Yesterday we reported that Jonathan Ive had been named Designer of the Year by the UK’s Design Museum. Relating to that development, and the £25,000 prize that went with it, The Guardian, a prominent UK newspaper, has published a story about him that is part news article, part profile, and part interview. Mr. Ive is…
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Internet Music Sharing Workaround Found For Itunes
A tutorial at lostboi.com offers instructions on how you can resume outside sharing using either the open source utility mDNSResponder or Rendezvous Beacon, which is shareware. The concept is rather straightforward and uses a common networking technique, not an iTunes hack, to fool it into believing the stream is originating from inside the local network.
QuickTime 6.3 Released With Several Improvements
A pple has released QuickTime 6.3 today. The new version includes several improvements, including… The release notes are so brief, weill just let Apple say it directly: QuickTime 6.3 delivers a number of important updates, including: Automatic detection of streaming transport Improvements to DV audio and video synchronization Enhanced support for Keynote, iMovie, and iDVD…
Default Folder X Update Improves Hotkey Support
St. Clair Software has released version 1.7.1 of Default Folder X, its Eddy Award-winning utility for enhancing Open and Save dialogs in Mac OS X. Default Folder X 1.7.1 delivers a significant performance boost over the previous version, allows the use of hotkeys to access Favorites in the Finder without modifier keys, and corrects problems…
A Few Of Her Favorite Things: Oprah Gives iPods To Everyone In Audience
CKQUOTE> Raindrops and roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and 15 GB iPods… That may not be how the original song goes, but when youire Oprah, you can sing it any way you want. According to Observer Randy Souther, Oprah likes iPods so much, she recently gave each and every single person in…
DMCA Discriminates Against Visually Impaired, Say Advocates
It seems that in the quest to protect e-books from the evils of piracy, a small group of readers are left out in the cold – the visually impaired. Advocates and copyright experts alike are seeking an exemption from parts of the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act, allowing them to circumvent the copyright protection in…
Dana - Part PDA, Part Laptop For Writers & Students
< B>What exactly, is Dana? Imagine a device that is smaller, lighter, and cheaper than a laptop, runs 25 hours on a single charge or an additional 35 hours on a set of 3 AA batteries, has a full size keyboard and a wide backlit screen for easy text input or eBook reading, includes typical…
Intel's Itanium 2 Beginning To Earn The "Itanic" Moniker With Newly Discovered Glitch
Servers are crashing and IBM is halting shipments of its x450 server after a glitch in Intel’s Itanium 2 processor line was discovered recently. According to an article on ZDNet, the bug appears in Itanium 2 processors running at 900MHz or 1GHz, and can be worked around by underclocking the chips to 800MHz. Intel is…
Forbes (Sort Of) Throws Fuel On PowerPC 970 Speculation
An interesting blurb hit Forbes early Friday evening concerning Apple. The mainstream financial and business magazine mentioned Apple and IBM’s upcoming PowerPC 970 in its "People To Watch" piece for this week. Forbes says that "rumors are starting to build that Apple Computer is closer than previously thought to releasing a computer with a new…
NY Times Quotes Apple Exec On Microsoft's Athens PC Prototype
H ave you seen the Microsoft/HP PC prototype that the two companies are calling the Athens PC? Itis been discussed at many Mac Web sites and forums for the past week, including a rousing discussion on Slashdot, and a flame-fest on at least one Windows zealot site. Athens was introduced last week at Microsoftis Winhec…
Best Buy & Microsoft Named In Scam Lawsuit
OK, tell us if you’ve heard this one: A priest, a cowboy, and an "escort" walk into Best Buy to purchase a DVD… Would you believe a boy scout, a bum, and two parrots walk into Best Buy looking for a vacuum cleaner? How about a guy who just wanted to buy stuff and wound…
Digital Hijacking
T he following story is fiction. I tell you this story to illustrate a point which I promise to make abundantly clear. Any resemblance of the characters in this purely fabricated tale to any real person is by coincidence only. I was surfing the iNet using a friendis PC when a pop-up ad appeared on…
metaobjects Releases New App For Booklet Printing
