I caught this on MacNN a couple of days ago. Henrico County Public Schools is preparing to sell some of its used iBook computers that had been used as part of its effort to provide that provided laptops to every middle- and high-school student and teacher in the Richmond, Virginia-area school district. The iBooks will [...]
So by now you’ve all heard, right? Yahoo! bought Konfabulator. They’ll be offering it for free (refunds to those who paid for Version 2.0) to anyone who wants it. And yes, OS X development has been confirmed to continue. So what’s the angle here?
Yahoo is obviously in a fight for Search [...]
So the last time that Apple did their iTunes giveaway, a friend of mine won one of the click wheel iPods.
So today I went through the 100k winners to see if there was anyone local to me who won. Turns out there were 4 or 5. What I found interesting was [...]
King of all breaking news, Om Malik sends us the scoop: Apple Will do a Video iPod.
10.4.2 Mac OS X Update is out. Check the Apple Menu –> Software Update …
Update Info
Security Updates Info
Does anybody have upgrade thoughts/notes/caveats/warnings to share? I’ll try to install it later tonight. The mention of Dashboard widgets management enhancement caught my attention.
With iTunes 4.9, you can now browse and subscribe to podcasts from within the iTunes Music Store. Podcasts are frequently updated radio-style shows downloadable over the Internet. You can also transfer podcasts to iPod, for listening on the go.
iTunes 4.9 weighs in at a 9.9mb update, but is currently only available on a Mac, via [...]
It’s already been all over the usual news outlets, but just in case you had missed it, here’s a quickie to remind you of Google’s Beta Video Upload Program. While it had been out for quite a few months with a Windows uploader program, they more recently released uploaders for both OS X and Linux. [...]
First, President Bush was seen sporting an iPod on his bike, now Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II is using one. Reportedly, the 79-year-old sovereign has bought a six-gigabyte silver model for 169 pounds (255 euros, 310 dollars). Queen Elizabeth’s second son Prince Andrew, fourth in line to the throne, was reported to be behind [...]
It seemed like not too long ago that Adium was updated. Well, yet again, they have posted another update. You should download it if you haven’t already. Mostly bugfixes and other sorts of minor changes. Doesn’t seem to break anything … yet.
Previous notes on Adium at this link.
Since Apple’s announcement to switch to x86, there has been an increase in talk about the possibility of Apple licensing OS X to other PC manufacturers. The discussion came to a head today, when Fortune published a story quoting Michael Dell, former Dell Computer CEO (current Chairman of the Board), as saying “If Apple decides [...]
So I’m generally not the type to promote giving money away to people for no real good reason…and I’m still not. But I, for whatever reason, found this to be somewhat amusing.
A former NYC School of Visual Arts graduate (named Vinny) is in need of a G5…aren’t we all. Well Vinnie is doing something about [...]
A video has surfaced that supposedly shows the developer version of the x86 version of Tiger running on a Dell Laptop. It seems very clear to me that this is a hoax. Not only does the video neglect to provide the easiest proof — a clear view of the “About this Mac” window –, but [...]
Nokia is looking to leverage WebKit, the open-source project started by Apple based on Konqeror’s KHTML, in their next generation of mobile phones, the Series 60:
“Apple is pleased to assist Nokia in creating their new Series 60 browser based on the same KHTML open source technology that powers Apple’s Safari,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior [...]
MacDailyNews is reporting that the leaked copies of OS X Tiger for x86 will indeed run on standard PC hardware. This is not surprising, considering that this is a very early release, and Apple has no plans to make a profit off of this version. In the future, Apple will most likely control which computers [...]
Software Update will give you the lowdown, but for those as yet unaware, Security Update 2005-006 is now available for your enjoyment, incorporating fixes relating to:
AFP (AppleTalk File Sharing) Server - buffer overflow; ACL-related issues
Bluetooth - insufficient input checking - wrongly able to access files outside of the default directory
CoreGraphics - crash; privilege escalation
Folder Permissions [...]
There’s a lot of confusion surrounding Apple’s move from PowerPC CPUs to Intel x86 ones, so in the interests of clarification:
Mac OS X will run on my Dell
No, it won’t.
Somehow Apple will make sure that the operating system that makes the Mac special remains a Mac-only thing - as far as they can, perhaps by [...]
I for one am an advocate of “getting away” every now and then. I like to take the occasional vacation and “do without” for a few days. No cell phone, no PDA, and yes…no Apple. I frequently find myself in technology-overkill trying to stay up on all things geek. This doesn’t mean that I necessarily [...]
In yesterday’s write-up,I included Apple’s decription of Rosetta that contained the following section:
Rosetta does not run the following:
* Applications built for Mac OS 8 or 9
* Code written specifically for AltiVec
* Code that inserts preferences in the System Preferences pane
* Applications that require a G4 or G5 processor
* Applications that depend on one or more [...]
Following on from an earlier post, it seems that Japan’s record companies’ phobia of digital music distribution (by foreign companies) has been overcome. Mostly, anyway.
The Nikkei Shinbun is reporting that Apple is to launch its iTunes Music Store in Japan in early August, providing tracks from the majority of Japanese record companies, with preparations being [...]
So Apple are moving to Intel x86 chips.
I’m still rather reeling from the news. Being generally of a more cynical bent, I was inclined to go along with John Gruber’s various debunkings of the hype that so often precedes a WWDC. Shurely shome mishtake, I thought.
Evidently not. Unless Steve is just trying to see just [...]
