An article about whether Apple has taken advantage of the poor reception of Microsoft Vista to sell more Macs. As reported by the New York Times, “The best time for gaining market share is when your main competitor stumbles while introducing an entirely new version of its core product. Thanks to Microsoft’s lumbering pace, Mr. Jobs had six years to look forward to the moment when XP would be replaced by Vista.”
It looks like Steve Jobs will be launching the iPhone in the UK next Tuesday. More from c|net UK. It also seems there’s a strong hope for a 3G iPhone.
Hi all, I um, am officially leaving the blog, I had a nice time here for the past month and a half, but I need to move on to pursue other endeavors.
Well, I am officially starting a trend, every month, I will put out a new edition of “My Top 10 ‘Hard to live without’ apps”. These will be apps for the Mac I cannot ever live without. Let’s see…
1.) Safari (OSX 10.2+)-I could not live without this app, I do all of my web browsing in it! And, it’s easy to use, fast, and for the most part, supports many standards.
2.) Adium (OSX 10.4; older versions for 10.2-10.3)-I do all of my instant messaging through this app, and it can be configured easily and without hassles.
3.) Word 5.1 (System 6+; runs in Classic)-Yes, I do use this app for all of my word processing demands 99.999% of the time, for the .001%, I use NeoOffice for compatibility.
4.) Colloquy (OSX 10.3.9+; older versions for 10.2)-I do all of my IRC in this app, not much more to say.
5.) Apple Mail (OSX 10.4; also bundled with 10.0-10.3, albeit older versions)-I do all of my email in this app, so yeah.
6.) iTunes (OSX 10.3.9+; older versions for 8.6/9-10.2)-Music/iPod, not much to say.
7.) QuickTime (OSX 10.3.9+; older versions for 6.0.0-10.2)-I do my TV show watching here.
8.) Perian 1.0 (OSX 10.4+; older betas for 10.3)-Without this, I’d shoot myself, literally, Perian is so useful.
9.) AppTrap (OSX xyz; I don’t know what version is needed, sorry)-Say you want to uninstall an app, with AppTrap, just drag the .app to the trash and pops up a screen asking if you want to delete the support files. Very useful app!
10.) Finder (System 1-10.4)-There’s always that one app that you take for granted, the Finder is one of them. I’d be so lost without it.
Anyway, there’s my list, stay tuned for next month’s!
Also, feel free to comment!
Well, I had sort of forgotten about Windows 2000, but it is official, Apple has dropped Windows 2000 support in iTunes 7.4.x. iTunes 7.4.x requires Windows XP SP2 or Vista. iTunes was Windows 2000’s last breath from Apple, as QuickTime recently dropped Windows 2000 support in July, with the release of 7.2. Just an FYI, the last releases for Windows 2000 are iTunes 7.3.2 and QuickTime 7.1.6.
Download it here.
The recent update to iTunes, 7.4.1, has been reported to block some third party iPhone ringtones that were hacked for use with the iPhone in previous releases, to circumvent Apple’s 2$usd pricing on ringtones. It is starting to become evident, in my opinion, that this will turn into a mini-cat and mouse game, between Apple and the ‘homebrew’ ringtones.
More information can be found here.
A new agreement between Apple and wireless company, InterDigital, may mean 3G iPhones in the very near future.
Read more about it here.
iTunes 7.4.1 was released tonight, an apparent bug-fix release, though Apple has not provided an official list of changes yet.
You can download it as always from here.
iTunes 7.4.1 requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or 10.4.7 for iTunes; 10.4.8 for iPod shuffle (late 2007), iPod nano (late 2007), iPod classic; 10.4.10 for the iPhone and iPod touch.