Category: Mac

  • Netvibes.com trounces Start.com!

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have complained, both here and on the Start.com blog, about Start.com’s stubborn refusal to support the Mac platform – this is a short-sighted move on Microsoft’s part as they appear simply to be “preaching to the converted” rather than trying to win new customers. In any case, it didn’t matter too much for me,…

  • iTunes 5.01 released

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    Apple have just released the latest version of their iTunes software – iTunes 5.01 According to Software Update: iTunes 5 features a new even more powerful instant search, including the new Search Bar which helps you find exactly what you are looking for in iTunes or from among 2 million songs on the Music Store,…

  • Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 released

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    I see Mozilla have released Firefox 1.5 Beta 1. According to the Release Notes here’s what’s new in this release: Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Firefox may now be half a megabyte or smaller. Updating extensions has also improved. Faster browser navigation with improvements…

  • RAZR + Nano beats ROKR

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    I love this – Bernie has a great suggestion on the iTunes phone front – glue an iTunes Nano to a Motorola RAZR and you get looks, functionality and price way better than the Motorola ROKR (The ROKR is the new iTunes phone launched by Motorola in conjunction with Apple)! Brilliant!

  • Google start releasing Mac OS X native apps

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    Speaking of the Mac platform, I mentioned Google’s lack of a Mac client for Google Talk yesterday. Then today I read on the Google Blog that Google have released a native mac notifier for Gmail and further, they say that: Though this is the first, it won’t be the last native Mac application that Google…

  • Start.com updates but still ignores Mac

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    Start.com announced on their blog that they have released a new version of their portal site – this time simply at start.com and no longer at start.com/3/ – a sensible, if overdue, move. The rest of the updates to the portal are: feed read/unread support more/fewer headlines auto-refresh for feeds many improvemens on: look and…

  • Mac OS X hacked to run on PCs

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    Wired.com are running a story which says that: Hackers have found a way to bypass a chip designed to prevent the Mac OS from running on non-Apple PCs, which are often cheaper than Macs …. The hacked version of OSx86 is based on pirated software, which came from copies of the operating system sent to…

  • Start.com updated, I believe

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    Tom Raftery
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    Start.com’s blog announced several updates to the site yesterday – roaming profiles and changes to the sidebar – that’s all very well if you can see the site but being on a Mac I can’t tell you how they affect the Start.com experience as the Start.com site is not Mac friendly. Of course, we shouldn’t…