Thursday, April 14, 2005
News
University Of Pittsburgh Gets Xserve G5 Cluster
Apple's Profit Soars Sixfold On iPod, Macintosh Sales
Apple said second-quarter earings soared more than sixfold as the devices propelled sales and helped win new customers for more-profitable Macintosh computers. Net income surged to $290 million, or 34 cents a share, from $46 million, or 6 cents, a year earlier. Sales rose 70 percent to $3.24 billion.
Opinion
Linux Can't Kill Windows
There's only one platform that can stand toe-to-toe with Windows, and that's the combination of OS X and Java.
Apple And The Year Of The MP3 Player
You can attribute the soaring popularity of portable music players to the iPod phenomenon engineered by Apple.
Stupid Headline Tricks
How about we make it through the April 29 release without the pun-ridden headlines that probably sound cute and catchy in story meetings, but read pretty lame once they're on the page.
Tiger Roars As An OS
This OS is nirvana for productivity.
Is Mac OS X 'Tiger' Rolling Over On Windows Support?
Could Apple be skimping on Windows integration with its forthcoming "Tiger" version of Mac OS X? Support for Mac clients in the enterprise still looks scant to many on the front lines.
Review
Lemonade Tycoon 2: New York Edition: Sim Game Offers Trump-Style Challenge
The game's graphics engine certainly won't set the world on fire. But the game itself is a satisfying challenge that will appeal to casual gamers.
Project Nomads: Strategy Shooter Can't Overcome Lousy Game Play
Project Nomads is a 3-D shooter with real-time strategy elements — and it fails spectacularly in both genres.
Apple iPod Mini Lanyard
This is a well-made, resonably attractive product that will only be appealing to a very narrow audience.
New Office Name
You can force Microsoft Office's Setup Assistant to rerun by following these steps.
Shuffle Play Through Foreign Mac
The tirck to making this work on a Mac is employing a different application to play the songs on the shuffle.
Sidetrack
American Women Have No Nipples (Before 10 pm)
Jef Jarvis: We are now at the point where a woman's clothed anatomy is deemed to be injurious to children. That's childish itself; it's absurd; it's sexist; it's more offensive than any nipple, even Janet Jackson's.
Wintel
Tablet PC: The Next Generation?
Could the hottest new Tablet form factor end up being a mini Tablet/eBook hybrid? Microsoft seems to be betting on it.
