By Retuers 'We intend to do it.' By Andy Barnes, AppleInsider Apple has successfully secured a design patent for its ubiquitous iPod digital music player.
By Dan Frakes, Playlist Over the next few months, you can expect to see many new accesories as vendors revise their product lines to fit the new thicker iPod Photo. By Jonny Evans, Macworld UK It appears Apple originally planned to open for busines in Ireland this Tuesday.
These plans, however, were stymied at the last minute by a disagreement with the Irish Music Rights Organization. By Jeremy Horwitz, iPodlounge It has the same audio defect widely reported in the fourth-generation iPod shortly after its release. By Jennifer Guevin, CNET News.com Apple's service sounds promising if you're at all technically inclined. But anyone who's tried to talk a parent or grandparent through the steps of tweaking settings in their e-mail client or — gasp!
— scan for and rid a system of spyware and viruses can tell you that over-the-phone consultations can be horrible torture for those on both ends of the line. By John Gruber, Daring Fireball by Arik Hesseldahl, Forbes Could the iPod and similar devices be the start of something bigger in the area of personal data storage? By Dennis Sellers, Macsimum I don't think Apple needs to convince people to buy iPods, but they want people to slowly migrate to Apple's applications until the only thing left is the operating system and the computer hardware. And from there the next step is moving to Mac OS X on Apple hardware. By brian d foy, O'Reilly Network I actually like the store workers talking to me.
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By Joe Wilcox, Microsoft Monitor In the Windows world, a portable media device capable of video makes sense because of Microsoft's enterainment strategy. TV programming is a source of legally consumable content. By Michael Gartenberg, Jupiter Research No evil schemes.
No Machiavellian thoughts behind it. It's just not a good move for Apple without the sources of content they need. By Dan Frakes, Playlist You've just created the first electronic photo flipbook.
'Apple Needs an iPhone Classic (Premium): Apple's corporate culture can be nicely summed up by the term parentalism, which is the (mistaken) belief, on Apple's part, that only it.
By Ben Stringer, Builder AU The Apple PowerMac G5 with cinema display made a fine Java development platform, and should be considered by anyone who likes a stable, attractive and quiet computer, and is not constrained by a budget. By Christopher Breen, Playlist Given that few of these iPods have made their way into the world, I thought I'd offer a few initial impressions. By Jason Snell, Playlist by Michael Phillips, Inside Mac Games Myst IV: Revelation is truly a work of art on many levels, and is far and away one of the finest adventure games ever created. By Leander Kahney, Wired News The new iMac is perhaps the most user-serviceable machine on the market. But Apple is not alone in outsourcing repairs to customers. By David Pogue, New York Times As it turns out, the existing iPod's design, originally conceived for music, lend itself beautifully to photo shows. By Cyrus Farivar, New York Times While Internet-based recorded audio is not new, podcasting combines audio with an online subscription technology known as R.S.S., or Really Simple Syndication.
By Chris Jenkins, News.com.au Sydney's inner-city St. Barnabas Anglican church is converting its archived semons to MP3 format so tech-savvy faithrul can listen to them on their iPods. By Ina Fried, CNET News.com PortalPlayer, the company whose chip powers Apple's iPod, has moved a step closer to becoming publicly traded. By Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek by Leander Kahney, Cult Of Mac The hack permanently ties up one of the USB ports, but no longer does the iBook have an ugly appendage.
By MacMinute by Peter Cohen, MacCentral by O'Reilly Network Opinion. By Chris Seibold, Apple Matters Should Linux become more elegant or easier to use than OS X then Apple could be in a serious amount of hot water. Fortunately that scenario seems unlikely. By Russell Beattie, Russell Beattie Notebook I honestly think this is Steve trying to shape consumer opinion because of his ties to the movie industry, rather than him listening to what people want or looking towards the future.
By Eugene Liu, osOpinion A video iPod at this point in time would likely face the fate of the famous Newton: amazing technology, lousy timing. By Peter Rojas, Engadget Sure, video is ridiculous, but how about an iPod that can display 30 photos per second synchronized to sound? By Bill Palmer, billpalmer.net It's one thing to be the better platform. It's a whole other thing to be the only usable platform out there. You do the math. By Peter Cohen, MacCentral Apple took the wraps off the iPod Photo, a color iPod available in 40GB or 60GB storage capacities. The company also introduced the iPod U2 Special Edition, Apple's 20GBplayer clad in black, equipped with a red Click Wheel and featuring engraved U2 band member signatures.
By MacMinute Steve Jobs said it is clear that consumers want photo capabilities and not video features on their iPod. By Leander Kahney, Wired News The Complete U2 boxed set would run to more than 30 CDs.
