Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…
Following up on my pre-MacWorld post…: iLife ‘06 is a given – – duh, zero points minor revisions all around – – of course (some arguably major), zero points with some new deployment of FrontRow and maybe Photo Booth – – FrontRow made it into the “MacBook Pro” but is as yet not all-Mac-wide… the […]
It’s time for Macworld and once again, we find ourselves compelled to give in to the net’s peer pressure and do a prediction round-up with a sprinkling of our own predictions. Best-of-the-web style: the honorable Chuck Toporek has some well thought-out predictions and a mini round-up of his own over on MacDevCenter. Highlight reel includes […]
Not mine. This one a “Vegas-style” top ten list re: MacWorld from over on the ZDNet blogs… My favorite: 8. iWork ’06. Apple’s productivity suite will get upgrades to Pages and Keynote with the possible addition of a modern Office-killing spreheet application (rumored to be called “Numbers” or “Sheets“). If it re and writes Excel […]
As the “Mozilla vs. Apple” debate continues here at F_D, Gruber and a few others in my RSS feeds point out: Camino goes to 1.0 beta 2. Great. A Cocoa-based browser with the Gecko engine underneath. Before I know it, I’ll have all 83 browsers loaded up…
Via TUAW: James DuBois gets into a quad-core G5 and shares the images with us all.
aListApart with a timely article on using forms sensibly OnGoing on the evils(?) of <!DOCTYPE> mark-up
As noted last week, Google and AOL are on the merge. And today it’s official. [The] comments followed a decision by Time Warner’s board of directors on Tuesday to approve a deal in which Google, the world’s leading internet search company, will pay $1bn for a 5 per cent stake in AOL, giving the business […]
Finally getting back around to visiting the Internet iTunes Registry. Indeed, there are some neat reports in there. Still getting a feel for what kind of information it’s really presenting – – i.e., how is it really comparing my tracks against others’? and why does it say I have a diversity of “0” in my […]
To pick up roughly where we left off, I’d like to touch a bit more deeply on the bookmark syncing aspect of the Firefox vs. Safari portion of this pro/con festival. A couple days ago I summed it up as: Firefox Safari Bookmark management Not a big fan of the bookmark management in Firefox. […]
Time Warner Plans to Sell 5% of AOL to Google: Finally […] Richard D. Parsons […] told Eric E. Schmidt […] that he would accept Google’s recently sweetened offer. Google, which prides itself on the purity of its search results, agreed to give favored placement to content from AOL throughout its site, something it has […]