15 EDT FileMaker today announced its new Campus Productivity Kit, an all-in-one ready to use database solution for Mac and Windows PCs. The Kit empowers students to “manage contacts; organize searchable research and lecture notes; track all kinds of assignments and projects; manage and coordinate events and all those extra To-Dos that go along with being a college student.” The FileMaker Campus Productivity Kit includes the new FileMaker Pro 8.5 Web Viewer in the Lecture Notes module that brings back related information from Wikipedia for the selected topic automatically — without having to go to a separate Internet browser.

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Japan orders Apple to probe laptops

By CHISAKI WATANABE-Associated Press Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese authorities reported Tuesday the first case of an Apple laptop catching fire in Japan and ordered the U.S. company to investigate the trouble involving the faulty Sony batteries and report back within a week.A laptop made by Apple Computer Inc. overheated and caught fire in April, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said. The user sustained minor burns after the the iBook G4 computer caught fire, according to Apple spokeswoman Michiko Matsumoto, who confirmed the case.

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Problem with Parallels

Parallels on Mac Pro not quite working?I just received an email from a listener who pointed me to this thread on the Parallels web site that indicates there may be a problem running the current final release and Beta versions of Parallelson Apple’s new Mac Pro systems. Looks like the currently available versions of the virtualization software are causing kernel panics for a number of users. The Parllels team says they are aware of this issue and have made releasing fix a “high priority”, but don’t provide any timeframe for the release of a patch. One tech in the thread does offer a temporary work around that involves switching OS X into “legacy (32-bit) mode”, but does warn the workaround is “unofficial (untested and unsupported)”. To make matters worse, as of this writing Parallels does not appear to be making customers aware this issue anywhere on their site other than in the forum thread. This means there may be customers out there still purchasing Parallels for use on their new Mac Pro who will end up in Windows purgatory and be forced to use Boot Camp until Parallels releases a fix. Stay tuned.

FastMac announces Dual Layer SuperDrive Upgrade

It’s about time! If you’ve been looking for a way to take advantage of the new dual-layer DVD media this is it. -TG

FastMac announces Dual Layer SuperDrive Upgrade: “FastMac today announced the availability of an enhanced internal 16x Dual Layer SuperDrive upgrade for Mac Pro, PowerMac G3, G4, G5, eMac and iMac G4 systems…”

(Via MacMinute.)

Very Cool Desktop Utility

Desktopia is a clever little freeware program that does one thing: changes your desktop background based on a schedule you set. Think of the possibilities, in the morning you can have a nice picture of the sunrising, and at night you can have a full moon. The possibilities are only limited by the desktop backgrounds that you have available to you, though Desktopia does ship with a few backgrounds.

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Apple’s $100 Million IPod Payout

Not the result I expected but what do I know? -TG

Apple’s $100 Million IPod Payout: “It’s a big payday for Creative Technology as Apple agrees to pony up a pile of cash to settle patent-infringement lawsuits.”

(Via Wired News: Top Stories.)

Apple recalls 1.1 million laptop batteries

Apple recalls 1.1 million laptop batteries: “Apple will recall 1.1 million laptop batteries in the United States that are at risk of overheating, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said Thursday, notes MarketWatch…”

(Via MacMinute.)

OWC ships FW 800/400+USB 1.5TB RAID solution

Can you believe the price drops on Hard Disks? And these are RAID drives! Take a look. -TG

OWC ships FW 800/400+USB 1.5TB RAID solution: “Other World Computing (OWC) today announced it is shipping its new Mercury Elite-AL Pro FW800/400+USB2 RAID external hard drive Storage Solution starting at US$279.99…”

(Via MacMinute.)

Report: Sandisk drops prices to take on iPod

Report: Sandisk drops prices to take on iPod: “According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Sandisk is expected to announced a new digital music player products and price cuts today in an effort to battle Apple’s iPod supremacy, notes Reuters…”

(Via MacMinute.)