'It's impossible to have this product in the physical world,' Steve Jobs said. 'But in the digital era, you can buy the product with the push of a single button.' By Peter Cohen, MacCentral Apple has posted a QuickTime stream of the vent, where Steve Jobs took the stage to take the wraps off a color iPod, a special edition U2 iPod, and introduced Bono and The Edge themselves. By Brad Cook, MacCentral iTrip-Black sports the same features as its predecessor. By Peter Cohen, MacCentral The iTunes Music Store was updated to allow residents of nine new European countries to buy music online. Apple also announced plans to bring the iTunes Music Store to Canada in November.
By MacMinute by Jim Heid, Mac iLife 04 Site Lack of a Compact Flash memory slot is disappointing, and questionable support for raw files should raise eyebrows among serious amateur and professional photographers. By Scott Ard, CNET News.com Yes, watching portable video now is a kluge exercise, but Apple can fix that. Dvorak, CBS Marketwatch With this U2 bundle the numbers skew wildly in Apple's favor with two-thirds of the money going to Apple. By Joe Wilcox, Microsoft Monitor I think Microsoft and some of its competitors could learn some lessons from Apple's approach to the new product, most importantly from the name and broader marketing.
By John Rizzo, eWeek What happens next to Virtual CP is in the hands of the Macintosh Business Unit. The fact that there is now a Virtual C that is a fully Microsoft version could help increase the use of Windows on Macs. By Ben Charny, CNET News.com While Apple competitors Microsoft and Real prefer to attack the burgeoning market for cell phone entertainment by having handset makers embed their media players directly into phones, Apple doesn't see the need, Apple Senior Director Frank Cassanova said. Major cell phone carriers already use QuickTime on their servers that manage media for photo e-mailing and other new services.
By Peter Cohen, MacCentral The Regent Street, London location opens on November 20, 2004 at 10.00 am. By Brad Cook, MacCentral The first place winner fromt he United States was Delicious Monster Software's barcode scanning application Delicious Library, while the same prize in the International division went to Boinx Software's slideshow software FotoMagico. By Brad Cook, MacCentral The update features a security update, bug fixes, enhancements to the Apple Lossless Encoder and AAC codecs and better support for iTunes and other QuickTime-based applications. By Leander Kahney, Wired News Virginia Tech's recently rebuilt Mac supercomputer has squeezed out a few more teraflops, but it probably won't be able to keep its top-five world ranking. By Red Herring Analysts say that Apple's iPod could do more than just boost the company's bottom line.
By David Berlind, ZDNet After more than a decade of Macintosh users telling Windows users to eat crow — or actually to 'Get a Mac' — in response to their security woes, an alarming piece of malicious code has turned up that's designed to exploit OS X in ways that are normally used to attack Windows. By Todd Bishop, Seattle Post-Intelligencer If you looked closely, even in the middle of the Microsoft event, Apple's presence was evident, thanks to a unique partnership of its own. The latest Media Center PCs from HP come with a special iTunes-related feature builtinto Microsoft's new Windows XP Media Center Edition software. By Stan Sutter, Marketing Magazine by Steve Bloomfield, The Independent U2 has angered fans with its decision to sign a deal with the global corporation Apple and launch a special-edition U2 iPod. Goldfayn, Chicago Tribune by Joshua Fruhlinger, Engadget Sure, you could send out an SOS via telegraph or a mayday by radio, but why go through all that trouble when you could just paint your iPod orange?
By Brad Gibson, Mac Observer by MacMinute Rancho Cucamonga, California; and Danbury, Connecticut. By Leander Kahney, Cult Of Mac The FireWire port in first- and second-generation iPods suffers from a fatal design flaw. The connector is unreinforced, and the constant plugging and unplugging of the FireWire cable can loosen the solder on the motherboard.
By Bija Gutoff, Apple 'We knew we had to take post in-house. So we asked ourselves, 'WHat do we need to invest in, to make it work?' That's where Final Cut Pro HD saved the day.' By David Levy, Apple 'As soon I began working with images I struggled horribly with the PC. My colors weren't right.
I was having all sorts of trouble. So I went over to see a friend, we did some image work on his Mac — and that was when the bolt of lightning hit.'
By John Cope, Oklahoma Daily by Suzanne Deffree, Electronic News The market has grown from one solo fruit tree to an entire orchard of players. Meanwhile, Apple's influence has not dissipated. By Eric Hellweg, MIT Technology Review With the elegant Firefox, the open-source camp is mounting a full frontal attack on Microsoft's long dominant Internet Explorer. By Scott Moschella, G4techTV Feed your iPod fresh daily content. By Ryan Block, Engadget by Apple University of Colorado School of Dentistry students no longer struggle with heavy backpacks full of books, and trying to find time to work in the computer lab.
