I’ve been struggling with what to write about the news that Steve Jobs has announced today that he will step down as Apple’s CEO until June, 2009. I wanted to write something thoughtful that didn’t sound like a “me too” post, or write about how it’s plausible that Apple may be fibbing about the [...]
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Apple announced DRM-free iTunes earlier this month at MacWorld, which in part means that tracks downloaded from iTunes will work on other players. But there are still lots of details about the new DRM-free tracks to pay attention to.
Amongst them: it costs money to transfer existing purchases to DRM-free tracks, you can’t choose to [...]
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I guess I’m a little slow today – well, I’m a little slow every day. Almost immediately after I posted the news about Sony’s new Internet-ready televisions, I caught this press release from Vizio:
VIZIO, America’s TV and Consumer Electronics Company, announced today the unveiling of its "Connected HDTV" Platform, which enhances the HDTV viewing experience [...]
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Earlier this week I had posted about LG offering Netflix streaming in its new HDTVs and other signs that the Internet is gradually becoming the future of television. Sony, unsurprisingly, won’t be outdone by LG. They’re also offering new Internet capable Bravia HDTVs, unveiled at CES 2009 in Las Vegas today.
According to the official [...]
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It’s only been available since Google announced it on Monday, but already Picasa 3 for Mac needs an update. Here’s a screencap from my Mac:
Included in the 3.0.1 release: a fix for a crash when right-clicking on a photo, and improved handling of network failures during upload.
This might confirm a suggestion a friend of [...]
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I’ve often overheard people saying the reason they like Macs so much more than PCs is because they are "less vulnerable to viruses." But that’s simply not true, as Graham Cluley of Sophos correctly points out in his blog: Mac users are just as human as Windows users, and they too can be tricked [...]
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Google announced the availability of Picasa 3 for the Mac OS, Google’s free photo organizing and editing software. The release coincides with the opening of the Macworld expo in San Francisco, where Google will have a booth open for demonstrations of Picasa 3 on the Mac.
After having downloaded it and tested it out myself, [...]
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