I would kill for this hypothetical machine:
MacBook Nano
Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.0 GHz
2GB RAM
32 GB solid state hard drive
11 inch LCD @ 1280×800 resolution (16:10 ratio)
ExpressCard slot
iSight camera
mini-DVI out
USB 2.0 x2
6+ hours of battery life
Less than $3,000 USD
Note the lack of DVD drive, to save space. This thing should be small and light. [...]
In OS X Leopard (can’t confirm earlier versions), if you have a Finder window spanning multiple physical monitors or multiple virtual Spaces, or extending off the edge of any physical monitor, try dragging a file and dangling it over that Finder window. The Finder window will smoothly slide into the current physical monitor on the [...]
One of OS X Tiger’s most annoying bugs to me was that the zoom functionality was broken for multi-monitor setups. It’d work at first, but when you moved your mouse, it’d go all screwy. It was useless. I’m not sure if it was fixed in OS X Leopard or the 10.5.1 update — but it [...]
OS X’s Spotlight searching functionality is pretty handy, but I’ve always been annoyed by having to arrow down to select the top hit and launch/open it. I stumbled upon a shortcut by accident. Holding down Cmd will highlight the top hit, and then pressing Return will launch/open it. So, Cmd-Space, type, Cmd-Return. [...]
I was in the Tampa Apple store around 1pm today, and they still had iPhones in stock. There were maybe 20 or 30 people in line. It wasn’t that crazy. I called ahead and reserved a MacBook Pro (more on that later). They had someone help me personally and sell me [...]
Go read Steve Jobs talking about how native apps on the iPhone blow web apps on the iPhone out of the water. And then read the transcript of him at WWDC ‘07 (to a room full of OS X developers) trying to pass web apps off as a viable substitute for native apps.
Apple’s announcement that there will be no software development kit for iPhone, while it may fool some in the media, will not fool developers, who see this as a giant “f-you.”
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Apple’s press release could use some translation, with a hat tip to John Gruber.
iPhone to Support Third-Party Web 2.0 Applications
Our browser works.
When it begins shipping [...]
Yes, MacBooks Pro. “MacBook Pros” sounds horrible to my ears.
Yesterday morning, Apple announced an update to their MacBook Pro line of professional portable computers. A processor upgrade means that all models are faster, and can now address 4 GB of RAM. Previous models were limited to addressing 3 GB of RAM (which [...]