Scott McNulty: The first iPod had 10 hours of battery life, a FireWire port (which I still miss), and 5GB of storage for $399. Oh, and it was Mac-compatible only. When I first heard about it I thought, “Who the heck even has one gig of music? Dumb move, Apple.” Good thing Apple doesn’t call [...]
Ars Technica: If digging through build trees for a Mac build of Chromium (the open source project behind Chrome) was more trouble than you wanted to go through, here’s some good news for you: Google today announced availability of an official Google Chrome for Mac developer preview at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. [...]
PC World: McCain’s bill, the Internet Freedom Act, seeks to do the opposite of what its name implies by ensuring that broadband and wireless providers can discriminate and throttle certain traffic while giving preferential treatment to other traffic. Basically, those in power or those who pay more will have better access. Apparently we have different [...]
Apple: The ZFS project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository will also be removed shortly. Mac Rumors: ZFS is an advanced file system developed by Sun that had been ported to Mac OS X and released as an open source project on Apple’s Mac OS Forge collaboration site in 2007. ZFS had been [...]
Gizmodo: Happy 8th Birthday, iPod-you don’t look a day over… Aww, who am I kidding? You look old. [...] Because the problems weren’t fixed by the release of the perfect iPod, but a whole new species: the iPhone and its non-phone-y sidekick, the misnamed iPod Touch. (There’s a good reason why many people prefer to [...]
Nilay Patel: The MacBook is an extremely competent, utterly boring laptop that doesn’t have enough ports. At only $200 more, I don’t understand why anyone — other than maybe schools — wouldn’t upgrade to the 13-inch MacBook Pro.
Apple kbase article HT3920: Apple will support Microsoft Windows 7 (Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate) with Boot Camp in Mac OS X Snow Leopard before the end of the year. This support will require a software update to Boot Camp. This marks the first time not all Intel-based Macs will be included in a Boot [...]
The Mac Observer posted a story this morning titled “iPhone 3GS, 3G iPod touch Could Make Apple a Major Mobile Gaming Player.” I’d replace “could make” with “have made.”
Apple kbase article HT2300: They’re pronounced the same, but, technically speaking, there is a distinct difference between a disc and a disk. I love it. [via MacUser]
Macrumors: As usual, iFixit has been quick to dissect Apple’s updated MacBook, offering an extensive gallery of photos documenting the process. A few notes of interest: – There is no external indicator of battery charge state. – There is no infrared port, meaning that the new model is incompatible with Apple Remotes. – The integrated [...]
