Tuesday, January 17, 2006
News
Fake iPod Shuffles Flood China
Apple Denies iTunes Tax Plans
Apple has roundly denied reports that it plans to set up for business in the Channel Islands.
The iPod And The Fury
A reality check of the recent reports on mobile music and hearing loss.
Apple Bets Its Chips
Intel chips will give Macs some new zip. But Jobs still cares more about your living room than your office.
Opinion
Macworld Exp SF 2006: Exuding Confidence
It's instructive, I think, to mark the resurgence of Apple Computer by what happens at the annual Macworld Expo in San Francisco, both in terms of Apple's keynote announcements and the mood on the show floor.
Apple Develops Microsoft Vista Of Opportunity
The real winner in all of this is Intel.
Review
Macworld Expo 2006 Superlatives
It's time once again for our annual look at the best, the worst, and the weirdest products from Macworld Expo.
Sidetrack
Why Virtual PC/VMWare/Wine For Intel Mac Excites Me
Because my salary is derived from me creating Windows applications and libraries. An emulation environment that "runs natively" will be very exciting to me, as I only really need to run Visual Studio in Windows, leaving the rest of my digital life on the Mac.
I only need to carry one laptop while I was relaxing on my sofa to both debug my program and edit my iMovie.
Of course, the performance of Visual Studio in the emulation environment is likely to be not so great... Let's hope there's still some magic yet to be realized in research labs.
(P.S. In my entire working life so far, I've only written one Mac OS X application, and one class Mac library.)
