Apple's Safari 3.1 to support downloadable web fonts, more

The ability to download and immediately render non-standard web fonts is just one of several advancements Apple Inc. has planned for Safari 3.1, a small but significant update to its share-gaining web browser for both the Mac and Windows PCs. The release, which underwent private testing this week, will tie in a number of other enhancements, most of

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Interview: XBox Media Center hits the Macintosh scene

Recently a team of programmers led by Elan Feingold decided that maybe an OSX version of the XBMC might have a market..as he puts it, "it seems like it's a confluence of people who like the best OS coupled with people who like the best media center".

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AT&T plans major 3G expansion ahead of second-gen iPhone

AT&T said Wednesday it plans a major expansion of its wireless network during the 2008 calendar year, including the deployment of third-generation (3G) wireless broadband service to more than 80 additional cities in the United States through the course of the year. The news comes just months before Apple is expected to announce availability of i

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Danish Police Befuddled by 1G iMac

The police wanted to confiscate the author's computer. When the author's roommate agreed to also let the police look at her first generation iMac, they were frustrated because they thought the iMac was just the screen. They wanted to know where the actual computer was and got rather heated about finding it.

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No spin: Ars reviews the MacBook Air with solid state drive

The MacBook Air's high-end model comes with 200 extra MHz and a solid state drive. Is it worth the extra $1,300 to upgrade? We compare the two Airs directly to find out whether the price is worth paying.

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Super Tuesday iPod touch Easter Egg

Perhaps Apple engineers wished they could vote for Lincoln this time around: if you own a jailbroken iPod touch and bought the January Software Upgrade, run your nikita_receipt.plist through your favorite Base64 decoder. Way to go Francis who figured this out!

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Top 100 Essential Mac Applications

An up to date list of the top 100 Apple Mac applications. These are the applications that every Mac should be installed with. Examples include the free to the not so free but all worth having for any Mac user.

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Official: 16GB iPhone available and 32GB iPod touch, $499

Out of the rumor mill comes the 16GB iPhone, now official. Ever since the 16GB iPod touch was announced in September, we all knew it was just a matter of time until Apple could bung the same NAND chip into their chubbier iPhone. The Surprise is a new 32GB iPod touch for the same $499. Both are available immediately.

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Thin is in: Ars Technica reviews the MacBook Air

The MacBook Air has finally made its way into the hands of the earliest adopters. Ars Technica likes the sexy, but digs into the nitty gritty to see whether being so thin is worth it.

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Build a Mac for $350

This guide shows you how to get a 100% working hackintosh for only $350! It is VERY easy to follow and uses no command line stuff!

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AT&T Has No Idea What Caused 9-Hour Outage

AT&T's EDGE and UMTS data networks went down yesterday at 2:30pm Pacific Time for BlackBerry, iPhone and other cell phone data customers in 18 states. Even now the company's technicians have NO IDEA WHAT CAUSED IT.

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Apple Launches How-To Site For New Mac Users

Apple has launched a subsection of its site that offers dozens of how-to videos to try to sway Windows users and to help new Mac customers get started.

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Android Hands-On Video: It's Fast, It's Still Not There

We have been playing with the Android prototypes scattered through the Mobile World Congress. ARM had theirs running on a humble ARM9 processor in a plain white prototype "to demonstrate the scalability of Android." It works, it's fast. But it's not there yet and the Qualcomm prototype demonstrates how far we are are from an actual product.

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First Hands On Sony Ericsson's XPERIA X1

Playing with Xperia, Sony's Windows Mobile phone with a hiptop QWERTY, revealed a few interesting things...

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The Coffee Cup PC Concept.... Hot!

The coming flexible-screen industry is all fun and games until someone actually builds something like this (don't worry: It's still a concept only). The Yuno PC mug is a PC BUILT INTO A COFFEE CUP. It lets you get weather, time, traffic reports and stocks on a touch-screen display, right on the cup.

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Video: Sony Ericsson's XPERIA X1 "Panel Interface"

Wondering what the XPERIA X1's magical mystery "panel interface" is? Good, us too. Now we've got a preview courtesy of Sony Ericsson. If it functions this quick in hand as it does in the promotional video then Sony Ericsson might just be on to something here.

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Sony Ericsson's XPERIA X1 iPhone killing QWERTY

It's here, the XPERIA X1 QWERTY from Sony Ericsson. SE's new XPERIA brand will focus on multimedia and mobile web communication. The X1 then, brings a 3-inch wide VGA (800 x 480) touchscreen display, 3.2 megapixel camera (with photo light), A2DP Bluetooth, aGPS, WiFi, and quad-band GSM/EDGE/HSDPA/HSUPA...

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Greener Gadgets Design Competition winners

In case you don't know, the Greener Gadgets Conference is a gathering in New York focused on cleaner, renewable, recyclable, or generally forward-thinking technology and design. They awarded first place to a DIY project which allows you to easily view how much energy an appliance is using.

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Nokia turns people into traffic sensors

100 UC Berkeley students took place in a test of a new technology that, among other things, will enable phones to "proactively say, I see you have a meeting that's coming up in an hour, the route you usually take is congested. You probably need to leave 15 minutes early." [Video Included]

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Short Range Personal Radar Device

A very small & portable radar device that uses an ir sensor & a pic microcontroller. This diy guide shows you how to build your own for less than $30.

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