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10 ways to get the most out of Quick Look {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jan 5th 2008 5:09PM 11. Command - Option- Y: Immediate fullscreen view.
LaCie's LaCinema Premier external HDD surfaces {Engadget}
Jan 3rd 2008 12:17PM Whilst it's expensive for a drive that doesn't even have Firewire 400, bear in mind that the price includes Value Added Tax (17.5%) and the pound is current pwning the dollar (as are Yen, the Euro, Turkish Lira and Top Trumps cards).
What's the point if it's not NAS? Either your computer has to be next to your TV, or getting stuff on there is going to be a bitch.
Next Safety developing nicotine-delivery device to curb smoking {Engadget}
Aug 14th 2007 6:52PM But does it give the same feeling of alcohol induced self-destruction?
Dvorak tries a Mac... he likes it! {Engadget}
Jul 26th 2007 3:55PM Cheers, you're a gentlemen and a scholar. I've never understood exactly what the green button does, seems pretty random a lot of the time...
Dvorak tries a Mac... he likes it! {Engadget}
Jul 26th 2007 2:56PM Funny you should mention that, I find it a massive pain in the arse. I have a mac mini with an external drive plugged into an HDTV; I hooked the drive up to my powerbook the other day and OSX remembered the size of the Finder window. It was so big that the bottom right corner didn't even appear on screen and I therefore couldn't resize it. Took me ages to work out how to sort it out, so Windows wins that one imho.
Apple CFO hints at possibly big "product transitions" before September {Engadget}
Jul 26th 2007 1:41PM There's a few reasons I don't think he was talking about Leopard:
1. He said "product transitions which I can't go in to", but we all know about 10.5.
2. Leopard comes out in October, but the fourth quarter ends 30/09/2007 (or 09/30/2007 if you're being funny).
3. OS development costs the money, shipping a few DVDs isn't going to have a huge impact.
Personally I want a 12" ultra portable mbp, a new imac, a 3G iphone, an osx ipod and an iCe-cream maker.
CE-Oh no he didn't, part XXXVII: Sony's Reeves says PS3 will be "the winner" by March 08 {Engadget}
Jul 16th 2007 3:45PM The article was wrong, it was 425 GBP or 599 EUR, so that's only just over $850. Surely every teenager can afford that?
I'm sure Sony have done plenty of analysis on the price vs. (number of units sold)*(overall profit per console^) graph, so this is probably their most profitable strategy at the moment. It's just a shame that at such a price it does seem like they're laughing in our (European) faces.
^after games, controllers, etc sold to one console.
Leopard's new menubar is hideous {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jun 17th 2007 12:50PM In agreement with what a lot of others have said:
1. Is this post-worthy?
2. I like the new menubar.
OS X's had transparency in it for years, this is hardly a radical departure. If you'll willingly stick with Tiger over a small UI change despite all the improvements which Leopard offers, you might want to think about going with Ubuntu/Beryl instead. These fanboys really need to grow up a bit...
Project Kangaroo could pool TV content from major UK broadcasters {Engadget}
Jun 15th 2007 7:30PM Being 'something' of a .Net developer (i.e. nothing to do with WMP or any DRM malarkey) as I understand it porting 4OD to Vista should be relatively simple. By relatively simple I do not wish to imply that it would be easy, but that updating all the necessary object libraries (once available) and so forth would inevitably lead to 4OD working on Vista.
OS X however is an entirely different proposition. By not having an equivalent of the Janus DRM system the OS does not offer the inbuilt capabilites for content lockdown as does Windows. Even if 4OD was written in Java (which I can't imagine that it is, though I've never looked), it would still present a massive challenge to create an entire system of cross platform DRM.
Having made the mistake of posting on Endgt on a Mac/Win issue before, if anything is incorrect please don't tear me a new one, but explain why. (you know what the fanboys are like). I've knocked back some cocodamol for a banging migraine, so this may very well be all lies.
Project Kangaroo could pool TV content from major UK broadcasters {Engadget}
Jun 15th 2007 5:18PM This sounds like it could be really good, though being from The Register I'm taking it with my daily 6 grams of salt. If it is real, hopefully it'll be more Apple friendly than 4OD, from which us Mac users/losers are sadly excluded.
It's just a shame that a great deal of the best programming in the UK is from the US on import. Would be worth it though for the the few diamonds in the rough like QI and Peep Show. I can see the licence fee coming good once more...
