Love the Mac: June 2005 Archives

Love the Mac > June 30, 2005

Back in Mac! Making the switch, Perhaps?

[Conann FitzPatrick | Paintings, drawings, digital art and photographs. An artist's Blog with work for sale.] To see this in action and know what key does what use the "Keyboard Viewer" - to find it use the Mac Help facility and type "accent", it should be the first link - it has moved around for different versions of Mac OS X, hence suggesting you use Help to find it. Incidentally I don't know how to do this in all MS-Windows apps such as Opera that I am using right now and I find it really slow in MS-Word.

Mac OS X Tiger

[Chris Hanson] Just in case anyone hasn't heard, it's been announced! Mac OS X Tiger ships on April 29

Posted at 12:08 AM

June 30, 2005

Back in Mac! Making the switch, Perhaps?

Posted at 12:11 AM

Mac OS X Tiger

[Chris Hanson] Just in case anyone hasn't heard, it's been announced! Mac OS X Tiger ships on April 29

Posted at 12:08 AM

Apple developer: 'I've finally been Microsofted!'

[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] Instead of developing Longhorn, Microsoft should just buy Tiger when Apple is finished with it. The release date wouldn't be affected, and Microsoft's code jockies could spend their time making Microsoft Office (even more) bloated and less user friendly!

Posted at 12:06 AM

flickr Photographer

[GodsMoon's Take on the World] you can make your own flickr badge at: http://flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/badg Tags: flickr badge 2005 cat tiger...

Posted at 12:05 AM

Tiger Tiger

[Kalyan Varma (kalyan)] I was driving to the Tribal NGO place in the jeep when this large male tiger crossed the road right in front of me. I stopped the jeep and switched off the engine.

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Posted at 12:03 AM

June 28, 2005

How to make eBooks for your iPod!

[Capital Region People] I've also found a site chock full o'hacks for the iPod, HERE! Speaking of Apple products, it is podworthy to mention Steve Jobs' commencement address at Stanford...

Posted at 09:50 AM

Think Secret Looks At The Intel Mac Developer System

[ Joseph Scotts Blog] The folks at Think Secret have some initial details on the hardware. The only problem they seem to have run into with running Windows XP on it was with the video card.

Posted at 09:45 AM

More pics of Xbox 360 dashboard

[~Tech Angel~] Here are some more pics of the Xbox 360 dashboard...I posted a couple of pics last month:

Posted at 09:37 AM

Sneak peek: Dashboard enhancements in OS 10.4.2

[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] Since Dashboard's introduction, a number of third party widget managers have sprung up. According to Apple Insider, "...the 'More Widgets' button [currently] located to the far right of the Dashboard dock has been renamed 'Manage Widgets.' Instead of scrolling the dock to reveal the next dozen or so widgets installed on the user's system, the function launches a completely new widget manager that itself resembles a widget."

Posted at 09:34 AM

Tiger's out!

[Chris Hanson's Journal] Mac OS X Tiger 10.4 is available now! Woot!

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Posted at 09:30 AM

June 27, 2005

Tiger Tips: Kid Safe Account

[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] With the new Parental Controls—which you can find by launching System Preferences, choosing the Accounts control panel, and then clicking on the Parental Controls tab—you can set up an account with no password, so that your kid(s) can simply click on a picture to log in, and then enable Simple Finder and set specifically the different programs your child can access.

Posted at 03:55 PM

IE7 and RSS in action

[Breaking Windows 2.0 - Rants & Raves by Ken Edwards & Matt Paprocki] Subscribing to an RSS feed from within Internet Explorer 7.0 will be similar to adding a Web site to "Favorites." An icon placed in a toolbar will illuminate when feeds have been updated with new content.Source: BetaNews

Posted at 03:53 PM

Creating an Application with Tiger Technologies

[Chris Hanson's Journal] To illustrate how to take advantage of the new technologies in Tiger, we're going to do something a bit different and present the creation of a prototypical Cocoa application over a series of articles. This first article in this series covers the first few steps of creating our application, including putting together a data model and providing a user-interface.

Posted at 03:49 PM

June 26, 2005

Undress Steve Jobs!

[Richard Bluestein's Weblog] Now we can finally see what Steve Jobs looks like without that horrible high pants/black shirt combo.

Posted at 09:53 AM

Note to Self

[Northwest Noise] My friend Jeff in Eugene just got a 12 inch Powerbook (w00t!)he has a nice Motorola Bluetooth phone;

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Posted at 09:50 AM

June 25, 2005

Apple's Mac 101 Webpage

[Ti Kouka Too] There is a huge amount of information at the Mac 101 Webpage. Definitely a starting point for all who are new to the Mac!

Posted at 08:58 AM

June 24, 2005

iPhoto Color Shift Bug, identified?

[Joe Maller] Based on a lot of good information in the MacInTouch iPhoto Report, a massive thread on Apple Discussions and my own experience with Apple’s image manipulation tools, I think I’ve found the basis of this bug. James Bailey’s observation on MacInTouch specifically identifies the problem:

Posted at 10:07 AM

Installing Tiger sans DVD

[Alex Maccise] I've seen many posts concerning Apple's decision to ship Mac OS X 10.4 exclusively on DVD. While I understand that Apple has offered its customers a $10 exchange option to "downgrade" to CDs, I would like to post a second option for those more adventurous types.

Posted at 10:05 AM

Spotlight and FileMaker anyone?

[Secret Weapon Labs] I’ve figured a way of fudging a FileMaker database to be searched a la Spotlight. I’m willing to openly discuss it, but it requires an extensive writeup and I’d like to gauge the interest before I do.

Posted at 10:03 AM

Popping your Mac's, um, cherry...

[Sharp-eyed Blog] I always forget some little utilities, or their location, when I'm setting up a new Mac. At any rate, the title of the series has catapulted this future series to the top of my (and soon, Google's) list for handy links (among other lists it'll rank high on).

Posted at 10:02 AM

Delicious Library Dashboard Widget: Cache problem

[Breaking Windows 2.0 - Rants & Raves by Ken Edwards & Matt Paprocki] My install of 10.3.9 was FUBAR, to put it mildly. I installed Tiger on one of my Firewire hard drives, and used that handy Migration Assistant utility to bring all my apps, docs, and prefs to the new clean Tiger install.

Posted at 10:01 AM

June 23, 2005

200 free MacTips; 40 free tutorials

[TiKouka] And don’t forget my Learning Centre which now contains almost 40 free tutorials, Tips and reviews on Macs, web design and using the Internet. Written by me, some of these were previously published in New Zealand’s Macguide magazine or by CommunityNet Aotearoa.

Posted at 09:48 PM

iWork ”˜05 initial impressions

[sjarvis.com] This entry was posted on Monday, January 24th, 2005 at 11:07 am and is filed under Macintosh, Geekiness. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

Posted at 09:45 PM

My New Toy

[Adventures in Urban Living] I really enjoyed having something so compact that I could take to the coffee shop down the street, or curl up with on the couch to write e-mail while the TV provides background noise. I kept poking around the sale section of the online Apple Store for a good deal, and on Friday I found it, certified refurbished 1.2Ghz 12" iBook G4, and I knew I'd found it.

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Posted at 09:43 PM

ideaShrub Screencast

[ Blog - John Resig] The tour comes in the form of a mini-screencast for everyone to watch. This is my first attempt at making a screencast and I think it went fairly well (save for the lack of voice over and mouse cursor, but I’m working on fixing that for future ‘casts).

Posted at 09:37 PM

Sip, look, write

[Creation Robot] My vantage point is over the PowerBook, through a plant grown from a cutting stolen from my wife’s grandmothers nursing home - aide memoir - and out of the window in front of me. Framed in my window, one floor up, are a couple of trees one either side, my garage roof, which is to the left, and the top of my garden fence.

Posted at 09:36 PM

Using a PowerBook G4 with the display closed

[Switchblog] I usually go dual screen, but this is a pretty handy tip I didn't know about...If you use an external display or projector with any PowerBook G4 or PowerBook (FireWire), you can close the display and still use the computer. Here's how.

Posted at 09:35 PM

IBM and Apple

[david ascher] I’ve been playing around on a beautiful Powerbook and falling a little bit in love, so I went to the Apple store to find out what the damage would be. Check out what happens if you mistype www.appple.ca!

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Posted at 09:33 PM

How to make eBooks for your iPod!

[Capital Region People] I've also found a site chock full o'hacks for the iPod, HERE! Speaking of Apple products, it is podworthy to mention Steve Jobs' commencement address at Stanford...

