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by Stuart Elliott, Internationa Herald Tribune
The idea that you do not have to be a professional to create a good commercial is becoming widespread, a trend known as consumer-generated content. Leave it to Apple to - paraphrasing the company's old slogan - think differently.
by The Macalope, CNET News.com
Forum postings and blog comments suffer from self-selection and are not a valid indicator of whether or not a piece of software is teh sux0r.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
Don't be fooled by Apple's ever-widening business interests, analysts say—the Mac OS remains a critical part of Apple's overal strategy. And Mac OS X 10.5 in particular figures to play an essential role in the company's ongoing success.
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
Take it from me: You should definitely upgrade right away, because of five amazingly cool features. Or not—you could also put off upgrading to Leopard because of five really dubious things about the OS X update.
by Thomas Ptacek, Matasano Chargen
by cavemonkey50.com
Past habits are being modified, old applications are being trashed, and new features are being taken advantage of.
by Geek Precis
by Perspective 2.0
You will not be able to control what will be done to it or with it around the world.
by Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica
by Scott Steven, Theocacao
If history can be used as a benchmark, the UI discussion cycle we're currently in with Leopard is a natural part of the process. Any sort of change will bring disagreement from some users, but eventually it all settles down as people get used to it and various tweaks are made.
See Also:
Leopard UI Vs. Usability, by Reinvented Blog.
by Laptop Magazine
by Iljitsch van Beijnum, Ars Technica
by Lisa Vaas, eWeek
Security has slipped backwards on the evolutionary ladder in Apple's latest Mac OS X release, security researchers say, with Leopard's firewall having more holes than its namesake cat has spots.
See Also:
Holes In Leopard's Firewall, by Robert Vamosi, CNET News.com.
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
With the release of Leopard, I went through the Mac Gems Catalog to see which products have sene some—or all—of their features make their way into the latest version of the OS.
by Guy Kawasaki
Back up first!
by Matt Neuburg, TidBITS
We all simply know that, real soon now, there will be third-party applications galore to tackle this menu-bar problem. For me, it just mean choosing a 'sensible' desktop picture for now.
Update: OpaqueMenuBar. (No, I haven't try this yet.)
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
Perl, Python, and Ruby pretty much compile out of the box on Mac OS X. Apple doesn't have to do much at all — at least relative to Java — to include them on Mac OS X. Why? Because that's how these tools are designed and engineered — they're made to "just build" on any Unix-like OS. It's not Apple's responsibility that Java isn't like that — it's Sun's.
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Mac users are reporting a number of problems with their wireless connections after updating to Leopard, according to traffic on Apple Inc.'s support forums.
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
During its debut weekend, Mac OS X 10.5 "far outpaced" sales of Tiger in its first weekend.
by Ryan Faas, Computerworld
The goal set for Apple's engineers in designing Time Machine was to create a backup technology that requires little or no configuration, performs backups automatically and invisibly, and makes restoring files from those backups as simple and intuitive as humanly possible. That's a pretty tall order, even for Apple, and yet the company has managed to deliver those results.
by Ryan Block, Engadget
I wonder if Apple will accept currency in the form of souls, with a paper trail.
by MacNN
by Chris Pirillo
by Chris Pirillo
You heard me right, folks. Apple trusts us.
by Derek Powazek
by Elsa Wenzel, CNET News.com
by Anil Dash
Arrogance is ugly. If you claim to care about aesthetics and design, it's in your interest to keep from being completely tacky and lacking in taste.
by Don Reisinger, CNET News.com
Mac OS X Leopard is one of the most significant operating system achievements we have witnessed in years. Not only does it add functinality that Microsoft could only have dreamed of, it does so in a snappy environment that doesn't annoy you with pop-ups asking for permission or all of those security threats we have come to know (and hate) in Windows.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Chocolatier is a delightfully challenging business tycoon game with some sweet twists and turns.
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
The evidence as of this writing indicates that every single instance of a "blue screened" botched Leopard upgrade is attribute to the presence of APE. The biggest problem seems to be that many of these blue screen sufferers had no idea APE was installed on their system.
On the other hand, I'll be pretty surprised that Apple didn't encounter this problem in the test labs. (Not everyone was pulled to do iPhone, right?) A few man-days of extra effort could have prevented this bad press.
by Brian Chen, Macworld
by Michael Learmonth, Variety
"Apple sold millions of dollars worth of hardware off the back of our content and made a lot of money," [President & CEO of NBC Universal] Jeff Zucker said. "They did not want to share in what they were making off the hardware or allow us to adjust pricing."
by Bryan Gardiner, Wired
There is no federal law that prohibits a private business, a person or an organization from dictating what currency or coins they do acceot for payment for goods and/or services.
by Dan Miller, Macworld
The interface tweaks will make iCal a welcome upgrade for any of its current loyalists, but won't be enough to convince anyone to switch. If you're in an office where you can convince your IT folks to switch to OS X Server or some other CalDAV-compliant calendaring platform, its group scheduling tools would be great for any small business or workgroup.
Apple should really beef up its .Mac offerings, and having a hosted CalDAV server solution for families will be an attractive addition.
by Counternotions
The dilemma for Apple here is: should it index iPhone's rate of innovation to what's available on Windows or port currently Mac-only technologies to Windows as it has to provide an equal measure of user experience to all iPhone users?
There is a third option: work with Google to have iPhone and iPod work with 'cloud computing' that is going to be so popular, if we believe the experts, in the Windows-land.
by Los Angeles Times
by Wesley Fryer, Moving At The Speed Of Creativity
The entire purchase price of the Leopard operating system update is justified, in my view, by these enhance dparental control options.
by Scott C. Lemon, The.Inevitable.Org/anism
What is sad to me is that somewhere within our society there seems to be a growing acceptance of stealing and theft of property and services.
by CoreEcon
I do need to rave about the most amazing screen saver. It takes your photos and assembles them in sequence into a set of mosaics made up of other photos.
If you have been mesmerized in the past by the Genie effect (with the Shift key pressed) and the iTunes visualization, be prepared to be mesmerized again. Do check out the mosaic screensaver in the Leopard, especially if you have lots of photos in your iPhoto library.
by James Dempsey, Macworld
If you're holding off on upgrading to Leopard because you rely on your Mac and Adobe's Creative Suite 3 to earn a living, my experience would indicate that you have no worries.
by John Siracusa, Ars Technica
In many ways, Leopard feels like a new beginning. While Tiger conslidated the gains made in 10.0 through 10.3, pinning down APIs and dipping its toe into a few possible future directions for the GUI, Leopard charges bravely forward, choosing one particular new look and mandating it everywhere, redesigning all of the most prominent visual elements of the interface, and shedding old technologies like cat fur.
