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Jobs Takes a Break
The news is burning up the tech news wires right now, but it appears that Steve Jobs is taking a medical leave of absence. He has released an internal email about it citing the intense scrutiny from the media regarding …
‘09 Keynote Wrap-up
So the Steve-Note Phil-Note has just finished and it’s time to review the announcements. As expected by most everyone, there wasn’t much of earth-shattering significance in this one. But you didn’t really expect Steve to let Phil have a new iPhone or Mac Net-Book did you? Basically, there was
$99 iPhone?
UPDATE: well it would appear that the rumor may not be true. But then again, we have a month to find out more details.
My contract with T-Mobile has finally expired and you know what that means — iPhone time! I have been looking forward to …
Movies and Music On Sale
iTunes is having a sale on some great movies and albums right now. There’s a lot of Schwarzenegger — T2, Total Recall, etc. — plus Karate Kid and …
CrossOver Pro — for FREE
If you, like me, have been itching for a chance to try out CrossOver — that fabulous software that allows you to run Windows programs on you Mac, without all that messy Windows stuff — then today is your lucky day. If you just want to go get that free …
Upgrade Lust
One of the great things of having a Mac Pro is that the thing is so upgradeable. One of the worst about having a Mac Pro is that I can’t afford to upgrade it. Yes, it’s sadly true, my beautiful tower of power still sits in …
Let’s Rock Wrap-up
So Apple had their annual iPod release event yesterday and there were some very nice changes to the line-up. Let’s do a quick round-up of the releases and then I will give my more detailed impressions.
For starters, there was iTunes 8. Not a major …
Rebates on Macs from Amazon
If you have been in the market for a new Mac now might be a good time to buy. Amazon is offering rebates on since it is rare to see Macs on sale this might be your best shot at a good deal. The amounts vary by model, but you …
Safari CSS Wizardry
The Safari team is really working hard at making Safari attractive to web designers. As a web designer I like things that make my job easy. A lot of things that I want to do as a designer end up being scrapped due to difficulty in implementation. Things like custom …
My Mac Pro
I recently upgraded the venerable Mini. I wasn’t really planning on doing it, but the opportunity was too good to pass up. I mean, how can you pass up a free Mac Pro? That’s right. I said a Free. Mac. Pro. I’ll give you a …
Safari 3
So by now you have heard the news. Safari 3 will be available on Windows. A public beta is available for all of the intrepid explorers. Of course, as soon as I read that it would be available I immediately went looking for it. Now that the news is …
LED MacBook Pros Are Here
It has been a while since Steve Jobs dropped his “A Greener Apple” initiative on the internet. In that essay he dropped a rare clue as to what we can expect from Apple in the near future in the way of LED backlit displays. That day is officially here …
Is the Mac Mini Doomed?
If this rumor is true, then I will be sad. True the Mini was always an underpowered appendage to the Mac line-up, but what it lacked in horsepower it made up for in utility. The small size meant you could stick the thing practically anywhere and have access to …
iPhone Battery
I was listening to the Episode 41 of the MacBreak Weekly podcast which had a pretty heated discussion of the iPhone. One of the things that I keep hearing people harp on ? and it was brought up in this episode ? is Apple’s choice of a non-replaceable battery. …
Apple CSS Dock Menu
I was initially going to put this in the ‘Random Linkage’ list, but it is just too cool. Nick La, of ndesign-studio.com, has created an awesome web version of Apple’s Dock Menu. If you are working on a site that is Apple-centric or maybe your just an Apple …
Hey Apple, How ‘bout a Loan?
Apple just posted some amazing quarterly earnings for Q1 2007 (which oddly covers the last three months of 2006). They had an astounding $7.1 billion (that’s billion, with a ‘b’) in revenue with $1 billion in profit. for reference, they earned $565 million (with an ‘m’ this time) in profits …
Why’s My HD?
If AppleTV supports 720p. And it only handles formats that come through iTunes. Then where is my 720p content from the iTunes Store? And where is my a la carte service?