Posted at 09:31 PM

Think Secret Looks At The Intel Mac Developer System

[ Joseph Scotts Blog] The folks at Think Secret have some initial details on the hardware. The only problem they seem to have run into with running Windows XP on it was with the video card.

Posted at 09:28 PM

June 22, 2005

Freezing the play order of a shuffled iTunes playlist

[Ölbaum's Delirium] The problem with shuffled playlists in iTunes is that if I quit iTunes at the end of the day, relaunch it the next day and want to resume playing the same playlist where I left it, iTunes will shuffle it again, meaning I'm likely to hear songs I already heard the day before. On the other hand, if I turn shuffle off, it will sort the songs in the order I put them when I created the playlist, which is likely to be in Artist/Album order since this is how I browse my library when making a playlist.

Posted at 11:56 AM

Things

[Fraser Speirs] I get as much text height as possible by using ProFont.9pt. http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/

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Posted at 11:54 AM

Going on Safari

[K-Squared Ramblings] A few days ago I noticed that while Safari accounts for about 2.3% of traffic to this site, Mac OS accounts for 4.4%. Since Safari...

Posted at 11:52 AM

.mac supported applications

[Switchblog] Catalog and organize your CDs; publish your media collections right to your HomePage to share with friends.

Posted at 11:50 AM

More ”˜The Sky is Falling’ Hype

[Jim Mitchell Designs] I’ve yet to see any virus that affects OS X, and have only heard rumors of a couple of vulnerabilities - which were resolved quickly, mind you. I think all the hoopla amounts to little more than a few knuckle-heads vying for a little publicity at the expense of paranoid Windows switchers, who have had to wrestle with all sorts of trouble for too long.

Posted at 11:41 AM

Solving Powerbook Trackpad Dead Zones

[Garrick Van Buren .com] I was using SideTrack to add trackpad scrolling and had grown accustomed to placing my finger on the far left border (I’m left-handed) of the trackpad to scroll. These dead zones rendered that action completely useless.

Posted at 11:38 AM

Making Free Screencasts on OS X

[ Blog - John Resig] OS X Developer Tools - This package (which is distributed on the OS X install CD) installs all sorts of development goodies that are going to be needed for the next couple appliations. (Unless you already installed it, then just skip this step) If you no longer have your install CD, join the Developer Connection web site, and there should be a version available there for download.

Posted at 11:37 AM

A telescope and astronomy software

[Ti Kouka Too] A few weeks ago I bought a cheap telescope for astronomy. It's a Chinese no-name 114 mm reflector with an equatorial mount and on the few clear nights we've had since then I've been having some fun looking at things.

Posted at 11:35 AM

Strip It Off, Lets See Whats Underneath That”¦Aluminum!

[ultramookie] Strip It Off, Lets See Whats Underneath That”¦Aluminum! Posted in hardware, macintosh by mookie kong on the June 21st, 2005 This site has some pretty...

Posted at 11:32 AM

June 21, 2005

Mac Mini Projects

[Command-Tab] If you recently got a Mac Mini and are still looking for something useful to do with it, aside from using it as a normal desktop computer, here are 50 Mac Mini projects to keep you busy. Useful purposes include web and mail servers, firewalls, backup servers, and media players.

Posted at 11:26 AM

Apple beaten to the punch

[~Tech Angel~] After downloading and installing BadApple, you will have a "Podcasts"link you can click on from iTunes. You can use this to browsethrough categories to find the Podcast you want.

Posted at 11:23 AM

San Francisco Trip

[crschmidt - Recent Entries] I never updated about how our trip to San Francisco went. Since it has been a terribly long time, this post will be a highlights reel:

Posted at 11:21 AM

Mac Monday : ScreenShots

[bertphan] Taking screenshots of your mac is easy. Simply press Command-Shift-3, and it’ll take a screenshot of your desktop, and name it Picture 1, and plop it onto your desktop.

Posted at 11:19 AM

Bluetooth and Stuff

[ultramookie] I really love the Bluetooth functionality of the phone, but while I was trying to use it stricting with my Windows XP VAIO, I could not do anything. The Bluetooth on the VAIO didn’t work and trying to get my BT dongle to work was cumbersome with the drivers I needed to round up.

Posted at 11:14 AM

In Which I Go All Nerd, Part II

[I Know What I Know] When I got to the download page, it balked, telling me in apologetic terms that I needed to use Microsoft Internet Explorer to complete the transaction. No doubt so I could download a virus.

Posted at 11:10 AM

Buzztracker Widget

[ClioWeb] frequencies and relationships between locations in the Google world news directory.” Check it out.

Posted at 11:06 AM

Homebrew document management system

[The Savvy Technologist] I’ve been using Apple’s new OS 10.4 for over a month now and my initial impression was corrrect: the best new feature is Spotlight, Apple’s desktop search system. Since buying a Brother 7820N laser printer/copier/fax/scanner a couple weeks ago I’ve realized that if I can find decent OCR software I have the tools available to build my own document management system.

Posted at 11:03 AM

ideaShrub Screencast

Posted at 10:59 AM

June 20, 2005

The Importance of Open Formats

[This is Martey Dodoo] As you might recall, I wrote about the first post in the series, which focused on music file formats like OGG and MP3. Again, I am not going to try to explain the problems of closed formats when Garrity has already done such a good job.

Posted at 09:49 AM

Apple and Intel

[JustinFrench.com] Apologies for the lack of activity here lately. I’ve had plenty of things in various stages of drafting, but somehow they’ve never quite made it live, including my take on the whole Apple-Intel thing.

Posted at 09:47 AM

Sad But True

[The Primary Main Objective”¦]

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Posted at 09:46 AM

WWDC 2005 Weblogger Dinner: Wrap Up

[Sci-Fi Hi-Fi] Even though the weblogger dinner seemed to be attracting a lot of RSVPs, I don’t think I ever believed that 80 people were really going to show up until the last minute. I’m not sure exactly how many ended up attending, but as you can see from James Duncan Davidson’s great photos (thanks a million Duncan!)

Posted at 09:44 AM

Opera 8 for Mac; developer toolbar

[Ti Kouka Too] The Toolbar also adds menu items which seem to repeat the Toolbar functions. Get quick links to all the documentation you need: HTML and CSS specs, accessibility guidelines, Unicode characters for ‣

Posted at 09:41 AM

More Windows in Mac

[ultramookie] Over the last few weeks, I had been using Windows boxes more than Mac boxes. I still used my iBook from time to time and used my G4 at work also.

Posted at 09:39 AM

OS X x86 Torrent

[alistairphillips.com] *apparently* there is an ISO floating around the Internet pretending to be MacOS X for Intel x86. Some people are reporting that this is a complete...

Posted at 09:38 AM

Same GNOME for OS X?

[ Pyronecrophilia] Does anyone know of a Same GNOME clone for OS X? I miss playing that game and I don’t want to install gnome (via Fink) just to play one game

Posted at 09:36 AM

June 19, 2005

Why BadApple?

[Northwest Noise] I'm worried that when and if Apple adds podcast support they will only list a few podcasts that they approve. Remember this is a company that sues web sites that say good things about their upcoming products - bad Apple!

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Posted at 12:30 PM

QuickTime 7 Disappointments

[Robert Accetturas Fun With Wordage] I installed Tiger on my Mac mini, and was impressed with the H.264 codec, despite it not really supporting my mac mini (not enough CPU apparently, even though it’s rather new) and still working fairly well. When the Windows preview came out, I naturally installed it and gave it a go.

Posted at 12:26 PM

Making the Switch to Mac OS X

[Krunker] I was reading some RSS feeds this afternoon and I came across this older editorial about making the switch to OS X from a Windows platform. It’s a good read for anyone interested in possibly going over to the Mac side.

Posted at 12:24 PM

Hetima and Saft

[TiKouka] In that respect is a little like the wonderful Firefox Web Developer extension. It was probably also Dori who put me on to the invaluable Saft (NZ$18).

Posted at 12:21 PM

software meme

[adrianlikins.com] Red Hat, big surprise, RHEL or Fedora/Rawhide depending on what I’m working on. At various points I’ve tried slackware and debian linux.

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Posted at 12:18 PM

The Apple Tablet PC

[OFlaherty.dk - Bits, Bytes and Babes] Well, I was chatting to Brian about this only a couple of days ago, and said that some “enthusiasts” would get OSX running on other platforms soon.

