Category Archives: Apple

Drew Thaler May Be A Genius

See Drew Thaler’s Markdown Scripts for MarsEdit.

Posted 28 August 2007 § ‡ Comments (0)

Possibly The Best Question Ever

Alan is looking for a way to make TextMate available for free to anyone who purchases a Mac, but he’s running into licensing/agreement issues with Amazon and Apple. This is a question the entire Mac world should be interested in.

Posted 28 August 2007 § TextMate ‡ Comments (0)

Semi-Interesting Developments at Walmart

iTunes is more than the iPod. iTunes represents an experience. You plug your iPod into your computer. You fire up iTunes, browse the iTunes Music Store (iTMS), make a few purchases, then with the click of a button, the songs are on your iPod and you’re ready to go. People who purchase songs from iTMS are invested in more than an individual song. They’re invested in the user experience, which is easier and more straightforward than anything else on the market. Most iTunes users — rightly or wrongly — don’t care about DRM because under the iPod/iTunes/iTMS system, it just works. And that’s what really matters to them. Click, browse, buy, boom. It just works.

Posted 21 August 2007 § Linux § Microsoft § Music ‡ Comments (0)

Pixelmater Enters Private Beta

The Pixelmator guys have announced that they are seeding the first private beta today. Although I didn’t volunteer to be a beta tester, I’ve been following the development closely and I’m really looking forward to this application. They say they plan on having 3 beta seeds, which I feel is fairly ambitious. [...]

Posted 16 August 2007 § ‡ Comments (0)

Universal’s Newest Idiotic Decision

I’ve said time and again that the music industry’s insistence on DRM is nothing short of their attempt to maintain a death grip on the distribution channel, i.e., they want you to buy music from them and no one else.

Posted 13 August 2007 § Music ‡ Comments (0)