Mac: Power Users

Inspired by Iron Man billionaire Tony Stark's AI digital personal assistant, Bostonian Chad Barraford builds his own Project Jarvis on a Mac Mini. Full Story »

Raising the business of iPhone development another notch, ngmoco, Mac based developer of iPhone & iPod touch games just raised an additional $25 Million venture capital in series C round funding. Full Story »

The tech savvy Obama Administration is known for their smart use of technology. An example: this White House blog post reports recent live discussions on the accomplishments of the First year of the Obama Administration. Each video features a Mac! Full Story »

With industry-wide print medium readership in decline, Esquire Magazine turns to experimental technology such as E-Ink to differentiate their business. Editor in Chief David Granger, Mac user with Apple iMac on his desk, gives a tour of the Esquire augmented reality special issue. Full Story »

This week, Apple announced 3 Billion App Store Downloads. Perhaps this is the reason: Highly regarded technology columnist for New York Times, David Pogue, channels Britney Spears in a humorous musical spoof of "Oops! I did it again." A great parody about the addictive Apple App Store for iPhone and iPod touch. Full Story »

IEEE fellow, the third Intel employee Les Vadasz was the design manager of world's first DRAM, EPROM, and microprocessor. Vadasz eventually became an executive at Intel with roles of Senior Vice President and President of Intel Capital. He was also elected to Intel's Board of Directors. One more thing, Les is a Mac user. Full Story »

Tasmanian-designed iPhone App, made to check license and registration much faster than traditional methods, is a success. Within 8 minutes of turning on the Apple iPhone based system, Tasmania police caught a criminal that resulted in a drug bust. The iPhone app also contains numbers of other features helpful to the police officers. Full Story »

Incase creates, for those who appreciate design, beautiful goodies such as sleeves, cases, and folios for Apple iPod, iPhone, MacBook, and MacBook Pro. They are Apple fans, with office full of Apple computers. Photos of the new, inspiring San Francisco Studio of Incase shows that it’s possible to run a successful business using Macs. Full Story »

Apple's iPhone is girly... That's what Verizon's failed Droid ad advertised (plus something about the Verizon Droid cutting phallic objects and being a homicidal robot). But wait, here is a girl who can beat up all the nerds Verizon is targeting with their latest vzw-iPhone-wannabe. Sorry Verizon, girls are not clueless. Full Story »

Satoru Iwata is President and CEO of Nintendo, one of the most valuable listed companies in Japan. Barron's Magazine named Iwata one of the world's top CEOs, partly due to the highly successful Wii video game console, which leads in worldwide sales over competitor products Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Full Story »