Posted at 12:14 PM

/me at LinuxTag

[ Bitflux Blog] If you have questions about BxCMS, Bitflux Editor or general questions about PHP (and XML), that's your chance to get the answers and demos in person. Besides meeting a whole bunch of the PHP and MySQL creme-de-la-creme :)

Posted at 12:11 PM

June 18, 2005

QuickTime HD Gallery

[GreenCracker - The Personal Blog of Jonathan Smith] QuickTime 7 with the H.264 codec offers amazing video and audio in QuickTime movies. A demo of the latest version of QuickTime can be found here.

Posted at 04:58 PM

Stealth Marketing by APple?

[Richard Bluestein's Weblog] “According to reports, Apple’s bundled iLife applications, major selling points for the Mac operating system, are already Intel-native and run at full speed”¦

Posted at 04:56 PM

cURL a web page

[Ti Kouka Too] The weekend whizzed by, occupied by work on Saturday and installing a new letterbox on Sunday, along with some play, so I didn't have much time to experiment with cURL. It looks pretty nifty though and my limited tests brought great results.

Posted at 04:54 PM

Queen Elizabeth II and the iPod

[TiKouka] Engadget not only carries the story that Queen Elizabeth II has become an iPod user but has the best iPod silhouette picture I’ve seen. Lovely.

Posted at 04:52 PM

It’s ALIVE! Dead PSP Revisited

[Sample the Web] Evidently, you shouldn’t plugin the PSP without the battery inside as if fries that basic connection. I bought a new battery on Sunday and popped it in and it worked, but when I plugged the AC adapter in to charge it, nothing happened.

Posted at 04:51 PM

Why Apples are still a good buy

[Spontaneous Monotony] because Apple are a publicly traded company, he could go to jail if he lies about something like that. so I think june 2006 is fairy likely to be true (also, current Intel chips are slower than equivalent-clock G5s, so Apple are likely waiting until Intel’s next wave of chips comes out)

Posted at 04:50 PM

Apple: So you might run Windows....how about linux? FreeBSD?

[The Newest Industry] A Tri-Boot Powerbook: MacOSX, Windows, AND LINUX! Or a QUAD BOOT Powerbook: MacOSX, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD.

Posted at 04:50 PM

June 17, 2005

Naming Conventions

[Tech Goes Boom] Apple will most likely stick with the Powerbook and Powermac monikers, although they certainly could switch to an Xmac and Xbook naming scheme to denote the pro line of machines in contrast to the “i” currently in use on their consumer products.

Posted at 08:21 AM

Beeblefish 0.7 Beta

[justin.stach] Another day, another update. And this is a good one. So, what’s new? Total rewrite of the javascript. Nudged the image for the Asian Network to...

Posted at 08:20 AM

Update on John

[ // Phil+Lyndel] New iMac G5 17th June, 2005 Unfortunately, it's not for me. Dave's getting one. They retail for $AU 2,795.00 ($AU 2,515.70 with educational discount)...

Posted at 08:20 AM

Feelings of Mac users around the world right now.

[Andre Tan (andretan)] These feelings can be summarised in one picture.

Posted at 08:17 AM

Dell Wants Apple

[Northwest Noise] Michael Dell wants Apple inside: "Michael Dell has officially gone on record to say that his company would be happy to offer the Macintosh operating system to its customers — marking the first time a PC industry exec has officially shown interest in licensing OS X for its boxes.

Posted at 08:16 AM

Excuse Me While I Go All Nerd”¦

[I Know What I Know] One of the few bugs in Mac OS X 10.4 that affects me is that the default email program (imaginatively named “Mail”), which had worked just dandy for me in previous versions of OS X has suddenly decided to stall and hang up when displaying email messages. Sometimes, when I receive a new email, the display window will simply show this

Posted at 08:13 AM

Automator to the “rescue”

[DanielBergey.com] I thought of using Automator, but it was only after dealing with Fireworks and its insane inability to save an image that you’re editing (you have to Export it, and discard the original document) that I gave in and chose ‘Create Workflow…’ from the Finder’s Automator right-click menu.

Posted at 08:12 AM

Kudos to Apple

[[eriksmartt.com/blog]] Not only did they open source WebKit, but they’re using live CVS servers (meaning, the same CVS servers the developers are using) and the source ships with build scripts that make it super easy to build and test the framework without breaking the rest of your system. Very, very cool.

Posted at 08:11 AM

OS X x86 Torrent

[a ZA boy in the UK] I am sure that even though Apple have a copy of MacOS running on an Intel system they would still be using some proprietry BIOS, even if all the hardware is that same.

Posted at 08:10 AM

June 16, 2005

32bit or 64bit

[zen.org Communal Weblog] While I haven’t spent a lot of time looking, I have spend a little time with no luck. Maybe I just don’t know how to look for Mac informaiton. According to the June 11 User Friendly strip: “AAAAAAAAAARRRRRGH!!

Posted at 09:47 AM

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Posted at 09:47 AM

Quicksilver Power Tips

[Schussman.com] Still learning

Posted at 09:46 AM

Search SG map

[Bhootakannadi] In some 2 hours, I managed to put together this rather primitive widget piece. The graphics and icons aren’t anything great, but it works beautifully.

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Posted at 09:45 AM

Just picked up a dashboard widget for blogging

[Craigalog] - Its a wonderful world and a very weird reality, the day you understand it is the day you die. Just smile politely until then.'>Reflective RealityA Weblog full of reflections on reality and news and views gathered via todays information overload. - Its a wonderful world and a very weird reality, the day you understand it is the day you die.

Posted at 09:43 AM

The Red Tiger Jumped Over the Yellow Dog

[Redlobo.com] Apple has done it again. It has shocked the world again by saying it will phase out their PowerPC microprocessors and start using Intel’s i386 chips...

Posted at 09:40 AM

Apple to Use Intel Microprocessors Beginning in 2006

[Creation Robot] Don’t get your hopes up though for running OS X any any old Intel box - it won’t work. Apple will still be a hardware/software vendor and OS X will run on nothing but Apple kit.

Posted at 09:39 AM

Oh...and I still haven't gotten my Powerbook!

[The Newest Industry] How much of a hint do I have to drop? I will do ANYTHING for a Powerbook. I know some of you have been meaning to get me one; maybe this is a good...

Posted at 09:38 AM

PSP Stuff: Getting my Videos and other stuff on the PSP

[Jonas Luster] For an upcoming trip to Connecticut (speaking about which, give me a holler if you’re anywhere between Boston, Tolland, CT, and New York, NY, and want to have coffee), I started to fill my PSP with goodness. Being a n00b at the whole PSP thingie, it took me a while to figure out how to get my rapidly growing collection of TV shows I’d recorded but never watched onto the PSP.

Posted at 09:37 AM

June 15, 2005

tiger

[inkdroid] Well, I took the plunge and installed the latest version of OS X. I’m actually posting this blog entry with a WordPress dashboard plugin. I backed up my mail, addressbook and calendar and did a clean install.

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Posted at 06:10 AM

Apple/Intel: Wise move/disaster?

[Bleeding Edge] Others, however, indicated that there was never a better time to buy a Mac. We've been talking to some local retailers, and they report that there is some increased interest in the G5s, on the apparent reasoning that either this will be as good as it gets, or Apple's going to run out of stock of the things. Hmm!

Posted at 06:09 AM

TUAW

[TeamDroid] For a corporate site, this place has quite a bit of cool info on Macs. The Unofficial Apple Weblog

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Posted at 06:07 AM

More Computer Woes II

[3000 miles from home | aram kudurshian's web site] He decided it would need to go in for repair. Now, although I have a three year AppleCare warranty and on-site repair is part of the deal, the tech suggested that I bring it into a dealer so that they could use parts on hand to diagnose the situation. As Connecting Points is only about a 10 minute drive away, I agreed.

Posted at 06:06 AM

It (sort of) just works!

[Blood, Sweat and Tiers] Anyway, I'm showing my age by saying it's 19 years since I last had a Mac, so I knew things would have changed quite a bit in the meantime. I've been reading 'Mac OS X The Missing Manual' while waiting for my machine to arrive so I already had some of the keyboard shortcuts down before I had the box open. Which brings me to the first of my observations about the oft-repeated cries of "It just works" by the MacCult members...don't get me wrong, this little baby is a beautiful thing, but in the interests of full disclosure, I thought I'd jot down my notes on the switching experience...

Posted at 06:04 AM

OSXFAQ

[TeamDroid] Have a Mac? I’m sure you have questons about it”¦ OSXFAQ - Technical News and Support for Mac OS X Appl , FAQ

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Posted at 06:03 AM

A Blog Is”¦

[ Binary Bonsai] About the whole damn thing! Nevermind my attachment to blogging, the definition is derogatory... 'unhealty interest', 'American', 'twenty-something'...

