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Widget Watch
From Timothy Cain
Just a thought, because of all of the new specified articles that Applelinks has come up with (i.e. Mac mini Muse) I thought that after you make the big jump into Tiger you could have an Odyssey like daily or weekly article about the widgets in Dashboard. I hope that the great influx of the mini apps will not die down like that of Sherlock, so an article that keeps up with the Dashboard scene might keep interest in these neat new mini apps.
Timothy Cain
Hi Timothy;
Sounds like a good idea for a series, or perhaps a feature incorporated into OS X Odyssey. I'll give it some thought.
Charles
Services in Tiger/Safari
From David Layman
Kim Peacock writes:
I have just installed Tiger ....
One thing I have noticed is that the choices in the "Services" menu item have diminished considerably. I use Services to transfer snippets to DevonThink (as you do Mr. Moore, I seem to remember} but that choice (as well as Text Edit and others) is no longer exists. [end quote]
I am running Tiger on a 1.25ghz eMac (512 megs RAM).
While running Safari, Services to both DevonThink (1.9.3) and Text Edit work correctly for me.
Kim Peacock: is this possibly a repetition of the problem where if one had too many services, some of them wouldn't work?
Free iBook?
Re:
http://www.applelinks.com/p5/index.php/weblog/comments/the_year_of_the_tige r_about_to_begin/
From dud20
Ok, I think Tiger is awesome! I really wanted an iBook so i was talking to people about low prices. They were like you can get one for free atReports:
http://www.notebooks4free.com/default.aspx?r=364696
At first i didnt believe it but in fact it is actually true!(wierd huh) all you have to do is get like 18 referrals. They will not spam thank god. And it isn't scam. It is so cool!
Hi;
Very interesting. I have to say that the "if it seems too good to be true, it probably is" alarm bells are ringing, but I wish you well and hope you get your iBook.
Let me know how it turns out.
Charles
RE: Thoughts And Observations On The New G5 Power Mac Towers
From Jon Harrison
Your statements below are misleading:
"In the PC universe, going from 32-bit to 64-bit computing requires migrating to a 64-bit operating system (and purchasing the 64-bit applications that will work on it) or running a 32-bit operating system in emulation mode."
Correct
The PowerPC G5, however, offers a similarly seamless transition to 64-bit performance.
Incorrect distinction. Currently, the 64-bit AMD and Intel consumer processors on the market also allow seamless transitioning to 64-bit performance.
You should be comparing the operating systems, OS X and Windows. This is where the difference lies, as OS X has built-in 32 and 64-bit instruction
handling, and 32-bit Windows variants do not.
Standard 32-bit code runs natively at processor speed, thanks to the PowerPC architecture being designed from scratch to run both 32-bit and 64-bit application code. This facility enables the PowerPC G5 processor to run Mac OS X natively for an immediate performance boost."
Correct, however no valid distinction is made here between the G5 and AMD and Intel 64-bit offerings, as any of these processors will run 32-bit
and 64-bit code natively. Again, If it was the goal of your statements to draw a distinction between the G5 and Intel and AMD consumer 64-bit
processors, your choice to focus on the G5's 'hybrid' nature is misleading, as current AMD and Intel offerings boast the same.
Jon Harrison
Hi Jon;
Thanks for your comments.
No intent to mislead. I'm no engineer (understatement!) and was working from research — primarily Apple's own literature on the topic.
I think the central point (at least for me) is the transition issue. As with the similarly painless shift from 68k to PowerPC in the mid-90s, OS X's seamless ambidextrousness in running 32 bit and 64 bit software is key.
Charles
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