This weekend's MU PROMO offers 54% savings on Corel Painter 12.2.1.1212. "Corel Painter is a fully equipped digital painting studio. Choose your brush, customize your canvas, and let your artistic imagination run wild. Whether painting is your profession or your hobby, Corel Painter will help you create stunningly realistic digital art."
"2011's top stories: Mac OS X Lion/Highly anticipated, but also highly problematic, Apple's latest operating system is one of the most read about topics of 2011" Macworld UK 8:50 AM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"Can I Merge Mac User Accounts After a Time Machine Restore? [Ask MacRx] Cult of Mac 8:46 AM
"How to Monitor Your Mac's Memory Usage" Macinstruct 9:02 AM
"Get Full Use of an Apple Keyboard in Windows / Boot Camp" OS X Daily 8:59 AM
"Enable Screen Zoom in Mac OS X Lion" OS X Daily 8:59 AM
"Podcast Using Built-In Tools On Your Mac [OS X Tips] Cult of Mac 8:46 AM
"Opening and Converting RTF Files on Mac" Blogote 10:00 AM
"Mac Tip: Invert Your Mac Display" MacTrast 8:51 AM
Op/Ed
"So How About that Mac Version of Star Wars: The Old Republic?" MacStories 5:01 PM
"Lion - AppleScript/Apple Event issues; Dropbox and Versions; Save As workarounds; default directories; good and bad experiences, various issues; Mission Control; clean install vs. Migration Assistant; performance/memory issues" MacInTouch 10:33 AM
"Cellphone towers blending into landscape" Los Angeles Times 10:39 AM
"Nokia Says Lumia 800 Debuts in Sweden and Denmark This Month" Bloomberg 10:15 AM
"Google search home page revamp promotes other services" BBC 10:13 AM
"First look at shiny new gadgets: Even smarter TVs and home energy-saving devices expected" Seattle Times 10:06 AM
"Motorola to go 'behind the firewall' in 2012" Telecompaper 10:04 AM
"TSMC views Intel as indirect competitor" Focus Taiwan 9:56 AM
"LG to Unveil Intel Medfield Android Device at CES 2012" Social Barrel 9:55 AM
"Acer, Lenovo to launch Wintel tablet PC in 3Q12" DigiTimes 10:20 AM
"Lenovo shows off IdeaPad S110 packing Intel Cedar Trail" SlashGear 9:56 AM
"Windows 8 'Clover Trail' tablets reportedly due from Acer and Lenovo in Q3" BGR 9:55 AM
"Asus Netbooks With Intel Cedar Trail To Launch At CES 2012" Geeky Gadgets 9:55 AM
"ASUS Eee PC Flare previews 2012 netbook offerings" SlashGear 9:54 AM
"ASUS Eee PC Flare leaked ahead of CES, AMD and Intel models promised" Engadget 9:44 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"How An Iphone Can Make Your Eyesight Better" ["Dr. Vance Thompson is a Board-Certified Ophthalmologist and chemist as well. Watch my interview with him at his office. I discussed my question as to whether continuously staring at very small characters on a smart phone was harmful to my eyesight, either short or long term. The answer was unexpected and will probably be somewhat of a surprise to many smartphone users."] Forbes 4:55 PM
"18.01 / January 2012: Volume 18, Number 1" ATPM 3:14 PM
"Apple TV's New iOS Hack: A Hint of Things to Come?" ReadWriteWeb 5:54 PM
"What is Apple planning for its January 'announcement'?" ZDNet 5:02 PM
"Prediction #2: Amazon and Bezos supplant Apple and Jobs" I, Cringely 4:58 PM
"Prediction #1: A new CEO for Apple" ["If you are wondering when Apple will peak, well we're about there folks. Yes, there will be more iPhones and cool computers but it is my belief that Apple's best days have come and gone."] I, Cringely 4:58 PM
"Apple Reportedly Plans January Media Event" The Mac Observer 5:54 PM
"Apple planning a media-related event in NYC this month, but no TV or iPad 3 in store" The Next Web 4:03 PM
"Apple planning media-related NYC event for late January?" Electronista 4:03 PM
"Analyst: Apple Will Lose Its Cool Factor In 2012" ReadWriteWeb 4:01 PM
"On Being Locked In, and Getting What I Want Out" ATPM 3:18 PM
"The iPad Chronicles: Apple's Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come" ATPM 3:18 PM
