In this video, he thanks the person who donated the liver he received, encouraged others to become organ donors and thanked Apple’s team for supporting him.
Category: Apple
G3 Users Left in the Quiet
iTunes 9’s requirements are a little steeper than its predecessor’s were:
Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5 or G4 processor
It also require OS X 10.4.11 or higher, leaving Panther and G3 owners behind.
iPods, Cameras and No Common Sense
Nano Gets Video Camera.
But — contrary to rumors, my own sources, and common sense — the iPod Touch does not.
Interesting to note how the Touch is now billed: “a great iPod, a great pocket computer, a great portable game player”.
The new FM tuner in the Nano has a TiVo-esque live pause feature, and lets you “tag” songs you hear for identification in iTunes when you’re back at your computer.
Oh, Yoko, You Didn’t
Now it looks like we’ve heard it from none other than Yoko Ono herself, who in a now-pulled Sky News article confirmed that the Fab Four’s headed for digital distribution. All that’s left of the piece is a Google cache of the first sentence, so for the full skinny, it looks like we’ll have to wait until tomorrow.
That woman ruins so many things.
The End of the iPod Classic?
Marco Arment is claiming the end is here for the iPod Classic:
It’s very clear that the Classic is a temporary product, stuck in the lineup as a bridge for high-storage-needs users (I’ll get to them in a minute) until flash memory is cheap enough to make a sufficiently high-capacity Touch. But it may not need to meet that capacity, exactly. When the Classic’s largest capacity dropped from 160 to 120 GB in the last refresh, nobody cared.
On Real Snow Leopards
“This is a boon for wild snow leopards,” said Brad Rutherford, Executive Director of the Snow Leopard Trust, “Apple is helping to show the world the beauty and majesty of this rare creature.”
Rutherford says the software launch has made consumers aware that the snow leopard is indeed a real animal and encouraged some of Apple’s partners to support snow leopard conservation, including donating a portion of profits.
More than three dozen Apple Specialist stores from California to New York are helping the Snow Leopard Trust sell cub adoption kits (specially priced for Mac’s new OS release) to raise money for conservation. Tekserve, an Apple Specialist retailer in New York, has decided to donate all the proceeds from the first 100 Mac OS X operating systems they sell. A full list of participating Apple Specialists is available at www.applespecialist.com/adoptions.
Apple TV?
Macworld:
What many have clamored for is the device that has the capabilities of a Mac mini media center, but without the accompanying complications. An Apple TV that plays and digitizes DVDs (and plays Blu-Ray discs), plays and records high-definition TV, streams Web content including Hulu, NetFlix, Rhapsody, Napster, Pandora, and Last.fm; provides access to iTunes libraries local and remote; and allows for rental and purchase from the iTunes Store as well as outlets such as Amazon.com. In short, the one-stop media box.
Need a Commodore 64? There’s An App For That
Manomio’s Commodore 64 emulator [$4.99] has finally been approved by Apple. We first reported on the project back in June, after Manomio had received their first rejection from Apple. The rejection was particularly disappointing considering the efforts that Manomio had made in making sure their emulator fully licensed and legal.
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The $4.99 C64 emulator costs $4.99 and includes 5 games: Dragons Den, Le Mans, Jupiter Lander, Arctic Shipwreck, and Jack Attack. Additional separately sold game packs will be coming soon. With the C64 emulator approved, Manomio is also clear to pursue further licensing deals and they have said they are actively working on adding new titles.
Gamma 2.2
Adobe Principal Scientist Lars Borg:
Macintosh, in 1984, introduced us to desktop publishing and to displays with shades of grays. Publishing at that time meant printing presses, and the dot gain of a typical press (then and now) corresponds to a gamma of 1.8. As color management was non-existent at the time (the first color management solutions did not appear until early 1990s, when color displays became more available), Apple’s pick of a 1.8 display gamma enabled the Macintosh displays to match the press.
Finder Animation
I found this little Snow Leopard gem today:
Pressing the Shift key has made minimizing items to the dock go into a similar slow motion mode since the introduction of Aqua.
The Little Touches
Snow Leopard continues Apple’s drive towards the future and break with the past. Millions of PowerPC-based Macs have just been abandoned, and the remarkable library of classic Mac applications has been long forgotten at corporate headquarters. But we understand and accept that as the price of progress.
It seems very obvious that Apple’s goal is to wean its customers off PowerPC hardware. At $29 per copy, Apple’s not trying to get rich from software sales, and a more likely explanation is the desire to cut costs by eliminating support and engineering costs for continuing PowerPC support. Cutting those expenses undoubtably makes business sense, and, no matter how many million they are in number, Apple’s not making much money off those customers still running PowerPC systems and older Mac operating systems for economic reasons, or because they have legacy hardware and software that are not supported by the latest Mac products.
On Freedom
Andy Ihnatko, in discussing MobileMe’s value makes this excellent point:
Apple — with some justification — has a nasty reputation for wanting and exerting this kind of influence and control. If that’s their reputation, why don’t they leverage it to the consumer’s maximum advantage? An Apple computer on an Apple network using an Apple online service to interact with an Apple mobile phone could be an absolutely glorious totalitarian state in which every app, document, and device you use has a passported conduit to everything else you use.