PoisonApple666 - Fixed Forever

post from InsanelyMac Forum Community Blog List on 28 February 2009 11:59:44 PM. © InsanelyMac Forum Community Blog List

Oh, our little buddies over at EFIX are busy.

"We already preparing one and forever fix for all this BIOS makaber...
Cooming very soon... Once and FOREVER fixed..."

They are somewhere in Germany, right?

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Lost in the Shuffle

post from Daring Fireball on 28 February 2009 07:58:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

In December 2004, rumors were rampant that Apple was set to release a flash-memory based iPod. (The shipping iPod lineup at the time consisted of hard-drive based iPods and iPod Minis.) A site called TheMacMind, now shuttered, ran a report claiming that not only was Apple set to release flash-based iPods, but that they’d cost just $99 and were so small that they wouldn’t even have displays. The only controls would be play/pause, next/previous, and volume up/down. (Archive.org has a cached version of TheMacMind’s scoop.)

I predicted TheMacMind was wrong, but they were in fact correct: Apple announced the iPod Shuffle at Macworld Expo in January 2005.

In my erroneous dismissal of the rumor, I described the device described by TheMacMind as “not very plausible”, focusing mainly on the lack of a display:

I just don?t see no screen at all as a feasible design. Without a graphical interface, the only thing left would be an audio interface — some sort of text-to-speech output to read menu items, playlist titles, and so forth through the earphones. This seems like a recipe for a frustrating experience, trying to locate a specific song that isn?t a few spots away from the one you?re currently listening to.

Part of the reason the original iPod was so successful at the outset is that its display was larger than most other competing players. I just don?t see how you could get an even vaguely decent experience without any display at all.

The Shuffle has gone on to be a great success for Apple. Apple doesn’t release iPod sales numbers broken down by model, but judging by the average selling price (which number Apple does publish), they sell a lot of them.

What I overlooked was the possibility that Apple wouldn’t even try to provide any real means of navigating your library while on the Shuffle. It was and remains enough to just shuffle through a pile of songs randomly or, if you prefer, linearly.

But the new Amazon Kindle’s built-in text-to-speech feature has gotten me thinking about my old idea for an audio interface for the Shuffle. If the Kindle can do it, why not the Shuffle?

Other than color changes and price drops, the current Shuffle hasn’t seen a significant change since it was released in September 2006. I say it’s due for a new design. Sure, it’s “just the Shuffle”, but it’s bound to be redesigned eventually, and what better product to redesign in this economy than the economy-class iPod? They can’t make it significantly smaller, so why not a text-to-speech interface?

Sign me up for one that offers a voice like HAL’s.

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Indev Software releases Mail Act-On 2.0.3

post from prMac on 28 February 2009 07:57:00 PM. © prMac

Indev Software today releases Mail Act-On 2.0.3 and introduces delayed read flagging. Mail Act-On is a powerful enhancement to Apple's Mail Application that puts organization at your fingertips. Version 2.0.3 is a maintenance release that resolves numerous issues, including several stability and reliability issues with outbox rules, compatibility with Safari 4 beta, and responsiveness when invoking Act-On Rules and accessing menus.

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Mac Bundle Box 4 Making Mac Software History

post from prMac on 28 February 2009 07:10:00 PM. © prMac

Today Mac Bundle Box announced their fourth bundle promotion containing 13 incredible applications that Mac users will love. Mac Bundle Box promises to be one of the most amazing software events this year. Running for 11 days starting the 1st of March this incredible deal contains 13 popular applications. 5% of every sale will be donated to 'Charity: Water'. Charity: Water aims to bring clean, fresh drinking water to the 1.1 billion people on earth that don't have it.

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Weekly App Store Picks: Feb. 28, 2009

post from TheAppleBlog on 28 February 2009 05:53:00 PM. © TheAppleBlog

Nine out of ten iPhone owners would probably agree that this article, containing the freshest picks from the App Store, is a nutritious and delicious source of information.

Before we kick things off with this week’s picks, let’s take a quick look at happenings in the world of Apple this week.

Business news first, Apple’s shareholders have re-elected the board. This means that Jobs, Google’s Eric Schmidt and Internet-inventing eco-savior Al Gore are here to stay for the time being. Rumors abound that He-Man and The Ultimate Warrior will be joining the Apple board’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen this time next year.

Subscribers to MobileMe will be overjoyed to hear that the service has been tweaked, incorporating a few minor improvements. The most immediate difference is the updated log-in page, however, most impactful in terms of productivity will be the changes made to Mail’s address handling and Calendar’s speed-boost.

My favorite post from TheAppleBlog this week came from Tom Reetsman. Tom decided to take journalist and Microsoft-zealot Paul Thurrott to task in an amusing dissection of Thurrott’s Safari 4 Beta review.

I’m loving the Safari 4 Beta, in particular the Top Sites feature has become an essential browsing tool. It’s just a prettyfied list of dynamic bookmarks, but I really dig the combination of actual usefulness and swish aesthetic: there’s no good reason why our digital desktops shouldn’t work wonderfully and look great too.