Instead, the future dentists carry a 12-inch wireless PowerBook notebook computer from home to class to the patient simulations clinic. By Beth Snyder Bulik, Advertising Age The iPod itself is the beating heart of a growing body of marketing centered on the device. By Ina Fried, CNET News.com Apple is warning users of older iTunes software versions that it plans to stop allowing those versions to connect to its music store. By Mark Rosenthal and Shelly Brisbin, InformIT by Ben Long, Macworld Its accelerated performance, built-in animation effects, and generous software bundle continue to make it a market leader. But its overburdened interface keeps it from being truly exceptional.
By Jeff Carlson, Macworld Apple has created a product that not only provides a highly functioning 802.11g base station in a portable shell, but also pushes into a new product category. By Andrew Laurence, Macworld If you need only basic FTP abilities, Interarchy 7.2 is probably overkill. If your needs include encryption, Web transfers, automation, and network monitoring, Interarchy rolls together an impressive array of tools at an attrative price. By Owen Linzmayer, Macworld The more mature PhoneValet offers a refined interface that will appeal to people who seek an easy-to-use voice-mail system enhanced with dialing features. By Leander Kahney, Wired News Replacing the battery yourself is the way to go.
It's half the price of getting someone else to do it, and very easy to do. By Terri Stone, Macworld by Jonathan Seff, Macworld In many ways, the new iMac G5 represents an even more radical design leap than the two models that came before it. Bye, And Thanks by Heng-Cheong Leong One of the better local Macintosh resource (local Singapore, in my case) is saying bye-bye. I Was Wrong; Podcasting To The Rescue by Heng-Cheong Leong I that music subscription service (you know, what those other guys are offerin?) is the solution to music sampling and discovery, and is something that Apple should promote for their iTunes/iPod platform? Podcasting is the solution.
Catch some of the podcast of, and you will have already discover some cool new music. And it works with your iPod.
More Notes From A (New) Cocoa Programmer by Heng-Cheong Leong I wish Apple will really make some good APIs for kiosk-like applications to go full-screen. I know that, in general, Macintosh applications shouldn't take over the entire screen, but even Apple's HCI guidelines acknowledges that sometimes, you just have to. Actually, the actual rant today is that handling the moving of NSViews across different NSWindows is a pain in the neck.:-) Wintel. By Macworld UK Apple has been promising retailers: 'Let us come and pitch our product to you for an hour and we'll give you an iPod.'
By Jonny Evans, Macworld UK Apple iTunes Music Store won recognition once again last night, at the Digital Music Awards. By Jean Peerenboom, Green Bay Press-Gazette Parkview Middle School eighth-graders are learning as much about sound bites, newscasts and movie-making as they are about the election with their iMovie production. By London News Review Song has rebranded themselves as thugs who are playing also-rans to the iPod. By Apple This article will highlight some of the most exciting new technlogies in Tiger and show what they will mean for developers. By Slashdot Today, the OpenStep API celebrates its 10 anniversary. What started out as a joint adventure of NeXT and SUN to define an application development standard that would run on all machines, making 'write once, compile everywhere' a reality, is still unfolding within the vivid and active community of GNUstep, old NeXT, and Apple lovers. By MacMinute According to Dvaid Moody, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Mac Product Marketing, Apple fans shouldn't expect new or revamped PowerBooks before Christmas.
By MacMinute The Tiger Early Start Kit for Developers is priced at US$500 and includes: a year-long ADC Select membership, pre-release versions of Tiger and Xcode 2.0, and more. By Al Fasoldt, The Post-Standard How well do you know your OS X Macinotsh? Here's a 10-part quiz. By John Gruber, Daring Fireball Consistency in and of itself has been a fundamental pillar of the Mac user experience from 1984 onward. But with Apple no longer leading the way, it's fading. 'At least it's still more consistent than Windows' is not high praise. By Paul Boutin, Slate I can't imagine that a generation from now, people will still tolerate incompatible breeds of digital devices, any more than we'd accept a Sprint phone that couldn't take calls from an AT&T phone.
My hope is that, in another decade, when I find a cool new piece of software, I'll be able to run it anywhere I want. By Faultline, The Register Investors, at least, don't think that Microsoft can undo everything Apple has worked for over the past three years, in one single announcement. New On MyAppleMenu by Heng-Cheong Leong Here are some of the new things here on MyAppleMenu: This site is now licensed under a, which allows you to copy, distribute, display, and to make derivative works, so long they are for non-commercial purposes. The web page layout has been cleaned up a little, but it shouldn't be noticeable. The will list all the daily contents throughout the month, instead of just individual links to the daily archives. (However, note that I have not converted most of the older archives to the new format yet.) The Google ads (on the web page) has been moved to the right, so as to be less intrusive (I hope.) Enjoy, and do report to me.