What's emerged is quite a strange beast: beautiful on the inside and, well, a bit unlovely on the outside. I hope a few years of user feedback will file down some of the sharper edges, even as my dream of a radical new look is ostponed until 10.6 or later. It'd also be nice if Apple would finally make a decision about the successor to the HFS+ file system some time this decade.
by Jeff Carlson, TidBITS
I know that people have strong views, and I want to encourage freedom of expressions. But ranting for the sake of ranting is just a waste of our (your and my) time. I understand why mainstream journalists who don't cover the Mac get defensive and start throwing out words like "Mac zealots" and "cultists" when they cover Apple; they no doubt get much, much more volume of this type of email and don't know how to hande it.
by Francois Joseph de Kermadec, O'Reilly Mac DeveCenter Blog
I've spent the past couple months attempting to "re-learn" using my Mac with progresively more default settings. Guess what? I'm much happier. Not because I agree with them all but because I have a lot less to worry about when switching machines.
by Joe Kissell, TidBITS
Yet again, Apple has made substantial improvements to the installer, and in general, the Leopard installation is easier and more reliable than the Tiger installation was. Also, yet again, some aspects of the upgrade process can cause unexpected problems.
by Buzz Andersen
Apple, like any company, is composed of a large number of pragmatic individuals, most of whom don't have any sort of agenda beyond trying to do their job and meet what are usually pretty demanding project deadlines.
by MacNN
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
by Joe Kissell, TidBITS
by Rory Prior, ThinkMac Software
Leopard is pretty nice, there's a lot to like. But there are some really stupid things too, mostly visual and since I'm a visual kinda person I feel compelled to complain about them!
by Jeff Carlson, TidBITS
Here's a rundown of some current important issues with Leopard.
by Andy Abramson, VoIP Watch
by David Battino, O'Reilly Mac DeveCenter Blog
by Dave Winer, Scripting News
I want my white menubar back.
by Chris Pirillo
Despite numerous user interface inconsistencies, I'm still largely impressed with Leopard.
by Mac Journals
Ever since founding editor Ted Landau sold MacFixIt years ago, the site has been on an increasingly shrill trajectory of fomenting fear and uncertainty about installing any software, largely in an attempt to instill in its readers an unncessary dependency on the site's blesing before proceeding with, well, anything.
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
WHat I like best, and what I think Apple deserves the most praise for, is that fact that they've gone back and refined all sorts of litle things, changes so small that they fall far beneath the not-that-high-in-the-first-place threshold of Apple's own "300+ New Features" list.
by Associated Press
Apple Inc. no longer accepts cash for iPhone purchases and now limits sales of the cellphone to two per person in a move to stop people from reselling them.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Jim Dalyrmple, Macworld
Adobe said that most, but not all of its applications are compatible with Leopard without the need for an update.
by Dan Moren, MacUser
by Dan Moren, MacUser
Guess they used all of the alpha-channeling up on the freaking menu bar.
by Troy Wolverton, San Jose Mercury News
Since the name change, something funny has happened: The Mac business has been the star, as iPod sales have started to look a bit anemic.
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
Here's how I recommend installing major new OS releases for typical users.
by Daniel Jalkut, Red Sweater Blog
by Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS
by Scott steven, Theocacao
The experience in Leopard is one of discovering endless improvements everywhere.
by Caroline McCarthy, CNET News.com
by Matt Neuburg, TidBITS
Let's all do the Leopard Moan. Yes, Time Machine is cool, Spaces is neat, but oh (moan!), the interface! What were these people thinking? Yes, you've got a rant inside you, waiting to howl to the moon, and so do I; it's a full moon right now, so let's take this opportunity to get it out of our systems (pun intended). Herewith, then, some things I just can't stand about Leopard.
by Andy Ihnatko, Macworld
An a-la-carte look at the value of OS X's new features.
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
Here's the lesson: making smaller, more frequent changes to your product makes it much easier to stay on top of a changing industry than a five-year plan will ever allow.
by Martyn Williams, IDG News Service
The update to Apple's Mac OS X operating system, called Leopard, went on sale at the Apple Store in Tokyo on Friday evening, part of a global launch that will unfold around the world over the next 24 hours.
by David Pogue, New York Times
Even Apple doesn't list every little change to this multi-gigabyte mass of code... and here and there, I found useful little tweaks that never get any press.
by Peter Mortensen, Cult Of Mac
by Ken Mingis and Michael DeAgonia, Computerworld
A refined look, revamped apps and new options build on an already solid OS foundation.
by Ken Mingis, Computerworld
Old hardware, older apps? You might want to wait before upgrading.
by Dave Winer, Scripting News
I bought the stock because I was going to buy everything Apple sold from now until forever.
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
Those who have stayed away from Spotlight due to its too-broad searches and uneven performance will be impressed with its Leopard implementation.
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
The new Finder works really well. The look is polarizing, howerver, and some may not enjoy the new "face" of the Finder. I don't think anyone will complain about its performance, however—the new Finder manages to add a number of really nice new features while actually getting faster at handling the typical file management taks.
by Iljitsch van Beijnum, Ars Technica
Classic has never been available on Intel Macs, but as of Leopard, PowerPC Macs will also have to do without Classic.
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
by Frank Ahrens, Washington Post
The turbulence on the content side comes as Apple is enjoying smooth sailing on its hardware side.
See Also:
Warner Music May Not Renew Yearly iTunes Contract, by AppleInsider.
by Claudine Beaumont, Telegraph
Leopard's new features are compelling and largely a success, but you won't miss out if you wait a while to make the leap.
by Rick LePage, Macworld
Under-appreciated OS X 10.5 features you'll be glad Apple added.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Scott McNulty, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by Matt Neuburg, TidBITS
Whether you've got a big multi-monitor setup or a tiny portable screen, Spaces has the potential to make your life a lot easier. You simply have to remember to use it.
by Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS
Apple not only consolidated file sharing options for Apple Filing Protocol (AFP), Samba (or SMB), and FTP into one place, but they added back folder sharing, a feature never seen in Mac OS X, even though it was widely used in Mac OS 9 and releases before that.
by Scott McNulty, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
The iMac MXM Update 1.0 'improves video compatibility with Boot Camp on certain 24" iMac models.'
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
OS X 10.5 addition offers simplified entry into the realm of virtual desktops.
by Chris Pirillo
OS TEN. Straight from the manufacturer themselves.
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
by Jason Snell, Macworld
Given the impressive value of Time Machine and improvements to existing programs such as iCal, iChat, Mail, and the FInder, most active Mac users will find more than enough reasons to consider that upgrade cost money well spent. Despite a few interface missteps, particularly when it comes to the menu bar and the Dock, Leopard is an upgrade that roars.
by Simson Garfinkel, MIT Technology Review
Visually stunning, OS 10.5—a.k.a. Leopard—is fast and stable, and it features a consistent set of powerful file-management tools familiar to anyone who has ever used iTunes. And unlike Microsoft Windows, which seems to grind slower with each successive release, OS 10.5 feels faster than 10.4 on the same hardware—provided that you have sufficient memory.
by Edward C. Baig, USA Today
by Macworld
So we rounded up eight Macworld editors, handed them the list of 300-plus Leopard features, and told them to assemble a roster of the top additions and enhancements in Mac OS X.
