Posts Tagged ‘apple’

iPhone 3G, AppStore, Apps, Firmware 2.0 and mobileme are all set to release in July 11th.
Snow Leopard: Announced.  Will be discussed after lunch.
35% of Fortune 500 participated in iPhone beta.
iPhone: exchange support, push email/contacts/calendars, auto-discovery, global address book, remote wipe, contact filter search, geo-location of other iphones (contacts), NO TASK MANAGER – Apple to provide push service [...]


My new laptop!

03Jun08

I just got the current generation Macbook Pro base model a few days ago.
I love it!
15″ Widescreen LED Display
2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2GB 667MHz DDR2 memory
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 256MB of GDDR3
200GB Serial ATA Hard Drive; 5400 rpm
8x Optical SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
In addition, it has a built-in camera, backlit keyboard, optical audio out, DVI [...]


so, i have a beta copy of leopard.  shh.
here’s my impressions (bearing in mind that it is a beta)
-) the unified look they discussed at WWDC (no more brushed metal) is GREAT.  the operating system looks much more professional and puts vista to shame.  it doesn’t try to be super flashy, just clean, and clean [...]


I have compiled a new list of must-have items for Mac OS X, items in bold are most important (yeah, yeah.. most of them):
3ivX – Video Codec
Adium – Multi-service Chat Client
$Cocktail – System Maintenance & Hidden Options
DivX – Video Codec
Firefox – Web Browser
Flip4Mac – Quicktime Plug-in for WM Video/Audio
Growl – Plug-in-based System Notifications
Handbrake – DVD [...]


hrm.

30Jan07

it just occured to me.. what if.. purely hypothetically, apple decided to have an “ipod update” for all ipods that just so happened to carry an extremely malicious and contagious windows virus?
edit: it’s funny re-reading this post.  something similar to this actually happened.


Just a few, very quick notes on yesterday’s Macworld.
- AppleTV only supports videos that can be imported into iTunes. It also states on the page an additional restriction: H.264 only. So I am assuming that other Quicktime formats will not sync to the AppleTV. So, basically, that kills the AppleTV for [...]


Source: http://www.macrumorslive.com (Pictures available here)
Apple Computer Inc. officially renamed Apple Inc. at this Macworld.
Editor: I would just like the mention that I feel it was an extremely bad idea on Apple’s part to name their media center “Apple TV” instead of “iTV”. The iPod is recognized by anyone anywhere in the world, and [...]