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Posted at 05:56 AM

Subversion

[Doing Something Different: A Weblog by Doug Miller] Back in the day that I did software development, using a version control system (CVS, at the time) was a daily occurrence. That hasn't been the case for the past couple of years, but as this article points out, version control systems have much broader applicability than just for writing code.

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Posted at 05:55 AM

Gartner on the x86 OS X lockdown

[This Is My Nostalgia] Gartner on the x86 OS X lockdown Gartner chimes in on the Apple architecture switch, and tells you what most people have already figured: "The x86 Mac OS will run only on Apple hardware, possibly with enforcement through Trusted Platform Module technology." Chipset-specific, as expected. In any case, assume this will be cracked at some point, possibly even by launch. ~mac, intel |...

Posted at 05:53 AM

June 14, 2005

Wid·get

[jeffreystene dot com] I installed OS X Tiger a few weeks ago and recently started to explore some of the new Dashboard Widgets that are now available. Today I stumbled across a cool new Widget called “WordPressDash” which enables you to post entries to your WordPress blog directly from the OS X dashboard. Just so happens jsdc is hosted by WordPress, so I thought I’d give it a try.

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Posted at 08:43 AM

Apple eMac

[Krunker] Now just because Apple is moving to the Intel platform doesn’t mean you shouldn’t consider getting an existing Mac. Take the eMac - a budget oriented Mac tailored to students and faculty and really.. anyone looking for a beginner system.

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Posted at 08:42 AM

Laptop Battery Insides

[one digital life: a paul burd blog] “It’s complete surprise to me that the iBook’s battery pack is filled with ordinary-looking rechargeable batteries. Apparently this is also the case with the PowerBook.

Posted at 08:41 AM

Annoyed with AppleCare

[3000 miles from home | aram kudurshian's web site] In addition, my 1st generation PowerMac G5 also has had work done on it, having it’s logic board replaced, as well as, video card. However, Apple’s support for their pro-machine has been more than stellar - although I purchased the AppleCare extended warranty on it, I received on-site repair which had my machine fixed in about an hour. Plus, having telephone support on hand is also handy for simple questions that I might not know the answer to!

Posted at 08:40 AM

Mac OS X 10.4.1 Runs on any PC

[Peter Adams Weblog] I’m dying to hear about Apple’s plans to support running OS X on Intel hardware configs that they do not wrap in titanium.

Posted at 08:39 AM

Apple and Intel Sitting in a Tree

[One Hoopy Frood] The big computer news this week was announced earlier by Steve Jobs at WWDC (The worldwide Developers Conference). Jobs announced that Apple Computers...

Posted at 08:38 AM

My G5 Wants Intel Inside

[carpeaqua] I have to agree with Justin, the previous iMac was okay--quirky in its special way with the 1/2 circle as its base and the easy extension of the monitor....Justin suggested I get the new iMac instead of a G5 since I'm not tech tech tech, he has a point, BUT, first, I would rather have the G5, but second, the new iMac IS hideous. Unfortunately IU just did away with all the previous iMacs and got the new ones.

Posted at 08:37 AM

Build your own x86 Mac

[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] There are many people eagerly awaiting the pending Intel-based Macs for a variety of reasons, including the 'build-your-own-computer' crowd. So far this group has had to restrict its efforts to the Windows and Linux worlds, but Build Your Own Mac is a new website that hopes to change that. Articles include how to construct a system, how to install OS X on the system you create (regardless of what Apple tells you) and challenges the authors are currently aware of.

Posted at 08:36 AM

Spotlight University

[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] Another in the fine list of Mac OS X features that people seem to love or hate (Sherlock anyone?). I am a Spotlight booster and I'm not afraid to say it. I was just extolling the virtues of Spotlight to a co-worker when they asked, 'What's so grrreat about Tiger anyway?' (see what I did there?

Posted at 08:34 AM

June 13, 2005

Why apple dissapointed people - one word: the cel...

[Mariuz's Blog] Why apple dissapointed people - one word: the cell People were expecting something ground breaking like mac-os-x on cell ... When all the rumors were...

Posted at 09:03 AM

Concierge

[Command-Tab] Concierge is a handy little bookmarks drawer which attaches to Safari windows as if it were a built-in function. It allows you to view your browser history sorted by domain, edit your Safari bookmarks without using an entire window or tab, as well as temporarily store links. Personally, I have a habit of throwing links into my Dock and letting them accumulate.

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Posted at 09:02 AM

Tiger Tweaks Won’t Kill Folders

[Command-Tab] Ratzlaff added. “Both of these developments are indications that the Finder is not meeting people’s needs. I think and hope that the Finder as we know it will go away in the next two years, likely with Mac OS 11.”

Posted at 09:01 AM

Get Your Free iPod

[Fifty-three More Things to Do in Zero Gravity] Get Your Free iPod Posted 20:11 in: All • People • Computers • Fun • Geeks • Culture • Free • Apple • iPod • Pop Culture •...

Posted at 09:00 AM

Apple : 2005.06.11 20.23.52

[Garoo - Blog] Jobs was given no choice but to move his business to Intel, when I.B.M. executives said that without additional Apple investment they were unwilling to pursue the faster and lower-power chips he badly needs for his laptop business.

Posted at 08:57 AM

Apple to Use Intel Microprocessors Beginning in 2006

[markmillard.com] Big computer news today: Apple to Use Intel Microprocessors Beginning in 2006

Posted at 08:56 AM

Only Mac fan will do this?

[Mine Blogging] A real life iPod silhouette guy? Can't imagine someone will dress up as Bill Gate and pretends to play the Xbox 360..

Posted at 08:55 AM

ITMS Pre-Orders

[atmaspheric | endeavors] ITMS Pre-Orders June 12th, 2005 smash notes the launch of ITMS pre-ordering”¦ which is a very cool advance. I can only wonder if this is an extension...

Posted at 08:53 AM

Another Convert

[ Pyronecrophilia] Honestly, I don’t see this as much of a surprise. I was having an online conversation about Linux when Jamies blog entry about sound was brought up. I mentioned (jokingly at the time) that if he’d used a mac it would just work.

Posted at 08:52 AM

June 12, 2005

Mac OS X problem with Bluetooth keyboards

[JayAllen - The Daily Journey] I recently upgraded to Mac OS X 10.3.9 (isn't that redundant?) and upon rebooting my computer immediately lost use of my Apple Bluetooth wireless keyboard. I ran Bluetooth Setup Assistant figuring that the upgrade deleted the pairing.

Posted at 11:23 AM

The Apple-Intel Thing (Updated)

[West of the Expressway] Technically, it wouldn't be that hard to port Mac OS X to an x86 processor architecture. The core UNIX-like OS layer, Darwin, has already been ported to run on a very narrowly defined Intel platform (the 440BX chipset), so porting the upper layers of the OS would just need a recompile: only apps which touched on assembly-level instructions would need significant rewriting. Both Apple and NeXT managed architecture switches in the past; Apple from 680x0 to PowerPC, NeXT from 680x0 to a variety of platforms including x86, SPARC, and HP PA-RISC.

Posted at 11:22 AM

Podcasting: Audio editing software for Mac?

[JeffCroft.com: Homepage] Quick inquiry for my loyal readers (many of whom seem to be Mac users): what are the best options for audio editing software on the Mac, specifically for Podcasting and/or radio-type applications? I’m pretty familiar with many tools aimed at music creation, but in this case I’m simply looking for something that will do multi-track recording, have some nice built-in filters/effects, etc.

Posted at 11:21 AM

bellydance

[JonCellini.com] Posted on June 11th, 2005. About Blogging, Mac. This is a test of the WordPressDash widget. It is cool to be able to blog from the OS X dashboard...

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Posted at 11:20 AM

Genius stealth marketing in Hell

[yjblog.stupidchicken.com] This version, being for development use only, will probably be unupgradable but will run all iLife apps natively (assuming they’ve been ported to x86) and other programs in emulation (Rosetta software)

Posted at 11:19 AM

Happy Birdie

[Redfighter | Chibi-mode] Apple will become x86?

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Posted at 11:17 AM

Apple/Intel? No worries

[Bleeding Edge] "Plus, all new software for the Mac will continue to run on PowerPC models for at least a few more years, the likely life of any Mac you buy now. That's because Apple has created a tool for software developers that easily creates "universal" programs capable of being run on either the PowerPC or Intel models." Umm, didn't someone else create that tool?

Posted at 11:17 AM

All Forces » Blog Archive » iChat to MSN Through Jabber

[Creation Robot] All Forces » Blog Archive » iChat to MSN Through Jabber I must do this. Tags: apple, jabber, msn, yahoo...

