The question for the past few years has been simple: who’s going to make it into the living room first. The market is growing, features are being added, but no clear victor has been declared.
I think I may have come upon a conclusion that appeases almost everyone. Bear with me, it’s a bit loopy. I [...]
I use Blockbuster Online, and I love it. Apple TV and downloadable rentals that I can transfer to my iPod sounds even better than getting DVDs in the mail, but I don’t own one. The Blockbuster subscription plan works well for me and is cheaper than the $229 required for the Apple TV. I have [...]
Evernote, which was once a Windows-only, highly-complex clippings database, has re-invented itself with a new 3.0 beta release that combines a feature-smart client for OS X (& Windows) with creative and handy web & mobile functionality to ensure you never forget anything. I managed to wait in the beta line long enough to get an [...]
The Apple/Adobe relationship has been a tad strained lately. Apple has been less than helpful with providing Adobe necessary information for their development process, and Adobe has taken the stance of ignorance in regards to porting their apps from Carbon to Cocoa.
Yesterday, Adobe’s John Nack wrote that the next version of Photoshop (CS4) would support [...]
With less than six months under its belt, Leopard is preparing to receive its third update to 10.5.3. This update includes 75 fixes from Address Book to VoiceOver. The list includes changes to: AddressBook, AppleScript, Audio, Back To My Mac, Dashboard, Dock, DVD Player, Finder, Graphics, iCal, Mail, Portable Home Directories, Printing, Rosetta, Spaces, Spotlight, [...]
With the 3,700 songs of my iTunes library constantly pushing some sort of noise out of my speakers, iTunes is easily the most used app on my computer. It literally never gets closed.
With it being my most used app, I’ve taken quite a bit of time trying out different add-ons to make the most of [...]
This year there are a plethora of options for getting your 2007 U.S. tax returns in on time and without spending all of your refund on software and filing fees. Get an overview of what’s out there and don’t be shy about letting us know what worked for you.
Microsoft made no attempt to hide the fact that they would be dropping support for VisualBasic scripting when they released their new office suite for the Mac. While this has caused some serious angst in corporate environments, the uproar was slightly muted due to the inclusion of pretty decent AppleScript support in all of the [...]
A Tumblr post by Truong Nguyen regarding an alternate ending for “I Am Legend” struck a serious chord in me today, and not just because the the ending is a much better one than they showed in the theater. It demonstrated what is still a glaring gap in the iTunes / Netflix-streaming / Amazon Unbox [...]
Dan Benjamin of The Talk Show fame posted a general inquiry to the Twitterverse on how to disable the Leopard open confirmation dialog that comes up when you attempt to access a recently downloaded file.
This dialog is a one of Leopard’s new security features called “File Quarantine” and is primarily designed to protect users from [...]
The Baltimore Sun is reporting today that Apple sales will stay strong regardless of a declining and troubled economy. I wonder if a bonus check from the government has anything to do with this. Changewave Research conducted a survey of consumers and corporations that plan on buying a computer in the next 90 days. According [...]
If your daily existence is anything like mine you collect a decent number of items that need to – or at least should be – filed, stored or organized in some way. Whether they be downloaded PDF documents or saved purchase records, grocery store receipts or just important physical papers these items are probably either [...]
Last year, AppleInsider claimed inside sources foretelling the forthcoming discontinuation of the Mac Mini. This year, they are claiming that not only is it going to stay around, but that it is going to get a big bump in specs, including 45-nanometer 2.1 Ghz Intel processors and Intel XMA X3100 graphics controllers. So, not only [...]
Mozilla CEO John Lilly posted a scathing post about Apple auto-updating Windows users’ iTunes and Quicktime programs while adding in Safari 3.1. Lilly starts out by describing how important it is to update programs for the sake of security. He says:
There’s an implicit trust relationship between software makers and customers in this regard: as a [...]
The big day has come and gone and we have many more details regarding the iPhone Development Program. Much of what I discussed in the previous post regarding enterprise support has been adopted by Apple, though only the privileged few that were allowed into the enterprise beta program know the full details (and I am [...]
The Financial Times and other sites are reporting that Apple is mulling a subscription plan that would allow users to download unlimited songs to their iPod or iPhone. To get unlimited downloads, you would presumably have to pay a higher premium when you purchase the device, but then you would have the ability to download [...]
As I’ve been catching up from an illness backlog, I came across this press release from ActiveState – providers of commercially-supported versions of Perl, Python & TCL – on their decision to take their great editor Komodo Edit open source. This editor has been based on the Mozilla code base, and the open source version [...]
With the newly released iPhone SDK, Webkit, Safari (now available on Mac & PC) and Apple’s professional audio and video software such as Logic, Final Cut and Shake, I was fully expecting to see a rather prominent Apple booth at the SXSW tradeshow.
I did see a handful of Apple employees on the list of panelists [...]
I normally avoid anything that looks like tech support in my entries here, but this may verge on an exception. Bear with me, and I’ll explain.
I rebooted my Macbook Pro about four days ago, and lo, to my surprise, the icon for my boot drive had vanished. I was, too say the [...]
While primarily due to being ill *yet again* (I’m beginning to think Seattle is the nation’s cold/flu incubator), last week’s blogging was further disrupted by the preparations for and celebration of our last child’s second birthday. As you can imagine, children of geeks tend to get more geeky presents and Ian is now the proud [...]
