Tuesday, July 6, 2004
Top Stories
iPod's Scarcity Seems To Make Future Buyer's Hearts Grow Fonder
No one could've expected how phenomenal the demand has been.
News
iPod Packaging Wins Design Distinction Award
For the sixth straight year, Apple has taken home another I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review award, this time for its iPod packaging.
Fee-Based Web Music Hits Asia. But Where Is Apple?
'Take My House: It's A Dump' — Jobs
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is offering to give away his historic house — but there's a catch.
Apple Tries To Bite Into High-Performance Market
With the announcement that it is providing 1,566 servers to an Army supercomputer project, Apple is making a move into the high-performance computing market that may open new doors for the company.
iPods Are Security Risk, Woarns Analyst
Companies should consider banning portable storage devices such as Apple's iPod from corporate networks as they can be used to introduce malware or steal corporate data, according to an analyst.
Opinion
Concerns About Spotlight And Non-Extensible Types Of Data
I don't just want fast searching and thing like search folders/groups. I want to be able to extend the system to pay attention to the metadata I care about.
Tiger And The (R)evolution Of Mac OS X
Widget Wars: Thoughts On The Konfabulator-Dashboard Brouhaha
The Konfabulator-Dashboard issue is a public relations nightmare for Apple. The company should have seen it coming and did nothing to diffuse it.
Tiger Primer: Dashboard
It's safe to assume that once Tiger arrives we'll be seeing a flood of homegrown Dashboard applications.
Konfab Confab
Apple does buy products from third-party developers. What Apple doesn't pay for are ideas. I am unaware of any company that does.
It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times
Which Apple is going to show up in the next twelve months?
Rendezvous With The Desktop
While Apple remains a proprietary software vendor, their increasing portfolio of Free Software shows that they have a serious commitment to Free Software, perhaps more so than many of the proprietary GNU/Linux distribution companies that have appeared in recent years.
Review
Annoying AirPort Error Message #1
If you're going to throw an error message this useless, log more detailed information to the Console or wherever so I can figure out what the hell is going on without wasting two hours on a nice holiday afternoon.
Out With The Old, In With The New; A Comedy Of Eras
Office Workers
One of the most appealing features of Microsoft Office for Mac is Project Centre.
Sidetrack
Smart Folders, Bookmarks, And More
Here's Mail 2.0.
iPod Can Be Used To Steal Data?
Gartner advises that companies should ban iPods, as the portable hard disk can be used to steal large amount of corporate data.
What? Ths security risk has always been there since the days of floppy disks.
Maybe we should ban people with photographic memory too?