Yuma: New scripting tool for web developers

July 15, 2008

To web developers, scripting is the glue that connects web pages and back-end systems. For example, PHP is a very popular scripting environment that has been used to write web apps like WordPress and phpBB. For those of you who use PHP, you know that it is a dynamic, weakly-typed hypertext prepr…

80% of US businesses have Macs

June 28, 2008

Computerworld is reporting on the results of a Yankee Group Research report that finds that 80% of US businesses now have Macs. that represents an huge increase from just two years ago when only 47% of businesses reported having Mac users. The Yankee Group estimates that corporate marketshare ha…

Psystar tests luck with OpenServ rackmount servers

June 23, 2008

Amazingly, the commercial hackintosh maker Psystar (whose efforts in building non-Apple machines running OS X we’ve covered at some length) still hasn’t been beat down by Apple Legal and now they’re back for more. They are releasing the OpenServ series of rackmount servers which they offer w…

Extensis Universal Type Server: Font management for workgroups

June 18, 2008

Another product announced at Macworld Expo, Extensis Universal Type Server, is now shipping. Universal Type Server is designed for corporate font management, requiring Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server 10.4 or 10.5 on a G5 or better machine. My personal opinion is that that would be a perfect applicat…

Parallels Server for Mac available now

June 18, 2008

In October, when Apple introduced a change in policy allowing Leopard Server to run in a virtual environment on Apple hardware, Mac IT geeks everywhere looked forward to the day that they could run Windows Server, Linux and OS X Server all off their pretty Xserves. That day is today, considering…

Media Temple launches beta for VPS running on Leopard Server

June 17, 2008

Teaming with Parallels, Media Temple has just announced the start of private-beta period for its latest (mt) Labs offering, the (xv) Xserve-Virtual — which they are dubbing “the world’s first VPS Leopard Server.” Although virtual servers running Linux or Windows are pretty standard hosting opti…

Mariner Calc for iPhone

June 15, 2008

The upcoming iPhone 2.0 software is providing more document viewing capabilities in the style of readers for PowerPoint, Keynote, Pages, and Numbers, but Apple still isn’t providing a way to edit docs on the run.

Mariner Software announced at WWDC 2008 that they’ll be resolving at least part …

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