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Ten reasons your next PC will be from Apple
Chris Pirillo of LockerGnome fame, has written the 'ten reasons your next PC will be from Apple,' in reference to the brand new Intel Macs. He lists some interesting reasons that go beyond the usual 'lack of spyware,' though that is on the list as well.Style, reliability, ease of support, and iPod are all on the list. Take a minute to read it over yourself.
Send us your iWeb sites and your Photocasts
Ok, so some of you have had iLife '06 for a little while now, and I want to see the fruits of your labor. Leave an URL for a page that you created using iWeb in the comments, or the address of a Photocast.Let's share the love, folks!
Workstrip 3
I saw a demo of SoftChaos' Workstrip and I was quite impressed. Workstrip is a replacement for the Dock that offers you a number of features including multiple workspaces, previews, application specific favorites, and a number of other things. I really can't do this software justice, so go check out their website.
Hands on: Belkin Flip for Mac mini
Belkin has a huge booth here at Macworld (and I'll post an Engadget style booth tour later).%uFFFD I asked Burk Murray, director of Belkin product management, what I should look at since I am way too important to just wander around with the rest of the Macworld attendees and he said, without hesitation, 'The Flip for Mac mini,' which is a fancy pants KVM switcher designed for the Mac mini. Laurie has been covering the Flip for awhile, and she will be writing up a review of it shortly, but let me tell you I was impressed with this thing. It has touch sensitive buttons on the front that let you access features like CD ejecting, volume, and switching video/audio. Thanks to some software you can also switch just the video, so if you are working on your Mac mini listening to some tunes and you want to use the Windows box that you have hooked up to the Flip you can do so without having to miss out on the song.
DriveSavers takes us down harddrive memory lane
DriveSavers has this setup in their booth. In 1985 for $40,000 you got 40MB of storage that was far from portable. Today $400 will net you a tiny will 6GB drive.The future is now!
iDuo
Atech isn't only in the toilet paper/iPod dock combo biz, they are also doing other devices for the iPod. The iDuo is one such item. It is a combo iPod dock and card reader that supports CF Type I and II, MD, MMC, MS, PRO, SD, SM, xD, and MG.Now, before you go crazy, this won't transfer things from the card to the iPod or vice versa, it just functions like a card reader and a dock.Pricing is not available at this time.
More Apple - Intel Ad drama: Intel customers not dull
First we find out that Apple might have copied the new Intel ad from a music video, and now it seems that the ad has miffed Intel. Intel helped Apple with some of the ad, but they weren't consulted on the script for the voice over, in particular the section where Intel chips were described as 'trapped inside PCs--dull little boxes, dutifully performing dull little tasks.' Intel wasn't so thrilled with the characterize of their current customers.Ahh, irreverent Apple, what will you do next?
Reader report: iLife '06 has arrived
Brett Edwards wrote to let us know that his copy of iLife '06 arrived today. He placed his order yesterday and popped for overnight shipping so iLife was in his hot little hands faster than two shakes of a rabbit's tale.The install took about 20 minutes on his Powerbook G4 1.67 (how old school!) and clocks in at about 7.2 GB for the full install.Has anyone else gotten their hands on iLife '06? What are your first impressions?
Comparing the MacBook Pro to other laptops
Lots of people have been throwing out their thoughts and opinions about the new Macbook Pros (I'm still not used to that name), but Tristan has gone to the effort of creating a chart comparing the new MacBooks to the Powerbooks of yore (i.e. last week) and to an Acer laptop.How did the MacBook measure up? You'll have to read his post to see
MacGrab giving away software every 5 minutes
MacGrab is giving away free copies of AppZapper and Menuet every five minutes for the entire week of Macworld. They will also be giving away 25 copies of iClip. All you have to do is enter your name and email address and you're all set.Lots of chances to win a great app or two? Why not do it?
Apple Intel ad not so original?
Leander Kahney reports that Apple new Intel ad that is getting all sort of love from Mac fan everywhere, might have been done before and not by Apple. It seems that the Postal Service (a rock and roll band that the kids are listening to) has a video for 'Such Great Heights' which bears an uncanny resemblance to the Apple ad.Leander has a link to the video for you to compare and contrast.
Atech's toilet paper dispenser/iPod dock
I saw this at the Atech booth, but sadly I can't find any pricing info on their website. I want one right now!
Menuet
Pounding the carpet on the Expo floor I come across things I haven't heard about before, but wish I had. Menuet is one of those things.It is a hand little menu item that is themeable and allows you to control iTunes and download hi-res album art (amongst other things).It'll set you back $12.95 for a single user licence.
Google at Macworld
Google wins my prize for 'largest company with the smallest booth.' They were demoing Google Earth (which looks very cool) and looking for Mac developers.
EyeTV 2 released
As previously reported on TUAW, Elgato has released EyeTV 2. It costs $49 and includes a host of new features including playlists, a new on screen remote (pictured to the right), single click iPod export, batch export and much more.Check out all the new features here.
Comic Life now bundled with intel iMacs
If you need another reason to lay down the dough for a new Intel iMac then I have got one for ya. Cris Pearson, the CEO of plasq, just let me know that Comic Life is bundled with the new iMacs.Comic Life is a favorite app around here, and this can only mean good things for iMac buyers and plasq.
REALbasic 2006
REAL Software has just announced the availability of REALbasic 2006, the newest version of their cross platform development environment.This new version includes support for mouse drag events, more datatypes, structures, numerous stability enhancements, and much more. REALbasic standard edition costs $99 while the pro edition is available at an intro price of $399.95 (usually $499.95).
Garmin to support OS X on GPS products
Garmin, makers of fine GPS products, have announced that they will be the first GPS device maker to support OS X 10.4. All of their GPS and mobile electronics will hopefully include support for Tiger in the coming months.They also plan to release a Mac version of Motionbased.com in the near future.[via Teal Sunglasses]
Airfoil 2
Rogue Amoeba has just announced Airfoil 2, their product that allows you to stream the audio from any application to an Airport Express, which is very cool in my opinion.What's new in Airfoil 2, you ask? Well, it supports multiple Airport Express units, it is new Applescriptable, has some audio effects and can send to password protected units. All of this for $25? It is the deal of the century.
iTunes 6.0.2 spies on you
OK, it isn't quite that bad, but iTunes does send data back to an Apple related service while you are listening to music in your library and have the 'mini-store' open. Why does it do this? So it can recommend stuff based on what you are currently playing. Boing Boing, that den of privacy loving liberals (warning, some of the stuff on Boing Boing isn't safe for work) has a nice roundup about this.
