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Sorting Through The Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update
Apple releases 10.5.3 - How The Update Went
OS X Update Crashed My Macbook Pro
Knoppix Linux On The Intel-Based Macintosh
How To Fix A High CPU Usage Issue With Quicksilver
Apple is BMW
Ballmer: Apple Is "Fantastically Successful"
Ballmer and Gates defend Vista, drop Windows 7 hints
Mozilla Guns For Guinness World Record With Firefox 3.0
Music Industry Drops Copyright Suit Against Russian Music Site
RIAA abandons iTuneski suit
Mac-Using NY Times Readers Give Thumbs Down To Silverlight
Working with Words on Macs
Taking Quicksilver For A Spin
Inside An Apple Store Toilet
Sorting Through The Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update
Macworld's Rob Griffiths reports:
Eight months into the Leopard era, Apple unleashed the third update to Leopard, with Wednesday's release of OS X 10.5.3. By way of comparison, the 10.3.3 and 10.4.3 updates both came within five months of the release dates for Panther and Tiger, respectively.
As with most of Apple's recent OS X updates, the 10.5.3 version just screams for a broadband connection, weighing in at more than 400MB, depending on which Mac you have and which version your machine deems you to require. So what do you get in exchange for your download time investment?....
You can check it out at:
http://www.macworld.com/article/133644/2008/05/osx1053.html
Apple releases 10.5.3 - How The Update Went
David Alison says:
I saw this afternoon that Apple has released the 10.5.3 update and decided that I would update my MacBook. The update itself is 420MB in size and took me about 20 minutes to download using my Verizon FIOS connection. I simply did the Apple / Software Update... route and let it download and install it....
Once the download was complete it spent some more time doing installs (about 5 minutes or so), then prompted me that it needed to reboot the machine.
The reboot process ran about 5 minutes (spinning gear) before it prompted me to log in. Once that was done I was up and running, though not everything was available immediately.....
For the full commentary visit here:
http://www.davidalison.com/2008/05/apple-releases-1053-how-update-went.html
OS X Update Crashed My Macbook Pro
jkontherun.com says:
Sheesh. Just when I got my MacBook Pro fixed and running well with a brand new logic board along comes Apple and the OS X update released today that bricked the MBP. Yep, I was running fine and dandy and feeling good about everything on the MacBook Pro and the software update trashed it. It downloaded and installed fine, indicated it was "patching files", and then never would boot up again....
Right now I am doing a clean reinstall of Leopard and once I'm sure that is running fine I'll restore my new Time Machine backup.....
UPDATE: In just 30 minutes I had installed Leopard and restored my Time Machine backup and my system is now back like it was just prior to the software update.....
For the full commentary visit here:
http://www.jkontherun.com/2008/05/os-x-update-cra.html
Knoppix Linux On The Intel-Based Macintosh
OS News's Jaime Ieong reports:
"We reported a few days ago that we had Linux booting on the Intel-based Macintosh. We have been looking at Linux on this hardware some more, and we are glad to report that we now have a full-fledged Knoppix distribution working, complete with the X Window system. We are releasing the first pictures of Knoppix 4.0 running on a 17-inch iMac Core Duo....
For the full report visit here:
http://www.osnews.com/thread?97808
How To Fix A High CPU Usage Issue With Quicksilver
MacOS Hints contributor marco.trive says:
There's one application I particularly love on my Mac: it's Quicksilver. This week, for the first time ever, it started behaving oddly - my PowerBook was getting hot very quickly, and a check on Activity Monitor showed me that CPU utilization was at 100%, with Quicksilver using a varying amount from 20% to 90%.
Find out how to use QuickSilver to fix this issue here:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080526082215197
Apple is BMW
Great White North Prognostications says:
I have finally figured out who Apple is. They are BMW. That is everybody either wants a BMW or has a BMW or is in denial that they want a BMW. By BMW generically mean the higher end Germanic cars such as Audi, Porsche. Basically Apple's cost more are considered cool and tend to have extra features and be of a generally higher quality. Whereas Dell and HP are like GM and Ford with the sony Vaio series perfectly matching the Japanese car manufactures. Using this interpretation it allows me to predict the future of Apple. Like BMW Apple will never take over a majority of the car market but they will hold on to the high end high profit margin of the business..... a few who's time is worth too much for the hassles of Vista or just have the money to buy a better machine or just want to look cool will buy an Apple....