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
Designed to work with internal or external hard drives, Time Machine automatically creates time-based "snapshos" of your machine, allowing you to instantly retrieve files, folders, and applications that you may have deleted—or even just older versions of documents that you've since updated.
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
Now that we know the Dock's appearance can change in certain circumstances, it was only a matter of time before someone figured out how to get that same look all the time.
by Walter S. Mossberg, Wall Street Journal
I've been testing Leopard, and while it is an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, release, I believe it builds on Apple's quality advantage over Windows. In my view, Leopard is better and faster than Vista, with a set of new features that makes Macs even easier to use.
by David Pogue, New York Times
Apple's mission in Leopard was to make us aware of needs we never knew we had — something Apple is usually good at.
by Jan Kabili, Macworld
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
Unfortunately, third-party developers are unable to get their applications 100 percent ready for the public version of Leopard. Why? Because they can't get their final copy any earlier than we do.
by David Morgenstern, ZDNet
The Mac is the real deal. If the Mac wasn't a sueprior computing platform, and if it didn't work as advertised, no amount of iPod pull would get switchers to switch.
by Mat Lu, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by Ben Sargent, Broken Digits
The Mac opened up a whole new world for me to play in, and the rabbit hole runs pretty deep.
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Safari is faster than rival browsers from Microsoft Corp. and Mozilla Corp., a North Carolina web testing firm said today — puting proof to Apple Inc.'s June boast that its browser was the quickest.
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
by Apple
Three guys, a video camera, and a Mac can change the world.
by Charles Jade, Ars Technica
My feelings are that TaskPaper does pretty well at everything it does, which, by design, is not a lot.
by MacNN
Ratface Studios today released Cashcow 1.0, a personal finance application designed specifically for users looking to create budgets and track expenses.
by Glenn Fleishman, Seattle Times
See Also:
A Moment With.. Daniel Lyons, Aka 'Fake Steve Jobs', by Todd Bishop, Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
by jkOnTheRun
One of the major reasons I used to justify the purchase of a MacBook Pro early this year was how easily I could run Windows programs on the Mac using Parallels Desktop... Today I realized I haven't run Vista on the Mac in well over a month!
by Shawn Blanc
by Daniel Drew Turner, eWeek
Apple and anlysts quietly suspect that iPods and iPhones may be selling Mcs nearly eight times faster than any major PC brand.
by Jennifer Lawinski, CMP Channel
Apple's Leopard OS was leaked to the masses on file-sharing sites around the internet on Tuesday, three days before the official launch of the next-generation operating system.
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Apple Inc. expects Leopard to bring in US$140 million between its launch this Fridya and the end of the year, a company executive hinted Monday. That number, however, is lower than analysts' estimates.
by Dan Moren, Macworld
by MacNN
by Apple
When Christopher Laub was in the third and fourth grade,s chemotherapy treatments for his leukemia kept him out of school, feeling sick and weak. But through a close collaboration between Bel Aire Elementary School and Apple — as well as a creative use of iChat AV — Laub was bale to continue with his classes. Thanks fto the system that he dubbed "iCan," the young student remained connected to his classmates and his studies.
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
The Mac has never experienced sustained growth at this sort of pace. Breaking this quarterly sales record isn't a fluke — it's part of a trend.
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
Given how specific the origin text was, and the fact that it's been purged from the new page while other text remains verbatim, the change doesn't bode well for those hoping to use an AirPort Disk for wireless Time Machine backups.
by Macguide
by Chris Pirillo
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
Apple will open its first retail store in Beijing, China next summer, said Apple chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer last night.
by Matt Rosoff, CNET News.com
by Chris Pirillo
"The main app I write is a POS (Point of Sale) program for fast food chains. I convinced my big customers to switch over to Mac mini systems instead of PCs and my tech support calls have been cut down by almost 80%. Loking back at all the headaches, time, and suffering I could have saved myself, I just hope my bad experiences can help others switch and save themselves and their companies from so much grief."
by Vince Horiuchi, Salt Lake Tribune
Ringtones are a cash cow for the music industry, but strike a sour note with many cell phone users.
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
by Ben Worthen, Wall Street Journal
Apple knows what many individuals have already discovered: The iPhone's web browser makes it a great business tool. And it looks like Apple may be getting ready to market it as such.
by David M. Halbfinger, New York Times
In an effort to win attention for the iTunes movie category, Apple will debut Edward Burns' latest film, "Purple Violets," exclusively on its download service.
by Greenpeace
It is possible to significantly reduce the use of BFRs by substituting non-flammable materials for plastics in mobile phones, as some manufacturers already do.
See Also:
Greenpeace Responds To Alarmist Claims, Admits Targeting Apple Grabs Headlines, by Gizmodo.
by David Carnoy, CNET News.com
The ad in question is "Delay," which depicts an alleged airline pilot, Bryce, talking about how he used his iPhone's weather.com app to help avoid a major delay. The ads have gotten some of the folks over at FlyerTalk's forums pretty riled up.
by Like Nobody's Business
It's the cheapest computer I have ever bought and it's the most productive I have ever been.
by Daniel Drew Turner, eWeek
A strong surge in notebooks and back-to-school pruchases lifts Apple past Toshiba and Gateway.
by Katie Marsal, AppleInsider
Apple revealed that it will not pursue a relationship with Circuit City for Mac sales and that an estimated 250,000 iPhones were sold to buyers who intended to unlock them.
by Jeff Carlson, TidBITS
Apple reported that for the fiscal quarter ending 29-Sep-07, it shipped 2,164,000 Macintosh computers, besting last quarter's record by 400,000.
See Also:
Apple Posts $904 Million Profit, by Jim Dalrymple and Philip Michaels, Macworld.
by John C Welch, Macworld
From setup options to file-sharing, changes abound in Leopard's server software.
by Don Reisinger, CNET News.com
If you rely on software that must work all the time, I simply can't recommend an upgrade until you known all the kinks are worked out. But if there is no mission critical material at your disposal and you don't mind some growing pains, spend the $129 and upgrade to Leopard.
by Adam Turner, Sydney Morning Herald
Am I the only one the feels that iPod touch is a slap-in-face insult to countries that don't have the iPhone?
by MacNN
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
An industry group has spoken out against Greenpeace's recent report on the iPhoen, saying that not only is everything used in the iPhone approved for use in electronics, it's also the only way to stay safe.
by Rich Mogull, TidBITS
With the release last week of the feature list for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, the security world is buzzing about some extremely important updates that should, if they work as expected, significantly improve Mac security and will make me less nervous about connecting to wireless networks in internet cafes.
by Sharon Zardetto, TidBITS
by Walt Mossberg, All Things D
I suspect that if the government, or some disruptive innovation, breaks the crippling power that the wireless carriers exert today, the free market will deliver a similar happy ending.
by Alex Frankel, Fast Company
Are your frontline employees going to save or kill your most important quarter? At Apple, nothing is left to chance.
