1. 01 May 2006

    890 days ago

    Apple - Get a Mac - Watch The TV Ads

    I’ve been in league with apple since I was in 3rd grade, and love them more than ever. Cute new ads. But I must admit, it’s hard for me to let go of my elitism – I don’t think I could deal with the all jonses using apple hardware. I guess there are two sides to every coin.

    via Kjell Olsen890 days ago

  2. 05 April 2006

    916 days ago

    Apple - Boot Camp

    Wowie wow wow wow wow:

    More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp (for now), you can download a public beta today.

    via Kjell Olsen916 days ago

  3. 21 March 2006

    931 days ago

    The Mighty Red Mouse

    Apple’s newest mice project a mouse when lifted up a bit. That my friends, is why apple is the coolest.

    via Kjell Olsen931 days ago

  4. 09 March 2006

    Powerbook at 7 months

    944 days ago

    I’ve had my powerbook since last july, and it’s getting well worn. I love it, and I’m surprised I hadn’t already capitulated and really done a good job of cleaning it. I’m usually pretty anal about stuff like that.

    But tonight I got a nice rag (Scotch Brite, High Performance Cloth) wet it, and wiped ambrose down real good. Feels great – a whole layer of dinge is gone, the whole thing has a real slick clean feeling.

    The powerbook is holding up well, save to the right of the mouse button and under the arrows. You can tell there’s a bit of peeling going on, but I’m doing better then Jon Hicks.

    Now I just need to get some really cool stuff going on the inside of the powerbook – I have a few neat projects, but nothing in a releasable state, and only a few beyond the man it would be cool stage. I’m looking to have a breadwinning project out the door real soon, and open up time for some cool playing and realizing of the ideas swimming around in my head right now.

  5. 01 March 2006

    951 days ago

    YouTube - microsoft ipod packaging parody

    I figured that this was parody, in which case it’s worth a look, but I wasn’t going to go and elevate it to post on my blog status. But it’s an actual internal MS project, which makes it completely hilarious. Plebs.

    via Kjell Olsen951 days ago

  6. 26 January 2006

    986 days ago

    [Steve Jobs] continued, “You know, I’ve been thinking about it. How many people are going to be using the Macintosh? A million? No, more than that. In a few years, I bet five million people will be booting up their Macintoshes at least once a day.”

    “Well, let’s say you can shave 10 seconds off of the boot time. Multiply that by five million users and thats 50 million seconds, every single day. Over a year, that’s probably dozens of lifetimes. So if you make it boot ten seconds faster, you’ve saved a dozen lives. That’s really worth it, don’t you think?”

    Andy Hertzfeld

  7. 20 January 2006

    Airport Express

    991 days ago

    I got one for christmas, it’s real neat.

    But here’s what I want it to be able to do: put any device plugged into its USB port up on the network and available to all comers (optionally password protected) like it was a normal wired USB device plugged right in.

    I wouldn’t need to be wired to my external HD all the time, and would love life that much more. Goodnight.

    A few days later: I just got my hands on the new AE firmware, and it lets you listen on multiple speakers. So I have iTunes going both from my laptop and the stereo behind, it’s a nice deal.

  8. 11 December 2005

    1031 days ago

    Think Different
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  9. 28 November 2005

    1044 days ago

    This stuff is absolutely the greatest ever

    [OS X is] The Who playing live at Leeds, where Windows is your kid’s middle-school class playing “Jingle Bells” on the recorder. Andy Ihnatko

    via Kjell Olsen1044 days ago

  10. 29 October 2005

    1074 days ago

    ongoing • New Mac

    ...as soon as there’s some x64-based meat-grinder running Solaris that turns on instantly after sleep and and anti-aliases well and Just Works with whatever wifi, and doesn’t make me download drivers to do basic stuff, I may be outta here.

    When pigs fly, Mr. Bray.

    via Kjell Olsen1074 days ago

  11. 22 October 2005

    iPhoto needs to be able to reduce photo size in place

    1081 days ago

    I can’t tell you how much I want iPhoto to be able to scale a set of my pictures so that they are all under 5MB so I can upload them to flickr. I imported, titled, and tagged them, and I don’t want to have to export them and cut their dimensions in half to get them under flickr’s limit. Plus, how hard can it be to just tell iPhoto to make this photo under 5MB? There’s a lot of guesswork in just whittling away pixels.

