Archive for April, 2007

Mac OS X Leopard Delayed to meet iPhone Targets

LeopardThat was the sound of millions of Apple Geeks breathing one unfied depressing sigh, or it could have been the collective snicker of thousands of MS Engineers who had to put up with the perpetual jabs about longhorn Vista delays. Turns out Apple has shifted developers from OS X Leopard to the iPhone team. The result: Leopard delayed to October, and the iPhone in late June. These “top secret” features in Leopard better be worth it!

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AppleTV TV Advertisement!

Apple unveiled this new spot for the Apple TV that has begun airing in prime time spots! The catch phrase is “It’s on your computer, it’s on your iPod, and now its on your TV” The playing media on the screens is School of Rock with Jack Black. Overall I like the ad, it provides a fresh brake from the iPod silhouette bonanza that is for better or worse the only association people have with Apple commercials! There is also a more high res version from Apple’s site available.

Automate Your BitTorrent TV Downloads on OS X

tvdownloader Downloading your favorite TV show is much easier than it was a few years ago with the help of torrent indexing sites and great software. With the arrival of the open source TVShows application, the whole thing just got even easier. This is way easier than that god awful hackjob of a program Azureus’ RSS offering in this area!

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Apple sells 100 millionth iPod!

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Apple has sold it’s 100 millionth iPod today! Apple commemorated the occasion by adding the above graphic to their homepage!

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Sticky Windows!

stickywindowsThis app reminds me of the built-in OS9 feature in days of yore, but slicker. Not sure if I’d use it, but that is still the best put-together screencast I’ve ever seen. Note how the clock in the corner is showing current real time. There are a few downsides I saw while using this app which include the video glitching as well as the occasional pink flicker on screen. It also contrasts with some of the other GUI elements in OS X creating a dissonant user interface experience. Lot’s of potential though

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Apple Officially Releases 8-Core Mac Pro

Mac ProApple has released an 8-core set of options for their Mac Pro line of professional desktop computing. Starting at $3997 for the following configuration:

Specifications

  • Two 3.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
  • 1GB (2 x 512MB)
  • 250GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
  • NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB (single-link DVI/dual-link DVI)
  • One 16x SuperDrive
  • Apple Keyboard and Mighty Mouse - U.S. English
  • Mac OS X - U.S. English

I already have my quad core machine… but, wow, having an EIGHT core machine would be very, very nice. I wonder how quickly Handbrake would operate…


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