metaobject releases BookLightning, a lightweight imposition program for booklets and simple magazines With BookLightning, you can create booklets for stapling or folding from any PDF file, or even directly from the Mac OS X print panel. It arranges the pages of a PDF files on sheets of paper in such a fashion that they will…
MPlayer Plays It All
Q uickTime is pretty slick, especially if you have the Pro version that offers more control and allows you to put together movie clips and photos. The problem with QuickTime Movie Player is that it lacks a nice interface that will allow you to organize your clips or give more than basic information about the…
Microsoft's MSN's Business In The Toilet
M icrosoftis business, at least in the UK division of MSN, is apparently in the toilet. Literally. Keep in mind that there are roughly 1,726 other jokes we could have made, but that one seemed the safest. In any event, WebUser UK is reporting that MSN is preparing to release the iLoo. Now, a "loo"…
Word Processors For The Rest Of Us
M icrosoft. Weill wait until the hisses and boos die down. Itis funny how that one word can elicit such a rainbow of reactions; from unbridled admiration ("I love Microsoft so much that I want to name my first born Billy-Gee!"), to abject disillusionment ("Oh gawd! Is there naught but Word I can use to…
Apple Awarded Patents On Handwriting Recognition & Adaptive Throughput Optimization
T wo Apple patents issued on April 29, 2003. Apple filed for a patent application for a "Methods and apparatus for handwriting recognition" on May 23, 1996 — relatively eons ago. The abstract states: Method and apparatus for handwriting recognition system for ideographies characters and other characters based on subcharacter hidden Markov models. The ideographies…
Apple Introduces New iPods With 10, 15, or 30GB Of Capacity, USB2, FireWire, And A Docking Station
Apple today introduced a completely revamped line of iPods at a special music-related media event. The new iPod sports a totally redesigned case, capacities of 10, 15 or 30GB, and a docking station with both FireWire and USB2 compatibility. From Apple: Apple today introduced its third generation iPods, which hold up to 7,500 songs in…
Apple Shareholders Vote Against Management On Expensing Options
A quiet revolution took place at yesterday’s Apple shareholder meeting. AAPL shareholders voted for a shareholder initiative that would have Apple counting employee stock options as an expense. Currently, companies are legally allowed to not expense options, something that helped contribute to the boom of the 1990s. Corporations large and small offered their employees compensation…
Interested In QuickTime? "Hang Loose" With Frank Casanova In New WWDC Movie
A pple has posted another QuickTime sales pitch for the upcoming World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC). The WWDC is Appleis annual gathering for Mac developers, and this yearis event effectively has what used to be QuickTime Live! rolled into it. That means that QuickTime gets a much bigger light to shine at the WWDC than…
Air Traffic Controller: Windows Crashes Turn Flight Plan Delivery Into Manual Affair
I n a column today, I took JetBlue to task for “standardizing” on Windows and Microsoft software. A good many Observers then took me to task, largely telling me to get over myself. Having been doing this as long as I have, such criticism is not in the least unexpected, but when I got a…
The USPTO Issues Three New Patents To Apple
A pple was granted three new patents yesterday by the US Patent and Trademark Office. These patents were all applied between 1999 and 2001, and all are programming patents. The first was for a "System, apparatus and method for spatially sorting image data in a three-dimensional graphics pipeline." Filed: August 20, 1999 Granted: April 22,…
Apple Very Quietly Revs iBooks To 900 MHz
A pple has ever so quietly revved the iBook line to 900 MHz, without so much as a press release making the announcement. Eagle-eyed Observer Stephen Joiner was on the ball, however, and let TMO know about the revision. The new iBooks sport 800 MHz and 900 MHz G3 processors, 32 MB ATI Mobility Radeon…
Default Folder Updated With File List Erasure
While continuing to push the envelope with products like the Eddy Award-winning Default Folder X for Mac OS X, St. Clair Software also realizes that there are still many users running Mac OS 9. With this in mind, St. Clair Software today released version 3.1.5 of Default Folder, their 5-mouse-rated enhancement for Open and Save…