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
After the close of the stock market Monday, Apple is scheduled to report earnings for the fourth quarter of its 2007 fiscal year, which ended in September. With new Macintoshes, new iPods and the first full quarter of iPhone sales to add to the bottom line, the company shows no signs of falling off its torrid pace.
by Chris Pirillo
Replacing one OS with another is potentially very costly - in money and in time. At least you should be making an informed decision based on truths and practical experiences, not merely on talking points from pseudo pundits.
by Petr Mortensen, Cult Of Mac
by John Markoff, New York Times
Driven in part by what analysts call a halo effect from the iPod and the iPHone, the market share of Apple's personal computers is surging.
by Seth Weintraub, Computerworld
Sure, you can listen to music, but there's also a practical side, the side that makes it a perfect tool for business.
by Toby Shapshak, The Times
The iPod touch is a standout device because it takes the strengths (simplicity, ease-of-use and tons of music) and updates it for the video generation that is now superseding pure music players.
by Michael Rose, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Should you plunk down your credit card for the next version of Mac OS X? Here's what you need to know before you do.
by Claudine Beaumont, Telegraph
For me, the killer application on both of Apple's touchscreen devices is the full Safari web browser.
by Connie Guglielmo, Bloomberg
"It's not a one-trick pony anymore."
by Dan Moren, MacUser
by Rafe Colburn, rc3.org
Privilege separation remains really important, even for a device like the iPhone.
by Dan Moren, Macworld
Just in the past few days, Apple's made at least three moves that could be a break in the clouds, reasuring me that Apple's not ready to join the ranks of the soulless corporations just yet.
by Michael Rose, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by Edward F. Moltzen, CMP Channel
Some solution providers say pre-orders of Apple's forthcoming Leopard operating system are more than double the volume for the same time prior to the last major Mac OS release, and point to new features and dissatisfaction with Microsoft Vista as key drivers.
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
We now know two new things: (1) that there will be "native third party applications on the iPhone"; and (2) that the SDK is scheduled for February. That leaves a long list of questions.
by Cliff Edwards, BusinessWeek
Judged against its iPod peers, I was surprised to find the Touch lacks some of the intuitive, user-friendly features that have made the product line so successful.
by David Morgenstern, ZDNet
The words "simple" and "Unix server" are usually not found in the same sentence. But Apple has worked this same magic for the Macintosh with OS X. We used to call something that looks and functions like the Mac a Unix workstation.
The Macintosh was designed to be the "computer for the rest of us." Perhaps Leopard Server is start of the server for the rest of us.
by MacNN
iTunes U section will expand by supplying debates from the Supreme Court, radio broadcasts on the civil rights movement, among other offerings.
by Adam Webb, The Guardian
GarageBand, Apple's free software is credited with getting many bands started, but is the inclusion of the program on Macs pure generosity or clever marketing?
by Devin Leonard, Fortune
TuneCore is the brainchild of Jeff Price, a music industry veteran who, in his own way, is as much a radical as Public Enemy's front man. For $30 - "The cost of a six-pack and a pizza," says Price - TuneCore will get your ten-song album on iTunes.
by Fraser Speirs
I would hope that Mac developers look at the iPhone as the truly new platform that it is, rather than as an adjunct to Mac OS X. Just because it has some elements of Cocoa doesn't mean it's Mac OS X Lite.
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
Leopard is going to make hard drive vendors very, very happy.
by Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com
"Mozilla's user experience team literally wants to do a better job of visually integrating with Windows than IE, and a better job of visually integrating with OS X than Safari. I don't know if we will be able to pull that off, but that's the goal."
See Also:
Firefox 2.0.0.8 On Mac OS X 10.5, by Josh Ass, Boom Swagger Boom.
by MacNN
by MacNN
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
The ARD 3.2 client and admin contain a decent list of changes, including improvements to the reliability of Copy Item tasks and the addition of Intel compatibility to the Open Application task.
by Christopher Breen, Playlist
by MacNN
Apple is launching a free shuttle service for its employees on Monday to ferry workers between strategic points in the Bay Area and the Cupertino-based campus.
by Apple
"We're definitely seeing a difference in the lives of the kids in the classroom, now that the Apple instructional tools are available to them."
by Montreal Gazette
When David Bitton found that his new iPod nano has 7.45 GB of capacity rather than the 8 GB advertised, he decided to sue the company.
by Jack Kapica, Globe And Mail
In general, the Touch is great at what it's designed to do — it even has a decent battery life, though it should be recharged every night. But in a world now dominated by Swiss Army knife cellphones that do so much more (though not better), it's neither fish nor fowl. It's neither a phone nor a PDA, and it's much more than an MP3 player. What is best about it is the anticipation of what Aple will do with it next.
by Bryan Gardiner, Wired
The software industry gave a hearty cheer to Apple's announcement it will provide a software-development kit for the iPhone next spring.
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
Ah... the elusive iPhone SDK. It's finally here... Well, okay, it's not exactly here yet. But Steve Jobs promised there will be one in February of next year. Based on what Apple has been delivering lately, this will be, I guess, the very last day of February, eh? It is a Friday, so all the hackers can spent their entire weekend to port their applications onto the phone.
But then, we still don't know what is inside the SDK, such as the scope of the APIs, and the method by which third-party applications can get onto the iPhones. Steve Jobs definitely hinted at a model where applications need to be approved by Apple in order to get onto the phones. This may mean that you'll get your outliners and minesweepers, but you may not get your instant messengers and internet phones.
Furthermore, we don't know what is the scope of API that will be accessible by third-party programmers. Can third-party applications make phone calls, send SMS messages, or sense the tilt and turns of the phone? (As others have noted, a mini-Wii.)