  12. 18 October 2005

    1085 days ago

    How Apple Does It

    Go apple go. I’ve pledged allegiance to you ever since I’ve had an allegiance to pledge. You could rule the world way better then google.

    via Kjell Olsen1085 days ago

  13. 10 October 2005

    1093 days ago

    iPod with Inverted Screen

    The black nano looks spectacularly badass, even more so with a dark interface on screen.

    Kjell Olsen1093 days ago

  14. 07 October 2005

    1096 days ago

    403 Forbidden

    http://apple.com/movies – next wednesday?

    via Kjell Olsen1096 days ago

  15. 05 October 2005

    1098 days ago

    BBC accidentally reveals video iPod? - Engadget - www.engadget.com

    Video iPod a week from today?

    via Kjell Olsen1098 days ago

  16. 07 September 2005

    1126 days ago

    Apple Special Event 2005 - a photoset on Flickr

    Photos of Apples unveiling of the ipod nano and moto rockr. The nano is just sweet!

    via Kjell Olsen1126 days ago

  17. 06 September 2005

    1127 days ago

    To Tiger or Not To Tiger

    I’ve enjoyed tiger, but haven’t scratched the surface of Spotlight or Smart folders:

    When I get a bunch of files from a client, I run a quick little Automation or Automator Action or whatever to “tag” the files. Then I set up a Smart Folder to collect all files with those tags, in addition to files containing contact names. I end up with these neat little folders that collect everything related to a project: files, versions, e-mails, vCards, and even bookmarks and typefaces. I used to spend way too much time collecting and organizing files into neat little hierarchies. Now I just dump everything into a “To Be Filed” folder that I clean out once a month. (Spotlight and Smart Folders help here, as well. It takes a few hours once a month to clean up than an hour every couple days or so.) electrospeck

    via Kjell Olsen1127 days ago

  18. 22 July 2005

    Powerbook Neverball

    1173 days ago

    I almost figured it was common knowledge, but it’s sinfully easy to set up Neverball on your Powerbook. And especially rewarding if you own a new model – one with Apples Sudden Motion Sensor built in to prevent hard disk damage from falls and the like.

  19. 20 July 2005

    1175 days ago

    Apple - QuickTime - HD Gallery - wildlifeHD Reel

    Who doesn’t love nature photography. Plus you get to see Quicktime’s H.264 in action, and it is slick.

    via Kjell Olsen1175 days ago

  20. 01 July 2005

    It's Here!

    1194 days ago

    The last six days have been easily the most agonizing of my life – I’ve been compulsively checking the shipping info on my powerbook, jumping up and running to the window whenever I hear a truck rumbling nearby, and anticipating the arrival of this guy like nothing else. But it came!

  21. 30 June 2005

    1195 days ago

    Apple - Education - Back to School

    If I waited a day or two to buy my powerbook I could’ve had a free mini iPod! Bummer. Maybe if I call customer support. I ordered on the 25, this came to be yesterday, the 28. My brother has a birthday coming up and if it was free…

    via Kjell Olsen1195 days ago

  22. 19 June 2005

    1206 days ago

    irock.mov

    Real life silhouette dancing with an iPod in an Apple store.

    via Kjell Olsen1206 days ago

  23. 16 June 2005

    1209 days ago

    eBay - PowerBook G4 667 MHz or more 12 Apple Laptops Finder

    Wanted: used apple powerbook, 867mhz or higher. Airport a must, bluetooth would rock.

    As much as I’d like to have one brand new, with apple switching away from ppc I figure I get a cheaper used one to hold me out a few years until something really sweet comes around. And I’m dirt poor, so the price of a used powerbook should be around half of a new one.

    Kjell Olsen1209 days ago

  24. 15 June 2005

    1210 days ago

    mekentosj.com | Modern Cubism

    A CT scan of the Apple Design Award trophy, wow, apple rocks so hard.

    via Kjell Olsen1210 days ago

  25. 09 June 2005

    1216 days ago

    Mac Rumors: Pentium M and Yonah Processors in Upcoming Macs?