It’s Keynote Time
We are under two hours to keynote time and I can’t wait. I think that Apple is pulling out all of the stops this year and will have some really cool new gadgets for me to drool over. here are my predictions:
iTV (duh) HD content in iTunes Store …The Mac Tablet Revolution
For as long as tablets have been around there have been cries for Apple to enter that market. The response has always been that the market is too small for Apple to pursue it seriously. With the impending arrival of MWSF 07 the rumors have been heating up again …
Reading the Tea Leaves
Halloween is now behind us. That means that Thanksgiving is barrelling down on us. And of course, you know what that means?that’s right?time to get ready for MWSF ‘07. While the rumor mill is in full swing with tantilizing bits of info about Core 2 Duo MacBooks (released before …
Try Aperture for 30 Days
This is great news. If you have ever wanted to see what Apple’s Aperture is all about, your chance has arrived. Right now you can download a 30 day trial of Aperture and give it a whirl. I know I will.
Download here.
New MBPs
Yesterday Apple quietly updated my next computer. Despite all the rumors of a case mod these are still the same lovely case we have had for a while now. But they now come with Intel Core 2 Duos at speeds of 2.16 GHz or 2.33 GHz. Apple is claiming …
Showtime Event Wrap-up
So Apple’s It’s Showtime event is over an in the books. Now it’s time to see how far off base I was on my predictions earlier. Let’s review:
Movie Store Higher Definition DVD burning Movie RentalOverall I would say I did pretty good. The Movie Store is …
It’s Showtime
24 inches!
Apple has released updates to both the iMacs and the Minis today. This comes ahead of a scheduled press event on the 12th of September. The fact that these updates are coming out now instead of waiting a week speaks volumes about …
Post-WWDC Impressions
Okay so WWDC has come and gone and we got some good things and some disappointments. We got our first taste of Leopard and I already know that I have to have it. We got new Mac Pros, which was really no surprise. New XServes which was also pretty obvious. …
WWDC ‘06
It’s that time of year agian. The time of year when a young man’s fancy turns to love Apple. Once again we have arrived (metaphorically speaking) at Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference. As usual the rumor mill has been running overtime in churning out rumors of everything from the …
MacBook, the Non-Pro Kind
Apple has released the much anticipated MacBook today. The Intel version of the iBook comes with surprisingly good specs. You can get it with a 1.83 or 2.0 GHz Core Duo which is higher than I expected. They now sport a 13” widescreen display and have Mini-DVI out with …
Apple Runs Ads…for Macs
One of the major complaints about Apple’s marketing has always been a reluctance to actually advertise the Mac. You can’t walk down the street without seeing an iPod+iTunes ad, let alone watch TV without a commercial for the ubiquitous music player. But you’ll be hard-pressed to find a Mac ad …
Boot Camp Blues
You may have seen a few articles like this one floating around lately. Apparently some people are having some issues with Boot Camp messing up their OS X partition leaving them with a shiny Apple computer running Windows.
First off, I would like to point out that the article in …
Apple Does Windows
I wanted to write about this last week while all the broo-ha-ha was hot and heavy, but I didn’t have any time. In case you are living in a cave and haven’t heard, there were two major developments in the Apple camp last week.
The first came Wednesday with that …
Anyone Else Feel Cold?
After seeing this I don’t think that anything will really surprise me anymore. We all knew that Apple had officially stated that they would do nothing to prevent the install of Windows on their machines. But I don’t think anyone saw them helping you …
MacBook Pro Bound…Eventually
When the MacBook Pro was unveiled at MWSF ‘06 I began to drool. I mean that is one mean machine. The name sucks, but 9 out of 10 is pretty good. Of course, like every other time Apple has updated the PowerBook I bagan to covet it. I wanted one, …
MacWorld Wrap-up
I wanted to write this up yesterday, but I was swamped at work and had an assignment due that day. So I didn’t get a chance. As you are, no doubt, aware, Apple released a load of new toys yesterday at MacWorld. What follows is a brief write-up of some …
lleD
Why is every USB port on a Dell computer or monitor installed upside down? I have a fairly decent Dell here at work and I use my USB flash drive on it all day long. It?the drive not the Dell?has a small light on it to let me know when …
iBox Rumblings
The internet is rumbling today with rumors of an updated Mac Mini. Some of my frequent readers (hi, Mom) will remember my ramblings about a device I dubbed the iBox. You take a look at what MacRumors is reporting for this Mini update and tell me it doesn’t …
Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
I have been meaning to write this up all week and haven’t gotten around to it. Last Saturday the unthinkable happened. An Apple Store opened in Salt Lake City. Now you might be thinking that that isn’t a very significant event, but …
Heck Yes!
