That photo is pretty damn good.
Ahem.
Category: General Tech
Next Version of Flash Won’t Support G3s
The Adobe Flash Player 10.1 release, expected in the first half of 2010, will be the last version to support Macintosh PowerPC-based G3 computers. Adobe will be discontinuing support of PowerPC-based G3 computers and will no longer provide security updates after the Flash Player 10.1 release. This unavailability is due to performance enhancements that cannot be supported on the older PowerPC architecture.
I mean, they can’t get it running smoothly on platforms like Atom. It’s simply brutal on my old Sage iMac.
Macworld Highlights Five Apple Printers
This is a great part of Apple history that most people don’t even know about.
Teux Deux: A Fancy New GTD Web App
I’ve been playing with, and while it isn’t as strong as something like Remember the Milk, it’s very clever, and gorgeous.
Google Chrome’s New Ad is Adorable
Sting and His Unused iPhone
WSJ:
Trudie Styler, celebrating the launch of her new yoga DVD series, said her kids call her “Wilma Flintstone” because of her technological ineptness. “I’m really not good with my cellphone,” she said. “Videogames, definitely not. I would hope my DVDs would help people get away from all that.”
Her husband, Sting, owns an iPhone, but rarely uses it, he said. “I use my laptop to email. That’s really it. Although Tiger Woods has been calling my cellphone all week,” he joked. “I wonder what he wants?”
Buying an iPhone: Where the Money Goes
Gigaom has a lovely graphic explaining who gets how much money when an iPhone is purchased.
‘Think Different’ Coming Back?
We have noted that the new 21.5 and 27-inch iMac packaging has the “Macintosh. Think Different’ moniker inside it, below the specifications. In previous Macintosh packaging, Apple’s website URL is printed below the specifications list.
Today we find out, that on December 8, 2009, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple’s new trademark application for Think Different under application 77882684.
I, for one, would love to see them resurrect the slogan.
That Looks Familiar
MSI’s new nettop looks a lot like the old Apple Studio Displays, don’t you think?
‘They Specifically Wanted no DRM in the Original iPod’
Wired has posted a piece looking behind the curtain at the iPod’s birth. I love stuff like this.
AT&T Considering Price Changes?
Wireless data hogs who jam the airwaves by watching video on their iPhones will be put on tighter leashes, an AT&T Inc. executive said Wednesday.
The carrier has had trouble keeping up with wireless data usage, leading to dropped connections and long waits for users trying to run programs on their devices. AT&T is upgrading its network to cope, but its head of consumer services, Ralph de la Vega, told investors at a UBS conference in New York that it will also give high-bandwidth users incentives to “reduce or modify their usage.”
Droid is Time’s "Gadget of the Year"
Time:
Everybody likes Android, Google’s open-source smartphone operating system. But a smartphone operating system isn’t all that satisfying without an actual kick-ass smartphone wrapped around it. Now Android has one: The Droid is a hefty beast, a metal behemoth without the gloss and finish of the iPhone, but you don’t miss it. The Droid’s touchscreen is phenomenally sharp and vivid, it has an actual physical (not great, but good enough) keyboard, and best of all, the Droid is on Verizon’s best-of-breed 3G network. It’s Android’s first credible challenge to the iPhone.