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Tuesday, July 22, 2003
PhishMac or MacPhish? House of Live Phish: Amidst the commotion will be a tranquil, well-lit, air-conditioned tent to create your own custom FREE Live Phish CD. Create a playlist from hundreds of Live Phish tracks preloaded onto a couple dozen iMacs, burn a CD on iTunes, and walk out with a great mix for the ride home. Or if you've had your fill of Phish, come on in, check your email, check the scores -- whatever your pleasure. Special thanks to Apple Computer for providing the iMacs and Verbatim for providing the top quality blank media. From Phish :: News (0) comments Monday, July 21, 2003
Why does David Coursey want a Pentium Mac? He sure has a point when he proposes an Apple-built, dual-boot, intel-based Mac, but I don't see that happen any soon. Can you imagine Steve Jobs presenting an 'intel-inside' box in his next Steve-note? I sure can't... Read the commentary on c|net Asia. (0) comments iChat AV envy? So, you'd like to join the iChat AV frenzy but you are stuck with a USB web-cam? ecamm offers iChatUSBCam Application Enhancer module, which, based on Unsanity's APE. I couldn't try it out myself, because I have no USB Web-Cam, but it looks quite promising. (0) comments Wednesday, July 16, 2003
RSS overdose About.com, provider of Internet Guide sites, recently switched it's publishing system to blog-style powered by MovableType. Hundreds of guide sites in 23 categories covering over 50,000 subjects and providing more than 1 Million links to resources on the Net are now available via XML feed. My favorite channels: World/Independent Film French Macintosh related channels: Macintosh Operating Systems Focus on Mac Suport (0) comments R.I.P Netscape According to different sources, AOL is closing down Netscape, including mass-firing and dismantling property. Mozillazine: AOL Cuts Remaining Mozilla Hackers Glazblog Slashdot: AOL Lays Off 50 Netscape Coders c|net: AOL lays off Netscape developers The Register: AOL kills Netscape Internetnews: Mozilla Officially Out of Netscape and Mozilla.org announces Mozilla Foundation (0) comments As seen on CNN CNN has 2 stories in it's technology section worth mentioning here. First an article about News feed readers and news aggregators by Christine Boese, Welcome to the 'new' Web, same as the 'old' Web prominently featuring NetNewsWire. The second one Google gag becomes big hit relates to an earlier post. (0) comments MacBU New Office v.X product lineup MicrosoftWatch reports on upcoming new offers and price-cuts for Microsoft's Mac offerings. Amongst others: Office for Students and Teachers, Office Professional, price-cuts for stand-alone Word, Excel and Powerpoint. Microsoft is said to announce these changes on August 12. Read the whole story here. (0) comments Saturday, July 12, 2003
Friday, July 11, 2003
Lazy Summer The world of Macintosh seems to have fallen in a digesting nap after the WWDC. With all the good news about G5s and Panther coming up a and not much to speculate about for the Macworld CreativePro show in NY and vacation time coming up there's not much new to report on. (0) comments New Free Audio Capture Utility by Ambrosia Software Ambrosia Software released today WireTap a new audio capture utility which enables users to capture any sound played on their Macintosh, including Internet radio stations such as the BBC News, sound snippets from a DVD movie, record the audio from a game, or even iChatAV. (0) comments Friday, July 04, 2003
Power... Ted McGinty thought he was living the high life. Plucked from a ramshackle house he shared with two roommates, he was sent to live in a lovely two-story Victorian with a view of the water. He scored a nice job as a mid-level manager at a local hospital and was on his way to a masters degree at the local college. And then a giant robot from outer space arrived. McGinty watched it destroy his home before it turned on the rest of the city, leaving a trail of devastation in its path. Soon the metropolis where McGinty thought he could make a fresh start was gone. “What happened to my home?” he cried. “Who did this to me?” You did. You were bored with that city, and its crushing budget deficit didn’t help matters. Read Brad Cook's review of SimCity 4 on Apple Games (0) comments Flipping the Bird John Gruber's excellent point-by-point dissection of Paul Boutin's claim that Linux's growing desktop market share hurts Apple. Read it here. And after you are done reading the article, cast your vote for your favourite OS at Arstechnica and don't be surprised by the results. (0) comments Feeling Lucky? Go to Google, enter "weapons of mass destruction" (including the quotes) and press the button 'I'm Feeling Lucky'... (0) comments
There is no place like home... or is there?
British astronomers say they found the first sun-like star with a giant gas planet in an orbit similar to Jupiter's, which leaves plenty of room for worlds like Earth and Mars. The discovery "moves this star to No. 1 on the list" of places to look for a planet like Earth, said astrophysicist Hugh Jones of Liverpool John Moores University, who led the team that made the discovery. ... Read the whole story in Weird Wednesday, July 02, 2003
From MacCentral:
... Jupiter research analyst Michael Gartenberg thinks this could be a good start for Apple, although they will have some of the same old problems to overcome. "Apple is fighting three myths: one is that you pay a huge price premium; the second is that there is no software; and the third is that they are tremendously proprietary," said Gartenberg. "The truth is, none of those things are accurate -- Apple is price competitive relative to their competitors; there is plenty of software for the tasks most individuals need to do and beyond; and Apple supports far more open standards than any other competing operating system. You combine that with a product like the G5 and you have to believe that lots of people are going to start taking a look at this -- if they can overcome their Apple prejudice." ...Read the whole story |