Some Random Thoughts From A (Newly) Cocoa Programmer by Heng-Cheong Leong I've signed up on a new project at work, and it's a job that invovles programming on the Mac OS X. My last Macintosh project (for real money) was working on some multimedia stuff on System 7/8 long long time ago, so this is really the first time I'm playing around with Cocoa and Mac OS X as a developer. Anyhoo, here are some of my first impressions: Cocoa is great — much better than MFC. (I have not really examined.Net up close yet, so no comparison from me.) Is it me, or does the FileMerge application need some work on the UI front? I've already lost work a few times using that little beast. Now, I am super-careful when using this application. I want my Think Reference updated for the 21st century.
In fact, Apple needs to strive for the quality of Inside Macintosh for its current documentation, which is somewhat lacking. Why, after so many years, it is still so 'difficult' to create a full-screen application on the Macintosh?
Cheered Me Up by Heng-Cheong Leong For some reason that I'm not too sure, I really like this little by John Mazur. Rumor Today: Expanded Multi-User Controls, QuickTime Sharing Spotted In New Tiger Builds by Heng-Cheong Leong has apparently gotten hold of a recent build of Tiger. If you are eager to find out what's new in multiple user control and QuickTime player, do take a look. Amazon Is Guessing by Heng-Cheong Leong Now, Amazon.com has a ', 2005' ship date tagged for Mac OS X Tiger.
As I've before — Amazon is guessing. Just like the rest of us.
By Jean-Luc Dinsdale, Inside Mac Games After months of speculation, Texas-based game publishers Aspyr Media have officially announced that they've licensed the award-winning god game, The Sims 2, and are bringing it to a Mac-Near-You. By MacMinute Apple today announced the addition of a 1.8 GHz single processor Power Mac G5 desktop priced at US$1,499 to its 64-bit Power Mac G5 line. By MacMinute by Keith Edwards, Kennebec Journal Parents of Hodgkins Middle School students became students themselves Monday, in a night of training on the state-supplied laptop computers. By Macworld UK Apple is reported to have cranked up iPod production in time for the Christmas shopping season, hoping to avoid the iPod shortages that marred last winter. By Macworld UK Apple's iPod has claimed yet another award — this time from What? HiFi magazine.
By MacMinute by DrunkenBlog The first DrunkenBlog Roundtable, with five of the best RSS aggregators available for Mac OS X. By Peter Cohen, MacCentral Select members of the press on Monday received an invitation to a special Apple event at 10AM Pacific Time on October 26. 'Steve Jobs, Bono and The Edge invite you to attend a special event,' reads the top of the invitation. See Also: by Matthew Miller, Forbes Rock band U2 has cut a deal with Apple to sell custom iPods promoting the band's forthcoming album. Sources close to the group say the U2 edition of the popular digital music player will come preloaded with the band's new album along with portionsof the Irish supergroup's 25-year catalogue.
By Peter Cohen, MacCentral by Leander Kahney, Wired News Despite being widely accused of code theft, fraud and other chicanery, the author of the controversial CherryOS Mac emulator is sticking to his guns: It's all on the up and up, says programmer Arben Kryeziu. Swanson, TheStreet.com For all the democratic appeal of the iPod, Apple still sees its computers as premium products. By Olivier Wolf, Media Week You might not think the music industry has much to do with the world of advertising. There are no ads on your iPod and no commercial breaks on your favourite CDs. By Justin Gehtland, O'Reilly Network by Keith Cowing, Your Space Reference A screw comes loose from my one month old computer and causes damage. Apple then cites the damage as violation of my warranty — even though a flaw in the machine caused the damage in the first plce. Apple can find a way to get out of a warranty situation — however slimy — they will do so.
By Christopher Breen, Playlist As with the Walkman before it, the iPod is a brand — and, like Kleenex and Xerox, nearly a generic one at that. Regardless of how many features you pack into your MusicLamer 200, that's a tough advantage to overcome.
Engst, TidBITS by Mark Kellner, Washington Times This is not the full Photoshop that is used daily by professionals the world over. It's not supposed to be. But it is a very, very useful program for those of us who want to take care of our vacation pictures, or touch up heirlooms from the family album. I highly recommend it.
By Bob LeVitus, Houston Chronicle I consider.Mac a bargain at $99 a year. If you use even half of what it offers, I bet you'll feel the same. By Tony Smith, The Register The radioShark is now a firm fixture on my desktop. I can't wait for a digital edition. By Philip Michaels, Macworld We're delcaring this Software Bargains Week at Macworld, and have rounded up some of our favorite utilities that you can use to perk up or perfect your Mac without having ot break into your piggy bank.
