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Delicious Library for iPhone runs afoul of Amazon's API terms, pulled from App Store {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 7th 2009 11:09PM Enough with the "Delicious Monster hasn't been the same since Mike Matas left" Mike's not a programmer folks he's an art guy. You want to talk about what Will had to deal with how about losing guys like Mike Lee or Lucas Newman, Drew Hamlin and Scott Meier to Apple? Will didn't excessively whine about it either he did what he needed to get DL out. Some of you are clueless.
MacUpdate Promo Spring Bundle revealed {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
May 28th 2009 8:07PM Worth is relative. Parallels may not mean squat to a PPC owner but it may be a great deal for the Intel Mac owner. The reason for the bundles is to expose Mac users to new software. The easy part is creating the application, registering and putting info up on a webpage. Those are relatively fixed costs. However the one thing that rules the commerce landscape is the need to advertise and gain new paying clients. There's a reason why printers today are so cheap (the money is in the toner/ink) or why razors are always on sale in the Sunday paper (the money is in the blades) software developers have to build up a mass of paying customers and if it costs them sending out their software for next to free then that's the way it is.
Think about it..a finished software product is a sunk cost so giving it way is far less financially damaging than paying beaucoup dollars on fancy advertising at least up front.
It's also a way for some newbie developers to gain marketshare against the established incumbent program.
MacUpdate Promo Spring Bundle revealed {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
May 28th 2009 8:00PM You'll probably like DVD Remaster Pro then if you're a Handbrake fan. It's interface is pretty solid and I haven't heard many complaints about the performance either. I have it already but I don't have a Apple TV or iPod Touch yet so I don't need to compress video as of yet but it's there waiting for me when I do.
LG puts its HB954TBW Blu-ray HTIB into Korean streets {Engadget HD}
May 14th 2009 8:19PM Spendy for sure but the thing I like about this HTiB is that it offers 2 HDMI inputs. Let's face it if you've got even one more HDMI device many of these integreated HTiB don't handle such a system well. You may have a cable box or a HD Tivo or any other the other HDMI based devices that you want to switch to.
I'm awaiting the reviews on this to see if it's more than gloss and the Levinson name.
Beta Beat: Dropzone for Mac OS X {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
May 4th 2009 8:12PM Right clicking what? You mean to get a contextual menu of some sort?
Beta Beat: Dropzone for Mac OS X {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
May 4th 2009 8:09PM It looks like Overflow but it's not an app launcher. It seems to run Applscripts or some sort of script when a file is dropped onto an icon. Hence the reason why 3rd party developer support is needed.
Ignore the dication comment that was 1password doing its thing.
Beta Beat: Dropzone for Mac OS X {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
May 4th 2009 8:07PM Voice dictation has a much brighter future than multitouch IMO. I've used and trained people with Dragon NaturallySpeaking and once you get the hang of it you can easily get %90 accuracy. This version doesn't use Macros and that will need to change as Macros really begin to display the power of voice recognition.
Kinetic HD:Hub HTPC gets hip with Core i7, square with HD DVD {Engadget HD}
Mar 15th 2009 9:03PM I just picked up 7 new HD DVD today for $35 at Fry's Electronics. Formats don't stop existing because they no longer have new titles. Today I saw first and second generation HD DVD players for sale on craigslist for 50 and $80 respectively. Since i'm in no danger of not being able to play my discs I and others are clearly looking for great deals and we're finding them. Any movie that I can buy for 6 bucks saving me shelling out 2-3x the money for the Blu-ray version is a win for me.
Kinetic HD:Hub HTPC gets hip with Core i7, square with HD DVD {Engadget HD}
Mar 15th 2009 2:59PM Come on Darren stick to delivering the information. Engadget isn't the place for witty humor though you guys feeble attempt at it is amusing. I know plenty of people that still have a bunch of HD DVD discs in addtition to Blu-ray so having dual support is still a decent feature.
Though I won't purchase because most of these prefabbed HTPC are ungodly expensive.
Buy Leopard, iWork '09, iLife '09 via the Mac Box Set {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jan 6th 2009 11:08PM What exactly where you looking for?? iWork has a lot of updates that are pretty big.
The mere abiliy to insert data into iWork 09 and have changes auto update (just like linkback) is huge for productivity.
Keynotes new animation is sharp
Pages outlining, bibliography and mail merge are oft requested improvements
Numbers has a lot more formulas and ways to manipulate data.
$79 is a steal to me but ymmv
