Kosmo Spin: Intergalactic breakfast & other silliness
Strange but Good With literally tens of thousands of games crowding the App Store, iOS developers face the increasingly difficult challenge of creating games that...
Housekeeping: We’ve got a CDN on our side
Load times have been a huge problem recently with the website. It hasn’t been our server, or our hosting company. It’s been the massive traffic...
Empire Expansion: New Paris and Palo Alto stores on the books
Apple’s retail empire is getting plans together to launch a fourth Apple store in Paris, and another store in Palo Alto. Rumors put the Paris...
Xcode 4 gets seeded, again and again
Apple has seeded the Xcode 4 Gold Master (GM) build to developers. The previews have been available for a quite a while now, but it...
YouTube Flashback: Phil Schiller jumps out a window at Steve’s command
These days, we really don’t give Wi-Fi a second thought. We have it at work, at home and even at Starbuks (for free!). Its hard...
Deckster throws its hat into the iWatch ring, doesn’t disappoint
There are three things I love about the Deckster First : Class. First, they’re Canadian. Second, they’re from Ottawa (my home town). Third, they’re throwing...
More iPad 2 camera and iOS 4.3 rumors surface
So, The Daily shipped, and there’s no iOS 4.3 release. Most people were guessing that The Daily would ship alongside iOS 4.3. It made sense...
The Daily: An initial review
I watched the live announcement of The Daily by Rupert Murdoch and company. I was not totally impressed by the conference, mostly because the presentation...
Rumor: New Macbook Pros delayed because of Intel chipset problems
According to a host of sources scattered around the Internet, we should have seen new MacBook Pros by now, while others are saying mid-spring. Stephen...
AT&T adding Mobile Hotspot … to an HTC phone
Today, AT&T announced that the company is adding 2 GB to its existing tethering plan, bringing the amount of data for customers to use to...
It’s time I speak up: The CRTC is about to screw-up our internet
If you’ve been reading us for a while, you’re probably well aware that there are two recurring themes here on Macgasm. The first theme is...
Clarus: The Pet Lover’s Mac app
Clarus ($24.99) by Kennettnet is a unique application that helps you keep track of your pets. It records important pet details, photographs, medication, and expenses, and offers templates so you can easily print out information for a pet babysitter or your vet. And there's a companion iPhone app so you can keep all your pets' information with you.
Another day, another Apple Store gets knocked off
Okay, how does that saying go again? “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” Is that how it goes, or...
Rumor: Here we go again with the Apple Television
Everyone who tuned into the the last financial call heard that Apple was making a $4 billion dollar investment. Most of us left it at...
Canadians, monitor your bandwidth with SurplusMeter
We Canadians hate being the butt-end of jokes, especially when they come from our neighbours to the South. But even I have to admit that...
Consumerizing enterprise IT: The Mac side
I’m sure many of our readers have heard about the “consumerization” of Information Technology (IT), or maybe they have not. For those who have not,...
Netgear CEO Patrick Lo apologizes via email for misspeaking
A lot of people were pretty disappointed this morning when they read the words that came out of the Netgear CEO’s mouth. We ran an...
Today only: Tracks goes free on the Mac App Store
My days never go quite as well when I’m not listening to music. If it wasn’t for iTunes and my readily available music collection, I...