A crew of engineers at London’s Abbey Road Studios have spent four years working on the remasters using new technology and vintage equipment, the press release says, in an effort to preserve “the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings” and ensure “the highest fidelity the catalog has seen since its original release.”
You can pick the remastered collection
Threadless, the awesome t-shirt company, has marked down everything in their catalog to $9 today. Amazing.
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.
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.
Gizmodo linked to this Cisco ad that blew my mind. Watch, but be warned, there’s partial nudity. And lots of sweet Cisco gear.
Creation from Re:Birth Films on Vimeo.
Backblaze, the online backup company, has posted a lengthy blog entry about the custom hardware they’ve designed to store customer data:
A Backblaze Storage Pod is a self-contained unit that puts storage online. It’s made up of a custom metal case with commodity hardware inside. Specifically, one pod contains one Intel Motherboard with four SATA cards plugged into it. The nine SATA cables run from the cards to nine port multiplier backplanes that each have five hard drives plugged directly into them (45 hard drives in total).
Apple support article #ts2948:
Learn what you can do if you experience one or more of these issues with the hinges on your MacBook Air.
• Unable to close lid completely.
• Broken or cracked plastic near one or both of the hinges.
• More than one inch (2.54cm) of free play while opening or closing the lid.
• Lid falls freely into closed position from a 30-degree open position. (From a closed position, open the lid approximately 30 degrees and let go.)
From Mark Jardine at TapBots (the creators of the excellent Convertbot iPhone app) has written about their recent App Store rejection:
We’re no strangers to silly app rejection emails from Apple, but this one seems to take the cake (at least in our opinion). Convertbot 1.4 was rejected because our icon for Time is too similar to one of Apple’s default resource icons for History/Recent. They say users might get confused that our Time category might mean History or Recent. Now I might be able to understand if this happened when we first submitted Convertbot, but there have been multiple releases already so why is this a show-stopper now? It does worry me that our product has to be held back for another 1–2 weeks for something so trivial.
Once rumored for extinction, Apple’s entry-level polycarbonate MacBooks are on the verge of a refresh that will solidify them at the base of the Mac maker’s notebook offerings for the foreseeable future, AppleInsider has learned.
People familiar with Cupertino-based company’s plans say the 13-inch portables are presently undergoing an industrial design overhaul that will see them reemerge in the coming months with a slimmer, lighter enclosure and restructured internal architecture to boot.
Adobe has posted a .pdf outlining the current state of compatibility between Snow Leopard and their products:
Working closely with Apple, Adobe has tested and determined that our Adobe Creative Suite 4 products and components are compatible with Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
[…]
Older versions of Adobe creative software were not included in our testing efforts. While older Adobe and Macromedia applications may install and run on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (v10.6), they were designed, tested, and released to the public several years before this new operating system became available. You may therefore experience a variety of installation, stability, and reliability issues for which there is no resolution. Older versions of our creative software will not be updated to support Mac OS X Snow Leopard (v10.6).
Gizmodo has published a collection of photos showing the various retail boxes OS X has come packaged in over the last 8 year.
With the release of 10.6 this Friday, Apple is going to be taking a big step away from the “X” themed boxes. Instead, the Snow Leopard retail box features, well, a snow leopard.
Gizmodo complains about this:
I can haz clip art? Come on, Apple. What’s wrong with you?
![The Box Has Shrunk [243/365; 08/31/2009]](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3510/3876989182_82237baba6_b.jpg)