Today, programs that bolster the Mac's creative powers are int he spotlight. It Is Still True by Heng-Cheong Leong Three years ago, Farhad Manjoo wrote: 'Apple needs only to to reporters and, immediately, there are rumblings about something big afoot. The rumor sites abound with speculation, and Mac fans strain their heads to put their fingers on Apple's next dream machine.'
Three years later, as demonstrated once again, this is still true. Saving Up For An iPod Mini by Heng-Cheong Leong If you know me, you'd know that I'm saving up to purchase an iPod mini this coming December. Why the mini?
Because it's small, it's light, and it will work great with my Macintosh. So, I'm having mixed feelings about Apple releasing new iPods between now and then. On the one hand, of course I want the latest and greatest, so if Apple releases new iPods, I will get the latest and the greatest. On the other hand, if Apple does release new iPods, chances are, there will be product shortages and waiting lists and — worse — later availability outside of the U.S. Just like what happened to the minis. Which means I will not be getting the latest and the greatest until later. Rumor Today: The Unmarked Boxes Are Here by Heng-Cheong Leong discovered that new products are 'being delivered to.
Retail stores in unmarked boxes, with instructions not to display them until notified.' By Brad Gibson, Mac Observer by Macworld UK The update improves Logic's distribution audio processing, which lets users expand the processing capacity of Logic systems by distributing complex software tasks to other Macs. By Charles Jade, Ars Technica by Bob Niedt, Syracuse Post-Standard Take this straight from the mouth of the CEO (and co-founder) of Apple Computer: There will be an Apple Store at Carousel Center mall. By Carolyne Zinko, San Francisco Chronicle Preservationists don't want house moved.
By Marc Orchant, Unofficial Apple Weblog Intrepid developers have released the Firefox Toolbar that extends the Desktop Search to the Firefox browser on Windows and the Mac. Note: This news has been updated: 'Google Desktop Search requires an.exe file that is currently only available for Windows 2000 and XP.' By Gary Allen, ifoAppleStore The waiting line for the grand opening of the Santa Rosa Plaza Apple store formed slowly, starting at 6 am. Aqua Vs Metal by Heng-Cheong Leong Yes, it's. In fact, I once thought that one of the visual look will die out as Mac users clamour for one look over the other. Well, that didn't happen. In fact, I think that most Mac users actually gotten used to the fact that there are two different looks on their Macintosh.
I know I have. The difference wasn't as drastic as the OpenDoc days, where you actually have to do different things (for example, to create a new document) in different applications.
But it is an inconsistency that leaves a black mark on Apple's design nonetheless. By Juan Rodriguez, Montreal Gazette The iPod has revolutionized the way we consume music. Unlimited song storage and the nifty shuffle function has let ordinary listeners become DJs. By Steven Church, Delaware News Journal 'This is a different ball game here,' said Karey Pittaro, store manager, 'because we're talking about tax-free shopping.'
By Laurie Duncan, Unofficial Apple Weblog Thanks to the folks at ColorWare, you can now order an iMac in virtually any color you want. By Bija Gutoff, Apple 'Final Cut Pro is thorough, well-designed and intuitive. In 15 minutes I can teach someone the skills they need to edit a movie — and of course you can do so much more when you learn the advanced tools.' By Benny Evangelista, Matthew Yi, San Francisco Chronicle 'It really shows that the digital music age is here, if there was any doubt about it.' By Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral Online retailer Amazon.com has puslibhed a page on their Web site taking orders for Apple's Mac OS X Tiger, saying that Tiger will ship on March 31, 2005.
By Arik Hesseldahl, Forbes Now the copycats are on the march, and in time they'll have the numbers on their side. By Tim Beyers, Motley Fool You'll pardon my skeptcism if we've heard much of this before.
Like maybe from — oh, I don't know — Apple. By Leander Kahney, Cult Of Mac I've been trying for the last three days to get the system up and running on various machines — to no avail. By Peter Rojas, Engadget Since 5GB drives are the same physical size aas the 1-inch 4GB drives Apple's currently using, it's only natural Apple would raise their game and intro a new 5GB iPod minin in time for the big holiday shopping bonanza that awaits us. Choose A Date. By Heng-Cheong Leong The rumor of today:, 2005, based on the estimated (?) date by Amazon.com. You know what, this really sound like just a date pulled from the air. First half of the year is what Apple promised, so let's just choose a date in the middle.
April 1st sounds so not-real, hence March 31st. Choose An OS. By Heng-Cheong Leong Fine, Microsoft, so Apple didn't allow you to put your tunes on the iPod. But for a music store that promises 'Play for Sure', why haven't you port the whole Windows Media Player to Mac OS X or Linux?
