The lovely people over at MacSanta.com have organised 20% discount on software from 33 (at the last count) Mac developers including Bare Bones, Rogue Amiga and Potion Factory.

The deal is simple … just shop online at one of the participating developers and enter the coupon code for your 20% MacSanta discount when you pay.

You can [...]

So, Bill Gates met with a select bunch of ‘influential’ bloggers to chat about stuff yesterday.

As reported on the BBC, and several of the select bloggers sites, Bill dissed DRM.

Quotes from techcrunch:

Gates said that no one is satisfied with the current state of DRM, which “causes too much pain for legitmate buyers” while trying to [...]

Fancy an early christmas present?

Hop over to MacHeist and grab a bundle of top quality Mac apps worth around $300 for $49 (given the exchange rate that’s about the price of a pint and a pie to us Brits)!

Yep, you get Delicious Library, Fotomagico, Shapeshifter, DEVONthink Personal, Disco, RapidWeaver, iClip4 and a choice of Pangea [...]

Parallels, oh, Parallels!

In case you don’t know, Parallels is …

“the first solution that gives Apple users the ability to run Windows alongside Mac OS X in a secure, isolated virtual machine.”.

In other words, you can run Windows (or other OS), in a window, on your Mac desktop at near native speeds. Very [...]

There’s a fucking ocean of terrible press and dire reviews for the Zune out there but this one pulls no punches.

To be honest it’s tough to quote the best (worst) bits of the review, I could easily just cut and paste the whole thing!

Quotes…

“Microsoft’s new Zune digital music player is just plain dreadful … the [...]

I liked this story in The Mercury News via MDN …

“Is Apple serious competition?: Palm CEO Ed Colligan seems downright nonchalant about rumors that Apple may introduce a mobile phone to market in the coming year,” Sarah Jane Tribble and Dean Takahashi report for The San Jose Mercury News.

“Responding to questions from New York Times [...]