Posted at 11:16 AM

Wow- Then there's this from MacSlash...

[Richard Bluestein's Weblog] If nothing else, this is a great way to finally flush Classic down the toilet ”” by the time Leopard is released, it will have been about eight years since Apple released Mac OS 9. Too bad Apple weren't able to bring the Velocity Engine with them though.

Posted at 11:14 AM

June 11, 2005

Widget: iCal Events

[Ti Kouka Too] Ben Kazez's iCal Events widget lets you know what’s next in your schedule. iCal Events displays upcoming events from multiple calendars in a simple widget for Dashboard. You can see up to two weeks of upcoming events in the same widget.

Posted at 12:49 PM

MacIntel

[Status-Q] So the rumours were right, and Apple are going to start producing machines based on Intel chips. Steve Jobs demonstrated Mac OS X running on a 3.6GHz Pentium 4; developer kits are available and consumer machines will be out next year. A translation system lets PowerPC binaries run on the new system until native versions are available.

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Posted at 12:48 PM

Apple to move to Intel x86 architecture?

[Tom Rafterys I.T. views Views] Apart from the issues this raises for developers, I would be concerned that this will raise security issues for Mac owners. My concern arises from the fact that malware and spyware often can’t run on a Mac due to its non-x86 architecture - this security advantage will be done away with if/when Apple shifts to the x86.

Posted at 12:44 PM

BluePhoneElite

[Status-Q] Sadly, the RAZR doesn’t integrate with the Mac Address Book as well as my previous phones. In particular, it doesn’t let me send SMS messages directly from the Address Book as the Nokia used to.

Posted at 12:43 PM

PS3 will run Linux, and maybe other OSes

[L0rdDiabl0's Blog] During a recent interview with Sony Computer Entertainment president Ken Kutagari, he said that the PS3 (PlayStation 3) will not come with a pre-installed Hard Drive and it has to be purchased separately; the reason for this move according to him is that “

Posted at 12:42 PM

Connect to a Wireless network (WLAN) using a Mac (OS X)

[Tom Rafterys I.T. views Views] If you still have a problem, then the wireless router isn’t set as a dns server. In this case it is a little more difficult - you need to know who the ISP of the wireless router is and add their dns server’s ip address to the dns server field. Now, you can add as many servers as you want to this field, so if you can get a list of the major ISPs dns servers, it might be well to add them to this field - it shouldn’t be too hard to get this info - Google for it, or ring the ISPs helplines!

Posted at 12:41 PM

Apple: Ok, it's Intel. But which chip?

[The Newest Industry] Apple goes to Intel. But which chip? I can't see getting a dual-boot Powerbook. More info! Now! TECHNORATI: Apple, Intel, Steve Jobs, Powerbook...

Posted at 12:40 PM

Dvorak stirs the pot

[geek ramblings] John Dvorak seems to thrive on controversy (much like the rest of journalism). His latest claim is that while Apple's switch to Intel processors could threaten Microsoft, it also "could actually be most dangerous to the emerging Linux OS environment."

Posted at 12:39 PM

Comic Life

[distant, early morning] Corner girls invented by me, and drawn by Katt. He is fantastic artist, go visit his comic at Terwilliger's Cafe!

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Posted at 12:37 PM

June 10, 2005

2005 WWDC Keynote Coverage

[pixies.ca » as loud as hell, a ringing bell] I’ve been attempting to follow the 2005 WWDC Keynote speech by Steve Jobs this morning…however, MacRumors.com is getting hammered and their live update is lagging badly, or displaying jibberish. Plus, I’ve been googling to find a blog that is tracking the keynote and I’m coming up with nothing. Grrr…frustration.

Posted at 07:23 AM

First Mac OS X comparison on Intel vs. PowerPC

[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] That's why they're releasing the first commercial Intel-based Mac within a year, this build of OS X for Intel is very raw, product of a "fall-back" plan, there's a lot of workaround to do to make the OS ineract natively and seemlessly with the processor. Plus, nobody said the Pentium 4 would be the processor that Macintels (!) will use, they are probably developing a new chip, who knows.

Posted at 07:22 AM

Apple looks to the future

[Centripetal Forces] “WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) is Apple’s most important annual event for hardware and software developers to receive in-depth information and instruction from Apple’s technical architects and engineers.”

Posted at 07:21 AM

Apple and Intel

[goskar.com] Apple announced at the WWDC conference on Monday 6 June that it would be using Intel CPUs in forthcoming Macintosh computers from 2006. How might this affect the future of the Mac and OSX?

Posted at 07:20 AM

Apple is switching to Intel chips (kottke.org)

[Centripetal Forces] This entry was posted 1 day, 7 hours ago on June 6th, 2005 and is filed under Remainders. Comments RSS 2.0 feed.

Posted at 07:20 AM

gps, riding, etc

[adrianlikins.com] Then I wrote a python script to split the GPX file into individual track files, and then used gmapper to display the results on google maps. gpsvisualizer works too, but the maps don’t look quite as nice.

Posted at 07:19 AM

OSX: Backing up your music using iTunes

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] One of the things that gets you through them is music. Personally, I have a few thousand songs, but my wife has something in the very high 5-figure range. I regularly back up her collection to an external hard drive and DVD.

Posted at 07:18 AM

Where's My Stuff?

[Phil Windley's Technometria] In San Jose a month ago, we discussed his approach to workstations at some length over dinner one night. Jon's trying to move to a world where as little of his data as possible lives on specific machine and his tools are platform agnostic. Hence he uses Firefox to access Gmail, del.icio.us, and other network based tools.

Posted at 07:16 AM

The new iTunes, podcasting, Odeo

[WeBreakStuff / Blog] This is a weblog on software development, web2.0, usability, interaction and pretty much everything else. More than a collection of news, this is a collection of my own experiments and thoughts on these areas.

Posted at 07:15 AM

June 09, 2005

Remote Stump

[Driss-A-Blog] Alas, I couldn't be at WWDC this year. Lots of news I missed out on, but worst of all, I had to miss out on Stump The Experts. Luckily, I have a friend, Chuck Plater from Wayne State, who attended and was kind enough to iChat me an audio feed.

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Posted at 01:42 PM

Spotlight on PHP

[Restiffbard] You should now be able to index .php documents. Something I’ve started doing to augment this is including comment in the php so that individual theme files that share the same filename (index.php) are differentiated when I do a Spotlight search of Contents = "$string" where the string is the code comment.

Posted at 01:41 PM

Can Intel-based Macs retake the personal computer market?

[Tech Headlines] But secondly, it opens the door for Apple to do what they did with the iPod -- produce a better engineered product and take over a market. Can they do it? Is the personal computer market similar enough to the scenario Apple faced in the portable media market?

Posted at 01:39 PM

Apple: On Sales Strategies

[The Newest Industry] As many have said now, Apple may have committed a serious marketing and sales error by announcing the move to Intel for 2006-2007. Ppersonally, I would have no problem buying a PowerPC Powerbook right now, especially if Apple is forced to lower the price to reduce stock or drive sales.

Posted at 01:35 PM

Breaking Appletalk and Other Intricacies

[The Search for A Good Story] Wow, firstly, I feel like an asshole. The other day I complained about sites lacking full feeds only to discover today that my official atom.xml Blogger feed was not full! Argh. Next time, please, let a guy know these things.

Posted at 01:34 PM

No Classic on Intel Macs

[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] Second, I'm not sure that next June many of us will care about Classic. Over the last three years what I've seen is this: When Apple switched from booting into 9 to booting into X a significant number of my customers wanted reassurance that they could boot into 9 as 'usual.' By the time Panther was released more than half of my customers were already using OS X as their main OS. And right now I get very few questions about Classic.

Posted at 01:32 PM

Mac Taps

[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] I am a loyal Mac user since 1990 - I have used every OS since 6.04, I have owned a Mac Plus, Duo 210, a Motorola Starmax, a G3 (beige) tower, a dual 1.25 MDD, several iBooks, a Titanium Powerbook, an Aluminum Powerbook; I use a Mac mini, G5 tower and XServes at work and support nearly every Mac produced in the past six years.

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Posted at 01:31 PM

Mac Users Abandoned for a While?

[Richard Bluestein's Weblog] It sounds like Apple's switch to Intel could kill Apple's computer hardware business for a while. I'm guessing that they are riding the iPod wave in order to get them through this upcoming rough time. According to this, they will not be supporting the 64 bit platform on Intel and the developer's are going to be pissed because the AltiVec customizations are going to be particularly hard to port.

