9 posts tagged “mac”
I was looking for a memorable article but couldn't think of how to find it, even with the Awesomebar. (“Starling” isn't in the URL or title.) So I decided to give up and reinstall Google Desktop Search. Now my MBP is warming my lap in the summer, primarily because...
The one part you can't disable is the part the OS already provides. Wtf??
To follow up:
- With stories like this, I really really hope what Walt (I think) pointed out is right, and they announce a new iPod Touch in a month or two. After all, they did it with the original iPod Touch, announcing it in September after the iPhone came out in June. OTOH maybe “we fixed all the design bugs with the iPhone!” includes fixing the need for a phoneless iPod Touch.
- Jesse Gardner posted directions and an awesome icon for doing the Fluid menu extra thing with the iMT app for Movable Type. Nice! I found how to fix the icon problem I had by digging around inside a generated FluidInstance. You can also set whether the FluidInstance defaults to a regular SSB or a menu extra, which I was hoping to do to make a distributable FluidInstance for an iPhone app... but the developer asks that you not do that, which makes me rather less excited about Fluid when wearing my web app developer hat.
Jonathan Gitlin at Ars Technica's Infinite Loop mentions what I've been mulling since Monday: the iPod Touch is now a pretty bad deal. The price is higher but the TCO is lower... as long as you don't have a cell phone. I'm not so hot on the new AT&T deal, so I would definitely probably maybe order a 16 GB iPod Touch with GPS at $300. But $410, with no GPS? I hope there's another shoe to drop.
In other Mac news, I had ignored Fluid, but read about it today when I thought it was something else. The Menu Extra feature looks great for iPhone apps like Blog It.
And oddly enough I'd rather work some more than go through them. Probably because I already just unbolded my first free Economist. The two coffees in me also don't help.
Maybe this video is in those 700 unread posts (I loves me some Pete Miser) but instead I saw this because Aaron was inta it:
If you were intending to buy any of this Mac software, you might consider buying it today, as the proceeds go to the Child's Play charity to buy toys and video games for kids in children's hospitals (including Children's Hospital Oakland). In this, its fourth year, they're aiming to raise half a million dollars.
If you weren't, you can consider doing what I did (I heard about the Mac software donation earlier this week but didn't look at the list until today—when I find there's not anything I care to buy), and donate directly.
You may have heard that Apple has dumped Justin Long, the guy who played the Mac to John Hodgman's PC in their tv ads. At long last, now you can see the new Mac ads that don't have Justin Long in them!
