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in the wee hoursTranslated site that gives a good recap of all Steve Jobs Keynotes.
Translated version of http://apfelwiki.de/wiki/Main/SteveNotes: “”
Archive for at around evening time
-image-Santa Software: Products – MainMenu OS X (intel)
in the wee hoursSanta Software: Products – MainMenu OS X: “MainMenu is an easy-to-use menubar item that allows you to run a large set of Mac OS X maintenance, cleaning and optimization tasks.”
-image-DVD compression: DVD2OneX2 vs Dragon Flix
in the wee hours
There are 2- 3 options of compressing your DVD's so they will fit on a standard single layer DVD. Popcorn (included in Toast 7), DVD2OneX2, and Dragon Flix from the makers of Dragon burn.
Here we review the last two. At $55.00 (DVD2OneX2 ) and $45.00 (NTI Dragon Flix) CDN, they both have the option to burn the resulting compressed Video_TS folder to a DVD. They both also allow the formation of an image file to be burned with your choice of burning software. Flix saves in .iso and DVD2OneX2 saves Read more [...]
-image-Microsoft to compete with iPod?
in the wee hours
The Bug in Microsoft's Ear: "After getting trounced for four years in the digital music business by Apple Computer (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT) finally seems poised to do something about it. BusinessWeek has learned that the software giant is working on plans to develop its own portable digital media device to rival the iPod, rather than just providing technology to partners."
(Via BuisinessWeek.) Read more [...]
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in the wee hoursNewsFire Now Universal Binary: “The RSS news reader, NewsFire, was updated to version 1.3 on Thursday, adding Universal Binary (UB) support as well as several other new features
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(Via The Mac Observer.)
-image-Add a proper set of Canadian holidays to iCal
in the wee hoursAdd a proper set of Canadian holidays to iCal: “I was trying to add Canadian holidays to my iCal, but all I found was the Apple version, which was missing Easter, St-Jean-Baptiste, and had the wrong Family Day, and a very old hint which didn’t work anymore.
So I started w…”
(Via Mac OS X Hints.)
-image-Apple Not Answering to Audio Flaws In Latest PowerBook
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Apple Not Answering to Audio Flaws In Latest PowerBook: "Anyone who owns the most-recent high-resolution PowerBook G4 (and that would be the LAST PowerBook, folks!) are experiencing a defect with their system's audio. At apparently random intervals, audio from the system starts looping for about five seconds with increasing volume. This Apple Discussion thread was the first time any documentation of the issue appeared, and was followed later by an official (albeit unhelpful) response from Apple. Read more [...]
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in the wee hoursChronos announces Universal versions of entire product line | MacMinute News: “Chronos announces Universal versions of entire product line”
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in the wee hoursMacworld: Review: Pages 2: “Pages 2
New version of word processing and page-layout app fixes bugs and adds features”
-image-Album Art Widget for Dashboard | liquidx
in the wee hours
Album Art Widget for Dashboard | liquidx: "A fast and compact album art and song rating displaying widget. It displays the album cover art of songs playing in iTunes. It can automatically fetch album art from internet sources and save them to iTunes. Additionally, you can jump easily to the iTunes Music Store page of the current playing song or artist, rate your songs with a single click and pause/skip/play songs without opening the iTunes window." Read more [...]
-image-Running Open OSX on an Intel Core Duo with Windows 98
in the wee hours
Virtual PC is not available yet for the Intel platform of Apple's new products so I thought I'd give Open OSX WinTel 2.0.1 which is optimized for the intel chip a try.
Installing Windows 98 is straight forward as indicated on their website, but the actual install time takes about 2-3 hours.
The intel chip is pretty cool as I was ripping some cd's at the same time so the actual install time might be less.
Once completed I was greeted with the standard Win98 desktop. My bluetooth mouse and Read more [...]
-image-Running Open OSX on an Intel Core Duo with Windows 98
in the wee hours
Virtual PC is not available yet for the Intel platform of Apple's new products so I though I'd give Open OSX WinTel 2.0.1 which is optimized for the intel chip a try.
Installing Windows 98 is straight forward as indicated on their website, but the actual install time takes about 2-3 hours.
The intel chip is pretty cool as I was ripping some cd's at the same time so the actual install time might be less.
Once completed I was greeted with the standard Win98 desktop. My bluetooth mouse and keyboard Read more [...]
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in the wee hoursTorvald rejects GPL3 for Linux – vnunet.com:
Linux founder Linus Torvalds has spoken out against the proposed changes in
the forthcoming version 3 of the general public license (GPL) that governs the
operating system.
-image-BetaNews | Firefox 2.0 Alpha, MacTel Version Soon
in the wee hours
BetaNews | Firefox 2.0 Alpha, MacTel Version Soon: "Firefox 2.0 Alpha, MacTel Version Soon
By Ed Oswald, BetaNews
January 16, 2006, 1:24 PM
Mozilla plans to have an early alpha version of Firefox 2.0 in users hands by February, with builds of Firefox, Camino and Thunderbird for Macs running on Intel processors available the following month, recent statements from company developers indicate."
(Via .) Read more [...]
-image-2 good Children games for teaching mouse skills
in the wee hoursCheck them out LadyBugs & YooDoo
from Midori