"What hath Bob wrought? Looking back at Cringely's 2011 predictions" ["Then I said Apple's white iPhone 4 would be the Verizon iPhone 4. That was just a guess and a bad one ... I predicted what I called Apple's Carolina Strategy ... Finally, I totally blew it when I said Apple would buy Time Warner Cable...I'll have more — a lot more — tomorrow on how I think this Apple strategy is actually evolving post-Steve."] I, Cringely 8:53 AM
"How To Fix Lag In Apps On Galaxy Nexus Running Ice Cream Sandwich" Redmond Pie 1:58 PM
"Could LG's new 55-inch OLED be the best TV ever?" CNET Reviews 10:57 AM
"Racemi has the key to unlocking server migration" ZDNet 10:51 AM
"First Privacy, Now Censorship: Will Twitter Continue to Stand Up for Its Users' Rights This Year?" Techland 10:48 AM
"The real force behind the consumerization of IT: You can blame the iPhone, Salesforce.com, and Facebook, but the truth is that business itself has driven the shift to employee-directed tech" InfoWorld 10:24 AM
"Smooth sailing for Admiral: Rugged smartphone offers good bang for buck" Boston Herald 10:14 AM
"HP's Touchpad Tablet Was Bound to Fail, Claim Analysts" TopNews New Zealand 9:48 AM
"HP TouchPad was doomed from the start" New York Times 9:49 AM
"Sluggish code and HP power plays blamed for webOS' failure" SlashGear 9:48 AM
"Palm's decisions doomed WebOS: Webkit meant HP bought a poisoned chalice" TechEye 9:49 AM
"Palm Software Director: 'We Just Weren't Able To Execute'" TechCrunch 10:46 AM
"HP chief's liaisons with woman ended in Boise, letter says" Idaho Statesman 9:49 AM
"Official Windows Phone Jailbreak Stalls: Only a limited number of keys may be available under a deal with Microsoft, but unofficial jailbreak tools can still be found." PCWorld 10:04 AM
"Windows Phone homebrew hits a snag as ChevronWP7 labs reaches end of Microsoft deal" The Verge 10:02 AM
"Microsoft's Windows Phone Jailbreak Partner Considers Calling it Quits" DailyTech 10:07 AM
"Microsoft to quash homebrew on Windows Phone? Not so fast" ZDNet 10:06 AM
"IE Market Share Drops, Sub-50% Share Predicted by March" DailyTech 10:05 AM
"Microsoft to enable Linux on its Windows Azure cloud in 2012" ZDNet 10:07 AM
"Microsoft reluctantly bows to Linux users" ZDNet 1:14 PM
"Xbox 720 rumour round up: The new Xbox we're already craving" Electricpig 10:01 AM
"IBM sold PC business to China for government favor admits CEO" SlashGear 9:46 AM
"IBM's Samuel J. Palmisano: we sold PC business due to lack of innovative opportunities" Engadget 1:13 PM
"A Look Back at IBM's Palmisano Era and the China Strategy" AllThingsD 1:12 PM
"How Oracle May Evolve Into A Value Stock In 2012" Seeking Alpha 10:08 AM
"Dell Vostro V131 heavy on smarts" theSundaily 9:46 AM
"If Intel's Ultrabook does not work, the industry is jonesed" TechEye 9:55 AM
"Exclusive: The next generation AMD GPU is NOT called Sea Islands" SemiAccurate 1:11 PM
"Alleged AMD HD 7770 pictures, benchmark leaked" Neoseeker 1:11 PM
"CES 2012 Preview: Cell Phones/Manufacturers and wireless carriers are readying hot new mobile phones for CES." PC Magazine 10:35 AM
"Will 2012 See the Last Big, Bold CES?" TechNewsWorld 9:52 AM
"2012 Tech Trends: A 2-Horse Tablet Race" The Motley Fool 1:15 PM
"Your IT job prospects for 2012: The new year brings new opportunities for IT pros attuned to the skills and strategies of next-generation IT" InfoWorld 10:24 AM
MacSurfer Headline News Staff
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief: P. Pearson
Managing & Weekday Editor: D. Mahaffy
Evening Editors: S. Siegling and
D. Mahaffy
Weekend Editors: S. Siegling , C. Rogers and
D. Mahaffy
CEO: T. Jefferson
CFO: K. Midas
Editor Emeritus: W. Shakespeare
Writers Emeritus: W. Lewis, R. Chandler, W. Morris, G. Simenon, C. Vallejo, F. Garcia Lorca,
P. White, R. Adams, P. Valery, C. Aiken, R. Bradbury, F. Pessoa, S. Bellow, F. O'Connor
Art Directors: V. Van Gogh, C. Monet
Advertising Managers: C. Chaplin, H. Marx
Public Relations Firm: Bits & Bytes
Bomb Squad: Type 11 Errors
Chief Scientists: I. Asimov, S. Hawking
Road Crew: R. Petty, J. Cooper
Mechanics: Tom and Ray
Fishing Crew: A. Lindner, D. Stange, K. VanDam
Head Chef: Mom
Head Travel Guru: D. Pearson
Mascots: Cyberdog, Clarus the Dogcow
General Counsel: #%@*$$$$!
