I just found out about this. It’d be impossible to count the number of times I’ve heard Monster Mash.
Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett, whose dead-on Boris Karloff impression propelled the Halloween anthem to the top of the charts in 1962, making him one of pop music’s most enduring one-hit wonders, has died of leukemia. He was [...]
Gruber has the best interview with Dino Dai Zovi I’ve read yet. Straight, to the point, good questions and expansive answers. Good job.
Macenstein has a good post regarding iTunes subscription models. While almost everyone agrees that subscriptions models for music don’t work, the subscription model for movies has been working for decades. Combined with Apple TV, this could be a category killer.
Via Fark, film lobbyist Jack Valenti has died. Do not read the discussion thread if you have any sense of respect for the dead. Funniest quote in the thread:
HAY GUYS WHATS GOING ON IN THIS THREAD
IF ANYONE HAS A COPY OF “INSIDE MAN” PLEASE FTP [...]
Mozy release a beta version of their Mac client today. I’ve never used online backup services before, and since they offer 2gb free, I figured I’d give it a try. Installation is straightforward, and after picking the applications and files I wanted to back up, I was on my way. Almost. [...]
Gruber writes:
Perfect-looking package tracking Dashboard widget by Mike Piontek.
I agree. I only wish when you upgrade the widget it wouldn’t trash the tracking numbers you’re currently monitoring. That’s an unnecessary surprise.
Instead of following the University of Nebraska’s lead and bill the RIAA for processing its many prelitigation letters, Ohio University has decided to ban all P2P file sharing. If the best of class leads and teaches by example, where does that leave Ohio? Techdirt sums it up:
It’s a sad statement of the times [...]
In an interview with Steve jobs, Reuters reports:
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs indicated on Wednesday he is unlikely to give in to calls from the music industry to add a subscription-based model to Apple’s wildly popular iTunes online music store. “People want to own their music,” he said.
Via MacDailyNews.
Shiira, which bills itself as The Next Browser for the Mac, released version 2.0 yesterday. Being something of a browser nut, I had to give it a test drive. According to their website:
Shiira is a web browser based on Web Kit and written in Cocoa. The goal of the Shiira Project is to [...]
Merlin Mann over at 43 Folders has a nice article on smart mailboxes in Mail.app. I’m thinking, with all of the hubbub over Panic’s Coda flooding the Apple blogosphere, it’ll get lost in the shuffle. It’s a good read.
