Category: Mac

  • Mighty Mouse dissected

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    There’s a great post on Ars Technica on a dissection of Apple’s new Mighty Mouse. The authors, Jacqui Cheng and Clint Eckers, do a complete technical dissection of the mouse explaining what each part of the Mighty Mouse is and include some great photos and diagrams of its internals. This all adds to the hype…

  • Apple finally deliver a functional mouse

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    Apple have today launched a new mouse, dubbed the Mighty Mouse – no, honestly, you couldn’t make that up! The Mighty Mouse looks like the current one-button mouse Mac has been famous (and famously criticised for) for so long, but this mouse has: touch-sensitive technology under Mighty Mouse’s seamless top shell detect where you’re clicking,…

  • Start.com

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    Microsoft’s Start.com is a very pleasant departure – it has a very simple, clean design and, though still in beta, works well in Firefox (though not in Safari)! That in itself is unusual for a Microsoft application. Start.com is an RSS aggregator (similar to Bloglines) with an AJAX interface so it is fast. Click on…

  • Tiger updated to 10.4.2

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    Mac OSX 10.4.2 Update has been released and is available via Software Update According to Apple: The 10.4.2 Update delivers overall improved reliability and compatibility for Mac OS X v10.4 and is recommended for all users. It includes fixes for: file sharing using AFP and SMB/CIFS network file services single sign-on authentication and reliable access…

  • Test post from WordPressDash

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    This is a test post from WordPressDash – WordPressDash is a Dashboard widget for Mac OS X 10.4 (a.k.a Tiger) which allows you to create and upload posts for your WordPress blog from the Dashboard. In theory this is very cool – and it looks very cool, but in practice, it lacks a lot of…

  • Apple releases (Podcasting enabled) iTunes 4.9

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    Apple have released iTunes 4.9 – a PodCasting enabled version of iTunes – see here for more or download from here (or through Software Update if you are lucky enough to own a Mac!).

  • Apple to use Pentium M as first Intel inside chip

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    I see where eWeek are reporting that Apple’s first Intel chip may be a new Intel Pentium M code named Yonah – due out early 2006. According to the eWeek article, the Yonah will be manufactured using its forthcoming 65-nanometer process, will receive a number of tweaks aimed at boosting performance and power management capabilities,…

  • Steve Jobs wwdc keynote now online

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    Steve jobs keynote to Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco has been put up on the Apple website – it is an hour long but worth watching, if only to see Intel CEO Paul Otellini bounce onstage and hug Steve Jobs (who clearly wasn’t expecting such familiarity!). It is also interesting to see the…