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Beware any Mac news on April Fools Tonight at midnight marks the official start of one of the most annoying days to try and track Mac news every year - April Fools Day. I won't be caught by any of the fake stories this year, or helping to spread the misinformation either, because I am heading out of town tomorrow for a weekend of birding in Eastern Washington. But if you are reading for cool new Apple products over the weekend, beware before getting too excited about any big news. Be sure to check for wool over your eyes before you believe...
Pictures of 30 years of Apple products Wired News has a photo gallery of 30 years of Apple products. It's like a walk down memory lane...
Shhhh...iPod update makes music player quieter Apple is offering a software update for iPod owners that can limit the volume output of the popular music player. Here are the release notes from Apple...
I'm going to hell, but it tasted so good! Natalie and I just returned home from a four-hour, eight-course dinner at Pour at Four here in Tacoma, Washington, where we feasted on all kinds of wild foods - a roasted wild beet tower with rosemary goat cheese and beet syrup paired with Osterreich Lagier 2003 Gruner Veltliner Smaradg Steinborz, Proscuitto wrapped quail with frisee tossed in a cranberry and horseradish vinaigrette, Venison and rabbit sausage, wild boar ragout, and worst of all, Braised antelope with maple and soy infused sweet potatoes and a dijon cream sauce paired with Caymus Vineyards 2002 Special Selection Cabernet Sauvignon. My comment after tasting the melt-in-your-mouth antelope was, "Oh my god...those poor antelope cannot run fast enough." Of course, this was said in jest, but I am impressed with the dinner tonight! And the wines were sublime! If you are a fan of red wines and you get the chance to buy the Cab listed above, do so. Another good choice is the Eugenio Bocchino 2001 Barolo that was paired with the wild boar dish, and the Palenta Sambuca di Sicilia 2004 Chardonnay, which was enough to impress this red wine snob in its pairing with the quail tonight. Back to the Mac stuff...
The AP on Apple at 30 years old AP looks back at 30 years of Apple - Apple will have its 30th birthday next week, and the Associated Press takes an historical local at where the company came from, where it is today, and all of the ups and downs along the way... [MacMinute.com]
Cult of Mac on the sad state of video streaming on Macs Cult of Mac hits a raw nerve with a detailed post about the Sad state of streaming video on Macs. All of it is sad, but true. The one area where Microsoft has been effective in rubbing Mac users' noses in it is video streaming. And now that Microsoft has stopped any support for Windows Media Player on the Mac, the situation is bound to get worse unless Apple gets serious about providing a workaround that makes video seamless again.
A fifth birthday for Mac OS X Ars Technica has an in-depth look back and MacSlash has a discussion today to remind us that we are this is the fifth birthday of Mac OS X. It's hard for me to think of this as just the fifth year for this OS - partly because I started using the public beta versions of Mac OS X well before the first official release.
About that whole Vista thing...psych NY Times : "Microsoft's said that its...
Giles urges waiting on MacBook Pro version II MacBook Pro And Cons - If you can afford to wait a little longer, I think you should; revised models, hopefully without the irritations, will be appearing in coming months and they might well turn out to be a better choice in the long run. By Giles Turnbull, O'Reilly Network [myapplemenu]
I've been violated OK, there is something sick and wrong with the fact that my last post about a heinous car ad has spawned a full skien of Google ads about Stupid Utility Vehicles. There is no justice...
A disturbing ad - the Acura MDX I keep seeing this ad for the Acura MDX sport utility vehicle on TV over the last few months, and each time I see the ad I cringe. The ad goes like this: Triumphant music plays as the young and successful couple attempts to escape from their urban hometown, and as they drive through streams and alongside open fields, the city explodes up from the ground behind them. Finally, they break free of the city and drive off into the sunset with there new SUV. Ah, the American dream. But every time I see this ad I want to scream at the TV - for the love of god, stop driving! The city is taking over everything. It's the perfect way to ruin the image of the SUV as a way to escape the city. And the ad carries a nugget of truth. The people in the SUV are bringing the city with them, just like so many of the folks I see when I am out in the woods here in Washington state - people trying to escape the reality of living in their urban setting with high tech gear like an SUV that they then use to trample over the nature they are trying to escape to. For the love of god, stop driving!
Another Mac OS X security update Apple releases Security Update 2006-002 v1.1 for Mac OS X 10.4.5 - Apple today released Security Update 2006-002 v1.1 which "improves security and reliability and is recommended for all users." [MacDailyNews] It looks like it will be time to restart my Mac once again, although this new update is not showing up in my Software Update panel just yet...