So, if you are planning to buy an iPhone or an iPod touch, and that a rich and wonderful set of third-party applications is a must-have feature, well, we are not there yet. Buy the gadgets because you like its existing features, not because of its potential, because we don't know where's the ceiling yet come Feb 08.
by Leander Kahney, Cult Of Mac
Think handheld portable Wii.
by Bryan Gardiner, Wired
While Steve Jobs says the three plus months developers will have to wait for an iPhone SDK are essential for ensuring security on the phone, other industry insiders are starting to wonder if the delay might be attributable to something else. Something, say, more tablety with a touch screen interface?
by Tom Yager, InfoWorld
Leopard is a legitimately big deal. It's underhyped compared to iPhone, and yet unlike iPhone, Leopard is a genuine triumph of customer-focused engineering. It's a pleasure and a relief to see that Apple remembers how to deliver open, affordable, standards-based products.
by Leander Kahney, Wired
The wireless media center might have been a smash, if only the company had learned from its own succes swith the iPod and designed Apple TV to play video formats popular on BitTorrent and other file-sharing networks.
by Ivan Askwith, Slate
Networks take note: Apple's not going away.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
The unlocked iPhone will carry a premium price, although the companies did not say how much more it would be.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
The software features motion and audio-sensitivity, and can snap pictures then send them to a .Mac account, FTP, by e-mail and more.
by Arik Hesseldahl, BusinessWeek
By Gartner's reckoning — and it should be noted that these are estimates — Apple has finally surpassed both Gateway (now part of Acer) and Toshiba to make it into third place in the U.S. PC market behind leaders Dell and Hewlett-Packard.
by Nicholas Carr, Rough Type
Why do you think Google is spending billions of dollars a year building data centers? Why do you think Microsoft is madly tryng to catch up, spending even more billions than Google? It's not just search and ads. What's at stake is control over personal computing itself - and Microsoft knows that, confronting the combined front-end and back-end skills of Google and Apple, it's at a big disadvantage. It will likely lose this war.
by Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS
Jobs' letter today was a bit in the tone of, "Hey, you kids, getoff my lawn! We still have to get rid of the gophers, resod the grass, and finish the main house before we let you on it in a few months, you little...." Jobs' statement emphasized the high level of risk for viruses and malware to spread among phones, and the widespread hallucination engaged in (or promoted by) the cell phone industry that such problems don't already exist. Fair enough, although what he's really saing is, "We've been too busy to work on the iPhone and Leopard at the same time; now we can focus on the iPhone again."
by Sitening Blog
There are several little known new features that are actually quite cool.
by Jeff Smykil, Ars Technica
Things do seem to be changing in the Apple Store.
by AppleInsider
Apple on Wednesday issued a formal announcement regarding its expanded iTunes Plus service, which now offers more than two million tracks at the reduced price of just 99 cents.
by Charlie Sorrel, Wired
by Jeremiah Foster, O'Reilly Mac DeveCenter Blog
Sadly, Apple seems to have neglected perl.
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
Looking For My Leopad, :-).
by Kevin McLaughlin, CMP Channel
A security researcher on Tuesday published exploit code for a security vulnerability in Apple's iPhone that can allow a hacker to gain complete control over the popular mobile device.
by Nicole Woolsey Biggart, San Jose Mercury News
Apple is one of 33 Silicon Valley companies with no woman in the executive suite or the boardroom.
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
by James Dempsey, Macworld
Pixelmator is about as close to Photoshop as one can get while still maintaining the elegance and ease of use that Mac users expect. I was blown away with Pixelmator's features, speed, stability, and stunning good looks.
by Nick Wingfield, Wall Street Journal
Apple Inc. is reducing the price of all songs on its iTunes Store without anti-copying software to 99 cents from $1.29, bringing Apple's prices on such tracks closer to those offered by Amazon.com Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and other rivals in online music.
by Chris Pirillo
I wanted to call your attention to just a few of the changes that made me leap out of my seat and scream "WOW!"
by MacNN
Apple today released its ATI Radeon X1900 XT Firmware Update, but did not provide any insight into the fixes.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
by Thomson Financial
by Mark Hattersley, Macworld UK
Apple is taking orders for the next iteration of its operating system, OS X 10.5 Leopard, on the Apple Store.
Apple states that the software will be ready to ship on 26 October.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
The iPhone meets the restrictions placed on hazardous substances, Apple said in the wake of a Greenpeace report published on Monday.
"Like all Apple products worldwide, iPhone complies with RoHS [Restriction of Hazardous Substances], the world's toughtest restrictions on toxic substances in electronics," an Apple spokesperson, told Macworld. "As we have said, Apple will voluntarily eliminate the use of PVC and BFRs by the end of 2008."
by Arik Hesseldahl and Olga Kharif, BusinessWeek
Sources familiar with the company's plans tells BusinessWeek.com that Apple will release a software-development kit for the iPhone in early 2008, enabling programmers to create games, business-productivity tools, and countless other applications for the device. Few details are known, but sources say an announcement will come in January, which suggests it may be slated for Jan. 15, when chief executive officer Steve Jobs takes the stage at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco.
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
The Center for Environmental Health on Monday said that it has given Apple 60-days legal notice — a step required by California law before a lawsuit is launched. Th eaction is based ont he report by environmental group Greenpeace, released earlier today, that found hazardous materials in Apple's iPhone.
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
by MacNN
by Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
URI protocol handlers often are registered unnecessarily and with little thought given to security, researchers say.
by Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS
by Ed Bumgardner, Winston-Salem Journal
My entire CD collection now exists on something the size of a thick, hard-cover book.
by Scott McNulty, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by CBC News
A dispute between Apple Inc. and Toronto-based Comwave Telecom Inc. over the Canadian trademark rights to the name "iPhone" has yet to be resolved, adding another barrier to the launch of Apple's next-generation handheld device north of the border.
by Greenpeace International
Scientific tests, arranged by Greenpeace, reveal that Apple's iPhone contains harzardous chemicals. The tests uncovered two types of hazardous substances, some of which have already been eliminated by other mobile phone makers.
by Brian Hallenbeck, TheDay.com
Some of you can't live without it, while others remain wedded to vinyl.
by Mark Fagan, LJWorld.com
Brian Best bought his first Mac — a Macintosh Classic, with a 9-inch black-and-white monitor — back when Kansas University was winning its last national basketball championship, so he's plenty familiar with how fans can be a bit proprietary when it comes to a team or product they worship.
by David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun
by Shawn Day, Randomosity
So... 48 hours back on a Macintosh laptop and I am in serious danger of getting drunk on the kook-aid again.
by Chris Pirillo
"iTunes runs a couple of processes (at least 3) in the background and that annoys the hell out of me. Maybe I'm picky, but I don't like when my computer does something I didn't tell it (or asked or in come cases pleaded) to do."
by Gizmodo
If you go down to the Apple Online Store and search the term "virus," you will get one result: a smiley face, titled Windows, followed by the text; Why you'll love a Mac. View the latest TV ads to find out more.
by Simon Castles, The Age
Video killed the radio star, and now the iPod is lording it over the album.
by Kirk McElhearn, Macworld
How to read, tweak and effectively use those bits of code that keep your iTunes organized.
by Sid Smith, Chiacgo Tribune
Say your job is behind-the-scenes manager of a touring dance troupe.
Before every trip, you need to check inventory. Costumes for 14 dancers. Check. Scenery and design artifiacts for certain orks. Check. About 1,000 iPods.
Excuse me?
