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Macworld new products...Toast, Skype, Picasa...

Wed, 01/07/2009 - 10:27 — Cleve Nettles

9to5mac.com/toys is running down the Macworld Hardware and software releases today.  Some standouts:

Toast 10 was released at Macworld.  You can get it at the Roxio Store for $79 (after $20 mail in rebate).  Or Amazon has it for $85 with no rebate hassles.

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Show's over...notes on Macworld 2009

Tue, 01/06/2009 - 11:28 — Seth Weintraub

Frankly we like to see a little more hardware at events but the 17 inch MacBook was pretty close to our description last week.  The $50 matte version should make people both happy and sad - as wil lthe internal long life battery.  We'd be lying if we said we didn't want one...with 8Gb (will we be able to up our smaller MacBooks to 8Gb)?   No Mini or iMac however was rough.  We have a feeling they are coming.

iLife and iWork are both looking pretty exciting.   iWork.com is pretty close to what we envisaged.  There were lots of gray areas where we missed some stuff but we think we got the major gist of it across.  GarageBand learn-to-play is exactly what we had heard.  And the Magic hint?  Cool transitions in iWork.  They are Fun!

iTunes.  The end of the DRM era.  Now we don't have to visit Amazon (but probably will continue for the dealz).  Amazon still beats Apple on price but iTunes is more convenient.

Apple Stock isn't really reacting (update - whoops - it is tanking).

Overall however, we were left....wanting...although the Macrumorslive (best feed out there)  getting hacked was entertaining.  And obviously we have an Apple Mac hardware event coming up.

We'll put up Apple's videos as they become available.  What did you think?

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Something that may not be happening tomorrow

Mon, 01/05/2009 - 20:14 — Chauncey Dupree


Onion Story, via Gizmodo

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Upgrade your MacBook Air to 128GB SSD for $389

Tue, 12/30/2008 - 10:01 — Chauncey Dupree

OK, OK.. so we aren't exactly telling you to go put a cheap SSD in your high end MacBook Air...but well, we are just leaving it out there.  Poorly-branded Low Cost PATA SSDs from RunCore are now shipping in the following varieties:

The unashamedly named 1.8-inch Low Cost Zif PATA SSDs can be sealed in a corrugated box and shipped off to your place of residence for $69.99, $119.99, $199.99 or $389.99 depending on size (16/32/64/128GB, respectively).

This "low cost" upgrade promises to boost computer performance vs. the traditional 1.8” HDD by more than 400% with read/write speeds up to 75/40MB/sec.

 

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Apple updates Mail.app and MobileMe

Tue, 12/23/2008 - 09:46 — Cleve Nettles

Apple today released some server side updates to the MobileMe platform as well as a 10.5.6 Mail.app fix.  The MobileMe Serverside updates include:

Contacts

  • Searching for contacts in a large address book (more than 1000 contacts) is faster and no longer results in a "slow script" browser alert message

  • Exported vCards with multi-line addresses or notes can now be imported into the Mac OS X Address Book

  • Adds keyboard shortcut to create a new contact

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Buying a NetBook to run Leopard? Here's a compatibility list.

Sat, 12/20/2008 - 19:19 — Seth Weintraub

Buying a Netbook to run MacOS for Christmas?  Here's a list of compatibilities from Boingboing.  As we've stated before, the MSI Wind takes the crown for easiest hackintosh. (instructions).  More instructions below.

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10.5.6 here...snappieness™ ensues

Mon, 12/15/2008 - 12:22 — admin

10.5.6 is out, go grab it from Software update (377mb here!) or via the standalone installer.

Here are the details or check below.  It looks like there are many performance improvements in this one!  Yes, we are feeling the snappieness™, are you?

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Putting Mac OSX on a Netbook

Sat, 12/13/2008 - 21:01 — Quincy Pince-Nez

Wired's Gadget Lab has a tutorial on putting MacOSX on an MSI Wind Netbook.  We're in luv with Leopard running on our 1GB RAM/8GB Flash HP Mini 1000($359).  With under 5GB used for the OS and applications, it gives us about 3Gb to play with.  We're hoping to have an Apple product at Macworld, but until then, this will have to do.

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Slingbox for Mac updated to 1.0.7

Fri, 12/12/2008 - 21:51 — Cleve Nettles

Slingplayer for Mac version 1.0.7 is out - go get it.  New features include:

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Polk Audio Sound bar 60% off - $399

Fri, 12/12/2008 - 10:42 — admin

OK, here's the deal of the week (year?) from 9to5mac.com/toys...Polk Audio's Sound bar is $600 off at Amazon for like the next 20 minutes or something.  We've had our eye on this for awhile and were considering paying the $1000 normal price.  Nope, $399  Merry Christmas!  (only in Titanium, black is still $1000 for some reason - take that Black Macbook!) (Thanks Marty!!)

From the Manufacturer:

 

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