Friday, September 29, 2006

News: Mac OS 10.4.8 Update Released

A new update for Mac OS X Tiger has been released. See the Apple Support documents for more information:
!0.4.8 Delta Update
10.4.8 Combo Update

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Thursday, September 28, 2006

Software: Microsoft Messenger 6.0 for OS X

New Microsoft Messenger 6.0 for OS X has been released. This release includes support for chatting with Yahoo Messenger users. Other new features are:

Add a status message that your personal contacts can see
Share what you are listening to in iTunes with your personal contacts
Create, send, and receive custom emoticons with personal contacts
Send and receive custom animated emoticons with personal contacts
Search for conversation histories using Spotlight
Check the spelling in your instant messages

[UPDATE] DO NOT install Microsoft Messenger 6.0

I've found that I can not login after upgrading to Messenger 6.0. It appears that I'm not alone, as many others are experiencing similar issues. Hopefully an update will be released soon to fix the bugs.

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Thursday, September 21, 2006

Software Update: Apple Releases Wireless card Update

Apple released an update to the Airport Wireless drivers. The update fixes some security issues discovered in an internal audit of the old drivers. MacWorld has more information on the update.

Apple Airport Update 2006-001

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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Opinions: New Color iPod Nano

So we have new iPod Nanos in aluminum and in color now. It's great that Apple's solved the scratching issue, and the aluminum casing makes the Nano seem much less fragile. However, why do we have to use these UGLY ass colors? The blue is this pasty blue, green is an annoying lime green, and the pink reminds me of Beptol Bismo...

Why can't we have a deep rich blue like a Dodge Viper, or a beautiful Ferrari Red? It's nice to have different colored iPods, but I think Apple can do much better in the color selection.

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News: Mac Pro CPU Upgrade

Wow, it looks like the Mac Pro's cpus can be upgraded. AnandTech has shown that the Quad-Core Clovertowns cpus from Intel will work in your Mac Pro.

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Tuesday, September 12, 2006

News: Live Apple Special Event streaming

You can watch the Apple Special Event live via Quicktime streaming today.

( via MacSlash.org )

Update: Gizmodo also has coverage of the event.

Looks like the Quicktime stream is not live.

Macworld Live Coverage

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News Spoiler: Apple Showtime Announcement Leak

Gizmodo has a 'ip' about the entire event schedule for Apple's Sept. 12 special event titled "Showtime". Follow the link for the 'news spoiler'.

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Wednesday, September 06, 2006

News: New 24 Inch iMacs

Looks like the rumors were true. Apple released a new 24 inch iMac, at the same time it updated the iMacs with new Intel Core 2 Duo cpus. The rumor sites got the timing wrong though, it looks like Apple is is trying to out smart the rumor sites.

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Tuesday, September 05, 2006

News: Apple Special Event coming Sept 12.

Apple e-mailed an invitation to it's Sept 12 'Special Even' to the press Tues. morning. rumors of new 5th generation iPods and 2n generation iPod Nanos are sarming around the net. Rumors of new iMacs and the iTunes 'Movie' store are circulating as well. The official announcement of the event seems to spark Apple's share price on Wall Street as well, Apple shares gained more than $3 today.

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Saturday, September 02, 2006

Opinions: iPod Challengers

When I was in Taiwan last year I saw many very cool and innovative mp3 players. iRiver and Samsung both had many amazing products. Players had OLED displays, FM radio, and some even had recording features built in. The players also came in all kinds of shapes and sizes. Back then I was wondering why Apple's iPod seemed to be lagging in the 'innovation' compared to these products.

And then Apple released the Nano, proving that it still had great vision on design and innovation. The Nano really was an amazing and beautiful little machine. But as the year went along more and more new devices came on the market. Here's a sampling of some very nice MP3 players:

Samsung YP-K5

iRiver S10
Arko
Signeo SN-A250

After comparing these to the new iPod announcements this week, Apple's iPod efforts suddenly doesn't seem too innovative anymore. Even the new iPod Shuffle as amazing as it is just doesn't seem too appealing when compared to the new iRiver S10. It's good that Apple has done an amazing job of creating an iPod + iTunes ecosystem, otherwise I think iPod sales would be in jeopardy.

Apple better have something insanely great up it's sleeve, because the iPod is seriously lagging in design and innovation. As great as iTunes and iPod is, there is a lot of competition in both the online download service and the portable media player market. Let's hope Apple can bring back some 'WOW' into the iPod line.

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Opinions: Crappy MacBook Speakers

I love my MacBook. I've had it for a couple months now, and have gotten over the initial size increase from my aging 12-inch PowerBook. Heat problems seemed to be a little more tolerable too after the latest firmware update, though the MacBook still runs pretty hot. BootCamp 1.1 also made running Windows on the MacBook a little easier. The built-in iSight camera now works, and there is also support for creating custom partitions for other operating systems using BootCamp 1.1.

However, there still one thing I'm quite annoyed by. Why does the MacBook have such a crappy speaker? Even a two year old Dell Inspiron has a louder speaker, a MUCH louder speaker. Many times I can barely hear anything from the MacBook unless I'm in a quiet room by myself. Annoying... how expensive can two speakers be? Argh...

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Article: Linux ( & Mac ) Unfriendly Viruses

Here's an old article from NewsForge.com from Jan. 2005, but I think it is still quite relevant and telling. Recently CrossOver Mac Beta was released for Intel based Macs. But unfortunately CrossOver Mac ( WINE ) is quite 'inadequate' as it can not run the various very popular worms and viruses on Windows. The article refers to Linux but now applies just as well to Mac OS X:

Linux just isn't user-friendly when it comes to viruses. You have to work to find and run them. It doesn't happen automatically as it does with Windows. The GNU/Linux folks really should improve this glaring discrepancy.

Apprantly WINE FAILED miserably in running MyDoom, Sobig, and several other popular worms... ;)

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News: Windows Vista RC1

Windows Vista RC1 was also released today. OSNews has several links to more Vista information.

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Friday, September 01, 2006

News: New Leopard Developer Build

AppleInsider is reporting that a new OS X Leopard Developer Preview has been released today.

( via OSNews.com )

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