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
by Joe Kissell, Macworld
Safer e-mailing requires not just spam filtering, but greater care in sending, reading, and responding to messages.
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
by Mitch Wagner, InformationWeek
I still like the iPhone a lot, and remain amazed and in awe at some of the things it can do.But there's a lot about the iPhone that's frustrating.
by Scott McNulty, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek
It's clear that Apple has some unique advantages to avoid becoming as maddeningly mediocre as most big companies are at doing customer service.
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
We're talking about airlines and the government, so silly thing happen all the time.
by James Dempsey, Macworld
Flying Meat's Acorn 1.0.2 is a wonderfully simple image-editor made for those who just want to crop a photo, add some text, and maybe do some minor editing—without the palettes, steep learning curve, and off-putting price tag that accompany many full-blown image editors.
by Ronald Grover and Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek
Universal Music chief Doug Morris is going on the offensive. The world's most powerful music executive aims to join forces with other record companies to launch an industry-owned subscription service. BusinessWeek has learned that Morris has already enlisted Sony BMG Music Entertainment as a potential partner and is talking to Warner Music Group. Together the three would control about 75% of the music sold in the U.S. Besides competing head-on with Apple Inc.'s music store, Morris and his allies hope to move digital music beyond the iPod-iTunes universe by nurturing the likes of Microsoft's Zune media player and Sony's PlayStation and by working with the wireless carriers. The service, which is one of several initiatives the music majors are considering to help reverse sliding sales, will be called Total Music.
by Francois Joseph de Kermadec, O'Reilly Mac DeveCenter Blog
I have come to appreciate that consumer machines are seldom made to run continuously. Even on today's Mac OS X, a stable, UNIX-based OS with no fundamental faults that would require frequent reboots, things get wonky after a while.
by Nancianne Parkers Suber, The Clarion-Ledger
Macintosh users now have a wide variety of genealogy programs from which to choose and Windows envy should be a thing of the past.
by Louise Lee and Peter Burrows, With Elizabeth Woyke, BusinessWeek
For Apple, there may be a downside to success. Sales of the Cupertino company's Macintosh machines are growing three times as fast as the overall PC market. Its iPod music player is burying the competition. And the stylish iPhone is setting the wireless industry on its head. But as Apple pulls in millions more customers with different kinds of products, it's getting harder to keep them all happy.
by Bill Gureck, MacNN
Popcorn 3 is a valuable video conversion and DVD creation utility if you only need the video side of Toast.
by Jeffrey L. Wilson, Laptop Magazine
Laptop interviews three former Vista users who moved on to Macs. And one Mac guy who gave up the Apple for Vista.
by Seth Weintraub, Computerworld
Intel's Penryn chip is almost a given, but there's lots of room for more.
by Asher Moses, Sydney Morning Herald
Apple's secretive plans for an official retail store in Sydney — understood to be the first in the southern hemisphere — have been revealed in council documents, which suggest it's unlikely the store will open for business before mid-2008.
by Matt Neuburg, TidBITS
EasyFind is an alternative to Spotlight: it's a way of finding text on your computer.
by Wil Shipley, Call Me Fishmeal
Apple has a ton of very talented designers and very smart engineers. But they shouldn't have to be the only smart people in the world, who must anticipate everything every customer might ever need. It's asking too much.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld
The Chinese government worked last year to suppress a news story that exposed poor working conditions in Foxconn's iPod factory, an investigation has revealed.
by Joe Kissell, Macworld
I can't always know when I can trust a web site to guard my private date. So I will take steps to keep personal information personal.
by Fortune
If you look at the high-priced markets Apple chooses to play in, says Toni Sacconaghi Jr. of Bernstein Research, you see that it already has a surprisingly dominant market share — without much room for growth.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
The utility helps users record and edit audio from any application, system audio, or input from any microphone, line-in or audio input hardware.
by Erica Sadun, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
by Elizabeth Lane Lawley, Mamamusings
I simply cannot live with the completely unreliable wifi.
by Colin Devroe
You need to turn off User Access Control (UAC) before you begin the iTunes installation.
by Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS
Several sources tell me that Apple is nearing an announcement of some sort regarding third-party development on the iPhone. The bits and pieces I've heard are maddeningly non-specific.
by Mike Schramm, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by ExtremeTech
I could probably write 15,000 words about how Apple fans drive me nuts, but that won't do anything but make my inbox fill up fater. Let me break it down to a few base observations.
by David Morgenstern, ZDNet
If you're still having trouble charging your battery or symptoms such as your MacBook or MacBook Pro not waking from sleep (or event urning on altogether), or not recognizing the AC adpater, you might want to try resetting the System Management Controller.
by MacNN
The latest release of SOHO Organizer adds numerous new features which include SKype support, live-resizing of All-Day events, a real-time current time indicator, and event as well as task popup previews.
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
by Joe Kissell, Macworld
Wireless networks are easily hacked, and public networks are the least secure. I won't take any chances; I'll always encrypt my wireless connection.
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
by Aidan Malley, AppleInsider
Opening its coverager of Apple for the first time, Bernstein Research has warned that the company may have to opt for marketshare instead of profit if it wants the iPhone to gain acceptance beyond a handful of countries.
by Charles Starrett, iLounge
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
With software, the constraints are invisible and arbitrary. The limitations regarding what is and is not supported are issues of won't rather than can't.
by Kasper Jade, AppleInsider
by Ryan Block, Engadget
by Tom Smith, InformationWeek
"It's my stinking product, I paid for it, and I'm going to tweak it as I see fit. Warranties, policies, and Apple's vaunted product integrity be damned."
by Francois Joseph de Kermadec, O'Reilly Mac DeveCenter Blog
In many ways, unlocking research has turned into security research.
by AppleInsider
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
VisioVoice makes it easier for people with vision impairments to use Mac OS X, offering a system-wide talking interface, typing echo, text and image zoom windows, large cursors and a document and selection reader.
by Iljitsch van Beijnum, Ars Technica
Although iWork '08 has its share of flaws, some of which have remained unfixed for years, and some new features are implemented rather sloppily, iWork provides a lot of power in a relatively easy-to-use package, and for a modest price.
by FactoryCity
If you think far enough into the future, and realize that the iPhone is essentially the Sputnik of next generation of computing and telephonly, you 'll realize how important the development of presence technology will be in light of the 2.0 Address Book.
by Arik Hesseldahl, BusinessWeek
With prices of flash memory chips dropping fast, Apple is likely to make the switch from hard drives to flash for all its music players.
by Andy Ihnatko, Macworld
Think you know the real Apple CEO? You don't.
by Jason Snell, Macworld
Apple isn't resting on its laurels. It's an aggressive now as it has ever been.
by Under Consideration
The funny thign is, a Mac almost killed me, and I came out of the whole experience feeling more strongly about Apple as a company.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Christopher Breen, Playlist
The word is starting to get out. Consumers don't care for Digital Rights Management (DRM), the varous schemes devised to restrict media use and, allegedly, protect the rights of media owners and creators.
by Charles Jade, Ars Technica
by Christopher Breen, Playlist
With the 1.1.1 update the quality has improved somewhat. But the touch's feature set remains arbitrary. In short, the iPod touch is a bit better, but still far from perfect.
by Carl Gutierrez, Forbes
If history is any guide, the time is approaching for a stock-split from Apple.