    I was going to buy a computer this fall for college (and it was going to be a powerbook g5, but apple went off and ruined that dream), but now I’m holding off for one of these:

    More details of the Yonah chip can be found in this article. Yonah will reportedly be the first mobile dual-core processor as well as the first processor manufactured in the 65-nm process.

    A little more on the Yonah

    Either a Mac Mini or a used (i|power)book somewhere on ebay will have to put my through my freshman year. I’m not new to having an old computer either, for the last five years I’ve been on an iMac g3 600.

    via Kjell Olsen1216 days ago

  26. 1216 days ago

    PBS | I, Cringely . June 9, 2005 - Going for Broke

    Could Apple befriending intel be more then we all think?

    Enter Apple. This isn’t a story about Intel gaining another three percent market share at the expense of IBM, it is about Intel taking back control of the desktop from Microsoft.

    So Intel buys Apple and works with their OEMs to get products out in the market. The OEMs would love to be able to offer a higher margin product with better reliability than Microsoft. Intel/Apple enters the market just as Microsoft announces yet another delay in their next generation OS. By the way, the new Apple OS for the Intel Architecture has a compatibility mode with Windows (I’m just guessing on this one).

    This just keeps getting more exciting.

    via Kjell Olsen1216 days ago

  27. 08 June 2005

    1217 days ago

    Picking up the pieces: John Siracusa mourns the Power PC : Page 1

    What really happened?

    Jobs wasn’t a fan of IBM, they didn’t meet his expectations – and partly because they’ve nettet big contracts for game consoles.

    For a “visionary” CEO of an innovative company, nothing’s worse than having your fortunes tied to another company. If you’re a bit of a control freak, it’s even worse. If you’re Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, you can hardly contain your seething resentment.

    Apple has always used exotic chips, and not the conservative widely used chips. That had upsides, being apple could tailor the chips it used to its specific needs, but downsides too:

    Apple’s been hit by the downsides too, of course. Fewer resources behind each CPU line can mean higher prices, technical stagnation, and CPUs that are not designed primarily to meet Apple’s needs. So here we are at the end of that road. It was a valiant effort, but Apple has thrown in the towel.

    Q: Will future Macs use Pentium 4 CPUs like Apple’s x86 developer kit announced today?
    A: Probably not. I expect Apple to start with Intel’s next generation of multi-core CPUs. Hannibal will have more to say about this issue.

    Q: Is Microsoft worried that every Windows user is suddenly a potential Mac OS X user if Apple ever decides to give up or de-emphasize its hardware business?
    A: You bet your ass they are. Don’t believe the hype. Microsoft worries about everything, and this is more than a little blip on their radar.

    If all goes as planned, the Mac platform will be stronger in a couple of years than it is today. (Who knows, maybe Doom 4 will even get decent frame-rates.) I’ll buy a multi-core, multi-CPU x86-64 Mac and I’ll like it because it’ll be fast, good-looking, and it’ll run Mac OS X. But I’ll still think of what might have been…and what someday might be again. Call me a hopeless romantic. I’ll miss the PowerPC.

    via Kjell Olsen1217 days ago

  28. 1217 days ago

    The Cult of Mac Blog

    Apple switched to intel to humor Hollywood over DRM’d content.

    Apple—or rather, Hollywood—wants the Pentium D to secure an online movie store (iFlicks if you will), that will allow consumers to buy or rent new movies on demand, over the Internet.

    In the PC industry, Apple lost the productivity/office era to Microsoft, but it’s trying to get the jump on the next big thing: the entertainment/creativity era, and it’s going to drag it users, even if they’re kicking and screaming, with it.

    via Kjell Olsen1217 days ago

  29. 07 June 2005

    Bummer

    1218 days ago

    I almost got a job at the apple store! Now I’m pissed that I didn’t. Oh well.

  30. 06 June 2005

    1219 days ago

    WWDC 2005 - Live Coverage of Keynote || The Mac Observer

    Wow. Wow. Wow.

    Rosetta will allow PowerPC compiled apps to work on an Intel Mac. It’s completely transparent, and does not require a separate emulation environment.