For the full commentary visit here:
http://finance.lessonstudio.org/2008/05/28/apple-is-bmw/
Ballmer: Apple Is "Fantastically Successful"
MacUser's Dan Moren says: :
Bill Gates and Stevie Ballmer pimped Windows 7, the successor to Vista, at last night's D: All Things Digital conference. But the pair also made some comments about their relationship with Apple, prompted in part by the demo of Windows multi-touch features that are rather reminiscent of the iPhone.
Here's John Markoff of the New York Times:
....Mr. Ballmer implied that the two companies don't compete directly.
"We'll sell 290 million PCs, and Apple will sell 10 million PCs," he said. "They're fantastically successful and so are we and our partners. But it's a different job. Steve can flip his hand and sell a few models and I don't take a thing away from him."
I kid you not; this may be the smartest thing Steve Ballmer has ever said—so smart, I don't think he realizes it.....
For the full commentary visit here:
http://www.macuser.com/rivals/ballmer_apple_is_fantastically.php
Ballmer and Gates defend Vista, drop Windows 7 hints
The Register's Kelly Fiveash reports:
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer yesterday insisted that the firm was not guilty of making huge blunders with its unloved operating system Windows Vista.
Speaking at the All Things Digital D6 conference alongside lame duck chairman Bill Gates, Ballmer contended: "Vista's not a failure and it's not a mistake."....
Gates, who finally hangs up his Redmond boots on 30 June, was a little more reticent on the lukewarm response Vista has so far received.
He said that the company could learn "plenty of lessons" from its handling of the spurned OS. "We have a culture where we need to do better," he said.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/28/windows_7_demo_vista/
Tools for Getting Your Vinyl Records into iTunes
Low End Mac's John Hatchett reports:
Like many old timers, I have a large record collection.
Okay, kids, let's stop for an explanation: Once upon a time, music was recorded onto analog vinyl discs called "records". These records were used to listen to all the phat recording artists of the time. In fact, many sixties survivors spent their time in dorm rooms listening to the Grateful Dead and admiring lava lamps. Today, these people have become "square" and traded in their Volkswagen buses for Volvo station wagons. They moved from the communes back to suburbia and have become your parents. Many cannot even remember the lyrics to Country Joe and the Fish's [not those Phish!] classic "Fixing to Die Rag". It is sad.
12" vinyl LPs and a CD
Hundreds of these "records" are stuffed away in closets waiting for you to discover them, grow your hair long, buy a Volkswagen bus, and call everyone "dude". Mine were calling to me. "Listen to me," they said.
I got out my turntable (record player, you techno savages!) and realized that I had to find a way to get this groovy (it's from the sixties, trust me) sound into my iTunes collection.
Macs are great for this sort of stuff, since you can record a source using GarageBand and then convert the AIFF files into iTunes. The only problem is how to match the RIAA equalization from the turntable needle.....
For the full tutorial, visit:
http://lowendmac.com/ed/hatchett/08jh/vinyl-to-itunes.html
Mozilla Guns For Guinness World Record With Firefox 3.0
The Register's John Leyden reports:
Mozilla aims to make Firefox 3 a record breaker. It wants the release of the next version of its flagship open source browser to be accompanied by a record for the most software downloads in a single 24-hour period 1.
Download Day - as Mozilla dubs it - will begin the minute Firefox 3 is generally available and continue for 24 hours. Ahead of this release, expected in mid-to-late June, Mozilla has set up a website (spreadfirefox.com/worldrecord). This encourages people to organise Download Day parties, to run around collecting sign-up pledges at their university or place of work, and to place Download Day buttons on their websites.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/28/moz_download_day/
Music Industry Drops Copyright Suit Against Russian Music Site
Bloomberg's Erik Larson reports:
Sony BMG Music Entertainment and other record companies dismissed their copyright lawsuit against Russia-based Internet music store AllofMP3.com, which was accused of distributing millions of pirated song files.