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
DarkAdapted Pro is an impressive utility; its basic features are easy to use, and although its full functionality is likely overkill for many people, it offers enough unique features that even owners of APple's own displays may find soemthing appealing here.
by Joe Kissell, Macworld
Take our Mac security pledge.
by Derik DeLong, MacUser
by Winnie Hu, New York Times
The schools here in Hudson County has been handing out the portable digital players to help bilingual students with limited English ability sharpen their vocabulary and grammar by singing along to popular songs.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
Music from all members of the Fab Four is now available through iTunes.
by Mike Schramm, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Nine, according to Apple, is too many ringtones to automatically sync up at one time.
by Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle
Perhaps the ultimate compliment a hardware and software reviewer can pay to a product is to spend his or her own money on it.
And that's exactly what I did after just a few days of living with the latest incarnation of Apple's iMac computer — I bought one of my own.
by Leander Kahney, Wired
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
As with video playback (perhaps even more so), games drag down the battery charge of the iPod considerably.
by MacNN
by Nicola Godwin, Apple
Apple's Aperture software running on a 15-inch MacBook Pro is the foundation of the mobile digital darkroom that Walch carries in his backpack — rain, shine or snowstorm — when he goes on a shoot.
by Grant Ellis, Apple
by Joe Kissell, Macworld
We've assembled the following security manifesto for Mac users: five promises you should make to yourself to avoid compromising your security.
by Lesa Snider King, Macworld
If you're the least bit creative, Painter Essential 4 could be the most fun you've had in front of a computer in years. It's affordable and the new interface makes it an absolute joy to use.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
New to QPS 7 is a new open standards-based architecture that can support an unlimited number of publications in one system.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by John Boudreau, San Jose Mercury News
Leopard, more evolutionary than revolutionary, isn't expected to cause the kind of stir that occurred when Apple launched iPhone earlier this year or announced in 2005 it was switching to Intel's microprocessors. But analysts say springing Leopard on the market now will once again allow the CUpertino company to trumpet its consumer-friendly software.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
Analysts see Apple market capitalisation exceeding that of IBM within a few months.
by Michelle Quinn, Los Angeles Times
by Tabitha Yang, Tallahassee Democrat
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
If you were to be given a chance to write one last blog post, or to record one last podcast, or to deliver one last lecture, what will you say?
Many of us are not given this chance. Or rather, we had our last blog post, last podcast, or last lecture. Or last dinner, or last picnic, or last trip, or last what-ever. It's just that we didn't realize it was the very last. Unless, of course, we live everyday like it's the very last day of your life.
Carnegie Mellon computer-science professor Randy Pausch gave just such a "last" lecture. Lat month, he was given "just a few months" to live. And his lecture is here.
by Jeff Jarvis, The Guardian
Everything that the computer, the web, and the browser have done to content — enabling it to become infinite but personal; instantaneous yet permanent; unrestricted by medium becuase it offers all media; and enriched by the conversation around it — is now in the palm of your hand.
by Jason Fry, Wall Street Journal
There's a flurry of activity around a common theme: making digital music truly mobile, instead of contained in music layers that get topped up at desktop PCs. But what will be the effect of this newfound musical mobility? Could it makr a substantive change in the digital-music experience? Or will wireless buying and sharing remain mere offshoots of the familiar PC/MP3 player ecosystem?
by Steve Schwartz, Computerworld
Given Mail's capabilities and ease of use, I wouldn't suggest buying Office just so you can use Entourage unless — like me — you need a good newsreader, lust after its other ocmponents, or have many types of e-mail accounts. On the other hand, if you already own Office, you'll find that Entourage is so central to the suite and so tightly integrated with the other applications that you should definitely give it a try. You may find that you prefer it to Mail.
by Gaming Ruined My Life
by Michael Rose, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by Thomas Gagno-van Leeuwen, MacUser
If you use CoverFlow, you'll find it flows noticeably better, and the album art appears a little quicker than before. As for bugs, it appears several of them have indeed been fixed.
by Graceful Flavor
Trying to be Apple when Apple is already Apple is a tacit admission that the original is better than the copycat.
by Elena Malykhina, InformationWeek
Macs and new software get a second look from IT departments nudged by iPod-toting employees.
by Joel Spolsky, Joel On Software
The iPod slogan Designed by Apple in California triggers a flood of emotional responses that just make you happy to have selected this MP3 player.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
by Doug Eshleman, Daily Princetonian
40 percent of Princeton students and faculty use Macs as their personal computers.
by Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek
An Apple iPod nano owner from Douglasville, Ga., claims that his iPod nano caught fire in his pocket, according to a report that aired on Atlanta's WSB-TV.
by Stephen Wellman, InformationWeek
Faster than a speeding bullet, a pair of hackers who go by the names of "dinopio" and "Edgan" appear to have successfully hacked an iPhone with the 1.1.1 software and ifrmware upgrade.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Bungie Studios and Microsoft have decided to go their separate ways, answering the prayers of many Mac gamers who have wished for this day ever since Microsoft's acquisition of Bungie was first announced in 2000. WHile, at least for the short term, Bungie plans to continue focusing its development on Microsoft platforms, the company's franchising director told Macworld it's possible they'll be interested in the Mac again, too.
Did you know you can still play Marathon on your shiny new Intel Macs, thanks to Marathon Open Source?
by Daniel Drew Turner, eWeek
Developers have received from Apple a "ZFS on Mac OS X Preview 1.1" package, which offers preliminary support for the ZFS file system, orginally developed by Sun Microsystems for their Solaris OS.
by AppleInsider
Orange, the wireless arm of France Telecom, is reortedly contemplating the prospect of not being able to launch Apple Inc.'s iPhone handset in time for the holiday amid growing tensions between the two companies.
by John Topley
From its beautiful curves to its sleek shape to the feel and sound of the keybaord, I know it's wrong to feel love for an inanimate object but I do. I'd never say something like that about a Windows machine and I'd never go back to having one as my primary machine.
by Tribe.net
What brought me to use a Mac is probably how a lot of you came to use them. To escape the clutches of a locked-in company like Microsoft & their circle of proprietary driven garbage. More & more, I'm starting to realize that Apple has begun doing the same exact thing, maybe even worse in some instances. It has taken some time, but it's here now I believe.
by Jack Schofield, Guardian
Jobs may just have gone a bit too far in locking down the iPhone.
by Stephen Wellman, InformationWeek
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
In each and every case, the developers and publisher's I've pointed to have found ways to bring their games to the Mac platform, without making excuses or blaming Apple for a lack of interest. And they've done it without any backdoor deals from Apple.