Why can't I use my Creative Zen on my Mac? Friday, October 15, 2004 Top Stories. By John Borland, CNET News.com After years as the unrivaled king of the digital-media world, the venerable MP3 music format is losing ground to rival technologies from Microsoft and Apple.
By Rebecca Freed, PC World Mac users have to keep their OS patched — like Windows users — but there's no cause for alarm. By Ciara Linnane, CBS MarketWatch Synaptics shares surged more then 10 percent Thursday on expectations the company will benefit from higher-than-expected iPod sales by Apple. By Brad Cook, MacCentral.Mac subscribers can download a sampling of 300 loops from the three GarageBand Jam Packs currently available. By Tony Smith, The Register by Cynthia L.
Webb, Washington Post For Apple Computer, will 2004 be remembered as a transformative year? By Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral iTunes users are now downloading more than 4 million songs per week, a rate of over 200 million songs per year, Apple said. By Laurie Duncan, Unofficial Apple Weblog Saying that music purchased from the iTMS won't work with anything but the iPod is very misleading and patently untrue. Buy it, burn it, play it back or copy it to wherever you please.
By Tim Beyers, Motley Fool Apple's stock may be ripe and worm-ridden from every traditional valuation method, but its business is now as golden and delicious as it has ever been. By Jonathan Seff, Macworld If Apple's going to start selling iPods in airports, it needs to create some sort of kiosk to allow people to buy music from the iTunes Music Store and load it on their iPods as they stand within the store. By Charles Arthur, Charles On. Anything That Comes Along by Mark White, osViews by Christopher Breen, Playlist What should those involved in commercial music distribution do? By Alex Salkever, BusinessWeek Apple lost one war to Microsoft by not licensing its Mac operating system.
It may repeat the error with its iPod and music software. Dvorak, CBS MarketWatch Microsoft can't plug holes fast enough. By Sam Hiser, O'Reilly Network Now that the leading opening source browser and office suite have blooming qualities that attract Windows users in swarms, we need not actually storm the Microsoft edifice. Moderation and having a good ear for the markets will have untold benefits as the Microsoft era itself passes into the realm of myth. By Jupiter Research My advice to Microsoft: Make damn sure all these pieces — many you can't control — really do work together.
Plays for sure? It had better. Thursday, October 14, 2004 News. By Macworld UK A new touchscreen system for 17-inch PowerBook G4's ships next month.
By Leadner Kahney, Cult Of Mac Hordes of clueless customers at a French computer store are unable to distinguish between the flat-screen iMac G5 and Apple's flat-screen Cinema Displays. By MacMinute by MacMinute The smaller stores will have a completely new layout and design, and will allow Apple to get its products in front of more people in 'interesting locations.' By Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral 'We are thrilled to report our highest fourth quarter revenue in nine years.' By Christopher Breen, Playlist Apple announced fourth quarter financial results that clearly demonstrate the iPod's domination of the personal digital player market.
And by domination, I don't mean that Apple simply has a comfortable lead over the competition, I mean that, for the most part, there is no competition. Vaughan-Nichols, eWeek GNOME is nice, KDE is fine and the forthcoming Looking Glass may be wonderful, but the best Unix desktop is the one in the Macintosh. By Jason Kottke, Kottke.org Much has been made of Apple's paltry OS/hardware market share, but when you think about it, when a designer label can capture even 5% of a market that competes heavily on price, that's an impressive achievement. Your Bar Is Too Low by Heng-Cheong Leong discovered that some geniuses at the genius bar are not really up to the mark. Apple Creates Comptuers.
By Heng-Cheong Leong While the other guys do a part at a time, and hope that everything fits together. What's the point of creating, when you have to use hacks to read web pages? Rumor Today: Music Giant Readies Canadian Launch by Heng-Cheong Leong: iTunes, Apple's hugely popular online music service, is gearing up for a Canadian launch that could come as early as next month, music industry sources say. By Dan Sullivan, Digit Magazine by business World A shortage of iPods is now on the cards for the Christmas market in Ireland, acccording to Apple.
By CBC On-Line Support has landed a contract to provide technical support for one of the hottest MP3 players, the Apple iPod. By Garry Barker, The Age The iPod has done it again — launched a whole new way of communicating.
It is called podcasting, and in less than a month, it has built a tidal wave of sound for surfers. By Dennis Sellers, Macsimum The Univeristy School of Nashville is officially an all-Windows school, but a dozen or so Mac-using staffers keep the Macintosh spirit alive, thriving and even growing as part of their 'rebel' movement. By Leander Kahney, Wired News 'It's not a hoax,' programmer and designer Arben Kryezlu said in response to widespread skepticism about CherryOS on the net. By Sydney Morning Herald A critical flaw in Microsoft's Excel means Mac users who run Excel are also at risk of having code remotely executed on their systems.
