Applelinks Tech Web Reader - Thursday, September 4, 2008
The Problems For the MacBook Air Have Not Ended
PC Mag: Hands-On With Google's Chrome Browser
Burned By Chrome - Your Copyright Goes Up In Smoke
Google Backtracks on Chrome License Terms
Opera Boss: Imitation Is Flattering - But Chrome Code Isn't Worth A Look
PC Mag: Google's Chrome, Apple's Safari Shared Vulnerability
MLB Spends $2.5m To Give Umps 2nd Look At Homers - System Uses Macs
Next-gen iPod nano, iPod touch Dimensions Revealed?
Apple Could 'Rock' Cheaper iPods
Road to Mac OS X Snow Leopard: 64-bits, Santa Rosa, and more
Brits Suffer From Discomgoogolation
Apple MacBook Air Customer Review
The Problems For the MacBook Air Have Not Ended
HardMac's Lionel reports:
We begin with the words from a reader
"I am the owner of a MacBook Air as 4 of my colleagues (we bought these MBA over a few months interval with different configurations). This portable could be perfect for me."
BUT he suffers from a very large bug which makes it quasi unusable at the daily level: it does not support a loaded CPU, in particular when the ambient temperature is hot. The 5 MBA in the office have all the same behavior and considering the number of contributions on this subject in the Apple forum (such as here http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1387729&tstart=45 and here for example http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1445521&tstart=135) one can suppose that this problem is general....
In other words this portable is unusable. What is astonishing is that few people seem to complain in a vehement way, apart from those at the Apple Forums. It is quite simply unacceptable that Apple is not able to regulate the problem 9 months after the launch of the product.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.hardmac.com/news/2008-09-03/#8786
PC Mag: Hands-On With Google's Chrome Browser
A test spin with the beta (0.2x) version of Google's first browser shows a couple notable differences (along with several similarities) to the other big Web-browsing players.
To read more, go to:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2329309,00.asp
Burned By Chrome - Your Copyright Goes Up In Smoke
The Register's Chris Mellor reports:
Astute Reg readers have pointed out a Chrome condition of service that effectively lets Google use any of your copyrighted material posted to the web via Chrome without paying you a cent.
Here's the relevant section 11.1 of the Chrome EULA:
11. Content licence from you
11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. This licence is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/03/google_chrome_eula_sucks/
Google Backtracks on Chrome License Terms
CNet's Ina Fried reports:
Google said on Wednesday that it plans to alter contract terms that gave the search provider broad rights to use anything entered into its new Chrome browser.
"In order to keep things simple for our users, we try to use the same set of legal terms (our Universal Terms of Service) for many of our products," Google said in a statement provided to CNET News. "Sometimes, as in the case of Google Chrome, this means that the legal terms for a specific product may include terms that don't apply well to the use of that product. We are working quickly to remove language from Section 11 of the current Google Chrome terms of service."
As first noted by CNET News on Tuesday, Chrome's End User License agreement appeared to give Google a perpetual right to use anything one entered into the browser......
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/6z8mzm
Opera Boss: Imitation Is Flattering - But Chrome Code Isn't Worth A Look
The Register's Andrew Orlowski reports:
Google's new Chrome browser borrows so much from Opera's browser, we had to ask Jon von Tetzchner, Opera's CEO, an obvious question today - had Google hired any of his staff?
"No."
He didn't sound too upset, though, that Google has half-inched so many features from Opera in a smash-and-grab raid.
"Some things we recognise from Opera - putting tabs at the top [and the address bar in the tab], speed dial, and basically the search and find - but that shows we're doing something right."
Doubts have been raised about the future of the Mozilla Foundation since the extent of Google's browser ambitions became apparent, yesterday.
But then some of the same doubts may pertain to Opera, too. Not long ago, Opera was the only browser that charged money for a licence - which perhaps explains why it is such high quality, user-focused design - but struck a referral deal with Google that permitted it to be released as a free download.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/03/opera_boss_on_chrome/
PC Mag: Google's Chrome, Apple's Safari Shared Vulnerability
But the really innovative feature in Chrome is the way Google has built the browser's rendering engine to run in a sandbox. Each browser tab is an isolated process running with limited capabilities. This means that if a malicious application were to run, it could not crash, interfere with or impede the others running in other tabs. It also means that the app cannot do things, like write to the file system, that could make the malicious app persistent.
