Today, at 10:30 am EDT, the Purolator guy dropped off the tiny package. Leopard is packaged in what have recently become Apple’s standard software package. A box barely larger than the DVD is housing the new system, along with a small booklet. At 10:40 I had started the install on my non-essential iBook (G4, 1.42 [...]
Well, I’m excited about Leopard (Apple’s new OS), and of course, I pre-ordered it as soon as Apple started accepting pre-orders. It’s supposed to come in tomorrow on the 26th, and indeed, I received my notification of shipment from Apple with a tracking number. However, the tracking web page is nearly useless. Here is what [...]
After Apple’s announcement and subsequent release of the iPhone and later the iPod Touch, my brother and friends bitched about Apple’s stupidity and Steve Jobs’s control freakiness. They all complained about Apple’s unwillingness to allow or even encourage third party development of native iPhone applications. Over the last few months, many, many articles have been [...]
Today, Microsoft released a new version of their music player the Zune and again, they failed to offer something more than ‘good enough’. In a market almost completely dominated by Apple’s iPod, their offering look like they could compete with last year’s iPods; that’s not good enough to compete with this year’s iPods. They have [...]