By MacMinute 'There is a lot of customer choice happening today, it's just that Microsoft doesn't like the choices customers are making.' By David Becker, CNET News.com It was a beautiful day for Apple on Tuesday, as the company kicked off a new advertising campaign featuring rock superstars U2. By David Becker, CNET News.com Despite increase competition, Apple's iPod still rules the digital-music world, according to new reports from market researchers. See Also: by Reuters Apple's iTunes remains the leader in paid digital music downloads, but the number of paying customers for this sector overall has decreased since April, research firm NPD said Tuesday.
By Andrew Murfett, The Age The iPod is even more user-friendly following the introduction of the click wheel. ITunes is the best jukebox software on the market and if Apple ever manages to introduce the iTunes Music Store locally, the digital muic experience will be complete. By Wei-Meng Lee, O'Reilly Network by Christopher Breen, Macworld by Sue Voelkel, Macworld I recorded a meeting using the Notebook Layout feature in Word 2004.
Here's how it turned out. By Jim Darlymple, MacCentral What struck me the most about NewsFire was its simplicity. By Leander Kahney, Wired News As Apple's iPod moves fast into the mainstream, many users shun the telltale white earbuds. Behold the closet iPod lover, some of whom are not too keen on the growing hordes of plebes with new iPods. By Peter Cohen, MacCentral The service pack 'addresses potential security issues and bugs that feedback played an important role in identifying.'
By Peter Cohen, MacCentral It purportedly runs at about 80 percent of the performance of the host CPU, according to the developer. By MacMinute by MacMinute The new Apple Store is located at the Christana Mall in Newark. By Rex Crum, CBS MarketWatch With Apple's stock trading at more than twice where it was a year ago, Piper Jaffray raised the bar for the shares even higher due to an anticipated benefit from increased iPod sales. By Bloomberg 'It was really surprising.
They didn't say music player. They said iPod. Teens want to be cool, they want their music, and the iPod is a cool way for them to get their music.' By Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral Shareware developer Dave Nanian made netTunes as a companion to AirTunes to solve the problems users of AirTunes encountered.
By Peter Cohen, MacCentral Opinion. By David Berlind, ZDNet The premium cost of Apple hardware hurts and OS X only runs on Apple hardware.
By Mark Kellner, Washington Times I believe the folks at Griffin Technology might want to refine the radioShark. I have every confidence that they can build an even better mousetrap, or radio program trap to be more precise.
By Andrew Laurence, TidBITS Logitech's Harmony Remote is a universal and programmable remote control. It's also expensive, with a suggested retail price of $200 and up. However, it's the only universal remote I've used that actually relegates the originals to a drawer. By Troy Dreier, ZDNet Bargin hunters should look to the Apple eMac and power users to the Power Mac G5, but for anyone with a love of sleek, minimalist decor, this is the computer for you. By Alan Zisman, Low End Mac Sidetrack. By James Coates, Chicago Tribune Let me tell you that Virtual PC 7 worked great, letting me plug Windows-compatible devices like a digital camera, scanner and printer into Mac ports and then operate them in Windows XP Professional. By Chris Cobbs, Orlando Sentinel The Cinema Display is a luxury accessory that inspires tech lust of the highest magnitude.
It seems sinful to want one, but impossible not to after using it. By Glenn Fleishman, Seattle Times The iMac G5 makes a few important leaps for Apple's consumer line of computers. Adding the G5 processor is a significant boost but doing so in a simple, functional and space-saving design seals the deal.
Thu Jun 30 As much as we lampoon some of the sillier rumors in this space, we do like taking a peek into the crystal ball of what might happen and picking out our favorites to bet on. As we all know, some of them come true, some of them never do, some may come true someday - so they're like prayers, in a way - and there is some fun in handicapping the likelihood of which camp a given rumor will fall.
In recent years, the dead zone between the end of WWDC and the announcement of the new hotness(es) in the fall there comes a second 'silly season' where analysts, pundits, and other assorted otherwise-unemployable types put out their guesses. This year, it is particularly contradictory. Thu Jun 30 Editor's Note: there are many examples of our MacNN Podcast that we are proud of, but this one we picked as an example of 'the best of MacNN ' because it is so representative of what the podcast was about: comraderie, laughs, news, insight. Even though the podcast focused on stories that had already been reported on the site, it gave listeners both our analysis of those events as well as a look at the people behind the reporting. The good news is that the podcast will continue after MacNN's shutdown under a new name, so we hope previous listeners and new ones will join us for more banter, bad jokes, and ballyhoo starting the week of July 11. To our previous listeners, thank you again for your support.
