http://www.cultofmac.com Breaking news for Apple fans Tue, 21 May 2013 03:50:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.cultofmac.com/208687/pentax-announces-retro-styled-consumer-point-and-shoot/ http://www.cultofmac.com/208687/pentax-announces-retro-styled-consumer-point-and-shoot/#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:09:07 +0000 Giles Turnbull http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=208687 Pentax has just announced a new retro-styled point-and-shoot zoom camera, the MX-1. The trend for cameras that look like they’ve fallen through a time warp from the 1960s is trickling down from the high-end and into lower-cost, consumer-oriented models. The f/1.8-2.5 lens is 28mm at its wide end, and zooms as far as 218mm. Inside [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/208687/pentax-announces-retro-styled-consumer-point-and-shoot/feed/ 0 http://www.cultofmac.com/201593/cult-of-mac-holiday-gift-guide-gifts-for-him-edition-blah/ http://www.cultofmac.com/201593/cult-of-mac-holiday-gift-guide-gifts-for-him-edition-blah/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:00:36 +0000 Charlie Sorrel http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=201593 Believe it or not, Black Friday has already come and gone. Pretty soon the Christmas season will begin, and we’ll mark this midwinter festival by getting together with friends and family and continuing to drink and eat far too much. Meanwhile, we also buy gifts for those same friends and family members, whether they want [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/201593/cult-of-mac-holiday-gift-guide-gifts-for-him-edition-blah/feed/ 0 http://www.cultofmac.com/182290/the-best-travel-gadgets-best-of/ http://www.cultofmac.com/182290/the-best-travel-gadgets-best-of/#comments Wed, 01 Aug 2012 19:00:57 +0000 Charlie Sorrel http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=182290     It’s August, which means two things. One, there’s no news to report on, which means that most of a gadget blogger’s workday is taken up with siestas and refreshing beverages. And two, it’s vacation time! That’s right: The whole northern hemisphere likes to take a break at exactly the same time, all the [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/182290/the-best-travel-gadgets-best-of/feed/ 0 http://www.cultofmac.com/177126/ipad-owners-love-reading-digital-content-but-email-is-still-the-most-common-ipad-task/ http://www.cultofmac.com/177126/ipad-owners-love-reading-digital-content-but-email-is-still-the-most-common-ipad-task/#comments Tue, 03 Jul 2012 20:58:29 +0000 Ryan Faas http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=177126 There’s no question that the iPad is incredibly popular and revolutionary. As the device continues to become part of our daily lives, we’re beginning to see the iPad take hold in schools, workplaces, and our homes. What’s the most common task performed on an iPad(or other tablet)? According to research firm Gartner, the most frequent [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/177126/ipad-owners-love-reading-digital-content-but-email-is-still-the-most-common-ipad-task/feed/ 0 http://www.cultofmac.com/159466/basic-economics-are-we-really-not-willing-to-pay-for-quality-pricey-apps/ http://www.cultofmac.com/159466/basic-economics-are-we-really-not-willing-to-pay-for-quality-pricey-apps/#comments Sat, 07 Apr 2012 22:28:03 +0000 Cult of Android http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=159466 Papermill launched on Android several weeks ago. Developed by Ryan Bateman and designed with the help of Matt Legaspi, the app is a beautiful Instapaper client for Android devices. Papermill received high praise from the community and widespread media coverage when it launched, and the developer has since broken down its success based on sales. The conclusions he [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/159466/basic-economics-are-we-really-not-willing-to-pay-for-quality-pricey-apps/feed/ 0 http://www.cultofmac.com/144860/is-steve-jobs-biography-an-inspiration-to-entrepreneurs-or-a-warning/ http://www.cultofmac.com/144860/is-steve-jobs-biography-an-inspiration-to-entrepreneurs-or-a-warning/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:14:54 +0000 Leander Kahney http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=144860 Blogger Jason Kottke has noticed an interesting pattern: Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who take Steve Jobs’s biography not as a guide to success, but as a warning. Kottke points to four entrepreneurs who are scaling back