Is PowerPC Doomed? Nahhhh

apple.com, 9 May 1998 [via] 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 [...]

published on Sunday, the 30. September 2007

Insomnia Film Festival

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 [...]

published on Sunday, the 30. September 2007

Discover More Menubar Goodies

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. [...]

published on Saturday, the 29. September 2007

My New Vintage Hardware - Can Leopard be installed on an 800MHz machine?

I have a vintage 800MHz iMac G4. There, I’ve said it, and wow, does that sound strange to me. I love my iMac - remember those commercials where it stuck its ‘tongue’ out at the guy on the sidewalk? - and I was very excited to hear, initially, that I could put Leopard [...]

published on Friday, the 28. September 2007

Unlocked iPhone Users Beware

It appears that Apple may have been telling the truth about unlocked iPhones and the software update not playing nice together. Jonathan Seff over at iPhone Central shares his tale - in which even a new SIM card couldn’t resurrect is iBrick. Even though some Apple Geniuses may be quietly unbricking iPhones, I have [...]

published on Friday, the 28. September 2007

Getting Outlook?s Calendar into iCal for the iPhone

As I understand it, iTunes for Windows allows you to sync your iPod - or more importantly (these days) your iPhone - with Outlook for contacts and calendar items. That seems well and good for Windows users I suppose, but not so for my co-worker and his new iPhone. (Unfortunately for him I’m [...]

published on Thursday, the 27. September 2007

Apple Store Gets A Facelift

Apple launched a revamped online store on Wednesday, giving it a refreshed look and just the polish it deserves. Product categorization is greatly improved, making it much easier to visually make connections between products and accessories. More emphasis is being put on new and top selling products (taking a cue from Amazon perhaps?), and alot [...]

published on Wednesday, the 26. September 2007

Features I?d love to see in the iTunes Store

iTunes has been around for quite some time (if my calculations are correct it’s about 6 years). It’s been my favorite music/video organizer I’ve ever used (both Mac and PC) and the launch of the iTunes Store in 2003 quickly made it the go-to place for purchasing music as opposed to actual CDs. So while I [...]

published on Wednesday, the 26. September 2007

Pixelmator Now Available

Pixelmator has been pretty tight-fisted about letting their image-editor-in-progress see the light of day. There have only been 1 or 2 screencasts released by the developers, and what few beta testers were out there weren’t too loud about it. But today you can go download Pixelmator 1.0 and test drive it for yourself. [...]

published on Tuesday, the 25. September 2007

Amazon MP3: Look out iTunes

Today Amazon launched its public beta of Amazon MP3. Amazon MP3 is Amazon.com’s foray into the digital music scene…and a it’s an extremely solid effort to say the least. Pricing per song is between 89 and 99 cents and albums between $4.99 and $9.99. The Top 100 albums are being priced at the lower amounts, which [...]

published on Tuesday, the 25. September 2007