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.
As popular as netbooks are, they have some fundamental flaws (small keyboards, etc), but one of the biggest problems is their operating system.
Most netbooks come with Windows XP, which is fine for most users, but there are not a lot of good alternatives. Of course, Microsoft requires XP-powered netbooks to be limited to 1GB of RAM, which irks many users, Vista is pretty much out of the question due to the under-powered nature of netbooks - even with 2GB of RAM. Windows 7 looks promising, but is still in beta.
After one of their investors slammed the iPhone last week, Palm has published a paper retracting the statements with such comments like:
With respect to the statements in the tenth paragraph of the transcript that the Palm Pre is “going to be a million times – well, not a million times – several times faster” than Apple, Inc.’s iPhone products and is “going to run rings around them on the web,” the Palm Pre is still under development and it is premature to state the speed at which the device accesses the web or the relative speed of the Palm Pre compared to the smartphone products of competitors.
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.
Representatives of the four largest newspapers of Tennessee – Nashville’s Tennessean, Memphis’ Commercial Appeal, Chattanooga Times-Free Press and Knoxville’s News Sentinel – met Feb. 4, 2009, to explore opportunities to cooperate to leverage their resources. During the discussion, all agreed that readers would be best served if the papers found ways to eliminate duplicate effort and share content of interest throughout the state.
Hit that link for more details - it’s fascinating.
