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I saw one of the newest Apple ads last night, which featured the PC trying to figure out which version of Windows Vista he should install. I’ll admit: it was as funny as all the others, which is to say that I and the two other Microsofties I was w...
Even though it may not seem like it, I’ve been working feverishly on iRooster here in Chimp Software Headquarters (aka the Starbucks down the street, my couch, and Helen’s couch) ever since I released v2.4 back in January. The Sad story of 2.4.3 ...
Charles Petzold, tha doggfather of Windows programming, published a few choice words about how Macs “just worked” back in December: On Apple's home page, the most important information they deemed necessary to convey to me was that I needed QuickT...
As I predicted on the 31st, Apple just announced the iPhone, and boy howdy is it ever sweet. I want one but, as I suspected, it totally lacks integration with Exchange. Most business users will probably yawn and go back to their Blackberries (even...
Apple Gazette, a heretofore unknown Mac rumors site, claims that Apple will replace Aqua with a new look-and-feel codenamed Illuminous in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, scheduled for release sometime in 2007. The conjecture states that: What will Illumin...
Chimp Software has released iRooster 2.2, the alarm clock for Mac OS X. To celebrate, they are offering an iPod Nano (PRODUCT)RED edition to one lucky customer. This update features full Intel compatibility as a Universal Binary, updates to its ea...
Steven Levy has one of the most sycophantic and interesting articles about the iPod I’ve ever read up on Wired this month. The article sheds light on a number of interesting and new-to-me aspects of the iPod’s creation, like this anecdote about po...
One of my favorite Mac apps in the whole wide world is Pandora, a Google Images scraper. Version 2.0 of the app came out fairly recently, and includes a ton of new functionality, including support for finding files of any type and an open plugin a...
Business Week’s next issue has an article exploring Jonathan Ive’s backstory, what he does, and what makes him tick. A fascinating exploration into the “man behind the curtain” at Apple. Ive invests his design dollars in state-of-the-art prototyp...
While I was off recruiting impressionable, young college students to come join Microsoft over the past two days, Apple announced a slew of updates, including a new version of iTunes. Unfortunately, Apple seems to have beaten iTunes 7 with the ugly...
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