How high can you go? New price frontiers in the Mac Pro
Jason Kottke points to a tweet from Jake Dobkin that asks the question: i just configured a single 8-core mac pro to $26,820.90— can anyone get a more expensive one than that? In case you hadn't heard, Apple just released...
Tags: apple · mac pro · pricing · xserve
Posted by Daniel Stout on January 8, 2008 8:37 PM · Permalink
Apple AirPort Express frees your music
A few years ago, I received an Apple AirPort Express as a gift. Few devices have changed my listening habits so radically (the other one I can think of is my iPod). Anyway, the AirPort Express is a really...
Tags: airport express · apple · digital audio · toslink · wireless
Posted by Daniel Stout on December 12, 2007 10:00 PM · Permalink
Steve Jobs / George W Bush mashup
Here's a hilarious video from MadTV that asks the question: what if Steve Jobs were George W Bush?...
Tags: apple · george w bush · iran · iraq · steve jobs
Posted by Daniel Stout on July 5, 2007 10:34 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: I got my iPhone today (29/30)
29 June 2007 I got my iPhone todayby Daniel R Stout I got my iPhone today. I opened up the box and the pod was inside. I carefully slide my hand into the pod – and I must say there...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · apple · butterfly · iphone · poem · poetry
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 29, 2007 7:38 PM · Permalink
Walt Mossberg weighs in on the iPhone: A slam dunk
Apple can officially start printing their own money. Walt Mossberg has released his views on the world yet again, and from the lips of Walt it's clear: the iPhone is a slam dunk. You can read his full review of...
Tags: apple · iphone · money · shareholders · walt mossberg
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 26, 2007 10:15 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: The Way (19/30)
19 June 2007 The Wayby Daniel R Stout Technology has replaced religion as the cornerstone of people's lives. Technology saves the lives of sinners who don't know how to spend money. It's googlelust for the latest. Instead of the asceticism...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · apple · dell · iphone · poem · poetry
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 19, 2007 12:31 PM · Permalink
Apple’s Safari browser on Windows: First Report
Apple today released a beta version of their Safari browser for Windows. It's apparently a very beta beta. The screen above is what Safari is showing on my Windows XP SP2 box. Not a whole lot -- it's a...
Tags: apple · beta · blank · error · problems · safari · web browser
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 11, 2007 7:55 PM · Permalink
30 Poems in 30 Days: My iPhone died today (5/30)
5 June 2007 My iPhone died todayby Daniel R Stout My iPhone died today, and for that I am glad. I don't need its habit of ringing at inappropriate times. The world is in order and I am at peace...
Tags: 30 poems in 30 days · apple · iphone · poetry · rubbish
Posted by Daniel Stout on June 5, 2007 9:30 PM · Permalink
iTunes Plus: A work in progress?
I downloaded the new Apple iTunes version 7.2 tonight. I wanted to check out iTunes Plus, which is the new area of the iTunes Music Store that has unprotected songs at a higher bitrate available to download. This morning, I...
Tags: aac · apple · errors · itunes · itunes plus · lily allen · nick cave · stuck
Posted by Daniel Stout on May 30, 2007 7:56 PM · Permalink
Mac and PC
Laurie McGuinness has some amusing takes on the Mac / PC divide. They're spoofs of the Apple commercials you may have seen on TV with PC played by a middle aged man and Mac by a young guy. In these...
Tags: advertisements · apple · laurie mcguinness · mac · mac vs pc · pc · quicktime
Posted by Daniel Stout on March 4, 2007 2:31 AM · Permalink
Thoughts on Music
A lot has been written about Steve Jobs' shot across the bow of the music industry. If you haven't read them, Mr. Jobs' Thoughts on Music are on the Apple website. He envisions a world where DRM is no more....
Tags: apple · cd · dmca · drm · dvd · steve jobs
Posted by Daniel Stout on February 11, 2007 9:27 AM · Permalink
Gracenote getting better with classical
When we open a CD in iTunes, iTunes will automatically check an online database for the song and artist information. This database of metadata makes our lives easier by removing the need for a lot of data entry when we're...
Tags: apple · cddb · freedb · gracenote · itunes
Posted by Daniel Stout on January 19, 2007 6:54 AM · Permalink
It’s all a matter of timing: Apple releases Core 2 Duo MacBooks
Recently, Apple refreshed it's Intel-line MacBook Pro laptops with the second generation Core 2 Duo chips. That meant that refreshed MacBooks (a less expensive line than the Pro models) couldn't be far behind. I was surprised when a little over...
Tags: apple · core 2 duo · core duo · macbook
Posted by Daniel Stout on November 9, 2006 8:39 AM · Permalink
Get the desktop of the future now with Xgl and Compiz
Ever since I installed SUSE Linux 10.1, I've heard rumblings from here and there about something cool called Xgl. I wondered what all the buzz was about. It had something to do with translucency, effects, spinning cubes. Well, I installed...
Tags: apple · ati · chris brown · compiz · linux · nvidia · opengl · opensuse · suse · suse linux · transparency · xgl
Posted by Daniel Stout on September 14, 2006 8:23 PM · Permalink
Podcasting & RSS 2.0: FeedBurner no more
Well, we've completely broken away from using FeedBurner for our RSS feeds here. The last remaining feed, Manufactured Podcasts, I brought back in house recently. The thing is that I knew FeedBurner had offered some capabilities for enhancing the RSS...
Tags: apple · feedburner · feeds · itunes · movable type · podcasting · rss
Posted by Daniel Stout on August 28, 2006 6:29 AM · Permalink
OpenDarwin shuts down: Mac OS X still proprietary
When Apple first released Mac OS X in 2000, they had the goal of seeding the operating system in open source style. The Darwin project released, and continues to release, the foundations for Mac OS X under an open source...
Tags: apple · darwin · linux · mac os x · monopoly · open source · opendarwin · winmac
Posted by Daniel Stout on July 25, 2006 9:25 PM · Permalink
Boot Camp beta is released
Rumors had been swirling for a few months that Apple was going to release their dual-boot solution for running Mac OS X and Windows XP on the new Intel-based Macs. Well, the blogosphere is all a twitter this morning....
Tags: apple · beta · boot camp · dual-boot · intelmac · mac os x · microsoft · winxp
Posted by Daniel Stout on April 5, 2006 9:37 AM · Permalink
Apple celebrates 30 years
On April 1st, 1976, began a computer company like no other. It was the dawn of Apple. I was in the fourth grade on December 25, 1981, when my family got its first computer, an Apple II+. That was...
Tags: 30th · a-ux · anniversary · apple · apple computer · frog design · ii+ · mac os x · steve jobs
Posted by Daniel Stout on April 1, 2006 7:27 AM · Permalink
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