In what appears to be an answer to Apple’s Mac mini, Japan’s Soldam has released the Lepty PC. It comes in a casing that has the option of a Pentium M or Celeron M process and a DVD-+R/RW/RAM burner. One plus (for the Jr. High girl in all of us) is that it comes in [...]
Motorola has just officially announced the E1060 phone, with support to play iTunes music. The phone comes with a 1.3 megapixel camera that can be used to take still photos or to participate in a video conference. Other features include bluetooth and a/v streaming. The phone will come with 32MB of memory built in, expandable [...]
I recently bought some Radtech OmniCleanz cleaning solution. In the past I have tried pretty much everything to clean my notebook displays, with no avail. Soapy water leaves residue, and is water… which is bad for electronics. Alcohol leaves streak marks. Along with my order I got a black Notebook ScreenSaverz mat (look for my [...]
A French consumer group has filed suit against Apple and Sony over their music services. The group argues that the companies are deceitful in the fact that their music will only work on their own players. This is the second challenge to Apple in the French courts. Last year, VirginMega brought suit against Apple to [...]
Reading over this post gives a decent overview of why you might initially think porting MacOS to other hardware platforms is a good idea. Oh, other hardware is so much cheaper, it would offer such great competition.
MacOS should stay firmly where it is: on Apple-controlled hardware. Why? The same reason that Microsoft shouldn’t allow third-party [...]
I remember hearing rumors of Apple building and testing x86 based PowerMacs with an x86 build of Mac OS X back months before the announcement of the PowerMac G5. Well now in an interview on Fortune (subscribers only for full article) it is mentioned that Apple has been contacted by PC manufactures about licensing Mac [...]
I’m an organizational freak. I organize everything. All of the files on my machine are organized into sub-folders of sub-folders of sub-folders using my own personal organizational system I’ve developed over the years. I know where everything is. The hardest files to organize and find, though, have always been media files. Photographs, QuickTime files, [...]
Speculation has arisen in the Mac community that Apple is planning to release a Powerbook with a display capable of high definition video. MacosXrumors has received an email from a very observant reader:
I noticed the new powerbook manuals have changed their wording from referencing the 1440×900 panel to:
Depending on how your Powerbook was configured, [...]
For months I’ve been trying to fine tune the equalizer in iTunes. No matter which frequencies I meticulously adjusted or how high or low I set the Preamp at, it always just sounded like dirt. I’m no professional sound engineer by any means but I’ve spent quite a deal of time in various recording studios [...]
Check this out. This guy turned his Mac mini into a “mini” server. The Mac mini he used get’s ripped to shreds. Good times.
Apple today announced a 2 for 1 stock split, approved by Apple’s Board of Directors. The number of authorized Apple common stock was proportionally increased from 900 million to 1.8 billion. All shareholders on record at the close of business on February 18 will receive one additional share for each share outstanding held. [...]
Okay, so Napsters CEO doesn’t “directly” call iPod users stupid, but in an interview Chris Gorog talks about Napster’s newest marketing ploy which will “be communicating to people that it’s stupid to buy an iPod.” Stupid? Napster will be selling music on a subscription based model using technology that will allow you to transfer your [...]
The former founder and CEO of mp3.com Michael Robertson’s new online music store MP3tunes has launched. The new site features 192kbps DRM-less mp3 files that will work cross-platform and on nearly every portable music player made for 88¢ per song. Currently the site has no support from any major labels.
So what does this have to [...]
I am not sure which is worse; the Mac mini Bodysnatcher I mentioned last month or the new Mac mini Mind Stealer that was mentioned on Slashdot yesterday. At least this newest one still runs Mac OS X. If I can get the Bodysnatchers to send me the Mac mini internals and these people to [...]
Portraits & Prints from Econ Technologies is an application much like those you will find at many portrait studios. It features quick and easy touch-up and picture printing functions with easy to use templates for printing multiple images in different sizes on the same sheet of paper.
Being a photography major I was the natural choice for reviewing this software, and this is actually a product I have been meaning to try out. I am an almost daily user of Adobe Photoshop so I wasn’t quite sure whether or not I would like this application at first. It didn’t take me long to realized that it was actually a very handy application.
As reported in detail on MacRumors, Panther update 10.3.8 is now available through Software Update. It weighs in at a hefty 27mb and fixes/optimizes a number of different things across the operating system.
As good sense goes (and by popular recommendation), it’s generally better to wait a day or so after a software update is [...]
Looks like some more classic Apple media has surfaced over here. It was mentioned by Slashdot, so slashdotting is in effect… Plan your download times accordingly.
(I imagine the it’s only a matter of time before sites start getting “TABbed” like crazy… ;))
If you’re all about showing that iPod Shuffle off, and don’t care to spend more on accessories than the Shuffle itself, then here’s the case for you!
Gizmodo reported on the iPodLounge mention (where you can see some other pics of sick iPod casings as well) of this awesome custom brushed metal case for the Shuffle. [...]
I never thought I’d able to do this (or want to), but I’ve now completely cataloged my entire library of books and DVDs. What’s more, I now have the genre the various tomes fall in, how much the copies are currently going for on Amazon.com and how they’re rated by the various internet reviewers on [...]
Newsfire is an amazing news aggregator from developer David Watanabe. Unlike many of its competitors, Newsfire confronts the user with the elegance design and OS integration of an iApp. From the brushed metal interface, to the iChat-esqe feed bar, Newsfire screams “Panther”. Newsfire has been my reader of choice since Josh told me about it [...]
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