Moving on to the apps, this week I’m looking at Re<ords 003, Cooking Mama, WordFu and PhotoKeys.

Re<ords 003 ($1.99)
There’s a slowly emerging trend of music releases via the App Store, whereby labels are releasing sets of tracks wrapped in apps. It’s an interesting concept to be sure, and one which Japan’s self-styled supersonic group Delaware are experimenting with. The app’s crude tongue-in-cheek interactivity, flipping your iPhone flips the record over to the next side, mixed with utterly avant and endearing music certainly make this a unique experience. Visit Delaware’s lo-fi site for a vid.

cookingmama Cooking Mama ($6.99)
Popularized through its releases on Nintendo’s DS and Wii, Taito’s Cooking Mama has made the leap to iPhone. The game sees you learning to prepare and cook a variety of dishes and with a tweaked control-scheme harnessing the iPhone’s hardware, you’ll find yourself chopping veggies, slicing meat and simmering your concoctions in the frying pan. Cooking is a real passion for me, so fusing that with such a clever game makes for a seriously delicious app. One for the gamers and the wannabe chefs then.

wordfu WordFu (99 cents)
The folks at ngmoco have done it again, bringing another awesome game to iPhone and, in the process, becoming my favorite game publisher. Their latest title, WordFu, plays out like caffeine-boosted single-player speed-Scrabble. Given a random selection of letters, this is hardcore, fast-paced wordplay as you attempt to rack up the highest score in a limited amount of time. There’s even a Wi-Fi multiplayer mode (which I haven’t gotten around to trying yet). For the price, an introductory offer apparently, this is worth grabbing immediately.

PhotoKeys: Photoshop Remote ($3.99)
After seeing the Optimus Mini Three, my gadget-desire has gone in to overdrive at the prospect of turning the iPhone in to a dynamic keyboard extension. In particular, an app interfacing with Photoshop — activating the various tools at the tap of a finger — would be a productivity dream come true, freeing me from the constraints of keyboard shortcuts. The Optimus Mini Three has three buttons and is around $130, PhotoKeys is designed specifically for Photoshop, works wonders and is only four bucks. Do the math, then buy the app, then make a pretty Photoshop mashup about how awesome your math is.

That’s all the apps I’ve got for you this week, meet me back here — same time, same place — next Saturday, for more fresh pickings from the App Store. And make sure to drop by the comments to tell me which apps you’ve been downloading too.

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Stanley Kubrick: The Napoleon Film

post from Daring Fireball on 28 February 2009 02:02:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Jeffrey Wells on the upcoming book, Stanley Kubrick: The Napoleon Film:

Written by Allison Castle and edited by Christiane Kubrick (i.e., Kubrick’s widow), it will focus entirely on the famous Napoleon biopic that Kubrick began working on in ?68 and bailed on four or five years later — i.e., “the greatest film that Kubrick never made.”

Wells has a bit from a 1969 interview with Joseph Gelmis where Kubrick describes his interest in the project, and this link to the screenplay, which has been floating around for years. Amazon’s listing for the book says it runs 1,900 pages, and is due in June.

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"Walt Disney World Secrets" Notescast for iPhone
Upgraded

post from prMac on 28 February 2009 01:46:00 PM. © prMac

TimeStream Software's popular "Walt Disney World Secrets" Notescast for the iPhone and iPod touch now upgraded with over 180 secrets and a bonus over 200 Fun Facts. The new Walt Disney World Secrets Notescast App works as an innovative new guidebook allowing guests to tour all of Walt Disney World Resort with their iPhone or iPod touch in hand as they journey from one new secret to the next in Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney's Animal Kingdom and Disney's Hollywood Studios.

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Product Manager to manage and market company
products

Product Manager is a software to manage on Macintosh, company products from different points of view. It's document based and can manage an unlimited number of documents each with an unlimited number of products inside, subdivided in families. It can be a general repository for all the data used for marketing and technical management.

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RASONE's Blog - About This Mac Apple A.S.ROMA

ieri sera nel cazzeggio più totale mi sono voluto creare una meletta per "about this mac" della mia squadra, quindi romanisti miei vi regalo la mela ASR, sperando che non escano fuori discorsi calcistici, spero vi piaccia, se volete posso farne anche altri, mandatemi un pm provo a farli della vostra squadra, un saluto!

e quì il download Apple A.S.ROMA

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LiquidNet Launches a Free Website Template
Download Project

LiquidNet has recently launched ThemZa, a new online project aimed at offering a wide variety of free templates and web design themes for PHP script-based websites such as blogs, image galleries and content management systems. ThemZa offers a bouquet of ready-to-use web design skins for the Joomla, WordPress, Moodle and 4images scripts, which will assist webmasters to create personal blogs, e-learning portals or photo galleries, or to revitalize their existing ones.

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