The resource to people switching to the Mac (and to MacLife altogether): Mac OS X integration, Mac-Windows interoperability, iPod and most Macintosh-related topics!
Marketcircle today released Daylite 3.5, a major update to the Mac business productivity software that uses Apple’s Sync Services to bring Daylite contacts, appointments, tasks, and reminders to Apple’s iPhone and iPod as well as other mobile devices.
Designed for the unique needs of Mac-based businesses of 1-50 people, Daylite 3.5 helps users organize at every stage of the business cycle, from identifying and qualifying opportunities to delivering projects.
The update features new syncing abilities that allow users to select and sync distinct contact categories, and introduces more than 300 contextual help articles via Apple Help that aim to expose little-known Daylite features to more users. Daylite 3.5 is a free upgrade for Daylite 3.x users, and requires iSync 2.4 or later to connect to regular cellular phones.
New licenses are priced at $150.
Daylite 3.5 adds support for international time zones, the ability to multi-select Daylite-enabled colleagues to set or revise appointments, and a new multi-user trash system that allows everyone in a Daylite workgroup to review or re-instate trashed items regardless of who deleted them or which method was used. The latest release also allows users to export files in a tab delimited format as well as .csv formats.
As expected Steve took everybody by surprise: the new iPod touch is much an iPhone-minus than a regular enhanced-iPod nano.
The facts about iPod touch:
– 3,5″ wide screen,
– same touch-screen user interface as iPhone,
– slightly smaller than iPhone, but same cool design,
– WiFi-enabled,
– Safari & Widgets,
– 8 GB and 16 GB
Some pretty update for all other iPods:
– smaller iPod nano,
– bigger-capacity iPod Classic (hard disk-based).
I’ve just attended Apple’s press briefing for the new iMacs, iLife and iWork ’08.
Will post soon pictures, first hands-on impressions on both hardware and software.
iMacs look really pretty, screen displays are gorgeous.
Still have to try the new keyboard, low-profiled and featuring MacBook-style keys.
iLife ’08 shows some pretty cool new features, iMovie has been completely redesigned while iPhoto now tends to be a Web 2.0 tool aimed at .Mac Web Gallery photo publishing and sharing (videos too).
iWork ’08 updates Keynote and Pages but, most important, introduces Numbers which, of course, is the spreadsheet fellow of the band.
Numbers is really cool and shows off some nifty features most *xcel users really would love…
More on all of these when I’m back to the base, up and testing!
Check here for new iMacs http://www.apple.com/imac/
and:
* Apple Unveils New iMac
* Apple Introduces iLife ’08
* Apple Enhances .Mac
* Apple Introduces iWork ’08
Today Apple announced enhanced Leopard and iPhone integration including proximity sensing, and bluetooth syncing. Todo lists, and notes will finally sync with Leopards Mail.app. Apple also noted more features to come.
How do you meet when you’re at MIT campus?
Imagine you’re using one the many hotspots around and have to meet mates (or professors), you’re supposed to be using already a chat system but…
does it aloow you to locate other users?
Enter iFind from MIT, a Java-based IM (available thus for Win XP and Linux users too).
What is exactly?
iFIND is a location-aware application that puts you on a map of the MIT campus when you start the program. That is, it puts you on your own map of campus, and not other people’s, unless you give them permission.
As usual with MIT, iFind has its roots in a previous project way ahead if its time!
iFIND spawned out of iSPOTS, a project at SENSEable that began in 2005, and concerns over the privacy implications of real-time location data. Our response was to develop an application that would allow users to share location information in real-time, with the ability to start and stop sharing information with any users at any time.
Under the hood, the main features…
Positioning – we don’t have fancy positioning technology beyond what we found from PlaceLab. We just put PlaceLab to good use. Your location is derived from the signals that your laptop’s (for example) wireless card detects in its vicinity. Thanks to the high density of WiFi access points on the MIT campus, the software can compute your location accurately (we’d say within a few meters).
Distributed Data – we spent a long time deliberating over our privacy scheme. Our premise was, suppose some malicious person wanted to stalk some user and seized control of our server somehow (we would never let that happen, but just suppose), they should not be able to find logs of users’ locations. Thus, taking the extreme view of giving users control over their data, we implemented an architecture that does not collect users’ locations centrally. Instead, the only way to see a user’s traces is to get the user’s permission, and be logged on to iFIND at the same time.
Raketu is offering a Web-based VoIP calling service that works with Macs.
Raketu on Wednesday launched RakWeb, a new Web-based Voice over IP (VoIP) telephony service that runs on Mac OS X, Linux and Windows. Right now, RakWeb is the only way Mac users can use Raketu, as the company has only released a Windows version of its client to date.
Calling other Raketu users is free, and the company offers low rates if you wish to call other landline or mobile phones. The technology works over any Internet connection, broadband or dial-up, and features free calling to locations in over 40 countries around the world. The service also offers the ability to connect two people using landlines or mobile phones.
Marketcircle today released Daylite 3.5, a major update to the Mac business productivity software that uses Apple’s Sync Services to bring Daylite contacts, appointments, tasks, and reminders to Apple’s iPhone and iPod as well as other mobile devices.
As expected Steve took everybody by surprise: the new 
,
(hard disk-based).
How to dismantle a just-bought iPhone!
What is exactly?