AppleInsider: At this year’s Macworld event, iDVD got no mention when marketing chief Phil Schiller took the wraps off iLife ’09. Even the iLife banners at the event excluded any mention of the product. Since then, Apple has issued two press releases on iLife ’09, and in both cases iDVD was relegated to one-off mentions as software capable [...]
I’ve always been a heavy-duty user of both iCal and Address Book. If something doesn’t get entered, it doesn’t happen. I put my wedding in iCal, for crying out loud – complete with an Event Reminder that morning (in case the hangover I would earn at my bachelor party was enough to erase my mind). [...]
I took a photo this morning from my bathroom and played with it in Photoshop to make it all look tiny:
Macworld dug this up: Instead of typing instructions, the user rolls the mouse on a desktop. As it moves, the cursor – an arrow that points to specific points on the screen – moves accordingly. The user can give instructions by pointing the mouse to pictures on the screen, such as a file cabinet or [...]
A friend of mine reminded me of the Lynx text web browser tonight. Here’s a blurb from the download page: Lynx has become quite popular as a “Universal Access” web browser for the Visually handicapped. Though Lynx is limited as it does not support JavaScript. Lynx was originally developed at the University of Kansas. In 1995 [...]
Kbase Article TS2377: In July 2008, NVIDIA publicly acknowledged a higher than normal failure rate for some of their graphics processors due to a packaging defect. At that same time, NVIDIA assured Apple that Mac computers with these graphics processors were not affected. However, after an Apple-led investigation, Apple has determined that some MacBook Pro computers [...]
TUAW’s Robert Palmer, on the best way to keep a Mac safe: Also recommended: Not downloading pirated software (and their associated tools) on peer-to-peer networks. If you do choose to get your software that way, you have nobody to blame but yourself if your system gets infected. I want to hug that man. This is [...]
Michael Miller of PC Mag looks back at his first interview with the Macintosh team: Most of the time I was meeting with other members on the team, but I remember Jobs coming in — even then he was very charismatic: intense, proud of the work, and a bit prickly about any criticism. He and [...]
Macworld’s Dan Moren, on 99-cent iPhone applications: So what’s the solution? The right answer, I think, would be to retrain consumers to stop looking at the single metric of how cheap something is and reinforce the idea of goods costing what they’re worth. Unfortunately, we don’t have the hundred years and advanced brainwashing equipment that such a proposition would likely [...]
The New York Times has posted a slick little feature on the effect of Jobs on Apple, and they echo the point I made the other day: Apple came up with some amazing products without Jobs, and will do so after he is long gone, but they have to keep the product line clean and [...]
