Archive:January, 2009

West Town Mall Apple Store Grand Opening

 

Well, it turns out that the Apple Store that is opening in my own town is opening it’s doors a lot sooner than what I first expected. Grand opening is at 10:00am tomorrow morning (July 1) in West Town Mall, if you’re in Knoxville, TN that is.
If anyone is going from Ktown, I’ll be [...]

10 Things I Want in Leopard

 

Everyone has a wishlist of features for an upcoming OS release, so I talk about mine.

Improved Spotlight
Revised Handling of Applications
Integrated iCal, Address Book, and Mail
Front Row on Steroids
Better built in RSS Support
More Eye Candy
Better Dashboard Implementation
To Quit or Not To Quit?
iTunes: for Movies
Death of Plastic

Technorati Tags: Apple, Leopard, RSS

Nike Added to Music Store

 

Well, it’s official. “TV Shows” doesn’t have the little orange “new” icon beside it anymore, just as the podcast area and others before it have fallen into place and lost part of their new iTMS smell.
So, what’s the new kid on the block look like? Well, quite cool actually. Just head on [...]

Summary of Updates 6-28-06

 

There have been a few updates released in the past few days, so here is a quick summary. An iPod updater adds bug fixes for most models and gives the Nano Nike support. A new version of iTunes adds Nike support. A Quicktime update fixes some bugs with iDVD and the Intel [...]

iTunes 6.0.5 Adds Nike Support

 

In conjunction with the previous post, this update to iTunes adds support for Nike + iPod workout stuff to iTunes.
iTunes 6.0.5 allows you to sync your Nike + iPod workout data to nikeplus.com, where you can easily track your progress, set training goals, challenge others, and much more. Visit the Nike Sport Music area on [...]

iPod Updater 2006-06-28

 

A new updater for iPods has been released and I thought it was worth mentioning just because it shows support for the Nike + Apple ads that we saw awhile back. Note that under the stuff listed for iPod Nano.
iPod Updater 2006-06-28 delivers:
New iPod Software 1.1.2 for iPod
New iPod Software 1.2 for iPod nano
New [...]

Newton Ad

 

I found this video clip sometime ago from somewhere in the bowels of the internet.  I was looking for a decent video clip to post this week and just happened to run across it again on my computer.  I have to say that if the year was 1993 and I was at the same stage [...]

Impressions of Cocoa

 

I’m on where near being an expert with the Cocoa programming language, but after working my way through half of this book the last couple days and spending every waking free moment coding, I’ve come to a few critical realizations.
First, object oriented programming is the ‘bomb’, for lack of better words. This just makes [...]

Extreme Engineering on iTunes

 

I’m a sucker for TV shows that put most of my friends to sleep in a matter of seconds. Some great examples of those are pretty much anything forensic related on Court TV, ME (Medical Examiner) kinda stuff, lots of stuff on the History channel, and some of my favorites being the Modern Marvels [...]

Mac OS 10.4.7 Update

 

This update to the Mac OS actually introduces a few new features that I’ll report on in just a few minutes, the most interesting being the support for chat rooms with iChat over AIM.
The 10.4.7 Update is recommended for all users and includes general operating system fixes, as well as specific fixes for the following [...]