Apple Mac and iPhone news for New Zealanders

Sign up for the free monthly newsletter full of tips, tricks, demystification and news! It's emailed to the private macnz email list as a PDF ... no strings attached. Just put 'Subscribe' in the Subject Field of the email.

The home of Mac info for New Zealanders, mac-nz serves daily Mac, iPhone and related news from the world of Apple Inc.

For reviews, tips, advice and interviews of new Apple and related hardware and software, take a look at the Newsletter section.

Contact: Hip Enterprises (macnz), PO Box 47036 Ponsonby, Auckland, NZ

About this site

mac.nz is owned by Mark Webster, an experienced writer and IT commentator with articles published over the years in Monitor, Stamp, Loose, Macguide, Tone, Maximum Rock ’n’ Roll, D-photo, NZ Classic Car, The Dominion Post, NetGuide, NZ Herald online and for PC World. He is also a director of the CreativeTech conference.

He was the editor of NZ Macguide magazine for five years and has worked exclusively with Macs for 20.

Mark is the author of the NZ history book Assembly: NZ Car Production 1921-1998 (Reed Books, 2002).

He is a speaker on Information Technology and automotive, historical and Apple subjects, and works as a Mac trainer with wide experience. Mark has dispensed Apple knowledge at Natcoll, to MAINZ, for ImageText, to 3Media, MacMillan Publishing and for Microsoft, and to dozens of individuals.

Jobs to keynote WWDC

Monday, 24 May 2010

Jobs to present Dub Dub Dee Cee keynote: Apple will kick off its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address by CEO Steve Jobs on Monday, June 7 at 10:00 a.m (USA Pacific Time). This year’s WWDC sold out in a record eight days to over 5000 developers.
The five-day event running from June 7 to June 11, is focused on providing advanced content for skilled developers across five key technology tracks: Application Frameworks; Internet & Web; Graphics & Media; Developer Tools; and Core OS. Apple engineers will deliver over 100 solutions-oriented technical sessions and labs. WWDC 2010 gives an incredibly diverse community the opportunity to connect with thousands of fellow iPhone, iPad and Mac developers from around the world.

Get a Mac ad campaign mashup: check out this this three-minute tribute to the whole Mac vs. PC ad saga, as put together by OneMoreThing. Justin Long’s and John Hodgman’s five-year series has ended, but here's a great tribute. 

New chips destined for MacBook Air? Intel has announced the expansion of its processor family with six new chips designed for ultraportable notebooks, promising to make MacBook Air-sized notebooks thinner and lighter while yielding a 32% performance bump over the last generation of ultrathin Intel chips.
These new mobile Core processors are based on the same 32nm chip design as the standard Core i5 and Core i7, but offer 15% power efficiency and the ability to be packed into machines with a 30% thinner form factor, without giving up features like Hyper Threading or Turbo Boost.

Twelvesouth Bass Jumps: Übertec has some of these MacBook subwoofers in stock. Designed exclusively for MacBook (including Pro and Air), BassJump is a one-of-a-kind, go anywhere, USB-powered subwoofer (pic at top of this page) that turns a MacBook into a mini sound system. One USB cable delivers power and sound. Custom software blends the music coming out of the MacBook's built-in speakers with the sound output of the BassJump for dramatically enhanced audio performance. Übertec is at 393 Parnell Road.
They cost $139.00 incl. GST.