Posted at 01:29 PM

June 08, 2005

Sandvox

[Jackens Blog] The program is a new web editor that’s supposed to make it really easy to edit web pages. The Sandvox site is done with the program and the source HTML looks ok. It uses CSS and not frames which is good. It would be great if it manages to live up to the promises.

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Posted at 10:45 AM

Mac Useless Geek Tip

[Peachwater, Tx. Journal] I was running a PowerMac QuickSilver G4 on OS 9.2.2 and 10.3.9, a PowerMac G5 (Dual 2.3GHz!) on 10.4.1, and an iMac 20-inch G5 on 10.4. I had the two desktop computers connected into the same 19" LCD monitor and was able to switch between the two inputs. Having three keyboards clustered together on the desktop was a bit confusing, but luckily one had black keys, the other white, and the third was pushed off to the side until it was needed.

Posted at 10:44 AM

Spotlight and iPod

[TiKouka] My problem, however, isn’t solved. Even after disconnecting and reconnecting the iPod I do an update and still can’t remove the iPod because it’s “in use”. A look at Activity Monitor tells me that something called massStorage is busy working its way through my iPod. It seems suspiciously similar to what indexing might do.

Posted at 10:42 AM

Day 2 of WWDC and a bit more Sightseeing

[3000 miles from home | aram kudurshian's web site] The first session I attended was Cutting-Edge Interface Design for Mac OS X, a session that gives tips and tricks on how to design for the Mac OS, what to look out for, and of course, presented some examples. A lot of things that I just knew were right were explained and I left the session feeling confident on Apple’s emphasis on UI. Of interest, Mike Matas of Delicious Library, as well as Geoff Pealman of REAL Software, spoke to use on their design and re-design (respectively) of their software. Very interesting session all together.

Posted at 10:41 AM

Tiger and a weird CD burn problem

[TiKouka] A friend is having computer troubles and delays but needed some files on CD. She backed them up to an external drive and I copied the two folders from there to my Powerbook...

Posted at 10:40 AM

Apple & Intel’s Coupling.

[NullMind’s Lair] As for my investment, i guess mine just became even better, when the new Intel’s come out, allot of people will be weary of the change, and looking for high end G5’s like mine, which will still be valuable, a good example of that is the price a high end G4 commands these days, just because it can boot OS9… for those who wont change

Posted at 10:40 AM

I Love Dashboard

[HH Blogging] BTW, the screenshot above was produced by a nice widget named Capture, which, in my opinion, is much better than OSX’s Grab utility.

Posted at 10:39 AM

Forget about OSX on Intel, here is the real WWDC 2005 scoop!

[HardMacs Blog] Well, knowing Jobs’ and Apple’s taste for meaningful and purposeful design decisions (OK, stop the hate mail regarding Mail2, please), I wanted to know WHY and WHO. Did they do a casting? Look for the guy who would look best when silhouetted?

Posted at 10:38 AM

Intel Mac

[Life Is Killing Me] So the intel mac rumors turn out to be true. This wasn’t a huge suprise really cause everyone “In the know”, knew about NeXT and Rhapsody running on intel years ago. What was really cool is the cpu translation software and the dev kit they are selling.

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Posted at 10:37 AM

June 07, 2005

The late great apple computers

[maobi] So if you strip away the lawsuits against people who "leak" sensitive information just before they announce it anyway, if you strip away the proprietary communist central planning style lock in for buying parts and doing home upgrades and if you strip away the lack of games until we have played it and written a walk through (essential for apple users since they may be slow) then what are you left with?

Posted at 11:52 AM

More than just intel coming from Apple

[Restiffbard] Dave Hyatt has just made a new post on his Surfin Safari developer blog. Recently there was a big hub-bub about Apple’s cooperation with the opensource community. There were complaints that users of Konqueror were expecting the same updates that Safari gets instantly. The Konqueror devs fired back that Apple doesn’t make it that easy to integrate these changes.

Posted at 11:50 AM

Apple is switching to Intel

[Red & Yellow Make Green] If their is no protection against non-Apple branded hardware running OSX, the loop will be blown wide open. I can’t believe that Steve Jobs thinks that people will still buy Apple hardware just because its shiny. If it runs just as well on a slightly slower, but half as cheap Dell or HP, why would people want to buy from Apple? Steve has to have some other component that makes the new Intel OSX only work with Apple hardware.

Posted at 11:49 AM

Intel Macintosh rumors true!

[geek ramblings] I hadn't been keeping too close an eye on this, because we've got higher priorities right now than buying new computers. But there have been rumors lately about some sort of deal between Apple and Intel. The speculations mainly fell into two camps: 1) Apple would release a new Pentium-based Macintosh computer, or 2) Intel would begin producing a new PowerPC compatible

Posted at 11:48 AM

Apple and Intel”¦

[this is not a blog] During the conference it was revealed that for the past five years OS X has been compiled on both Power PC and Intel platforms, which makes you wonder if Apple were merely covering all bases, or whether this was part of a long term plan to switch into a cheaper hardware base…

Posted at 11:47 AM

On "The Switch"

[Richard Bluestein's Weblog] We’ve gone from OS X on Intel being the latest example of Paul Thurrott’s mania, to staring down the barrel of a gun which says that all future Macintosh’s will essentially be tarted up Wintel PCs running OS X. What with Intel’s latest push to be more than a chip vendor, to be a platforms company, Apple probably won’t even have to design the chipset or any of the internals anymore. Jonathan Ive and his crew will just have to pick this years colour scheme and they can go to market with that.

Posted at 11:45 AM

Apple Moves to Intel Rumors True

[blivet 2.0] Apple to Move to Intel Processors. This will be reported and commented on all over the place (like it hasn’t already). Wow.

Posted at 11:44 AM

recompile

[[eriksmartt.com/blog]] So does this mean my Mac will have that Intel startup sound now?

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Posted at 11:43 AM

June 06, 2005

iTunes 4.8

[RobotJohnny.com] (...) Apple, could you find the time to add nested playlists with folders?

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Posted at 10:47 AM

Blogtionary

[RobotJohnny.com] Since Michael Hanscom thinks I’m making it up, here’s a screengrab of OS X’s dictionary definition of “blog”. In fairness, the quote about unhealthy interests in computers is given as a usage example, but still.

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Posted at 10:46 AM

Apple switching to Sun Chips

[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] Now, this is one I totally didn't see coming. I have always thought that Apple might switch to Intel or AMD. We have all heard the rumors of some super secret machine running in a Cupertino basement somewhere that was powered by a combination of an Intel chip and good intentions, but Steven Frank of Panic, Inc, has the real scoop (get it? Ha!)

Posted at 10:45 AM

News.com, like, totally sure Apple to Drop IBM

[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] News.com is reporting that according to reliable sources, his Steveness will stride onto the WWDC Stevenote stage and shock us all by announcing Apple's switch to Intel based processors. The switch will be gradual with the Mac mini being the first Mac slated to use an Intel chip in mid 2006 with the PowerMac's joining them in mid-2007 (and I assume that the iBook would go in 2006, the Powerbook in 2007).

Posted at 10:44 AM

Free Apple goodies for Singapore travellers

[theory.isthereason] Northwest Airlines and MasterCard jointly bring you an exclusive Apple offer when you fly to the Big Apple or other U.S. destinations. Treat yourself to an Apple iMac G5 with 17 inch LCD and 1.6GHZ when you purchase your tickets with your MasterCard card and fly Northwest Airlines World Business Class* to New York, Los Angeles or San Francisco. Or get a Free iPod mini when you fly on Economy Class*!

Posted at 10:42 AM

Apple to use Intel Chips?

[OFlaherty.dk - Bits, Bytes and Babes] If it’s made by Intel and Windows runs on it, then my comment still holds. After all, OSX is based on FreeBSD which runs on x86. Which could also mean that OSX may run on AMD chips to, who knows?

Posted at 10:41 AM

Apple to switch to Intel CPUs?

[GoldSounds] The blogosphere is ablaze with rumours today that Apple plans to announce a switch to the Intel architecture at the WWDC this Monday. Circumstantial evidence seems to back this up, with Apple hiring ACPI BIOS developers, among other moves.

Posted at 10:40 AM

Nil and mySQL

[Jonas Luster] Not sure if I agree fully with Peter’s assessment of mySQL and OS X, but it’s an interesting read nevertheless. I’d be very interested in speed comparisons between postgreSQL and mySQL on the different platforms, though. Right now, I am simply succumbing to geek lore and running my database servers on FreeBSD, where possible. And while you’re there, check out his “what happens when you send a message to nil in Objective-C” entry.

