Wednesday, August 11, 2004
News
Area Schools Take Laptops
Nine local high schools will get laptop computers this fall in a deal brokered between the state and Apple late last week.
No Sales Tax This Saturday At Three Massachusetts Apple Stores Open 24 Hours
The Apple Store is participating in Massachusetts' Tax-Free Days all day Saturday.
Apple Struggles With Motion Problems
Apple has published a number of Knowledge Base articles describing issues with Motion, its application for real-time motion graphics.
Meet The iPod's Intel
PortalPlayer, which filed for its IPO on Aug 4, bears watching over the next few months. Here's why. PortalPlayer gets most of its business from a Taiwanese company called Inventec. And Inventec is the company that makes this little device that you may have heard — it's called the iPod.
Turning Jukeboxes Into Teaching Aids: A Chat With Tracy Futhey
Behind the Duke University's initiative is Tracy Futhey, chief information officer and vice president for information technology. Gadgets can't make poor teachers great, the West Virginia native says, but they can improve the educational experience.
Apple Releases Pro Application Support 2.1
Maelstrom For Mac OS X Updated
Apple Releases iSync 1.5
iSync 1.5 adds support for more devices such as the latest Sony Ericsson, Motorola and Sendo phones.
Opinion
Apple And Sun: Learning From Each Other
Apple needs to learn from Sun how to share.
OS X Calculator: Sick, Unreliable?
The built-in calculator in OS 10.4 may be wildly unreliable.
Review
Apple Pleasure: iPod Mini Demystified
Aple's iPod mini is a deliciously cruel device. Like a chocolate cake when you're on a diet. It's possibly the most beautiful piece of digital audio hardware currently in existence — but it costs over Rs 20,000 and has a capacity of only 4 gigabytes.
The Next Do-It-Yourself Mac: Maximize Your Hardware — From Installing A SuperDrive To Building A Music Server
Apple iPod
The latest iPod is incremental progress. If you haven't yet joined the cult of iPod, the improvements and lower prices mean your patience will be handsomely rewarded.
Sidetrack
Well, definitely not using Windows server to run a Linux show. Or to use the same Windows server to run a Macintosh show either.
I'm not sure why Microsoft feel the need to reinvent the name of their operating system with every major release: Windows 1.0 to 3.1.1, Windows 95 to 98, Windows NT 3.5 to 4.0, Windows Me, Windows 2000 to 2003, Windows XP. Sure it's confusing, isn't it?
But, anyhoo, can you help out Microsoft's marketing department in coming up with a new name for Longhorn?
Wintel
Microsoft Opens Cut-Price Windows
Microsoft is to launch a cheaper version of its Windows Xp operating system in an effort to halt the rise of low-cost Linux software.
IE Is Evolving, But Is It Enough?
Microsoft reiterated this week that it does not plan a new version of Internet Explorer until it releases the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn.
