From Apple’s iCal turns five years old, looks to the future: “July 17 might not seem like that significant of a date for Mac users, but for those of us with a little too much free time on our hands, it’s a cause for (minor) celebration. Today is iCal Synchronicity Day, the one day of [...]
All you interface fanboys gotta check out Daring Fireball’s An Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal Interface Theme Shows Up for the WWDC Preview Build of Mac OS X Leopard.
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Woman jailed for testicle attack: “Amanda Monti, 24, flew into a rage when Geoffrey Jones, 37, rejected her advances at the end of a house party…She pulled off his left testicle and tried to swallow it, before spitting it out. A friend handed it back to Mr Jones saying: ‘That’s yours.’”
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Sorry about not having links for most of this week. I’ve been pretty busy with my earn-a-paycheck work, and haven’t had the time to surf the web in my usual way. Anyway, on to the links:
Kiss Boring Interfaces Goodbye With Apple’s New Animated OS: “[Apple's new set of interface programming tools, called] Core Animation will [...]
From A Greener Apple, Steve Jobs’ official response to the uproar surrounding a campaign orchestrated by Green Peace: “Apple has been criticized by some environmental organizations for not being a leader in removing toxic chemicals from its new products, and for not aggressively or properly recycling its old products. Upon investigating Apple’s current practices and [...]
From EMI Dropping Copy Limits on Online Music: “EMI said today that it was making its digital music catalog available without the anti-piracy measure known as digital rights management, with Apple Inc.’s iTunes as its first retail outlet. Apple said iTunes would make individual tracks available from EMI artists at twice the sound quality of [...]
March 29, 2007 – 11:27 am
From iTunes Introduces Complete My Album: “Apple today announced Complete My Album, a groundbreaking new iTunes service that allows customers to turn their individual tracks into a complete album at a reduced price by giving them a full 99 cent credit for every track they have previously purchased from that album. ‘Music fans can now [...]
March 28, 2007 – 10:31 am
From Is Apple using the Dictionary Widget to push liberal politics?: “It seems if one types the word “Democracy†into Mac OS X’s built-in Dictionary widget, and then switches over to the thesaurus, you are given the following example usage of the word. It reads ‘a democracy in Iraq is quite unlikely for now or [...]
March 19, 2007 – 10:36 pm
From Waiting for Leopard: “It’s a double-shame that Apple seems to be slow out the gate with Leopard. Because 2007 probably presents the biggest opportunity Apple has had to increase their market share since, say, 1982, which was the last year that the company could have bought out Microsoft.” I read pretty much every Leopard [...]
From Multi-Touch Coming to a Mac Near You?: “As we all know, multi-touch is the Apple patented technology being used on the iPhone. It’s apparently a bit better than the standard touch-screen stuff we’re all used to, especially since it ignores accidental touches of the screen with stray fingers. So if Apple has patented this [...]
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