Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Top Stories
Apple Intros 30-Inch Cinema HD Display
Apple on Monday introduced a new 30-inch Apple Cinema HD display, a new flat panel screen that features 2560 x 1600 pixel resolution.
Apple Previews Mac OS X 'Tiger,' Tiger Server
Version 10.4 is the forthcoming release of the company's operating system that is expected to be released some time in the first half of 2005, and it touts more than 150 new features, according to Steve Jobs.
News
Apple Cuts AirPort Extreme Pricing
Apple has quietly lowered the price of its AirPort Extreme Base Station and AirPort Extreme Card.
MacTech Magazine To Become MacTech X Magazine
Venerable publication MacTech Magazine has announced that at the end of the summer it will reinvent itself as MacTech X Magazine.
Developers Eager To Tackle Mac 'Tiger'
Vendors and enterprise analysts were upbeat on the forthcoming operating system, which will open new possibilities for third-party products.
Apple's RSS Embrace Could Bolster Adoption
By giving its blessing to XML syndication, Apple is joining the trend of browser makers embracing Web news feeds and potentially bringing the technology to the masses.
Jobs' WWDC 2004 Keynote Video Posted
Apple Throws Spotlight On Search
Developers at the show were generally upbeat about the new features, even if they weren't entirely surprised.
Apple, HP Kick Off New Promo
Purchase a Mac and an HP printer and get up to US$99 back by mail.
Developer Calls Apple's Tiger A Copycat
"It's insulting, is what it is. They could have at least offered to work with us or to buy it."
Konfabulator Gets Konspose Feature
You can Konspose to make your Konfabulator Widgets become active and visible with a keystroke.
EyeTV 500 Brings HDTV Solution To Mac OS X
EyeTV 500 allows users to watch, record, timeshift, edit and archive free over-the-air HDTV and digital standard-definition television on the Mac.
OS X: Key To Increasing Apple's SciTech Market
To reflect sci-tech's increasing importance in Cupertino, Apple has launched a science track at this year's Worldwide Developers Conference.
Opinion
Apple: Innovate Doesn't Mean Stealing
Why try to isolate a developer who is clearly dedicated to the platform?
Tiger Primer: Everything And The Kitchen Sync
Will this new sync engine solve every data-synchronization problem Mac users face? Probably not. But because Apple is opening synchronization up to third-party developers with Tiger, many more of those problems will get solved than have ever been solved with iSync.
RSS Is Everywhere
The interesting sceanrio for Safari is less around aggregating feeds and more around ensuring that the feed doesn't look like gobbledygook when you click the link.
What I Like Most About Apple's New RSS Reader Support In Safari
I like the "article length" slider. You can slide it around to get different length summaries of the articles.
Size Isn't Everything
Colour me a designasaurus rex, but I find these new displays lacking in the industrial design department.
The Other Search Wars
With metadata's importance increasing, Apple would want to make sure that metadata standards do not favor Windows.
Apple's Next Operating System
Apple's announcements today, so far ahead of the actual release of the software, are designed to get the software developers excited enough to build these features natively in their own applications. I hope they do.
WWDC Keynote: A First Reaction
Safari, RSS, NetNewsWire
The RSS reader in Safari is not a full-featured newsreader, at least from what I could tell by the demo... What I like about this announcement is that it popularizes syndication.
Review
iBook Reflections At 18 Months
This G3 iBook is doing a great job, and I have no real regrets about buying it. I just wish it were easier to get at that hard drive.
TRON 2.0
Multiplayer is a waste of time. Buy this game for the single player experience.
Wintel
Microsoft To Offer Streamlined Products Aimed At Programmers
Micrsooft is making a bid to win over new develoeprs with a stripped-down line of products including a free database and inexpensive developer tools.
Windows XP Update Could Cause Support Chaos
The major changes to Windows XP brought by Service Pack 2 are bound to cause support headaches. Analysts, users, PC makers and Microsoft alle xpect a spike in help desk calls.