Adium has been a long-time favorite of many Mac users. While the free program started as a basic AIM client several years ago, the program now can connect you to not only your AIM buddies, but Google Talk contacts, MSN and Yahoo! chat buddies, and Facebook friends. Add all that to an interface that allows endless customization, and you get one slick app.
But there has been one hole in Adium for a long time: Twitter support. That’s changing:
iLounge has posted some photos of the new iPod Shuffle - in the box, out of the box, and out in the real world. My first impression: the new Shuffle is tiny. The photo with it side-by-side with Apple’s Bluetooth headset shows just how small it really is.
CBS Sports announced Thursday plans to stream NCAA March Madness basketball games live to Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch through a new application, but with a WiFi-only requirement and price tag of $4.99, many fans may choose to watch tournament for free on their Mac, PC, or big TV.
The app will feature a real-time graphical bracket with game match-ups, regions, and scores. Upon the completion of each game, video highlights will be available available on demand. Meanwhile, stat junkies might enjoy the CBSSports.com Edge Matchup game previews with full team-by-team analysis and matchup comparisons. Breaking tournament news will also be available through the app along with the standard box scores, game recaps, and team stats.
We just got the announcement, iPhone OS 3.0 is coming. Set your clocks, mark your calendars. It’s going down March 17th. Apparently, we’ll get a sneak peak at the new OS, as well as a look at a brand new version of the SDK. Exciting stuff indeed, and we’ll be there live at 10am PST (1pm EST) with the liveblog. Apple’s calling this an “advance preview of what we’re building,” so we’re not expecting anything ready to go as of the 17th, but hopefully this will allow developers to start building toward future functionality (hey, how about some push notifications?), and presumably users won’t have too many months to wait after that for the real deal.
Apple has updated the iPod Shuffle this morning, and boy, is it tiny. And it has no buttons for navigation. And it can talk. And clocks in at 4GB. Here’s some Apple PR to go with your coffee this morning:
iPod shuffle is based on Apple’s incredibly popular shuffle feature, which randomly selects songs from your music library. And now, when you can’t remember the name of a song or an artist playing, with the press of a button iPod shuffle tells you the name of the song and artist. iPod shuffle can even tell you status information, such as battery life. With the ability to hold up to 1,000 songs and the VoiceOver feature, you can now easily switch between multiple playlists on your iPod shuffle. iPod shuffle can speak 14 languages including English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
Mac Rumors and others are reporting that a Chinese manufacturer is building “touch panels” for a rumored Apple netbook.
I don’t think that the information is outright wrong, but I think it may be for something entirely different from the netbooks we’ve seen up to this point.
Netbooks are small, underpowered notebooks that are affordable. Many place $500 as the ceiling.
I don’t see Apple moving into that market. They’ve said over and over that they won’t be moving into that market.
A couple of weeks ago, I got an email from ForkBombr reader Greg McLaughlin, the writer of Cornfedtech, asking me if I’d do a series of interviews with him. I of course agreed, and the first section (about the new Mac mini) has been posted. I’ll post links to the additional segments as they show up.
I never really considered myself to be someone with a southern accent, but there are some parts in there that give me away. Especially the sentence about Apple “bumping it to a 800 port rather than the slower 400 standard.”
iWeb ’09 finally addresses this issue with the introduction of FTP publishing. In addition to MobileMe and exporting to a folder, you can now add a complete set of FTP criteria, specify a specific upload directory, and use SFTP or even SSL. This is certainly no substitute for clients like Transmit, but as far as iWeb’s K.I.S.S. approach goes, FTP publishing is one of the best moves Apple made to finally make iWeb an appealing alternative to all those new Mac users who don’t need MobileMe.
John Herrman over at Gizmodo wrote this week about Cydia, the software repository available for jailbroken iPhones and iPod Touch devices. The goal of the Cydia team is to allow free and paid-for apps through their store, allowing users to side-step Apple’s official App Store:
Converting Cydia into a proper application store won’t be complicated, and more or less amounts to Freeman adding a centralized payment service to the software. His competitive ambitions, though, aren’t so subtle: He told the WSJ that “the overworking goal is to provide choice” and that he plans on match or beat Apple’s commission for downloaded apps.
Bloomberg has an interview with Palm investor Roger McNamee, on Palm’s new device, the Pre:
“You know the beautiful thing: June 29, 2009, is the two- year anniversary of the first shipment of the iPhone,” McNamee said today in an interview in San Francisco. “Not one of those people will still be using an iPhone a month later.”
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“Think about it – If you bought the first iPhone, you bought it because you wanted the coolest product on the market,” said McNamee, 52. “Your two-year contract has just expired. Look around. Tell me what they’re going to buy.”
A (Very) Brief History of Apple Notebooks Apple’s first foray into “portable computing” was a nightmare. The “ Macintosh Portable” was a failure largely due to the technology of the time. Released in 1989, the Macintosh Portable was basically a Macintosh SE with lead battery, it clocked in at a whopping 15.8 pounds.
Two years later, Apple released the first PowerBook machines. The machines were small, light-weight, and fast - thanks largely to Sony, who actually engineered the machines. The machines - and the subsequent PowerBook Duo family - were a huge success, albeit mostly within the business world. Their high price tags usually kept them out of schools and individual’s hands.
Kirk Mastin, on printing an photo taken with an iPhone at 12x18:
Of course if you view the image closer than 2–3 ft you can see the grain in the image. However, most photos of this size are usually viewed at a distance of at least 4–6ft away. In this case, the photo looks amazing. The grain in an iPhone photo is irregular. iPhone photos have much smoother grain than many digital point and shoot cameras, which is a great thing: iPhone photo grain mimics analog film grain.