on work to focus on their families, lest they turn out like Steve Jobs. The Steve Jobs portrayed in Walter [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/144860/is-steve-jobs-biography-an-inspiration-to-entrepreneurs-or-a-warning/feed/ 0 http://www.cultofmac.com/116677/why-tuesday%e2%80%99s-apple-event-is-one-of-the-most-important-ever/ http://www.cultofmac.com/116677/why-tuesday%e2%80%99s-apple-event-is-one-of-the-most-important-ever/#comments Sat, 01 Oct 2011 23:45:14 +0000 Mike Elgan http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=116677 Ho-hum. Another iPhone. Tuesday’s Apple event is going to be boooo-ring, right? Well, not so fast. I think that from a milestone perspective, Tuesday’s announcement may be among the most important Apple has ever made.  (You’ll notice I said iPhone, singular, not iPhones, plural. I know this because as an Apple invitation Kremnologist, it’s clear [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/116677/why-tuesday%e2%80%99s-apple-event-is-one-of-the-most-important-ever/feed/ 135 http://www.cultofmac.com/103940/why-facebook-and-google-are-the-ipads-killer-apps/ http://www.cultofmac.com/103940/why-facebook-and-google-are-the-ipads-killer-apps/#comments Sat, 09 Jul 2011 16:38:31 +0000 Mike Elgan http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=103940 Remember the old “killer app” concept? The idea is that an application becomes so desirable that it guarantees massive sales of the hardware platform it runs on. The Wikipedia has the best definition I’ve seen: A killer app is “any computer program that is so necessary or desirable that it proves the core value of [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/103940/why-facebook-and-google-are-the-ipads-killer-apps/feed/ 34 http://www.cultofmac.com/103776/everyone-loves-using-an-ipad-in-the-evening/ http://www.cultofmac.com/103776/everyone-loves-using-an-ipad-in-the-evening/#comments Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:18:37 +0000 Ed Sutherland http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=103776 The iPad is becoming the perfect evening companion. Usage of Apple’s tablet peaks between 8pm and bedtime, with the PC relegated to the bleary-eyed early morning and mid-morning, new research finds. Tablet users follow a very distinct pattern, according to one website’s review of data from the Bit.ly link-shortening service. “Usage dips after breakfast, remains [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/103776/everyone-loves-using-an-ipad-in-the-evening/feed/ 11 http://www.cultofmac.com/95009/rumor-apple-scheduling-retail-employee-meetings-on-may-28th-ahead-of-lion-and-icloud-debut/ http://www.cultofmac.com/95009/rumor-apple-scheduling-retail-employee-meetings-on-may-28th-ahead-of-lion-and-icloud-debut/#comments Fri, 13 May 2011 16:56:47 +0000 John Brownlee http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=95009 Cult of Mac has learned Apple could be scheduling secret employee meetings with retail staff on May 28th between 8 and 10am. Is this just pre-WWDC preparations, or something more? Reader Chris Davis of Fresno, CA writes: Yesterday, 5/12/11, I was at the Apple store in Fresno, CA. I was visiting the Genius Bar and [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/95009/rumor-apple-scheduling-retail-employee-meetings-on-may-28th-ahead-of-lion-and-icloud-debut/feed/ 5 http://www.cultofmac.com/63295/john-sculley-on-steve-jobs-the-full-interview-transcript/ http://www.cultofmac.com/63295/john-sculley-on-steve-jobs-the-full-interview-transcript/#comments Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:59:29 +0000 Leander Kahney http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=63295 Here’s a full transcript of the interview with John Sculley on the subject of Steve Jobs. It’s long but worth reading because there are some awesome insights into how Jobs does things. It’s also one of the frankest CEO interviews you’ll ever read. Sculley talks openly about Jobs and Apple, admits it was a mistake [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/63295/john-sculley-on-steve-jobs-the-full-interview-transcript/feed/ 0 http://www.cultofmac.com/37197/whoa-%e2%80%94-apple-takes-on-the-mighty-telcoms/ http://www.cultofmac.com/37197/whoa-%e2%80%94-apple-takes-on-the-mighty-telcoms/#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:30:17 +0000 Eli Milchman http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=37197 Boy, Steve Jobs doesn’t mess around, does he. Not content with his Google throwdown, he’s challenging the entire telecommunications industry