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Apple

Apple 30th anniversary mega-link-post!

April 3, 2006

Here’s a bit of the online celebration for Apple’s 30th birthday. Hopefully, we will not see a $7500 gold plated 30th anniversary Mac for sale anywhere. History History of Apple Computer – CNN/AP Steve Wozniak “Woz” Interview – SJ Mercury News Steve Jobs’ quotes – Wired Apple-History.com Visual History Timeline of Apple Macintosh Models – [...]

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Creative Zen review critique

March 29, 2006

Here’s a an email a friend I’ll call ‘iPodFan’ sent me today regarding the Creative Zen. You might remember, I played with the Zen:M back at CES and wished it didn’t suck. ——– My review of this review… and I’m completely unbiased!! ;) Creative ZEN Vision:M Media Player This is the same cost as the [...]

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Volume limit iPod update?

March 29, 2006

Hmmmm….. this sounds like a great idea. Apple has been getting flack for iPods having potentially ear damaging loudness – The move follows a class action lawsuit that was filed against Apple in a federal court in California in January, which claimed that iPods could cause hearing loss because they have the capacity to produce [...]

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iTunes Season Pass Fiesta!

March 27, 2006

Didn’t think they were going to stop with The Daily Show and Colbert Report, did you? Apple added multi-”we-swear-this-isn’t-a-subscription-”passes to Lost and Desperate Housewives tonight. More on this tomorrow morning. iTunes Video Store

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Mac OS X turns 5 today

March 24, 2006

Another Friday afternoon Mac post, sorry Windows people. Ars Technica takes a look back at the last 5 years of OS X. For you fogies out there, we can remember that OS X was arguably the second most important thing that Jobs did upon his return to Apple (the first being the iMac). OS X [...]

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Why Photoshop isn’t a Universal Binary yet

March 24, 2006

You might wanna skip this post if you are not a Mac geek. Here is a personal account from one of the engineers who works on Photoshop as to why it’s not so easy to convert Photoshop and the rest of the Adobe software family to Mac on Intel. ‘But, c’mon’, I hear people saying, [...]

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Real Housewives

March 21, 2006

It’s Tuesday, and I’m a whore for the iTunes Music Store (hey, that rhymes). Continuing iTMS’ tradition of free downloads promoting not-yet-launched tv shows, this week we see Bravo capitalizing on the success of the “Desperate Housewives” with their launch of “Real Housewives of Orange County.” From Bravo’s website: “The Real Housewives of Orange County” [...]

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New MacBookPro redefines FireWire

March 20, 2006

Wow, I knew there was something about the new MagSafe connector I didn’t like (besides the fact iGo doesn’t make a tip for it yet). According to Gizmodo, a Dutch user had this image (and more) on Flickr but took them down after Apple quickly offered to replace the MacBook. Haven’t heard any other cases [...]

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Windows MCE on a iMac

March 20, 2006

Not satisfied with just running regular XP on an Intel Mac, the folks over at the OSX86Project have gotten Windows MCE up and running on an Intel iMac. They don’t have the IR port working yet, but I imagine that it will only be a matter of time. Read (Via Matt Goyer’s Media Center Blog.)

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NCAA Tournament on iTunes

March 14, 2006

Oh and here I thought that we had no Tuesday announcement for iTMS. Sure, while I’m gone they go an launch The Daily Show and The Colbert Report on the “no-I’m-not-a-subscription-thank-you-very-much” MultiPass and the Academy Award Nominated Shorts, so I figured they were taking this week off announcement wise. That’s right sports fans, for a [...]

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Intel Mac Mini reviews

March 14, 2006

Rob Griffiths (of Macosxhints fame) has posted the second part of his first week with the new Intel Mac Mini online. Not so much a review as a walkthrough of all the things he imagines folks might want to do with it. Yesterday, Rob covered his initial set-up and some application testing but today he [...]

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Over a billion served

February 23, 2006

Apple’s iTunes Music Store hit their 1,000,000,000th download this evening around 9:35 PM Pacific Time. One lucky SOB got their grand prize of an iMac, 5 black and 5 white iPods and maybe best of all, $10,000 to spend on the store. I dunno about you, but 10k tracks would take me a long time [...]

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Slow week on iTMS?

February 21, 2006

The last few weeks on iTMS have been busy ones with swimsuits, weed, mice and buttheads, so maybe they let their engineers out of their cages last weekend. Only two new shows (although I’m not sure one counts) this week, America’s Funniest Home Videos and the more interesting release, Conviction, a soon-to-air new TV show [...]

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1 Billion downloads

February 8, 2006

What would a day be without a little news about the iTMS? To celebrate the billionth track sold on iTMS, Apple is giving away a Nano and and a $100 gift certificate for every 100,000 songs sold (about 500) until they reach 1 billion songs. For the billionth track, the grand prize is an iMac, [...]

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Nano is now nano-er

February 7, 2006

The long rumored 1 GB nano was announced today for $149 just in time for Valentine’s Day. The rumor that the demise of the Shuffle was coming seems a little premature as they have both dropped in price to $99 and $69 for the 1GB and 512mb respectively. Read

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What is Apple smoking?

February 7, 2006

It’s Tuesday morning, so what’s new for our pals at the iTunes Video Store? Looks like they bagged a big one – Showtime. It seems that premium cable didn’t want to be left out of the iTMS fun. This morning, Weeds, Fat Actress, and Sleeper Cell launched on iTMS with their first seasons available to [...]

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