Members of the Recording Industry Association of America, a trade group, didn't say why they were voluntarily dropping the case in papers filed May 20 in federal court in Manhattan.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=as0feZVmo0_A
RIAA abandons iTuneski suit
The Register's Cade Metz reports:
The Recording Industry Ass. of America has dropped its copyright infringement suit against the Russian online music seller AllofM3.com - aka iTuneski.
Early last week, as reported by Bloomberg, the RIAA dismissed its 18-month-old suit without explanation, giving up on claims that AllofMP3 illegally sold millions of copyrighted tunes to buyers across the globe....
Of course, AllofMP3 was shut down almost a year ago, and the company behind it, Media Services LLC, seems to be open for business at other addresses, including Alltunes.com and MP3sparks.com....
We wouldn't be surprised if iTuneski rides again.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/27/riaa_abandons_ituneski_suit/
Mac-Using NY Times Readers Give Thumbs Down To Silverlight
ITWire's Stephen Withers reports:
The New York Times has followed through on its promise to deliver a Mac version of its Times Reader application, but readers are unimpressed. Why? The NYT chose Microsoft's Silverlight for the implementation.....
Silverlight is largely seen as an alternative to Adobe's Flash.
The NYT selected Silverlight because the Windows version of the Reader had been built using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and Silverlight includes a subset of that technology....
While the Mac version provides better searching than its Windows sibling (with full text searching over seven days rather then one day of headlines, bylines and article summaries), text flow is not supported so the view is restricted to four pre-set window sizes, and copy and paste are not accessible.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18473/1151/
Working with Words on Macs
extensions.in.th's Graham K. Rogers says:
Versiontracker which is always a great resource for Mac software shows 50 results for "word processor": freeware, shareware and commercial. Search for "Text Editor" and there are almost 80 more.
Macs come with TextEdit, which can do more than just writing words.....
For writing web pages and for basic text, I use the free text editor, Text Wrangler from Bare Bones Software which now replaces my version of BBEdit from the same company....
For more sophistication, I have Apple's Pages and NeoOffice.....
There is also Open Office, now in a beta version that also now does not need X11.....
Bean is a delightful, free text editor with a few frills.....
Nisus Writer Pro was in beta [now updated to version 1.1] and looks similar to Bean with a more formal interface.....
Its sister, Nisus Writer Express, has a slightly simpler set of features although has much of the look and feel of the Pro application....
In the past I have also mentioned Think Free Office, a suite that works well with OS X and also Mellel, a word processor from Israel, on a par with Nisus Writer Pro,...
For the full commentary visit here:
http://www.extensions.in.th/post_2008/software/words.html
Taking Quicksilver For A Spin
David Alison says:
I've now been blogging about my Mac experience for nearly four months. In that time I've had one product consistently recommended to me by the readers of this blog: Quicksilver. Initially I was getting so many recommendations for different products to try that I couldn't keep track of all of them and Quicksilver was one I would get to "some day".....
I went to the web site and started to poke around. I scanned through a couple of tutorials and was basically a bit overwhelmed - while Quicksilver could be used as a simple Spotlight replacement it also had a huge number of plugins that would provide enhanced functionality. I like my Mac because it's simple, not complicated, and Quicksilver looked like it would take a fair amount of work to just get configured properly.....
Back to the shelf for Quicksilver.
Well, not long after I wrote my last post about Spotlight I started to have second thoughts about using it.....
For the full commentary visit here:
http://www.davidalison.com/2008/05/taking-quicksilver-for-spin.html
Inside An Apple Store Toilet
PC Advisor says:
We all know how bright and lovely are Apple's retail stores - much nicer than CurrysDigital or PC World. They're clean, well stocked and you can use them as a free Internet café.
So it should come as no surprise that Apple spends rather a lot of money on them. But did you realise just how much, and how many toilets and urinals reside therein?...
Apple's retail gurus say "the complexity of an Apple store is visible to visitors, but beneath the structure of stainless steel, glass and stone is another level of complexity that is just as important."
For the full commentary visit here:
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1905&blogid=4
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