Om Malik is telling us about GUBA, one of a “few” Usenet indexing services. It primarily surfaces videos, such as old commercials, music videos, and just about anything … “else” people like to post on Usenet, which may or may not be of questionable legality. But they’re just an indexing service!
Tens of thousands of customers [...]
Apple’s latest special event (who’s keeping count these days?) saw the upgrade of the 15″ and 17″ powerbooks with higher resolutions (1440×960 and 1680×1050 respectively), as well as dual core CPUs and dropped pricing on the 23″ and 30″ Cinema Displays. These are all worthy announcements to be sure. But the last thing [...]
One of the aspects of the migration to Intel hardware for Apple is going to be the support for existing applications that we all know and love. Some applications are only going to be updated when an upgrade takes place. Others are only going to come when real Intel based Macs are in peoples hands.
So I finally managed to dig a hole out from under the piles of projects I have to deal with in order to check out the latest entry into the land of the Sims. As you probably already know, the Sims and its numerous expansions - I can’t even remember them all - are huge, [...]
eBay has become ubiquitous nowadays for buying and selling stuff online. A lot of people rely on it to sell their old belongings and many use eBay as their primary business tool. eBay has released their web services so that developers can build applications which can integrate with eBay’s functionalities. One such tool for helping [...]
Apple surpassed everyones expectations today, releasing not only a video iPod, but a video store, as well as a new iMac with home media center software, and an integrated iSight.
The New iPods!
Apple released revisions to their iPod line that include larger screens and the ability to play videos. The iPods are available in both white [...]
HardMac.com has released screenshots, obtained from an anonymous source, that show a developer build of OS X for Intel running on a machine with FOUR 2.6 GHz Pentium 4 processors. Every time I see something like this, I get more excited about the switch to Intel, as all sources seem to point to a faster [...]
I just came across a fairly easy way of getting high resolution album art for any album in your iTunes library. Navigate in the iTMS to the album for which you want the art, right click on the album title in the top frame, and copy the URL. Then, post that URL into this site, [...]
As always, Om Malik’s got some inside information regarding NewsGator buying NetNewsWire.
Do you readers believe NewsGator picked the right Mac RSS reader? Would this actually be good for NetNewsWire?
Dan had done a fairly extensive review of News Readers a while back. And Vienna too!
As you may have heard, it would appear the Treo 700 is going to be announced tomorrow Monday September 26th, 2005.
TreoCentral.com will be covering the event live.
Rumors are claiming they’re going with Windows. R.I.P., PalmOS?
That isn’t stopping me from having more fun with the Treo 650.
A while back, I’d briefly praised Flickr.com.
In your Flickr [...]
I’ve recently acquired a Treo 650. It’s quite neat. What follows is a collection of a few useful resources and lessons learned, getting the Treo working with Mac OS X Tiger:
Regular backups of important data are crucial to ensure that if the worst happens, one can get back up and running quickly; but you already knew that. The big question is, how do you do it? Backup strategies are as varied as the personalities of the people who created them, ranging from strict daily backups [...]
Apple has released an update to iTunes that will supposedly fix stability issues that some users have been experiencing. This emergency bug fix update follows a recent trend in which Apple releases software that is seemingly not ready for release, such as in the case of OS X 10.4.1, which was released just days after [...]
How much innovation is there in Microsoft’s Windows Vista, due in Q4 2006, and how much of it is borrowed from that company from Cupertino?
I came across a very interesting article on Wired that explains the general dismay people have with the seeming lack of randomness that results from random playlists. Dan Goodin (the writer) explains some of the lengths he’s gone to in order to achieve random bliss - going so far as to touch on Real [...]
A rockin’ app I ran across a few days back that has significantly increased my productivity and efficiency is Peter Maurer’s Textpander. It uses user-defined ’snippets’ to automatically insert text and images.
By typing ‘ddate’ it automatically inserts the current date. By typing ‘tab’ I get “The Apple Blog is eternally awesome.” Textpander’s auto-insert function [...]
Ars Technica is covering the quiet release of Apple’s support for Video Podcasting.
The field of People’s Media is about to get more interesting. A similar effort was actually pioneered by ParticipatoryCulture.org and their DTV platform.
Nick had also written a piece on finding audio and video content by subscribing to a custom RSS feed in iTunes. [...]
One of the things that drove me crazy about iTunes 4.x, once I’d hooked up speakers to my Airport Express and started streaming music from my computer using AirTunes, was that I could not get the streaming radio stations listed in iTunes’ Radio section to play out over the remote speakers. I eventually came up [...]
So after getting over my initial reaction that the black iPod Nano is the official iPod of Pirates, Ninjas, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, I realized a few things about Apple’s big releases:
iPod stuff
I’m going to hold out until the black look is applied to the larger iPods.
The armbands are not in black. They are [...]
According to a recent article on macosxhints.com, the random password generator widgets may not be so random after all. Apparently, the JavaScript call Math.random() is quite repetitive in its creation of passwords. I was delighted when I found a widget that destroyed my only excuse for using the same password over and over again, but [...]
