Apple has updated its Hot Deals Web site with the latest offerings from MacZone and Inside Mac Games. Deals can be found on Intuit TurboTax Deluxe, Nikon CoolPix 4300 4MP digital camera, ActiVision Anthology: Remix Edition, and Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness.
Read MoreIn a statement sent to MacMinute, Apple defended its move to release Safari updates that only work with Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. The company said the recently released Safari 1.2 was “designed to leverage advances in Panther not present in the Jaguar release of Mac OS X. These Panther technologies are needed to deliver Safari 1.2’s most significant improvements.
Read MoreGrammy performers and presenters will be getting a new iPod in their gift bag at this year’s Grammy Awards, which take place in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 8. The value of the Grammy gift basket, put together by L.A.-based Distinctive Assets, is more than US$13,000. Other gifts include whitening toothpaste, a one-year gym membership, laser eye-surgery and a two-night stay at a resort.
Read MoreApple is hosting a series of free seminars in certain US cities that will demonstrate Final Cut Pro 4.1 used with AJA’s Io (a FireWire video interface) and the Power Mac G5.
Read MoreFrank Steele—who has worked at two Atlanta (GA) newspapers, CNN.com, Coca-Cola and two small Internet era start-ups—praises Apple hardware/software and Linux for the work environment in an online blog. “I’m not saying that Macs and Linux boxes are no work, but the work, it seems to me, is focused on the solution at hand, rather than the problem of the moment,” he writes.
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