The reasoning and process behind Mac OS X security updates CNET News.com has an interesting interview today with Apple's Mac OS X security guru, Bud Tribble. The interview sheds a little light on how seriously Apple takes OS security, and how it trickles security updates out to users like you and me: Tribble on Apple's Security Troubles My take: Apple is doing a fine job getting updates to users, with a few exceptions where the company has seemed slow to respond to vulnerabilities that have been found and proven using proof-of-concept, trojan-horse types of exploits. So far there has been no major security incursion for Mac OS X. Just proof-of-concept "attacks" to lure those who are not aware of common computer security issues...
How to use a Treo as a Bluetooth modem with a Mac I link to this article as much for my own reference as anything, since I am a week into using a Treo 650 as my mobile phone and data gather device/PDA: Using a Treo as a Bluetooth modem with a MacBook Pro
A recording engineer in support of the iPod Like a lot of people who criticize the iPod craze and digital music in general because of a belief that the recording quality is inferior, Ken Rockwell took some convincing before he would give the iPod a chance. But with a little experimentation, Rockwell found some basic settings that can be used to make music you add to your iPod high quality sound: A Recording Engineer's Guide to the Secrets of iTunes and iPod
Yet another Apple Security Update Apple releases Security Update 2006-002 - Apple has issued Security Update 2006-002 via its Software Update Utility and on the Web... [MacMinute.com]
Finally, the book is all done, save some housekeeping It has taken a lot longer than I expected, but tonight I sent the last of my chapters for the Washington Disasters and Heroic Rescues book off to our editor on the East Coast. Natalie still has one more chapter to finish, and I will work a little tomorrow on the bibliography for the book, but otherwise this one is in the can. It feels good to be done!
Real world MacBook Pro impressions? What Are Your MacBook Pro Impressions? - Now that a steady flow of MacBook Pros are hitting the streets, I'm curious about what users' first impressions are. I'm sure there are many like me who are wildly interesting in investing in one, but who aren't sure yet how Apple's latest laptop plays out in everyday use. [O'Reilly MacDevCenter.com]
Tinderbox technique - creating drop-stamp adornments This tip about how to use adornments in Tinderbox map views as a sort of drop-box for information is something for my must-read and play with list. The same goes for buying a new annual license for Tinderbox so that I can try out the new version that was released yesterday...
Origami - a 2.5 pound brick with 2.5 hours of juice I will have to spend more time digging around the news that is coming out today about Microsoft's Origami project, but I have to say that I have my doubts about its potential for success. For one, it runs Windows XP. Hope everyone has fun fighting viruses, spyware and adware on yet another Windows device. But even more importantly, it will weigh in at around two pounds and have a battery life in the neighborhood of two-and-a-half hours. I can't imagine why I would want something like this. I'll reserve judgement until something actually ships with a real price tag... UPDATE: One Origami-based machine from Samsung is already on the show floor at CEBIT. It weighs less than 2 pounds but has less than two hours of battery life, and it sounds like it will sell for around $1,100. Read more from Macworld...
A snowy birthday present For the first time I can recall, we had snow here in Puget Sound country on my birthday. Nothing major. Just enough white stuff to require scraping off the windshield before heading into work this morning...
Lifehacker on software for your Mac media center Lifehacker: Software for your Mac media center
MacFixIt on simple steps for securing your Mac MacFixIt: 10 simple steps for securing your Mac
iTunes to offer show subscriptions iTunes to sell monthly subscription to shows - Apple's iTunes music and video store today took its first step toward a monthly subscription model with a new service called Multi-Pass that lets users buy TV shows on a monthly basis, reports Reuters... [MacMinute.com]
It's a sad day when you lose a favorite fountain pen There is a touch of irony in the fact that today, in addition to picking up a new phone, I managed to misplace and likely lose my favorite fountain pen - $300 model I bought with .com money from my work-at-home contracting days in the late 1990s. Somehow I managed to have the pen in my pocket this morning and not have it in my pocket after I got up from a nap this afternoon. I covered quite a lot of ground in between, making back-tracking pretty much impossible. So, unless it shows up somewhere soon, I assume it is sadly gone. I guess I had better shop for a new fountain pen...
My newest technology - a Treo 650 In keeping with my nearly Luddite ways, I finally bought my first smartphone today - a Treo 650 - to replace the old Samsung phone I had for the Verizon network. Prior to this I have always bought simple mobile phones, but this time around I opted for something more complex. Now I will have to figure out how to integrate the Treo into my workflow though, since I already have a LifeDrive that I use extensively and that has much better capabilities in nearly every way, except for not having a phone integrated.
Brent's interview about Mail The world of email clients amazes me. I'm less happy with my email app in 2006 than I was using Eudora on System 7 back in 1996. [inessential.com] I totally agree with Brent. I remain troubled by my e-mail options, and although I use PowerMail as my e-mail client right now, I have also spent time this year using Thunderbird and even considering a move back to something as old-school as Eudora.
Apple offers new OS X security update Apple: Security Update - Security Update 2006-001 fixes some serious problems - but make a backup before applying it, just to be safe.... [MacInTouch] |
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