The following products are going to be marked vintage in the US and obsolete in other countries next month:
This marks the first Intel desktop machines to be marked as vintage, which makes me feel old.
Thanks, Mr. Source!
I used to pimp the crap out of my PowerBook with this little app. Sad day.
Outlook.com is a new web email service from Microsoft. Built in the Metro style, the interface is clean — in fact, it makes Gmail look cluttered and iCloud look just silly.
I would love to see Microsoft grow this service. If it offered Exchange accounts to the public for free, it’d be a real game-changer, and would let the company take Gmail and iCloud on in a way that Microsoft can’t currently. Sadly, at this time all the service can offer is POP access, which is lamesauce.
Andrew Cunningham, at Ars, on Mountain Lion Server:
My fear in this brave new world is that OS X Server will suffer the same fate as Apple Remote Desktop, another enormously useful tool if you’re trying to manage a large number of Macs. Remote Desktop’s last major update, version 3.0, was introduced all the way back in 2006. Though it is still technically being maintained and sold in the Mac App Store—its current version is 3.6—most of those point updates have served only to add compatibility with new OS X versions and add incremental feature improvements like IPv6 support.
The new Day One update is here, and it’s pretty great.
The new update expands the app’s capabilities from just text entry. Now, journal entries can include location, photos and even the weather.
I work on a Mac all day long, and for me at least, journalizing at my computer has never been successful. I always have a notebook in my back pocket, and more often then not, if I journal, that’s where it happens. With the new Day One, I can snap a photo of my page and file it away.
The Daily Helmsman, in an update regarding its budget being cut:
University of Memphis President Shirley Raines has said in an email that she has asked her executive assistant to review the circumstances surrounding the funding cut of the Daily Helmsman.
“Even though it is my understanding that the committee’s initial decision to cut the Helmsman’s funding was not based on the content of the newspaper, I want to be sure that this is the case,” Raines wrote Wednesday in an email reply to a U of M alumni who was upset about the funding cut.
I’ve been using Chocolat as my text editor for several weeks, and have been pretty impressed by it. It’s fast, good-looking and works a lot like TextMate.
And it has an awesome Easter Egg in its “About” screen:
I was honored to be on the inaugural episode of Command Space, a new show on the 70Decibels network. This week, Myke and I interviewed the one and only Merlin Mann.
Check out the following headlines:
Now, read these:
See the difference?
This week, Myke and I talk about Myke’s upcoming new podcast, Mountain Lion & reporting on iPhone rumors.
This week’s episode was made possible by Squarespace.
Dante D’Orazio:
Google has just let us know that it is delaying the launch of the Nexus Q as it works to improve the device. The Nexus Q order page on Google Play has been taken down, and now simply leaves customers with a note that the device “is coming soon.”
It’s not all bad news for those who pre-ordered, however: Google has informed us that those who did reserve the device will be receiving it in its current form for free.
