A Decision to Be Applauded
In which Amazon.com does the mature thing.
Dear Apple: Buy this, and put it in the next iTunes
From Tech Crunch’s MusicBox: a truly powerful visualization of your music library: “The idea behind MusicBox is that it analyzes every song for not only written metadata (artist, genre) but also beats per minute, length, tone, and a whole bunch of other semi-tangible quantities (check out the demonstration video). It then organizes them based on [...]
All right Netflix. Get on it.
Amazon has just beaten Netflix and Apple to the video-renting punch with Amazon Video On Demand. While both Apple and Netflix allow online video rental (though not on the Mac for NetFlix), Amazon now allows you to watch your movie without downloading it first. With the new Video on Demand, you press the play button, [...]
Not that I would…but it’s nice to know that soon, I could
From Boston Herald’s iPhone could finally reach Vermont: “Vermonters may get to take advantage of Apple’s iPhone after all. The Federal Communications Commission’s approval of Verizon Wireless’ $2.67 billion buyout of Unicel may make that possible. The deal includes a condition that Unicel’s assets in Vermont be sold to another company to ensure competition, opening [...]
Guess What? Apples are Popular
From Daring Fireball’s Sixty-Six: “The idea that Apple now sells two-thirds of retail computers costing $1000 or more is simply stunning. I (along with many others) have long argued that a simplistic ‘overall PC market share’ number has never been a good metric for gauging the Mac’s success because the ‘overall PC market’ includes millions [...]
Raising the Wow Factor
From Computer Worlds’s The top 25 overlooked and underrated features in Leopard: “Leopard harnesses the Core Animation libraries code that developers can use to imbue applications with all manner of animated elements to offer [a] stunning new screensaver options [that works] with iPhoto albums or folders of photos that you select….[It] creates a photo mosaic [...]
CDs Are Officially Dead
From Ars Technica’s Apple passes Wal-Mart, now #1 music retailer in US: “Over the past few years, we have watched Apple climb the music sales chart courtesy of the iTunes. Last month we learned that Apple passed Best Buy to become the number two retailer in the the US in December. Now, Apple has ascended [...]
How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong
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Mega Apple filing details next-gen ‘multi-touch input surface’
From Apple Insider’s Mega Apple filing details next-gen ‘multi-touch input surface’: “The latest patent filing from Apple Inc. hints at a next-generation multi-touch ’surface’ that would combine typing, pointing, scrolling, and handwriting capabilities into a single ergonomic design aimed at replacing traditional input devices such as the keyboard, mouse, and drawing tablet.”
My New Mac mini
Back in October, I wrote about My Leopard Installation Adventure, but before that, I explained why I was becoming an early adopter of the new Macintosh operating system, which was, namely, that my Mac mini was broken and I hoped Leopard could fix it.
One week ago today, I finally admitted that it couldn’t.
Here’s what happened. [...]
