Apple has officially released iTunes 10.5.1 to the public following several developer betas. iTunes Match has been in the final testing stages for months, and beta 3 of the cloud music service was seeded to developers over the weekend. Even though iTunes 10.5.1 is now available to the general population with iTunes Match, Apple still [...]

In the early days of personal computers, the Macintosh with its revolutionary point-and-click, desktop metaphor and Graphical User Interface (GUI) was marketed as the easy-to-use alternative to the blinking cursor of the PC’s Command Line Interface (CLI). Because of a lack of programs (and programmers), the Mac was considered underpowered, overpriced and, frankly, a lot less macho than the beige boxes that, in short order, fell under the sway of two main chipmakers, Intel and AMD.