Archive for Apple
Top secret features suspect in Apple’s Leopard delay
From Apple Insider:
“While Apple cited a shift in resources to iPhone and more time for developers to beta test as reasons for the delay, our analysis indicates that if not for the ’secret’ features, the core Leopard operating system would likely have shipped on time,” American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu told clients on Friday. “We believe the extra time Apple is allocating is for developers to test secret features that will likely be revealed at its WWDC 2007 conference starting on June 11, 2007.”
Leopard Due In June October
We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October. We think it will be well worth the wait.
Good things come to those who wait.
[tasg]OS X, Leopard, Apple[/tags]
Vista File Backups But No Restore
Giggles. Another reason to love my Mac.
Windows Vista’s built-in file versioning (which I raved about not so long ago) will do the backing up in the Basic and Home Premium versions of Vista, but you can’t restore the data from backup unless you’re running Enterprise, Business or Ultimate.
I’m not sure what to say about this except that when Vista takes a whoopin’ from the new Mac OS, Leopard (with Time Machine), it’ll be that much more deserved.
Tags: Vista Backups, Vista, Mac, Leopard
Macs Save Money
Here is an interesting article from Wired that tackles the reality of Mac in todays market. It is a good thing. I deal with a half-wit at work that has drunk so much Microsoft Kool-aid that it leaks out of every orifice. Nice guy, but, damn.
There’s been a distinct sea change in the way people think about Apple in the last few weeks.
Recently, people have been saying the strangest things about Apple and the Mac. Everything is topsy-turvy. Pundits aren’t trotting out the old conventional wisdoms any more. They’re saying odd stuff, like Macs are good for business; Macs can save money; and that Apple’s stock — at $90 a share — is a bargain.
For the full article follow the link.
Apple TV Now Shipping
From Apple Insider:
After a series of hiccups, Apple Inc. on Tuesday finally got around to shipping it’s much talked about Apple TV wireless streaming media hub.
The move comes just one week after the Cupertino, Calif.-based firm first ramped production over at Taiwanese manufacturing partner Foxconn (Hon Hai).
Customers who had placed pre-orders for the $299 device began receiving their Apple Store online shipment confirmations overnight, which promise delivery by Friday, March 23.
Sweetness.
More on this over on Macworld.
Can’t Wait For The iPhone?
I thought this was amusing. This was posted up on TechCrunch in January.
You too can join the poser set.
Tags: iPhone, Make Believe, Apple
Cisco’s iPhone violates GPL, expert says
Cisco sues Apple but, they may be infringing in their own product.
Cisco has not published the source code for some components of the WIP300 iPhone in accordance with its open-source licensing agreement, said Armijn Hemel, a consultant with Loohuis Consulting and half of the team running the GPL Violations Project, an organization that identifies and publicizes misuse of GPL (GNU General Public License) licenses and takes some violators to court.
Adobe Photoshop CS3 Public Beta Soon
Mmmmm, tasty. Adobe is apparently set to release a beta for CS3 shortly according to Think Secret.
Sources say that satiating owners of Intel-based Macs was one of the primary reasons driving Adobe to release the public beta. Photoshop CS2 is a PowerPC-native application that must run under Rosetta on Intel-based Macs, significantly curtailing performance. Apple has previously cited the lack of Universal Binary applications from Adobe, optimized both for Intel and PowerPC chips, as a contributing factor to lower Mac Pro system sales.
The missus will be happy.
Tags: Adobe CS3, Photoshop, Adobe Beta Release
Moving Music Off The iPod
I have had a problem with a crashed hard drive in the past and I wasn’t sure how to get my mp3 files off to restore the library. Here is a nice article that tackles this subject.
For those who aren’t hip to the current state of affairs, I should explain that in order to deter music piracy, iTunes and the iPod were originally designed so that music would travel in one direction only—from the computer to the iPod. This has now changed somewhat. With iTunes 7, when you attach an iPod you own to a computer authorized with your Apple ID, iTunes will offer to copy protected content from the iPod to your computer. But that remains the only Apple-blessed way to move music from the iPod to your computer.
For the full article read on.
Tags: Music, iPod, iPod Recovery, Music Piracy, Music Backup