So what makes Valve special? The answer: Nothing.
by Mark Pilgrim, Dive Into Mark
I thought the big draw for Apple hardware was that "It Just Works." By breaking it, you must know you're giving up the "Just Works" factor, so what's left?
by Matt Neuburg, TidBITS
Spotlight plus Time Machine lets you find stuff backwards in time!
by rentzsch.com
Apple's modern keyboards have a bias against activating Caps Lock at all, and another bias to turn it off as soon as possible.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Apple Inc.'s move last week to stop hackers from modifying the iPhone has essentially killed the market for unlocked phones, a financial analyst said today.
by Jeremy Horwitz, iLounge
Unless Apple releases firmware updates to improve video-out performance, your videos are going to look different depending on the iPod (or iPhone) you connect to a TV or other video-caable accessory.
by Jim Thompson, Houston Chronicle
There's nothing like having your very own Macintosh. I have come full circle and am loving every moment of it.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
by Harry Wallop, Telegraph
Transformers and the Apple iPod Touch are expected to be two of the most popular toys underneath the Christmas tree this year, according to toy retailer, Toys R Us.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
Quality control problems once again, this time concerning Apple's latest iMacs, which seem to suffer from a graphics card problem that causes the computer screens to lock up.
by Reuters
In the market for a new video iPod? Head to Hong Kong or, if EUrope-bound, stop off in Switzerland. But best avoid Brazil.
One of Australia's biggest banks, the Commonwealth Bank, has used the latest version of Apple's music player — the slimline 4GB Nano — to compare global currencies and purchasing power in 55 countries.
by Jeff Smykil, Ars Technica
by Don Reisinger, CNET News.com
I blame AT&T for forcing Apple to do something that it has never done before and effectively become the bad guy while AT&T laughs its way to the bank.
by Robert Vamosi, CNET News.com
The patch affects users of QuickTime 7.2 on Windows Vista, XP SP2, and addresses the vulnerability in CVE-2007-4673.
by Arik Hesseldahl, BusinessWeek
by Stephen Wellman, InformationWeek
I have a theory: I think Apple may be more scared of open access than AT&T, assuming such a thing — a vendor being more scared of open accss than a carrier — is even possible.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by MacNN
by Adam C. Engst, TidBITS
by Mike Schramm, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Whoever coded the page just used the Airport Extreme template, and did a mass cut-and-paste with "iPhone" and "Airport."
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
Whatever the reason that third-party apps wound up disabled with the 1.1.1 update, it's an issue that doesn't figure to fade away.
by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, eWeek
First, the iPhone root password was broken. OK, it happens. But now it seems that all applications run on the iPhone as root. Can you say biggest security blnder of the 21st century to date?
by Chris Pirillo
No doubt about it: this is (by far) the most user friendly home networking router I've ever had the pleasure of using.
by Glenn Fleishman, Macworld
The Starbucks/Apple partnership does live up to the simplicity of browsing and purchase that were promised, but only at the expense of a lot of friction—first in the lack of superb execution at a launch store; second, in the poor execution of how Wi-Fi and at least portable devices work for connections.
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
Regardless of what Apple does in the real world—release great hardware, offer up the finest operating system computerdom has seen, make incredible content deals—if it returns to the days of the Arrogant Apple, it's going to lose its darling status in a hurry. And this is the path I fear Apple has returned to.
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
The iPhone Feedback page looks innocent enough, until you view the HTML to the page.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
by Triston Mcintyre, Mac.Blorge.com
by Saul Hansell, New York Times Blog
So why would AT&T be worried about network problems caused by an iPhone and not from these other phones? Michael Coe, an AT&T spokesman, wouldn't say. "The company that decides which third-party apps go on the iPhone is Apple," he said.
by Rafe Colburn, rc3.org
It strikes me that "that's stupid" is just about the most self-defeating thing you can say if your goal is to analyze, well, anything. I'm seeing "that's stupid" a lot lately with regard to Apple's iPhone.
by MacNN
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
I've chosen not to upgrade because I value the productivity, entertainment, and customization abiilities offered by the third-party applications I've added to my iPhone. I don't want those abilities to go away just to earn the "right" to send Apple more money via the new Wi-Fi Music Store.
by Mat Lu, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by Mathew Honan and Dan Frakes, Macworld
Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) "is 100 percent preventable."
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Apple Inc.'s decision last week to bundle an iPhone-crippling firmware upgrade with 10 security patches for the device was a mistake, analysts said today.
by 37signals
I love that Apple favored context over consistency in this design desicison. Consistency is the easy choice. Context is the thinking choice.
by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Business 2.0
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
iTunes has new competition in the UK in the form of a DRM-free and cross-platform music video download service, which launched today.
by MacNN
Apple has begun warning users that its beta Boot Camp software for running WIndows on an Intel-based Mac will expire at the end of October.
by Hugh Hart, Wired
As TV networks hype their new fall lineups online, iTunes could wind up getting left in the dust.
See Also:
Competitors To iTunes Are Gearing Up, by Daisy Whitney, Television Week. The balance of power has begun to tilt away from Apple. That's because networks have proven in the last year that consumers will watch ad-supported shows for free, both on network web sites and other portals.
by G. Pascal Zachary, New York Times
At first blush, the iPhone from Apple, the new microprocessor family from Intel and the ubiquitous Google search engine have nothing in common. One is a gadget, one is an electronic part and one is a service.
Yet all of these products — much acclaimed for their creativity — depend on obscure process innovations that, while highly complex and lacking glamour, are an essential part of testablishing a winning edge in commercial electronics. Indeed, the success of Apple, Intel, Google and scores of other technology companies has as much or more to do with their process innovations as the products that inspire loyalty among fans and admiration from foes.
by Emergent Chaos
If Apple wants to shoot themselves in the foot, that's their business. What they're doing is splattering other people.
by Lauren Weinstein
What's really going on is something that goes far beynd Apple. Technology companies are rapidly extending their complicated intellectual property agreements into the consumer devices taht we buy and depend upon. In essense, we're more and more really renting these products, not actually buying them, since legally there are all sorts of restrictions on what we can do with these modern wonders, and often ways that they can be turned into useless junk by their makers if we don't play by their rules.
by David Chariter, Ars Technica
A new iPhone Human Interface Guidelines document from Apple offers developers in-depth documentation on the iPhone's UI, how to design for it, and how to handle content passed through various technologies.
by Intomobile.com
by Presentation Zen
The difference is that Steve's slides flow smoothly with his talk. Bill's slides aren't really necessary; they are more of an ornament or a decoration off to the side.
by Gizmodo
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