We loved doing this, and we think this episode shows that well. Thu Jun 30 In of this piece, we took a look at some of the headline features in macOS Sierra, coming later this fall. This time around, we examine some of the other features that Apple has baked into macOS Sierra. As we noted last time, there is a lot to like about what Apple is adding to the macOS mix with this latest update.
Features like Apple Pay for the web, Auto Unlock with Apple Watch, Universal Clipboard, iCloud Drive, Optimized Storage, and Tabs are also worth a look, particularly as the latter is something I suggested to Apple a couple of years ago, and it's great to see them implement it. Editor's Note: as we count down the last days of MacNN, we've been picking some favorite stories to re-run. We've seen it all across these 21 years, and we've pointed to some of the biggest stories we've ever covered, but just as memorable are the oddball ones. This is another of those: the phrase 'detachable beeper disc digital gym shoe computer wrist watch' won't leave our minds anytime soon, nor Ms. Washington-Gross' demand for $5 billion in recompense from Apple (and not anyone else in the wearable field, it would seem). The case was dismissed about a month after it was filed, but it lives on in our hearts.
Some of you may have a similar feeling when you find out that they have torn down your old childhood school, or when you see a picture of your old flame; there are a lot of happy memories, and everything turned out okay, but what was and could have been are a bit sad nonetheless now that they're gone. I have been really touched and a bit overwhelmed at the outpouring of well-wishes and memories from our readers, Twitter followers, FB buddies, fellow Apple-centric sites, and others around the world, and like you I wish things had turned out differently, but the feedback has made a bad week better. Apple's latest version of its desktop OS has picked up a rebrand, bringing it into alignment with its tvOS, watchOS, and iOS lowercase stablemates. The rebrand also suggests that Apple is going to settle into a pattern of continually evolving its desktop OS iteratively - OS X is now macOS in perpetuity, with the internal codename now taking top billing. While it naturally picks up several new marquee features, the arrival of Siri on the Mac is by far the biggest news in macOS Sierra. Read on for our initial thoughts.
Cirrus creates Lightning-headphone dev kit Apple supplier Cirrus Logic has introduced a MFi-compliant new development kit for companies interested in using Cirrus' chips to create Lightning-based headphones, which - regardless of whether rumors about Apple dropping the analog headphone jack in its iPhone this fall - can offer advantages to music-loving iOS device users. The kit mentions some of the advantages of an all-digital headset or headphone connector, including higher-bitrate support, a more customizable experience, and support for power and data transfer into headphone hardware.
Several companies already make Lightning headphones, and Apple has supported the concept since June 2014. The Apple Store app for iPhone, which periodically rewards users with free app gifts, is now offering the iPhone 'Pocket' version of drawing app Procreate for those who have the free Apple Store app until July 28. Users who have redeemed the offer by navigating to the 'Stores' tab of the app and swiping past the 'iPhone Upgrade Program' banner to the 'Procreate' banner have noted that only the limited Pocket (iPhone) version of the app is available free, even if the Apple Store app is installed and the offer redeemed on an iPad. The Pocket version currently sells for $3 on the iOS App Store. Porsche adds CarPlay to 2017 Panamera Porsche has added a fifth model of vehicle to its CarPlay-supported lineup, announcing that the 2017 Panamera - which will arrive in the US in January - will include Apple's infotainment technology, and be seen on a giant 12.3-inch touchscreen as part of an all-new Porsche Communication Management system. The luxury sedan starts at $99,900 for the 4S model, and scales up to the Panamera Turbo, which sells for $146,900.
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Other vehicles that currently support CarPlay include the 2016 911 and the 2017 models of Macan, 718 Boxster, and 718 Cayman. The company did not mention support for Google's corresponding Android Auto in its announcement. Apple employees testing wheelchair features New features included in the forthcoming watchOS 3 are being tested by Apple retail store employees, including a new activity-tracking feature that has been designed with wheelchair users in mind. The move is slightly unusual in that, while retail employees have previously been used to test pre-release versions of OS X and iOS, this marks the first time they've been included in the otherwise developer-only watchOS betas.
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The company is said to have gone to great lengths to modify the activity tracker for wheelchair users, including changing the 'time to stand' notification to 'time to roll' and including two wheelchair-centric workout apps. Twitter stickers slowly roll out to users Twitter has introduced 'stickers,' allowing users to add extra graphical elements to their photos before uploading them to the micro-blogging service. A library of hundreds of accessories, props, and emoji will be available to use as stickers, which can be resized, rotated, and placed anywhere on the photograph. Images with stickers will also become searchable with viewers able to select a sticker to see how others use the same graphic in their own posts. Twitter advises stickers will be rolling out to users over the next few weeks, and will work on both the mobile apps and through the browser.