How long until Apple introduces the official Mac App Store.
Users can Try and Buy Apps using iTunes' App Store, the most successful App storefront ever (iPhone App Store).
The latest edition of Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) provides developers with a full development and publishing environment. Xcode 4.0 makes publishing Apps and App Updates as easy as one click.
I have linked to Wil Shipleys venture Golden-Braeburn.com recently, and while I see a very successful niche for him, I'm sure a large section of the development community will drink the Cupertino KoolAid.
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Adam Betts has posted a nice selection of thoughtful artwork created for Delicious Monsters "Delicious Library 2".
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The Mac (a folding tablet, and an addition to the Apple Al SiO2ification series) uses Apples modern design and Multi-Touch technologies to bring a vision of the 1987 Knowlege Navigator concept to life.
Aluminum and glass construction
OLED display (video/photo capture capable)
Apple Knowlege Navigator Concept Video
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Will Shipley has created a promising app delivery service called Golden % Braeburn, and is offering it up to the world.
Put your wares in front of a larger audience, at a lower cost, with hardcode integrated assets.
Details Here.
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Apple gives us a glance into the future of the Mac OS X here.
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After reading this tuaw article's comments, I was informed about logmein, a remote desktop webapp. Works great, it's free, and it can turn your iPhone into a mobile desktop computer. Slow = yes.
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Wil Shipley (of Delicious Monster) has announced a public beta of Delicious Library 2 via tuaw. As per the tuaw blog comments, the beta has been launched to test the integrated store. Talk about priorities. Check it out.
Here's a great spoke Wil gave at the C4[1] confrence. The subject is The Creation & Maintenance of Hype....
Woke up to a plugged in, battery drained MacBook.
I had read about defective MagSafe power adapters, though this was my first contact with one.
The end that connects to the computer had started to fray, and became very hot when an intermittent connection was made.
After the long wait until Apple tech support woke up, I was instructed to buy a new power brick.
Two months after my first year of MacBook ownership lapsed, and not feeling like whining or forking over $79.00, I decided to repair my scorched adapter.
Off to Google and found a ...
"creating great products and services for an uncertain world"
Subject To Change is a book by Peter Merholz, Brandon Schauer, David Verba, and Todd Wilkens of adaptive path (a great experience company).
I discovered the existence of this venture while skimming the ap website looking for a some posts on Charmr: "A Design Concept for Diabetes Management Devices" for a friend of mine.
Just started reading it though I was captivated by the preview chapter....
An email (including the image below) perks my interest.. as was intended.
WWDC 2008 "A landmark event. In more ways than one... Everything Mac. Everything iPhone. San Francisco, June 9-13, 2008."
This leads me to think that either a divergence or synergy is about to happen. Apple, a long proponent of single devices for single purposes, seems to be swaying the way of convergence lately.
I for one think a tablet would be cool, though I'm really in the mood for a Mac version of ...
This inclusion in the Al SiO2 series, isn't even an existing Apple Product. While it does look exactly like a Photoshoped iPod touch...., in distorted reality it is so much more.After a fruitless search for a mobile, streamlined way to extend the storage capacity of the iPhone and iPod touch (without nand soldering or time travel skills), the *Apple Stream concept is born.The Apple Stream is a mobile WiFi content server, the same size as the iPod touch....
Download Safari and WebKit Mac OS X Leopard ready alternate icons.
Download Safari Mac OS X Leopard ready alternate icon.
Download Firefox Mac OS X Leopard ready alternate icon.
The renovated QuickTime.
While QuickTime is not a physical product like a Mac or an iPod, I can not think of any Apple software more deserving of Al SiO2ificationDownload Aluminum and Glass QuickTime Mac OS X Leopard ready alternate icon.
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Google is doing its part in the open source mobile phone revolution with Android™ and the open handset alliance.Android™ is an mobile handset platform delivered under the Apache version 2.0 open source license.Google isn't the first to try for an open mobile handset platform, though it sure has some weight to throw around with the members of the handset alliance.OpenMoko was introduced as an open mobile phone platform in 2006 by FIC (First International ...
