In the absence of Steve Jobs, UserFriendly has their take on who really runs Apple.
Archive for January, 2009
Who is running Apple?
Thursday, January 29th, 2009Can Apple survive another great quarter?
Sunday, January 25th, 2009The Macalope asks “Can Apple survive another great quarter?”
To put it in context, Daring Fireball reports that Sony Projects have recorded a US$3 Billion loss, and Nokia profits have dropped 69%.
Obama’s staff faced with White House Windows dark age
Sunday, January 25th, 2009Apparently Obama’s staffers (being hip Mac kind of folks 
are faced with White House PC’s running 6 year old versions of Windows.
I wonder if anyone’s at Apple’s rung him about doing an iPhone deal on the presidential crackberry yet?
Apple censoring iTunes music store metadata
Friday, January 23rd, 2009It seems that Apple have gone through and placed asterisks in some ‘offensive’ words (like w*g, a*s, but not apparently nigger) .The ABC’s “Spicks and Specks” is now apparently “Sp***s and Specks”. Including, in the case of Futurama, the name of the robot “Bender” (because it encourages irresponsible drinking?). Report on News.com.au
Bender censored to B****r in the iTunes store
Maybe they’re worried that under Australia’s censored internet nobody will be able to buy iTunes?
Note of course that Apple are still happy for you to pay them money to purchase items that are too dangerous for you to see the name of.
Outsources your Photoshop paths
Sunday, January 18th, 2009Can’t colour within the lines? You can outsource Photoshop path creation to Deepetch.
Debugging Apache2
Thursday, January 15th, 2009If you need to kick off Apache2 in debug mode (so you could for example try to work out why mod_perl is not doing its thing to let you run awstats), you may find this blog entry by Mark Liyanage quite useful.
Free Mac First Person Shooters
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009xkcd does MacWorld
Friday, January 9th, 2009The latest xkcd comic addresses Steve Jobs absence from the MacWorld keynote. Make sure you checkout the rollover tooltip
Using HFS+ disk quotas
Thursday, January 8th, 2009Check out this page at securecomputing.net if you need to enable disk quotas on HFS+ volumes.
MacWorld 2009
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009So, to kick off 2009 most interestingly to me we have
- 17 inch unibody MacBook Pros with optional glossy screens (for an extra US$50), with a built-in (ie non-removable) 8-hour battery that apparently lasts 1000 cycles before dropping to 80% capacity (as opposed to some 300 or so for existing laptop batteries
- iPhoto ‘09 with face detection and recognition (used for both creating albums of people and ensuring the slideshow doesn’t crop out faces), geotagging, Google Maps and support for uploading to MobileMe, flickr and FaceBook (including tagging people with their FaceBook info). Also themed slideshows and maps in printed books. I hope FaceBook are ready for the onslaught
- Dropping of iTunes DRM, with your existing songs ‘upgradable’ to DRM free for US$0.30 each as they become available
- iwork.com
- “Learn to play” music instruction for guitar and piano in GarageBand
BTW, has anyone else noticed the spoonerism that gives you Schil Philler?
