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Microsoft has got the Mac community and the Mac press hoodwinked. Again! Yesterday, while announcing Office:mac 2008 SP1, Microsoft announced that they’re bringing back VBA functionality (Visual Basic Automation/Scripting) to the Mac version of their Office suite in its next major upgrade. Microsoft mentioned that they’re comfortable with an upgrade cycle of 3 – 3.5 [...]

As you may or may not be aware, with the release of Safari 3.1 for the Mac, Apple started offering Safari for Windows as an optional install through its Windows updater for iTunes/Quicktime. Initially, Safari was offered in the Updates list, with the selection check box already selected. So if the user simply clicked ‘Install’, [...]

Now that HD-DVD has officially lost the HD format battle, and Blu-Ray has emerged the victor, many Mac sites are speculating that Apple will soon implement Blu-Ray playback support into its system and start selling Blu-Ray drives in its computers. I’m not sure Apple will implement Blu-ray playback into OS X any time soon. One [...]

It’s now February 4th, 2008 and the iPhone has been out in the US for more than seven months already. Here in Canada, there is no mention of it yet. Not even rumours that it could be coming any time soon. I believe it will be a very long time before Canadians could buy an [...]

Everybody knows that Apple’s iPhone is coming to Canada, eventually. Most people and publications speculate about when this momentous event will happen. Today, few websites are excited about a blip that showed up on Apple’s site, and are extrapolating all kind of data from this blip. Personally, I’m not exactly interested in when the iPhone [...]