Wednesday, September 14, 2005
News
Apple Bolsters Mac OS X For Intel Development Efforts
Analyst: Early iPod Nano Sales Good, Not Great
iTunes Upgrade Has Users Griping
Complaints about iTunes 5 for Windows have surfaced over the past few days on numerous blogs and discussion boards, including the company's own discussion board at Apple.com.
EFF Wins Right To Unseal Apple Court Documents
The documents show that Apple planned to subpoena the anonymous sources of two reporters from AppleInsider and PowerPage before conducting an investigation inside the company.
Speakables For iTunes Released
Speakables for iTunes work in conjunction with Speakable Items to allow you to launch playlists just by using your voice.
Macs Vs. PCs: Ignore The Hype. What's Right For You?
Apple To Open San Antonio Retail Store Friday
Apple Releases Java Update 1.3.1 And 1.4.2 Release 2
Apple's Corporate Xserve RAID Updated
StuffIt Deluxe 10 Introduced
The new JPEG compression technology shrinks images and photos up to 30 percent with no loss in image quality, according to the developer.
Opinion
100 Songs Fits In 5 GB And 4 GB
Reader Says Mac Switch Is Easy
How hard is it to switch from a Windows PC to an Apple OS X Macintosh? I've said for a couple of years that it's easy, but you don't need to take my word for it. Here's what one reader's experience was like.
iPod's Dominance Is Risky Business
Even if the competition hasn't been much of an obstacle, that doesn't mean Apple's path is clear.
iPod Nano: Will Small Size Mean Big Sales?
While the iPod nano has just hit store shelves, early indications are a bit worrisome.
iTunes Image Files Suggest Video Store
There buttons with the terms "Gift Video", "Buy Video" and "Add Video" were found along with references to a "protected MPEG-4 video file" within text strings in the code of iTunes 5.
Authorized For A Day
Let me authorize a machine for a day, a week, a month, and to re-authorize, I have to enter the account password at the end of that period.
Review
iPod Nano — Small, Sleek And Superior
Apple's new iPod nano has a few problems, but overall it is a light and lovable gadget with cool features that far outweigh the annoynances.
Sweetening Your Xgrid With Cocoa
We'll take a look at XGridFoundation, a framework that allows you to integrate Xgrid into your Cocoa applications.
Sidetrack
Microsoft. User Interface. Innovation. In The Same Sentence
When something new works, we call it innovation. When something new doesn't work, we call it what-the-hell-are-you-thinking. (For example, Microsoft Bob.)
It's probably still too early to tell whether the new menu-bar-tool-bar combination from Microsoft works or not — well, at least, I hope it had passed usability tests in the hallways of Microsoft campus before it being unleashed on all of us — but I'm glad that Microsoft is trying out new things instead of just copying.
Although that metal window thingy looks familiar.
Speaking Of User Interface On Windows...
If you feel that iTunes 5 on Macintosh looks ugly, be glad that you are not using iTunes 5 on Windows. Imagine the same sharp-corners-are-cool window, with the menu bar squeezed in.
Arghhhhh!!!!!!!
Wintel
Menus Are Out In The Next Version Of Microsoft Office
Microsoft showed the next version of its widely used Office productivity software for the first time Tuesday — revealing a new aproach that abandons that standard drop-down menus in favor of a "ribbon" that presents the commands in a thick strip across the top of the window in such programs as Word and Excel.
Microsoft Thinks High-End With Vista
With Windows Vista, Microsofft is considering a product lineup that would include several new high-end editions of the operating system.
