It's one of the biggest thrills a journalist can experience: stumbling upon a scoop of worldwide relevance.

You hear a corporate executive say something in the midst of a stream of marketing fluff, and your adrenalin starts pumping… did I…

MacWorld in the US has posted a great analysis of why you shouldn't assume the new Mac Mini is crap simply because Apple has bumped up the price and included an 'inferior' Intel GMA950 integrated graphics chip.

Personally, I want one of…

It's enough to make an Apple PR person weep. (If you hadn't noticed I've really discovered video blogging this weekend…)

If you like (or dislike) Apple's new Intel Mac ad, watch this one right to the end… imagine the possibilities.

Following up from my "Top 30 mistakes made by new Mac users" post (which has received a rather staggering 25143 views thanks to news/link aggregators like digg.com and del.icio.us) comes the Top 10 things all 'switchers' should know.

Scott Moschella, the…

I really can't believe someone coined a phrase for this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_wedding

I particularly love this sour addendum to the article (hooray for user-editable articles)…

"Jim Tremayne - an editor of the DJ Times magazine - says that this isn't a big thing for the DJ…

A little tech industry humour from Valleywag.com:

You know those people who, during an uncomfortable moment, say "Awk-warrrrd…"? And that makes the moment so much worse? Well, CNN Money is that guy, and Intel's Apple deal is that uncomfortable moment.

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UPDATE | According to this story, the M600i is not only Blackberry-like, it actually supports Blackberry Connect for push email. Looking nicer all the time! (Microsoft ActiveSync is also supported so I guess that means it should be easier to sync…

Jon Hicks (the brilliant designer behind the Firefox icon, among other things) has blogged today on some new Firefox themes created by a colleague of his that make the 'fox look significantly more Mac-like.

I know what you're thinking… Mac themes for Firefox…

I found this short parody of Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain very funny.

Here's a direct link to the 2.3MB video clip.

On a more serious note, the real movie is great. Saw it the other night and found it very moving.

The Unofficial Apple Weblog has posted a short story on the top five mistakes made by new mac users. It includes closing an application window, thinking it has quit, downloading software and then running it from the disk image (runs slowly,…

Via MacNN

iPhoto 6 is 'like magic' according to Apple's ever-modest CEO Steve Jobs, because it introduces "Photocasting", where, for the bargain price of 'just' $US99 a year, you can automatically upload your photos to your .Mac account and let your family members…

It's been a fascinating few days since the launch of the Intel-based Macs to watch the way the online media feeds off each other.

Someone posted a story based on some bad presumptions, saying that Intel Macs couldn't boot Windows because…

There's been some fiery debate over time about whether Apple is leeching off the open source community. Now one of the developers of KHTML, which forms the basis of Safari has come out and essentially said that in his eyes…