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Posted on April 16, 2006 at 3:43 pm
Chris Kite (along with a cool team) has created a transformation package for Windows XP that makes XP look almost like Mac OS X.
The project’s web site is a masterpiece on itself too.
Check here for this online Mac OS X version!
Posted on April 5, 2006 at 10:25 am
The announcement today.
Just as expected, you can now run Windows XP on the newest Intel-based Macs.
The question is: should you?
😉
Check here Apple’s Boot Camp press release.
Posted on April 2, 2006 at 6:31 pm
Now that Apple is turning 30, dare you try your knowledge of the Cupertino world, previous Apple products, Steve’s history, Apple’s slogan and tv ads?
10 easy (!) questions for all die-hard Mac Switchers…
Actually, 10 really easy things you should know about the quite recent history of computing.
An example?
Apple launched its Macintosh computer with a now famous Super Bowl advertisement. What novel was the ad based on?
Click here for the original page on BBC and try out for yourself!
What’s my score? Here it is…
You got 10 right!
You live and breathe Apple, eagerly waiting for the latest shiny gadget to come out of California
Posted on March 20, 2006 at 2:40 pm
I guess you’re all used to do Command-Tab all the time to do task-switching and, if you’re a Windows switcher, you’re still more used to the ALT-Tab keys combination.
Witch, from Peter Maurer, comes in really handy since it allows you not only to switch from one task to another, but to switch from each and every open document under every program running.
An easy way to pass from multiple open documents with the simple touch of a switch.
Witch is Universal Binary and comes for free or a donation via paypal to the author.
Check here for more info & download: http://www.petermaurer.de/nasi.php?section=witch
Posted on March 11, 2006 at 1:06 am
Citrix is one of the best remote control tech around for PCs.
Why not putting it in a really useful Widget?
Posted on March 5, 2006 at 10:24 pm
Quite a few updates:
In detail, the most critical (to my usage): PHP 4.4.1 fixes several security issues, the FileVault, unsecure in some way at the very first access, and Safari fix against some buffer overflow.
Posted on March 1, 2006 at 4:21 pm
Looks like Aperture and photojournalist Vincent Laforet have been working quite well during the recent Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy.
Read his report on Olympics games and how Aperture helped speeding up things and getting from his Canon digital cameras delivered to his clients quickly, with a no-nonsense workflow.
Read here the full story.
Posted on March 1, 2006 at 2:18 am
As always, great rumors and many fakes.
The truth about today’s Apple announcement is: Mac mini shifts to Intel and iPod HiFi, a three-way speaker box.
The new Mac mini with Intel processors, both Core Duo running @ 1,66 GHz or Core Solo running @ 1,5 GHz.
This is the first time ever for a Intel Core Solo processor, as far as we know.
Featuring Front Row and its remote, up to 120 GB hard drive and an Intel GMA950 GPU, the new Mac mini is the second Intel-based move in less than 60 days: quite a fast shift, even for Steve’s company.
Good job!
Looking at the box, there’s almost nothing different from the previous model, apart from the back sporting different ports and connectors.
The only ‘dark’ spot is the GMA950-based graphics card and its performance, opposed to ATI and nVidia chipsets, but in the next days plenty of benchmarks will be published about this topic.
The iPod HiFi is a speaker-boombox featuring the universal dock connector and three big speakers with a design that may be so trendy and so 70’s; remote command included.
Want to read more? Here’s a list of places you may like, just a few:
Posted on February 23, 2006 at 12:39 am
Ok, it’s easy and maybe you’ve come across this post too many times…
Facts: Times Square in NY has a public display that’s running some version of Windows… er… not running actually.
Times Square in NY and an ad display are not exactly the right place for showing such messages…
Check here the full original post and the painful list of comments…
Posted on February 22, 2006 at 6:31 pm
News.com’s Felisa Yang explains in this 4 min. video some of the new features of iWork.
It’s a well done flythrough and a hands-on test drive of some of the most relevant and interesting capabilities of the other office software suite.
Check here the video.
Posted on February 19, 2006 at 1:07 pm
Mac OS X 10.4.5 update is now available: it looks like there are some minor enhancements that require major attention and care when updating.
Read Apple’s note before installing.
Check here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303179-it
Posted on February 17, 2006 at 5:10 pm
First Mac OS X Worm a Wake-Up Call: this is The Cult of Mac title for what seems the first (?) reported worm for Mac OS X.
It seems related to an iChat vulnerability, as reported even by Symantec.
Maybe it deals more with common good sense than accepting an incoming file transfer…
Read here the full story: http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/cultofmac/index.blog?entry_id=1415489
