UPDATE: This video has been taken down from YouTube,
There is a version of it on the Mac site here (.mov) and there are two similar ads on this page on the Apple site.
Tag: osx
“An operating system has never had parental control features before”
Bill Gates came out with this incredible statement two and a half minutes into the following interview on NBC
http://www.youtube.com/v/BO1pvWUELIUReally Bill? So how do you explain this screenshot of the built-in Parental Controls on my Mac?
There have been Parental Controls on the Mac for at least three years now (that I can remember, possibly longer).
Bill, two possible explanations come to mind. Either you don’t know your competition or you feel the need to lie about your new product. Neither is a particularly satisfactory situation.
Keychain is a fabulous application which comes as standard on every Mac. It is the program which stores all your passwords for you.
For me, it has proven to be a lifesaver time and time again. I have more passwords for more sites than I have hairs on my head (not that that’d be very difficult!). I have systems in place to try to help me remember passwords but I frequently find myself staring at the login screen of a website with no idea what password (or username) I chose for the site.
This is where Keychain comes into its own. Launch it from Applications -> Utilities, search for the website, click the Show Password tick box. You are prompted to enter your login ID for your Mac, on doing so successfully, your password appears – brilliant!
It looks like Apple have decided to make it easy to install Windows on your Mac with their Beta release of their new Boot Camp product. You can download a public beta today and try it out if you have an Intel based Mac and are running the latest version of OS X (10.4.6). This functionality will be included as standard in the next version of OS X – codenamed Leopard.
Once you’ve completed Boot Camp, simply hold down the option key at startup to choose between Mac OS X and Windows. (That’s the “alt� key for you longtime Windows users.) After starting up, your Mac runs Windows completely natively. Simply restart to come back to Mac.
I have to question – who really wants this? Seriously, why would you want to run XP on your Mac? I have XP Pro and Virtual PC installed on my Mac and I can’t remember the last time I ran it – and its functionality is waaaay better than the dual boot is going to be because with Virtual PC, you run the two OSes simultaneously, you can share disk, use a shared clipboard and swap between the two OSes as easily as switching between any two running apps – no re-start required.
This probably means Riya will never come out with their loooooong promised Mac uploader now!!!
I have written about Riya here several times recently and it seems that it will be a very cool application.
I am one of the lucky ones selected to be an alpha tested of Riya but unfortunately that doesn’t do much for me because I am Mac based and the uploader for Riya is Windows only (for now, I am assured by Tara Hunt – Riya’s top evangelist). Fine, I can handle the delay – it is annoying but you come to expect it.
However, what really stuck in my throat was when I received an email from Riya this morning saying:
If you have the digital photoset and time for this testing, we will thank you by either a digital camera or if you prefer, a cash payment as follows:
1000-2000 pictures: $120
2000-3000 pictures: $150
3000+ pictures: $200
That’s great – except for the fact that as a Mac user I can’t participate in this offer – this offer is being made exclusively to Windows testers – Mac testers are being excluded by virtue of the fact that there is no Mac uploader and so no way for them to upload our 1000+ pics.
Shame on you Riya.