Many of us think we do. Yet it’s widely-known and accepted that most of what we see, hear, and read in traditional media is owned and dispensed by a handful of corporations, whose interests and/or technological limitations all-too-often conflict with giving us effective coverage of all issues at hand.
Why is it that in the U.S., [...]
Well, I’ve finally gotten the next Quicksilver Screencast put together. I’ve changed gears a few times, and it’s prolonged the release. Sorry about that. But hopefully we’re on course to start this the right way, and build upon it.
Instead of doing a back to basics type of screencast, I’ve chosen to do [...]
For those of you out there that are regular readers of theappleblog, you’ll probably have already seen this review. Now I don’t want to re-invent the wheel, so if you want a nice general overview of what TextMate is, then head over and have a look. This article attempts to bring some insight into the [...]
update 04/27: Twist, points out that Microsoft is looking to port its presentation framework to Mac OS X and other platforms.
As dramatically unimpressed as I remain with the consumer-end of its upcoming operating system, Microsoft is doing a number of cool things for Windows software developers. Let’s take a brief look at the Windows Presentation [...]
The New York Post is reporting the record labels can’t convince Stonewall Jobs to use variable pricing in the iTunes Music Store.
The companies (refering to the recording agencies) all charge different wholesale prices - roughly between 60 cents and 80 cents a track - but within each company the prices are the same. Now they [...]
Two handy new features were added to the iTunes Music Store today.
The first feature, which I am quite excited about, is called Commercial Success. Everyone has heard a song on a TV spot, loved it, but had no idea what it was called, or who it was by. Commercial Success lists songs featured in [...]
That’s right, Apple. You should help Adium out by contributing the one thing that keeps me using iChat - video conferencing. Sorry to say, but iChat isn’t much good for anything else. I like that it looks through my address book for potential iChatting buddies, but anyone with a year of AppleScript experience can do [...]
I gave a speech today on the pros and cons of Apple against Windows Computers, and I discussed how one of the misconceptions that I’ve seen about Macs is that you can’t game on them. This of course is entirely untrue; but for some reason, many people don’t beleive you can game on a [...]
Quote macnightowl.com:
“When the iPod came out in 2001, it was regarded as a curiosity by most of you, an overpriced consumer electronics toy that might gain a small following, but not much more. However, Apple then did the unthinkable, which was to expand support for Windows users, including the release of iTunes for Windows. Today, [...]
Dvorak must not have a lot to write about these days. He’s says Apple should 100% open source OS X. “That would make the battle between OS X and Linux the most interesting one on the computer scene”. I didn’t know Apple was worried about competing with Linux. If anything, I view them as complementary [...]
The announcement of the Intel switch sent us spinning. Developers rioted. The Mac devout were stunned. Then Steve said “It’s just a chip, and you can click these check boxes to build fat binaries” and things settled down a little.
Except a few things are still lacking on the Intel side of the house. I haven’t [...]
It seems our cult of Mac has been turned upside down with the advent of running another OS on a Mac. Yes I know about Yellow Dog and other Nixen and that’s great for specific applications. Some say Windows on a Mac is bad news for Mac OS X, while others defend OS X as [...]
The release of Boot Camp has ignited a flurry of comment both from within and without the Mac web, and Robert X Cringely has gone as far as to dredge up that old hypothesis about Apple allowing Mac OS X to run on commodity Dell or HP boxen. The (non-)story made it to Slashdot, with [...]
According to Forbes.com Taiwan’s Asustek got an order for 1.2 million 13.3 inch Apple iBooks supposedly coming in June. These new iBooks would be powered by Intel’s new microprocessors; either the Core Duo or Core Solo. Does this mean that the Ibook will be renamed to the Macbook? Or maybe the ‘I’ in [...]
Scott Stevenson, purchased a Powerbook from Apple, he literally beat the living daylights out of it, and it works. He says that the airport express card works, and that it still boots. Obviously by the picture you can tell the LCD or optical drive will not work, however it appears he has [...]
Every once in a while I’ll logout of OS X and switch to KDE. Hey I’m a geek, so that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it. But this makes me appreciate the guidelines on user interface that OS X employs and I always end up logged back in. When trying to get stuff done, [...]
After setting up an Intel iMac with XP, courtesy of Boot Camp, I noticed a nice little feature that Apple added to XP for the Mighty Mouse. If you click on the front right-side of the Mighty Mouse in XP, you’ll get the contextual menu to pop up just like if you had a two-button [...]
With the Mac-web in a tizzy about Boot Camp (and also the very interesting Virtualization software Parallels Workstation released shortly thereafter), a question again comes to mind that I’ve been wondering about for a while, but which recent events make all the more relevant.
A few weeks ago Microsoft released an interesting video (warning: Windows [...]
First let’s make it clear that I’m not a secret agent or have any knowledge of upcoming announcements. Yesterday’s release of Boot Camp reminded me of a speech Steve Jobs gave at Stanford.
“Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots [...]
After what has been rather frantic session of debate over here at The Apple Blog, the rest of the world has started to really discuss what’s going on after the surprise introduction of Boot Camp.
Amongst the wider discussion is this article by usatoday.com. Now I’m English and don’t really have a grasp of how big [...]
