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Friday, January 31, 2003
iPhoto 2 Apple released today iPhoto 2.0, available as a 32MB downoad from Apple's web site or via Software Update or as a part of the 49 USD iLife CD. Read Derrick Story's first impressions on O'Reilly: iPhoto 2.0 -- It's Mostly Good News (0) comments Thursday, January 30, 2003
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Cheapest AirPort Range Extender -- It takes two to tango with wireless networking, and one way to improve your laptop's signal strength is to move your AirPort Base Station to a more central location. If you've avoided doing so because there's no electrical power near that ideal spot, MacWireless has a solution for you. The MacWireless Power Over Ethernet product consists of a pair of adapters that send power over unused pairs of wires in the Ethernet cable that connects your AirPort Base Station to the rest of your network. It's only $30 and should be shipping in a few weeks. Power Over Ethernet found on Tidbits Friday, January 17, 2003
Shouldn't talk to loud about the big bad blogger... it just blew up Safari but the post survived :-) For anyone who might not know yet, Safari is Apples brand-new browser. Steve Jobs introduced it in his keynote to the Macworld Expo in San Francisco and it's one nice browser. For starters it's fast. Apple claims it is 3x faster then IE and from some 10 days using it, I can just confirm it's speed. The iTunes-style bookmarks feature might be a bit unusual first but proves very handy in daily use. Safari also sports a Google search-feature integrated in the toolbar. Other goodies are a spellchecker, a pop-up killer and a snap-back feature, which enables you to jump back to the initial page of the site you are in or to mark a certain page for snap-back. Interface-wise Safari comes in brushed metal like other iApps and the new Calculator in Jaguar. Safari still being a beta release (1.0 v52 as of writing) it also has a simple to use bug-report feature. At the far right end of the toolbar is a button with something on it that remains vaguely of a tick. Clicking this button gets you to an intuitive bug report including advanced features like sending screenshots and source-code. For the system requirements: nothing less than Jaguar (10.2.3 recommended). And for the ones that need to know what's inside: KHTML rendering engine and a developer-team from Chimera. All in all a pretty nice App and once it grows out of it's betahood it could be easily the #1 browser on the Mac platform. (0) comments Hi everyone, welcome the 2nd... after I set up this blog I wrote a really nice intro and guess what happened... it disappeared. Somewhere between writing, posting, and publishing it just vanished :-( So here I go again: I was for some time considering to start a blog and since I don't know how successful this might be, I decided to give it a try with a free Blog*Spot one for now. If it works fine I'll be transferring it to my own server, but for now I prefer to write posts then edit scripts ;-) What will I be writing about? Mostly Mac related stuff, OS X, safari, iApps, all kind of tools and goodies, Palm related issues, Bluetooth, networking (this one of my favorite topics), etc. There will be some things off-topic too, the occasional movie review or else. So now let's hope the big bad blogger won't eat my post again ;-) Kay (0) comments |
