Record Quarterly Earnings for Applefiled under Apple Apple's reported net quarterly profit was US$320 million, up from US$61 million in the same period last year. Much of this can be attributed to sales of the iPod, with steadily increasing sales during each of the last nine quarters. However, Mac computer sales are also up significantly with a 65% gain in desktop sales and an 8% gain in laptop sales over the same period last year. Meanwhile the recent Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger release was the best-selling software in Apple's history, bringing in more than US$100 million in revenue. At MacNN, there are reports on Apple's earnings conference call, and on the statements by Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich that Apple is becoming a "mass market company". Record Quarterly Earnings for Apple [eWeek,MacNN]ComputerWorld: Review of the 12-in. PowerBookfiled under Hardware
Mingis notes that the latest PowerBook runs fairly cool, is quiet, and runs Tiger with satisfactory speed. Although battery life is quoted as "up to five hours", under normal circumstances around 3.5 hours seems more realistic. The one drawback noted, compared to its larger 15-in. and 17-in. cousins, is a lower quality display, with the 1024x768-pixel 12-in. screen being noticably dimmer than in the larger models. ComputerWorld: Review of the 12-in. PowerBook [ComputerWorld]Pro Apps and iPhoto Updates from Applefiled under Software
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However, the current edition provides useful tutorials and reference for: using Interface Builder; building document-based Cocoa applications; using Cocoa's text handling classes; adding scripting to applications; and localizing an application. Learning Cocoa with Objective-C, Second EditionRelease of Mac OS X 10.4.2 Updatefiled under MacOSX
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Technical note at ADC on using Image Decompressors to maximize performance using multi-buffer decompression with the 
This 2nd edition of the Apple-approved and -reviewed text is targeted at development on Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar and is therefore due for an update to include the latest Tiger technologies and Xcode.
The long-awaited 10.4.2 update to Mac OS X Tiger is available via Software Update or by downloading the 
Wolfram Research has released Mathematica 5.2, the first version to include the support for 
Targeted at those familiar with other versions of Unix, applies your knowledge to Mac OS X Tiger. Covers Spotlight and HFS+ Metadata, CUPS, X11, compiling and linking code, package management and creation, and Mac OS X Server.