with the iPhone’s new Background VoIP. Come summer, we might not know the difference between calls on/from Skype and calls on AT&T’s cell network (assuming 3G coverage doesn’t act like a schizoid escapee from a mental [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/37197/whoa-%e2%80%94-apple-takes-on-the-mighty-telcoms/feed/ 19 http://www.cultofmac.com/26698/mauritian-iphone-users-setup-facebook-page-to-bring-app-store-to-paradise/ http://www.cultofmac.com/26698/mauritian-iphone-users-setup-facebook-page-to-bring-app-store-to-paradise/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:46:37 +0000 John Brownlee http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=26698 A year ago, I took a month’s vacation and enjoyed the coral, sugar cane and sunshine of the small island nation of Mauritius. My days were spent drinking rum cocktails out of a dodo’s skull, my serendipity only occasionally interrupted by a small, translucent lizard darting across my ankle. On the other hand, the evenings [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/26698/mauritian-iphone-users-setup-facebook-page-to-bring-app-store-to-paradise/feed/ 5 http://www.cultofmac.com/19684/tintin-movie-co-directed-from-new-zealand-via-ichat/ http://www.cultofmac.com/19684/tintin-movie-co-directed-from-new-zealand-via-ichat/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:41:36 +0000 Nicole Martinelli http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=19684 Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson is bringing cartoon icon Tintin to life in a movie, calling the shots via iChat. Jackson was unable to trade his native New Zealand for the California set where flesh and blood actors are filming Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. So he told them what to do [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/19684/tintin-movie-co-directed-from-new-zealand-via-ichat/feed/ 6 http://www.cultofmac.com/1527/help-needed-pages-08-borks-endnotes-when-exporting-to-word/ http://www.cultofmac.com/1527/help-needed-pages-08-borks-endnotes-when-exporting-to-word/#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:10:13 +0000 Leander Kahney http://cultofmac.com/?p=1527 I’m losing my mind. I’ve spent the last two evenings trying to get a 300-page document written in Apple’s Pages ’08 word processor to export properly to Word format. The bulk of the document exports OK, but it screws up hundreds of endnotes: the markers jump to the wrong endnotes. I’ve tried everything I can [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/1527/help-needed-pages-08-borks-endnotes-when-exporting-to-word/feed/ 13 http://www.cultofmac.com/581/apple-engineers-bittersweet-departure-sums-up-what-makes-us-great/ http://www.cultofmac.com/581/apple-engineers-bittersweet-departure-sums-up-what-makes-us-great/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:39:12 +0000 Pete Mortensen http://cultofmac.com/?p=581 Apple’s insistence on secrecy has many unintended consequences: Mac fans are hard to please, rumor sites do their best to steal information about unannounced products, and, most interestingly, it gets easy to forget that Apple is a company made up of real people with feelings and lives. That’s why this spectacular farewell to Cupertino written [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/581/apple-engineers-bittersweet-departure-sums-up-what-makes-us-great/feed/ 0 http://www.cultofmac.com/489/homemade-hi-fi-with-tube-amp/ http://www.cultofmac.com/489/homemade-hi-fi-with-tube-amp/#comments Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:24:54 +0000 Leander Kahney http://cultofmac.com/?p=489 Details of a homemade iPod Hi-Fi system: After pricing everything out, I decided to build a single mono channel to see how it sounded. $100 for the amp, $100 for the speaker parts, $100 for wood (real oak, just couldn’t use that compressed saw dust stuff). I ordered the parts and went to work. After [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/489/homemade-hi-fi-with-tube-amp/feed/ 0 http://www.cultofmac.com/160/title_4/ http://www.cultofmac.com/160/title_4/#comments Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 Apple’s PowerBooks and iBooks are generally well-made, value-for-money machines, but they suffer from a critical design flaw — the tip of the AC power adapter is prone to breaking off inside the power port. It’s a costly and time-consuming repair, and it’s almost impossible for owners to fix themselves. I know, because it’s happened to [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/160/title_4/feed/ 9