Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Top Stories
iPod People
Legions of music lovers turn to little portable jukeboxes.
Mac Word Notes View ANd OneNote
The number one constraint is development resources. Availability of development resources doesn't invovle what you already have in the bank. It involves the return you can expect to receive from committing those resources to a particular project. It's about profitability.
Apple, Adobe Drifting Apart
They share an area code, a customer segment and a history dating back to the early days of personal computing. But Apple Computer and Adobe Systems, like many in long-term relationships, have seen the 20-year-and-counting bond betwen them run hot and cold.
News
Apple's iPod Patent Not Thinking Differently Enough
Designer Noel Rubin was a little perturbed. iPod's interface bears a striking resemblance to his 'scrollJET' project, a Macromedia Shockwave front end that allows visual hierarchical browsing of filesystems.
iTunes 'Is Music-Licence Leader'
Apple's business model "responds to many of the current legal and technological challenges in online media distribution."
Apple In 3D-Audio Move
Apple has announced that it is officially endorsing OpenAL — a cross-platform three-dimensional audio API — and has contributed modifications that result in dramatic performance enhancements for gaming audio on Mac OS X.
WiebeTech Offers Quad BayDock 800
The device is a four-drive FireWire 800 enclosure suitable for RAID applications.
Opinion
Apple Display Dyslexia
Why is Apple losing the resolution race to Dell?
Review
On The Road, Again?
The best ways to listen to MP3s in your car.
Going On Safari
Safari has a few tricks of its own. I'll take you on a tour of some of my favorites.
Mac OS X: Making The Switch
I know this article seems like a long advertisement for Apple, but now I understand why Mac users are such zealots. I am so amazed by the fact that everything just works that I feel the need to convert everyone I know.
Mac OS X 10.3.x: Time Being Incorrectly Set One Hour Ahead
"The time on finder shows one hour ahead although on the preferences the time is correct."
Sidetrack
Tiger: That's probably the name that Apple will use to sell the next major version of Mac OS X. And if past histocial trends continue, expect to see Tiger (a.k.a. Mac OS X 10.4) in stores by end of the year.
Wintel
Microsoft Criticized For Vulnerable Software
As Windows users are being plagued by computer viruses, spam, buggy software and Web pop-up ads, some people are questioning why Microsoft has failed to integrate security and repair features that would make computers less prone to problems.
EC's Microosft Ruling — A Big Mistake
A common complaint I have against antitrust is its tendency to turn what was previously legal illegal, and then penalizing the offending company for actions performed before the shift.