Type of Article: MacNews Web Site

‘YML’ looks at Apple earnings, ‘Antennagate’

Posted by | Jul 21, 2010 | |

The new “Your Mac Life” episode looks at the latest Apple financials and “Antennagate.”

You can listen in this and every Wednesday evening from 5:30 to 8 pm (Pacific). Live video is on Your Mac Life! You can watch the show live at http://yml.macosg.com/ — or you can listen in to the plain old audio feed at http://www.yourmaclifeshow.com/QT/stream.mov .

You can join one of the two Chat Rooms that run during the live show — on the live video site or on the dedicated IRC Server at irc.chat-solutions.org in the #yourmaclife Channel

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SonicMood for Mac OS X gets new moods

Posted by | Jul 21, 2010 | , |

SonicIdeas (“http://SonicMood.com) has released SonicMood 4.9.8.1 for Mac OS X 10.3.9 and higher. The update adds the Moods “Windy Day” and “Climbing Mount Fuji.”

There’s also now an undo/redo for the main SonicMood window, the Edit window, and the Mixer window now share a common stack. The other windows, like Preferences and the Picture window, continue to have separate undo/redo stacks.Version 4.9.8.1 also makes some changes to the Edit window to make it a little more understandable.

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SeaMonkey 2.0.6 scampers from Mozilla

Posted by | Jul 21, 2010 | , |

Mozilla has released SeaMonkey 2.0.6 (http://www.seamonkey-project.org/), an update of the app thta combines Firefox and Thunderbird. The new version offers security fixes.

SeaMonkey runs on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux systems. It uses the same internal platform as Firefox 3.5.4 now. Due to this change SeaMonkey is now much closer to Firefox as far as user profiles, add-ons and functionality of user interface elements are concerned.

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Apple retail stores get busier, make more money, sell more Macs

Apple retail stores get busier, make more money, sell more Macs

Posted by | Jul 20, 2010 | , |

Apple retail stores generated record revenue and customer traffic in In the the fiscal 2010 third quarter that ended June 26. Revenue was US$2.58 billion, an increase of 73% over the same time period in 2009.

With an average of 287 stores open, the average revenue per store was $9 million compared to $5.9 million a year-ago. The stores saw 60.5 million visitors in the quarter, compared to 38.6 million in the year-ago quarter.

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iPods sales decline, but it’s still the top MP3 player

iPods sales decline, but it’s still the top MP3 player

Posted by | Jul 20, 2010 | , |

For the fiscal 2010 third quarter that ended June 26, Apple shipped 9.4 million iPods, compared to 10.2 in the same period a year-ago. However, according to the latest info from the NPD Research Group, it still accounts for over 70% of the US market for MP3 players — as it has for years.

In fact, as Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer points out, the iPod is the top selling MP3 player internationally and growing in popularity in almost every country.

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