This is probably the coolest thing I have seen in a long time. It took me like three hours to get the files uploaded.
Saw this online, and fell in love. I don’t know who did it, …
iPhoto Originals
Time for iVideo
So I have been playing with the hacked version of Front Row that has been floating around the internet. And I love it. And big props to the guys who released Salling Clicker scripts to control it. It is actually a great way to browse your media …
Wrong and Right
So, my calendar says it’s the 12th. Does yours say that too? Good, that means that Apple held a press conference and released new toys. Yay! Time to see if my clarvoyance is kicking in or if I need to take it into the shop for a tune-up.
Looks like …
One More Thing…
Drool…
Here I Come to Save the Day
The Change Heard ‘round the World
A large BANG! was heard around the globe today as the entire Apple-nation simultaneously exploded. The cause is unknown currently, but experts believe it has something to do with the news that Apple will indeed be switching to Intel based processors in their machines starting next year. More as this …
Musings on Meta
Ever since I acquired my iPod Shuffle, I have been on the quest to get my music collection under control. Now that I have installed Tiger and am finding Spotlight to be much more useful than I had previously anticipated, I am trying to get my photos keyworded. Both of …
QuickTime 7 Required
After hearing so much about the improvements that would be forth coming int he new QuickTime 7 I couldn’t wait to try it out. I wanted to see if the new H.264 codec that has been hyped all over the Internet is actually worth the hype. Well, it is. I …
Six-and-a-half Inches of Fun
Grrrrrr!
Caught!
“Do you really think you can pick a winner that way?”
I turned around to see a woman standing behind me. I was in the process of picking my winning bottle of Mountain Dew for the day. “I haven’t lost yet. Over thirty and counting,” I replied.
She seemed slightly …
iPod Shuffle
Free Mac Mini!?
iPod Shuffle RAID
As I will soon be acquiring a new iPod Shuffle (payment for a web design for a friend) I have become obsessed with finding any new information about the wonderful little gadgets. I stumbled across this one today. Someone has taken four iPod Shuffles and RAIDed them! Now I …
Introducing iWork Help
It is with great humility I submit to the world iWorkHelp.com. This is a new site that I am developing to hopefully, generate a lot of ideas and helpful hints for Apple’s new iWork suite. I thought of this idea shortly after having an opportunity to play with Pages …
Another Glorious Day
The day started like any other Monday. The alarm clock blaring obnoxious music (its always obnoxious when it wakes you up, even if you love the song the rest of the time). The bleary-eyed stumble to the kitchen for some breakfast. Get ready, wait in the freezing cold for the …
Pages Review
Mac Mini Unpacking Ceremony
Admit it, you can’t wait to see those cute little Mac Minis in person. You are itching to be able to see just how small they really are. Maybe, you like what some refer to as Apple porn—a new Mac product being undressed removed from it’s packaging. Well, to you …
Mac Mini and the Bluetooth Dream Center
MWSF ‘05
Well it must be january, because the Mac world is abuzz with talk of MacWorld San Francisco. There was certainly a lot of new products released and announced today. I plan to make a fuller write up when I get some time, but I am very excited about these new …
Buy Steve Jobs House
If you have ever wanted to own a bit of Apple parphenelia that would be totally unique, and know one else will have, then today is your lucky day. Steve Jobs is reportedly giving his house away for free. The catch (there always is one, isn’t there?) …
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