    I don’t know whether to love or to hate apple – on one hand, intel could probably make chips just as well as IBM – but to get my hopes up like that for a G5 powerbook… And then just snatching it back from me! I don’t know what I’ll do now, I was looking to get a laptop for this summer, but I don’t want a G4 now that apple has an entirely new processor.

    via Kjell Olsen1219 days ago

  31. 05 June 2005

    1220 days ago

    Daring Fireball: Intel-Apple Odds and Ends

    It strikes me as not-outlandish that this was a planned leak. Friday afternoon, three days before the start of WWDC — what better time to ignite widespread interest in the keynote address? On Friday morning, no one was talking about WWDC; by Friday night, everyone was.

    Gruber has one dollar on Intel producing powerpc chips for apple. But this story is really out of hand.

    via Kjell Olsen1220 days ago

  32. 13 May 2005

    1243 days ago

    The macosxhints Forums - 10.3.9 broke my hdiutil-based backup script!

    Here’s a bitch – the logic board failed on my mom’s ibook and I was supposed to take it in and ship it off to apple today, but I can’t get the drive imaged. And it’s because there is a bug in the 10.3.9 update that I held off installing until last night, just so that in case there were any bugs that I didn’t want to have to deal with… thanks murph.

    The problem seems to come from a bug in the Disk Utilities framework that was updated with 10.3.9. This brought the version of Disk Utility up to 10.4.4 from 10.4.3. The bug occurs if the source volume you try to create is over 8Gb. Creating a image from this drive will guarantee failure regardless if you try to do a compressed or uncompressed image.

    Kjell Olsen1243 days ago

  33. 18 April 2005

    1268 days ago

    TextDrive Community Forum / Anyone else getting an iPod shuffle?

    I guess apple made the iPod shuffle waterproof – at least washing machine proof. Wow.

    Kjell Olsen1268 days ago

  34. 29 March 2005

    1288 days ago

    Return of the Mac

    Paul Graham on why macs kick ass these days.

    And open and good is what Macs are again, finally. The intervening years have created a situation that is, as far as I know, without precedent: Apple is popular at the low end and the high end, but not in the middle. My seventy year old mother has a Mac laptop. My friends with PhDs in computer science have Mac laptops. [2] And yet Apple’s overall market share is still small.
    Though unprecedented, I predict this situation is also temporary.

    via Kjell Olsen1288 days ago

  35. 06 March 2005

    1311 days ago

    apples powerbook (4 March 2005, Interconnected)

    Hack up the new powerbooks accelerometers, to do cool stuff with your software! This could turn into some real fun.

    via Kjell Olsen1311 days ago

  36. 15 February 2005

    1330 days ago

    Mule Design Feed Store | CephaliPod

    I need a new iPod case, and this cute little octo might just be the ticker.

    via Kjell Olsen1330 days ago

  37. 22 January 2005

    1354 days ago

    PBS | I, Cringely . Archived Column

    Mac Mini planned to bring apple video into living rooms over broadband. The idea of apple breaking into video over broadband was argued a few weeks ago at themacmind, although it’s almost impossible to read and jumps too much and must have been written by a 12 year old.

    via Kjell Olsen1354 days ago

  38. 21 January 2005

    1355 days ago

    Configuring and Running X11 Applications on Mac OS X

    A nice guide to get Apple’s X Window server up and running. I had X11 installed before I wiped my drive to upgrade to panther, but ought to put it back in there. I miss kismet and OpenOffice!

    via Kjell Olsen1355 days ago

  39. 20 January 2005

    1356 days ago

    Apple Pro Keyboard Shuffle

    I don’t care what comes next either… I don’t want visual feedback!

    Funny bit, but I do believe the iPod Shuffle will be a smashing success, I just already have a real iPod and don’t feel the need to downgrade.

    via Kjell Olsen1356 days ago

  40. 08 January 2005

    1368 days ago

    'iHome' pictures and video

    iHome? Looks like some guy snuck into an elevator and stole some pictures of a new apple box… or photoshop. I guess we’ll see on tuesday.

    via Kjell Olsen1368 days ago

  41. 26 October 2004

    1442 days ago

    Apple - iPod Photo

    The coolest new kid on the apple block in awhile. Big color screen, 15 wonderful hours of battery life and the ability to browse and display photos via a TV screen! Go apple go! And you can even see the art from your songs as they play… I bet there are some killer games on this thing!

    via Kjell Olsen1442 days ago

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