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Noted blogger and podcaster Daniel Eran Dilger writes today at Roughly Drafted on Leopard and the History and Future of Mac OS X on PowerPC.
For those of you, like our own Stephanie Guertin, who are running on older PPC systems, Dilger lays out why support for the PowerPC isn’t going away […]
Apple has officially announced the 2007 Insomnia Film Festival.
On Saturday, October 13 at promptly 9:00 a.m. (Eastern Time), Apple will open the floodgates for all high school and college students to create a 3-minute film (using some parameters provided by Apple). The kicker? You have to write, cast, shoot, edit, score, and upload the film […]
An anonymous reader writes “InfoWeek blogger Alex Wolfe reports that some iPhone users are mad as heck at Apple for bricking up their device in response to non-Apple-authorized software downloads. In a discussion thread on Apple’s own iPhone forum, one user posts that he’s ‘Seeking respondents for possible class action lawsuit against Apple Inc. relating to refusal to service iPhones and related accessories under warranty.’ Some who have replied to the post agree that Apple is being unbelievably arrogant and is ripe for legal action. But others say Cupertino is well within its rights to control its own device.” Apple seems to have removed the cited post, but it is reproduced as screenshots in the article.
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Ali writes “As discussed here recently, amazon.com has launched a public beta of Amazon MP3, a digital music store that provides DRM-free downloads of over 2 million songs from 180,000 artists and 20,000 labels. In comparison, Apple says the iTunes Store now contains over 6 million songs. Here is a head-to-head comparison.”
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An apparent oversight in Apple Inc.’s iPhone software makes it possible to wirelessly stream all of the handset’s audio output — including music tracks from its iPod application — to Bluetooth headsets.
The glitch stems from the software’s Visua…
As I believe is useful from time to time, LifeHacker is calling for your menubar submissions. Take a screenshot of your menubar, explain all the apps you’ve got running there, and submit to the good folks at LifeHacker.
My suggestion would be to keep track of that thread for the results of the submissions. […]
Today’s featured promo on MacUpdate offers Nanosaur 2: Hatchling 2.0.3 for US$14.95 (40% off, retail $24.95)…
Lexia Learning has released a new version of its learn-to-read program, Lexia Reading v5 for students in grades Pre-K to 12. The developer claims that struggling readers who used Lexia Reading v5 during a summer program made between nine and 12 months of grade-level equivalent progress, determined by independent pre and post tests using AGSí “G.R.A…
Interdimension Media has released MyTube, a Dashboard widget for Mac OS X that provides browsing, searching, viewing, and iPod exporting of YouTube videos. Features include full browsing/searching of YouTube content, fullscreen playback mode with 4 sizes, video scrubbing and keyboard controls, direct export to iTunes/iPod, and the ability to preven…
At its core, Aurvana X-Fi was clearly designed to be a competitor to Bose’s popular QuietComfort 2 noise-canceling headphones: Creative went with similar-sized circumaural earcups, which use soft interior memory foam padding with very similar silver and black plastic exterior styling, and includes the same pack-ins, such as 1/4” stereo and airline adapters, a semi-hard carrying case, and cabling. Here, there’s a standard cable, as…