To read more, go to:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2329339,00.asp
MLB Spends $2.5m To Give Umps 2nd Look At Homers - System Uses Macs
AP's Ronald Blum reports:
Baseball's replay central is an 18-by-24 foot room on the fifth floor of a former baking factory in Manhattan's Meatpacking District that's crammed with so many computers and television screens that it looks like NASA's Mission Control.
Five monitors stretch across the top of the wall, and beneath are eight, 46-inch screens split into two rows. Each television can show one picture, or be split into nine, 16, 25 or 100 angles at once.
In the third row are two white Macintosh computers with 19-inch screens, each adjacent to a 26-inch TV. And, finally, below that are dozens of buttons on a router panel. Some are blue, some green, some red, some yellow. This is where the technicians and supervisors will sit.
For the full report visit here:
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20080828/D92RBUQO2.html
Next-gen iPod nano, iPod touch Dimensions Revealed?
Appleinsider's Sam Oliver reports:
Dimensional drawings said to depict Apple's next-generation digital media players suggest the company is about to unveil its thinnest iPod nano yet alongside a new version of the iPod touch that will be marginally thicker than its predecessor.
The drawings, published over at iLounge, show an iPod nano that will mark a return of the tall and narrow form factor, checking in at 0.75mm taller, 1.25mm narrower, and 0.42mm thinner than the second-generation iPod nanos introduced during the fall of 2006.
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/6dkrry
Apple Could 'Rock' Cheaper iPods
Forbes' Brian Caulfield reports:
Steve Jobs isn't even bothering to hide it this time. Apple has invited the press to a "special event" on Sept. 9. And while the tech giant isn't saying, exactly, what it will announce, any journalist who hasn't figured it out by now had one too many jars of stupid sauce over the Labor Day weekend.
Apple's invite, sent Tuesday, includes an image of a man with an iPod titled "Let's Rock." Another clue, as if it were needed: Apple rolled out its new lineup of iPods in early September last year, giving the company plenty of time to prepare for the holiday season.
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/5g386o
Road to Mac OS X Snow Leopard: 64-bits, Santa Rosa, and more
Appleinsider's Prince McLean reports:
Snow Leopard's across-the-board leap to 64-bits, from the kernel to all of its bundled apps, will do more than just make more memory available. It also exposes a great PC swindle and highlights Apple's lead in 64-bit computing. Here's why.....
For the full commentary visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/6xhftr
Brits Suffer From Discomgoogolation
ITWire's Davey Winder reports:
New research suggests that the British are becoming increasingly addicted to the Internet. So much so that discomgoogolation has been identified as a major new cause of stress by one psychologist...
It would appear, according to new research just published, that the British addiction to all things Internet is hitting new and dangerous levels.
Psychologist Dr David Lewis, working with a YouGov study of more than 2000 British Internet users, discovered that some 76 percent of them readily admitted that they could not live without the Internet.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20414/53/
Apple MacBook Air Customer Review
Isulong's Calvin Sorren says:
A short overview of Apple MacBook Air is that it is very small, fragile and light. With a slight tap of the screen, the system shuts down completely.
Apple MacBook, being the lightest MacBook in its category, sets in in the spotlight, surpassing other MacBook. The depth from the back (at .76 inches) tapering towards the front bezel (at .16 inches), makes this the slimmest.
The curved design of the Apple MacBook Air makes it stand out in the crowd. Other laptops have look thicker due to a flat level of thickness all around, where as Apple MacBook Air has a thickness of .04 centimeters at most parts, and is curved.
The few limitations, such as no connectivity ports or optical drive are overcome by the many innovative features. Standard voltage processing parts and full size keyboard, as well as having an internet connections, are among these features.....
For the full commentary visit here:
http://www.isulongseophil.net/articles/apple-macbook-air-customer-review.html
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