Some more gorgeous artwork from graphics artist and interface designer Adam Betts.A pair of Apple Mac OS X Leopard inspired desktop backgrounds: “CONQUER THE UNIVERSE”Two versions make up one large galaxy background image for use with a dual display system.MacHappens
AppleInsider.com has recently treated us to a great series of articles under the name Road to Mac OS X Leopardwhich has been followed up with the Introductory Mac OS X Leopard ReviewsMacHappens
Looks like this house could get a little crowded.Apples AirPort Extreme vs. Bang & Olufsens BeoLink website graphics.Imitation really is the sincerest form of imitation.MacHappens
Many have been eagerly awaiting the emergence of affordable, high capacity Flash drives on the market.Enter the Samsung SSD (Solid State Drive) series of Flash drives.Samsung has posted a video revealing some impressive specs and vs. HDD benchmarks.Low capacity Flash thumb drives have been affordable for some time. They are very useful for usbooting a Linux OS, or transferring files. That said, some of us simply want more room to move, and a speed increase to boot.While Samsung has been shipping similar flash and hybrid-flash drives for some time now, it finally looks like they're ready to enter the mainstream with the slick SSD series.My future solid state MacBook...Apple has a history of packing innovations like this into their Macs, though usually with a gradual phase-in, and/or a premium price tag.Update: Check out Ryan Blocks Samsung 64GB SSD transplanted MacBook Pro here.MacHappens
Before heading off for paternity leave (Congrats!!), 43 Folders founder Merlin Mann posed a Geek Throwdown: How to sync two or more Macs?"Sync" in the sense that every file, app, and system preference is the same on each mac.Until someone writes a Time Machine sync app, I (as well as a few commenters) figure the best way is to boot off an external firewire drive that you move between machines. Portable drives are getting faster, smaller, and cheeper. For a little hassle, you can sync without syncing.I love The Throwdown idea. Many people working to resolve a common problem.MacHappens
Apple has officially launched its own list of web apps.In fact they have also re-written the definition of web apps."Since web apps are websites designed specifically for the 3.5-inch screen..."MacHappens
Merlin Mann and Ben Durbin are making some good tv here.
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The renovated Apple tv..Glass topBlack anodized aluminum11mm thinAll in one cablePortable hard drivevia MacHappens
The Mac mini is by far the simplest Mac in the Apple Al SiO2ification series.
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Glass top
1" thin
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The MacBook/MacBook Pro is the second Apple productto be Al SiO2ized.Click image to view larger.Black anodized aluminumGlass displayFlip down hidden connectorsBuilt-in WiMaxvia MacHappens
How would every Apple product lookafter getting the Al SiO2 treatment.
First up Apples cinema display.Black anodized aluminumGlass displayIntegrated iSightIntegrated Apple Remote receiver(bringing front row to every mac)via MacHappens
Many people have been left wanting with apples unveil of the apps included with new its iPod Touch.
Specifically those outside the United States who have been pining for the iPhone.
Enter "Hack the iPod Touch" a site dedicated to bringing the omitted iPhone apps to your internationally available iPod Touch (once it's internationally available that is).
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AddFone.com is a website created by Magno Urbano to help people search for and find apps for their iPhones.The sites interface is perfectly suited to the iPhones screen.(yet another site serving us the iPhone sized internet). via addfone
" Aluminium Apple Keyboard: Special features " Posted by Marc Edwards on islayer.com reveals some of the little known, built in features of Apples new thinner aluminum/aluminium keyboard.
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Here is a link to the recently updated "Essential Mac OS X Apps" page on Mac Specialist.org.While I know and have used many of the apps mentioned, I have only kept the following. Carbon Copy Cloner - Easy-to-use backup/cloning utilityDelicious Library - Catalogue your books, cd's, games, dvd'sFirefox - Open source web browseriPodDisk - Utilize your iPod as an iDiskLittle Snitch - Alerts you of outgoing network connections!!! Quicksilver !!! - Application launcher and much moreTransmit - FTP clientVLC - Play DivX encoded movies (and more).via macspecialist