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Posted at 10:38 AM

June 05, 2005

AI

[Tigersprout] So, on Monday Steve Jobs will announce that future Mac hardware will run on Intel produced PowerPC/RISC CPUs and/or Intel chipsets.

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Posted at 11:40 AM

Intel Inside

[Developing New Stories | The News is NowPublic.com] Recent

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Posted at 11:38 AM

Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips | CNET News.com

[Developing New Stories | The News is NowPublic.com] The announcement is expected Monday at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, at which Chief Executive Steve Jobs is giving the keynote speech. The conference would be an appropriate venue: Changing the chips would require programmers to rewrite their software to take full advantage of the new processor.

Posted at 11:37 AM

Apple on Monday, Bliss or Bust?

[Jonas Luster] As always before major Apple events, such as WWDC or Macworld, the rumor mills are churning out the good and bad stuff. This time it’s about TabletMacs and Apple’s possible move to the Intel processor platform.

Posted at 11:36 AM

Intel, Apple coupling could woo Hollywood

[Oloop.org] PC companies and software makers have for years been negotiating with major film studios to allow consumers to receive, swap and share movies and other premium content around the home. The studios have become much more open to adapting their products to home networks in recent years, but fears about piracy and control over content remain. As a result, many video-on-demand companies, such as Akimbo

Posted at 11:35 AM

G5 Powerbook = Fake; Dual-Core Pentium4 Powerbook = ???

[The Newest Industry] It's all over the web tonight. Intel-powered Apples. Back in the middle of May, I speculated that given the slow development on cooling the G5 enough to fit into a laptop, Apple was stuck. It had to choose either Intel or AMD to move forward. Even if this predicted marriage does not come true, Apple has a tough choice to make soon. The PowerPC chip is falling behind. Then again, Jobs could surprise us all, again. TECHNORATI: Apple, Intel, Steve Jobs, Powerbook, AMD...

Posted at 11:32 AM

G5 Powerbook? Dual Processor Xserve Coming Next Week?

[Richard Bluestein's Weblog] Analysts: Dual-Core PowerPC G5s Due for Apple "The 970MP is almost definitely a real project, as Apple has support for it in its developer tools already. That doesn't mean they're going to ship systems with it, but it seems likely that they would. I think that's kind of a done deal," said Peter Glaskowsky, analyst for The Envisoneering Group in Long Island, N.Y. Glaskowsky added, "At the WWDC, next week, we could hear about the 970MP. We could hear about a laptop. Whether they will do those things or not, I don't know." g5 powermac apple mac macintosh jobs xserve imac powerbook yeast Richard Bluestein mac rumors

Posted at 11:30 AM

Mixin' on a Powerbook

[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] Boris B. wants to know, ' I was wondering what suggestions people had on what kind of setup would be good to be a DJ with only a PowerBook and maybe some digital turntables?'

Posted at 11:27 AM

June 04, 2005

OS X on x86

[birdhouse.org] They survived, and were better off for it. We watched as Be moved from the Hobbit processor to PowerPC, and then to x86. The x86 transition worked so well for Be that we heard Jean-Louis saying things like "Our only regret is that we waited so long to do it." Now it seems that Apple is not getting the speed bumps they need from IBM, and are going to start shipping Macs with Intel processors. With all of the recompiling (and porting of advanced instruction sets) that a move like that entails.

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Posted at 09:55 AM

Is Apple switching?

[Matthew Gifford] News.com is reporting that Apple is going to announce that it is switching to Intel processors at next week’s WWDC. If this is true, I really hope that it doesn’t hurt the momentum that Apple has been gaining over the past few years. (via Scripting News)

Posted at 09:54 AM

Intel inside Macs

[Mac HTPC - The Mac Mini HTPC] Cnet is reporting that Apple will announce a shift from IBM processors to chips made by Intel as soon as this Monday. I’m having a really hard time believing this, especially with all the, they are/they aren’t moving to Intel “news” from the previous two weeks.

Posted at 09:52 AM

Apple switching to Intel?

[Red & Yellow Make Green] What does make sense is that CNet is either wrong or pulling a very gutsy move in order to claim that they “got the story first”. What I could see Steve Jobs do is use Intel to make chips for some other product, like a new iPod or a Home Media Center for the living room, or even a PDA or something of the kind. But switching all the Apple computers to Intel would basically say, “hey, we sell ipods and software now.

Posted at 09:51 AM

C|net: Apple Switching to Intel

[intarweb-master] According to the people at C|net, Apple will officially announce it’s plans to begin using the x86 architecture - and Intel processors - during Steve Jobs’ keynote speech at the World Wide Developer Conference monday morning. There has been talk on this issue for quite some time, although discussion has become more heated since the Wall Street Journal ran a story a few weeks back that Apple was in talks with Intel. Many die-hard Mac users are not thrilled with Apples rumored move.

Posted at 09:50 AM

Star Trek: The Next Generation

[Geekable.com] As they say on South Park, "Dude, this is pretty fucked up right here!"

Posted at 09:47 AM

Friday Procrastination Fun

[The Real Adam 2.0] I used Spotlight to look for a file today, and it found it. Sure beats spelunking through my filesystem. I could get used to this.

Posted at 09:46 AM

G5 vs. x86 and Mac OSX vs. Linux

[Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] At the presentation, they mentioned the G5's potential, but noted that it was closer to the Intel architecture in the sense that each CPU shared a memory controller (but it's not hampered by the bus). The Opteron's HyperTransport model is simply more scalable. Apple got the point, but whether they will address this deficiency in their Xserves (particularly the Cluster Nodes, where it makes sense for massively parallel systems) remains to be seen. All I know is that *I* love the performance of our G5 systems, Xserve and desktop alike.

Posted at 09:45 AM

Apple to ditch IBM for Intel

[TachyonXero] Yes, you read that correctly. (Though I would have gone with AMD personally) You can get the whole story at CNET.com

Posted at 09:43 AM

June 03, 2005

Linux on iPod: Video Player

[moongate.org] Again great news from ipodlinux: Finally they haved managed to play videos on all iPod generations - without audio, but it works! Details and a sample movie can be found here.

Posted at 09:15 AM

Apple to settle iPod battery claims

[~Tech Angel~] In 2003, eight iPod owners came forward and filed suit alleging the iPod failed to live up to battery claims. The battery cost $99 to replace and lasted less than 18 months and could only play for four hours before it needed recharging. This was contrary to Apple's claims that the battery could last ten hours.

Posted at 09:13 AM

Apple News Doubleshot

[d00dism] The question in my mind is whether Apple will try to integrate a bittorrent client. I find podcast feeds that distribute using Bittorrent exceedingly irritating. Currently, the only feed that I subscribe to that does this is This Week in Tech. Ok, ok, so they probably have the largest listening audience out of any podcast, but having to screw around with Bittorrent completely defeats the purpose of podcasts (they’re delivered automatically without user intervention).

Posted at 09:11 AM

It's almost the Grail.

[Oceanside, Nevada :: Main Page] It didn't work so well but it was pretty immature in it's development cycle. NewsFire could have been the perfect synthesis of RSS reader and podcatcher but the developer is of the opinion that podcasts and RSS readers don't really go together. I read a statement from the developer to that effect in which he stated that he felt that Apple should integrate podcasting into iTunes. After much feedback on his blog, he did release an update to NewsFire that adds limited podcast support but it simply wasn't enough for me to want to give up iPodderX.

Posted at 09:08 AM

Tryouts

[Nothing to Say and Saying It Loudly] I am trying out Quicksilver, which really efficient people seem to love. I am not sure whether I do enough repetitive tasks to need it though. Then again, I am not sure what it actually does, since no one, not even the company can provide a succinct and clear description.

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Posted at 09:06 AM

Water + Keyboard = Not Good

[3000 miles from home | aram kudurshian's web site] A random post to remind people to take care of their computer components. Somehow or another (still unsure how it happened), I managed to get quite a bit of water into my Apple Wireless keyboard, causing erratic behavior and general mayhem. Even after attempting to dry out the keyboard and cleaning it, the behavior continues leading me to come to the conclusion that liquids and electronics don’t mix.

Posted at 09:05 AM

XSIonOSX Petition

[Poo-Poo Platter] Interestingly enough, just as I finish a phone interview with the XSI Product Planning Group and get my free copy of Softimage|XSI Foundation, there’s a petition floating around asking Softimage to port XSI to OS X. I know that my Powerbook couldn’t handle XSI well at all, but it sure would be neat to have XSI running on Macs. And, as much as I love Maya, there needs to more competition in the Mac 3D market (as small as it is).

