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Category Archives: Apple
doubleTwist Not Ready For Prime Time
It doesn’t recognize my 30Gb iPod or my 3G iPhone.
Starting Firefox in Safe Mode
So, I just installed an add-on that left Firefox unable to start. At all.
How To Show Open Ports on OS X
Here’s how to show or list open ports on OS X.
UIF to ISO Tools
Tools to convert UIF to ISO.
Leopard First Impressions
I finally received my copy of Leopard from Amazon yesterday and started rolling it out today. As of right now, I only have the wife’s iBook to go. I haven’t had a lot of time to play with it, so what follows is a brief overview.
Amazon MP Downloads vs. iTunes, Part 1
I’m considering purchasing Feist’s The Reminder, so I thought this might be a good time to do some comparison shopping.
Why I Don’t Have An iPhone
Here’s the #1 reason I don’t own an iPhone: It’s not the phone I’m looking for. I already have a phone. I hate it. It’s not the phone I’m looking for either, but it syncs with iCal and that’s good enough for me.
Europe + iPhone
Hey Europe, welcome to the social. Oh, wait. Wrong product.
Too Many Applications?
Which of the aforementioned image editors does he consider sub-par?
Drew Thaler May Be A Genius
See Drew Thaler’s Markdown Scripts for MarsEdit.
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.
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.
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. [...]
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.