Apple has announced the beta of Safari 4 with lots of new features. Including one that seems to be borrowed from Google’s Chrome browser: Thanks to Top Sites, you can enjoy a stunning, at-a-glance preview of your favorite websites without lifting a finger. Safari 4 Beta tracks the sites you browse and ranks your favorites, [...]
After leaving MobileMe, I learned about Foxmarks, which touted itself as a great way to sync Safari bookmarks across Macs, but I found it less than stable, especially on my work machine. So after some head scratching, I am now using my Dropbox account to sync Safari’s history and bookmarks across my Macs. The process is actually [...]
Macworld’s Jason Snell recently test-drove a MSI Wind running OS X. In his two pages of ponderings on the little notebook, Snell does something that I found surprising: comparing the Wind to Apple’s MacBook Air: While the Wind is not a terrible laptop, it most definitely feels cheap. Apple’s Aluminum-clad laptops all feel solid, and even the white plastic MacBook [...]
In the world of podcasts, there are many choices, especially when it comes to shows centered around technology (and even more so centered on Apple technology), but very few of these podcasts would ever talk about the Macintosh Quadra 660AV, the Apple Lisa, or the Performa 5200. That’s just one reason the RetroMacCast (iTunes Link) [...]
Macworld: U.S. Senator John Cornyn and Representative Lamar Smith, both Republicans from Texas, held a press conference Thursday to announce separate bills in the Senate and House of Representatives, both called the Internet Safety Act. Along with sections stipulating stiffer penalties for activities related to accessing child pornography on the Internet, the law would require [...]
I love retro computing, and I like well-done mods. RetroMacCast forum member option8 loves both, it seems. The hardware hacker has put a Mac mini inside a Apple Disk II case. Check out that link for photos.
Apple announced today that the 20-inch Cinema Display has been discontinued. Apple killed off the 23-inch display when the 24-inch LED Cinema Display (the shiny, Mini DisplayPort-bearing one) hit stores, so now the only other display Apple ships is the beastly 30-inch. Time will tell what this means. New Macs are imminent, and Apple has announced that Mini DisplayPort [...]
Dan Knight, of Low End Mac: Income per page doubled in 2003 and kept moving upward, peaking in 2005/06, then slipping just a wee bit in 2007. Then came 2008. Through June, income was close to the 2006 level, but July fell well short of the previous year’s level. Through October, income seemed to hold [...]
From The Gadgeteer’s interview with Marisa Giancarla, who is developing an e-book reader for the Newton OS: I have not seen the iPhone SDK so I don’t know how it compares development-wise to the Newton, but the lack of pen and ink support and handwriting recognition still haven’t been reached on the iPhone. There is a natural [...]
Gizmodo: On this first touch, the keyboard felt cramped, probably a result of the screen size, which is smaller than the iPhone’s—which is the obvious soft keyboard reference, since it was the first one to implement a finger-touch software keyboard. It’s going to be hard to beat the virtual keyboard on the iPhone.