Posted at 09:03 AM

Backing up with rsync on OSX

[WeBreakStuff / Blog] Basically, it works. After the initial index (which took a while considering it had to go through over 140gb of my earlier work, email and junk), metadata was stored into the database and a few queries were enough to attest that indeed spotlight may be one of the best additions to an OS in the last couple of years. It works generally fast (I’m still not sure how many lines of debugging are still on this build to consider this a final statement), and results are good. The way you can sort everything is apple-like.

Posted at 09:02 AM

June 02, 2005

BibDesk goes 1.0

[Over at Teekays] The open-source OS X BibTeX editor BibDesk has reached version 1.0, after numerous 0. releases since February 2002. BibDesk makes bibliography management on the Mac a breeze and ties in with all LaTeX front ends. It’s a great piece of software.

Posted at 11:18 AM

Managing information

[Over at Teekays] I mentioned it was dirty, right? This is more of a support to my thinking than a clean, clear, and consistent conceptualization of anything. But it’s a pretty neat summary of what I do on my Mac — in fact, I could also assign average time values (e.g., hrs/day) to each application I use and each activity I undertake.

Posted at 11:17 AM

McSloerie-Yeast Radio-05.31.05

[Madge Weinstein: The Shock Jock without a Cock on Yeast Radio] Come along as I get lost in a carseeing tour. Topics include: vaginal yeast The Neocons' deja vu Tiger's new device aggregation bitching and...

Posted at 09:31 AM

The First Xbox 360 kiosk?

[~Tech Angel~] Below is a picture that is supposed to be the Xbox 360 kiosk. The picture states that gamers will be allowed to bring in their memory cards in order to download content.

Posted at 09:29 AM

Uninstalling Keyword Assistant fixes iPhoto hang

[43 Folders] Ever since upgrading to Tiger, my iPhoto.app has just launched, and then hung eternally with The Spinning Beach Ball of Death™. Uninstalling an old version of “Keyword Assistant” fixed the problem immediately, and now I’m the happiest boy in the world.

Posted at 09:27 AM

Disks fail so backup

[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] And even if as Mac zealots we (unreasonably) decide that Apple makes products that never fail, remember they don't make the hard drives. They buy them from the same people as everyone else, so have limited control over their quality - kind of like all the bad batteries they have been buying recently.

Posted at 09:22 AM

Powerbook Abuse

[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] Powerbook Abuse Posted May 31, 2005, 6:55 PM ET by Scott McNulty Filed under: Hardware, Humor Engadget's own Vince Veneziani has written up a How To on creating your very own USB powered fan to fight the heat (and believe me, Vince, as a fellow Philadelphian I feel your pain). The fan was cool, but what struck me most was his poor, poor Powerbook. Just look at it! Sitting there, missing keys like a common Dell! Vince, please tell me you have Applecare and promise me that you will call Apple right this minute and have them ship you out a replacement keyboard. Do it for your Powerbook! My Powerbook's key are just fine, how about yours?...

Posted at 09:20 AM

JOT: Dress up Steve

[the dubious biologist] http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyar Another gem from Joy of Tech: the Steve Jobs paper doll. Here's what I came up with. WARNING: You'll need Flash...

Posted at 09:19 AM

What’s YOUR favorite part?

[g-cool] Are you using the Deer Park release of Firefox yet? Have you read through the latest supported features? What’s YOUR future favorites?

Posted at 09:18 AM

Apple Fixes QuickTime 7 Vulnerability

[world.of.unknown] Apple Fixes QuickTime 7 Vulnerability June 2, 2005 @ 2:20 pm Â· Filed under Softwares, Apple Apple this week issued a minor update to the newly released QuickTime 7, which has yet to make its appearance on Windows. Version 7.0.1 resolves a security vulnerability in which a malformed Quartz Composer object can send personal data to an arbitrary location on the Web. The update also improves compatibility with Final Cut Studio and provides several bug fixes. QuickTime 7.0.1 is recommended for all Mac OS X 10.4 users, as well as those running 10.3.9. Apple has not yet said when QuickTime 7 for Windows will become available for download. ...

Posted at 09:16 AM

Spotlight on Innovation T-Shirt from Apple

[I Am Chris Nolan] Wasn't that thoughtful? Apple's Developers Connection sent me another copy of Tiger today, and included in the package was this giant t-shirt. Too bad that they have to error on the side of safety when it comes to programmers and send out XL t-shirts eh? Otherwise I'd wear the thing and be a walking billboard for them :-(

Posted at 09:15 AM

My first day with OS X Tiger (1)

[ante lucem] Now that I have had nearly a day with my new PowerBook, I finally have it mostly set up. It took a bit to get iSync working, but it finally is. And I wasn't sure how to set Firefox as my default browser, turns out the setting is in Safari's preferences. So far I've noticed a lack of documentation.

Posted at 09:10 AM

Switched (1)

[ante lucem] I have now switched, this is my first post on my new Mac. I decided to listen to Jim and an anonymous source sent through Sean and go with the PowerBook. I'm just getting it set up. I have Mail and Firefox going, and some other random system preferences working, but that's about it.

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Posted at 09:06 AM

WWDC2005

[one digital life: a paul burd blog] WWDC2005 starts on Monday. They started setting things up tonight over at Moscone. I live just down the block… I wish I were going to the conference.

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Posted at 09:05 AM

Undocumented Dashboard Key-Command

[one digital life: a paul burd blog] If you are using Tiger, you probably already know that F12 brings up the Dashboard (in my case F1 because I reconfigured it). But, you may not know that there is an undocumented keyboard shortcut to slide the Widget drawer opened and closed. When Dashboard is active, hit Command= (⌘=) to slide the drawer opened and closed.

Posted at 09:04 AM

Another Good Weekend

[Jon Johnston] Permanent Link Location: June 1, 2005 Another Good Weekend Pretty good memorial day weekend. Saturday I spent all day (from about noon 'til 10:00 pm)...

Posted at 09:03 AM

Apple releases OS 10.3.9 Security Fixes

[Secret Weapon Labs] Apple has released an update to OS 10.3.9 to fix 19 possible openings that would allow root access and compromise a system. The update can be downloaded through the Software Update control panel or via the Apple Downloads section of the Apple website.

Posted at 09:02 AM

Ok, hand up if you're a CEO

[stillhq.com - Microsoft recruiter makes a good point, and other posts] Robert Scoble comments that CEOs of Google, Apple, and so forth appear to be reading blogs. If you're a CEO, it's time to cast off your shame and come forward. I'll be gentle...

Posted at 09:00 AM

OSX Automator

[NullMind’s Lair] I am impressed, I was able to setup a task to take a screenshot of my workspace, resize it to a width of 800 Pixels, create a 128 pixel wide thumbnail, upload both into this site and then bin the local files.

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Posted at 08:58 AM

June 01, 2005

Xbox 360 E3 Demos Run on Mac G5s

[Nonliteral: Metaphoric Engineering] Just last week I was complaining that (presumed) the PowerPC price-performance ratio in the Xbox 360 raises some serious doubts about the Mac’s...

Posted at 09:38 AM

mini got 1G ram

[John's Silly Ideas @ Skykiller.com] As i found before, i use the bamboo chopsticks for opening the mini case, it’s a little bit hard. I’d to put my two (fat) fingures in the tiny hole of net/phone jack at the back of mini.

Posted at 09:26 AM

Tomato Torrent

[r0nin] The main goal of this project was to separate the BitTorrent code from the Macintosh code, so that either can be updated without having to modify the other. I got 80% of the download window’s current functionality implemented within 3 days of starting the project. Then I decided to finish “just a bit more,” and the project just kept getting bigger and bigger.

Posted at 09:22 AM

Mac OS X 10.4.2 is coming

[This is Martey Dodoo] My negative mindset toward Apple on this issue is probably the result of the inherent superiority that many Mac users have (I constantly hope one of these “Mac-Uber-Alles” people will comment here, but so far, all I have gotten are the reasonable people) toward everything else. This colors my perception of Apple and raises my expectations; if they are really so much better than Microsoft with security and usability (as the rabid Mac hordes claim, ignoring the facts that Windows’ security problems are multi-faceted, and Apple’s control of the hardware OS X runs on is important to its stability), why the problems?

Posted at 09:20 AM

The 17”³ PowerBook goes on the auction block

[yep, that’s me] I placed my 17″ PowerBook G4 1GHz on eBay today. I held onto it for a while though I didn’t use it, but I have finally gotten around to selling it. It will be the first thing to go in my hardware consolidation initiative.

Posted at 09:19 AM