Email came from NewsGator regarding NetNewsWire, until now my favorite RSS reader. Future versions of NetNewsWire will only sync with Google Reader and not with NewsGator or MobileMe. And come with advertising. Why? NewsGator needs to make money to support what amounts to a free service. Macworld’s Rob Griffiths: The main reason I’m now looking … Read More »
Thursday, July 30, 2009
How would you use a Mac tablet?
All eyes are pointing toward Apple and the impending release of a Mac tablet device; a powerful iPod touch without the pod, more of a pad, an iPad. Will such a product, which obviously won’t fit in your jeans pocket, be a small notebook, a Mac netbook, a PC tablet, or something else entirely. MacNightOwl’s … Read More »
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Apple’s new MacBook: Mac OS X? iPhone OS X? Or Both?
Is this to be the ultimate leveraged device from Apple? I’m willing to agree that Apple’s next generation MacBook (whether it’s called MacBook or iPad or whatever else, but not ‘tablet’) could be a hybrid tablet that runs both Mac OS X and iPhone OS. From Ron at Mac360: Let me recap where my tree … Read More »
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
What’s taking Apple so long?
Plenty of people would like to see Apple release Mac OS X to run on generic or branded PCs. I don’t think it will happen because the economics don’t work. Does anyone have an answer to why Apple is moving so slowly to squash Mac cloners? Now, Dell makes it easy to run OS X … Read More »
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Making an iPhone version of my Mac site
Off and on, I’ve been running my web site for a couple of years. With the redesign of PixoBebo this year I took a more active role in the coding, some XHTML, and most of the CSS. Frankly, CSS is not as easy as XHTML, but I’m getting better. According to Google Analytics, almost 4-percent … Read More »
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Microsoft pays Yahoo! to take over search
Another strange deal for Microsoft in their never-ending quest to challenge Google in online search. Yahoo.com and Bing.com will maintain their own branding but search results on Yahoo.com will say “powered by Bing.” Yahoo, in turn, will be responsible for attracting premium advertisers. In other words, Yahoo! sheds their expensive search engine technology and Microsoft … Read More »
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
EagleFiler, Information Anxiety, and your Mac
Yes, we live in the information age. The internet is the information superhighway. The problem? The highway is crowded. Information is the high fructose corn syrup of the 21st century. There’s more information than we can safely digest. Who knows what damage it’s causing us? Praise the technology overlords for their insistence that we pay … Read More »