Archive for November, 2007

Gmail IMAP, Mail.app and iPhone Mail in harmony

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

(Via Hawk Wings.) Hmmm…. Late to the party on this one, but still worth posting. Derek Punsalan has posted a comprehensive guide to getting Gmail’s new IMAP service, Apple Mail and the iPhone’s Mail.app working together in perfect harmony. He explains how to mail the special folders in Mail.app ...

Brand Jealousy, Scoble Has It Bad

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

(Via myapplemenu.) by Richard Stiennon, ZDNet.com The Scobleizer vents his frustration with the Apple Brand Juggernaut in his post today. He seems upset that Mac users are so vehement in defense of Apple products. Well, after years of seeing the Wintel duopoly dominate PC development it’s about time a contender is creeping ...

links for 2007-11-17

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

PackRat 1.5.3 (tags: mac software gtd)

Apple publishes FY2007 financial results

Friday, November 16th, 2007

(Via MacNN.) Apple has published a report on its 2007 fiscal year, revealing a number of critical facts about the company. The company accumulated approximately $24 billion in revenue for the year, creating $3.5 billion in net profit; this marks an improvement over 2006's figures of $19.3 in revenue and ...

Author Says The iPhone is a Gutenberg Moment

Friday, November 16th, 2007

(Via The Mac Observer.) The iPhone gives people the ability to access the vast knowledge of the Internet almost anywhere they go, and that makes the iPhone one of the most important inventions ever, according to Kevin Myers at the Belfast Telegraph on Friday. In fact, it could be another Gutenberg moment in ...

Where did that command go?

Friday, November 16th, 2007

(Via Editors' Notes Weblog.) Rob Griffiths is having a harder time finding commands lately, and he thinks Apple's failure to stick to its own Human Interface Guidelines is the main reason why.

Seven cool features of Leopard that might get stubborn friends to upgrade

Friday, November 16th, 2007

(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog.) There are dozens of little niceties in Leopard: like how Front Row now lives on my iBook (sans remote) and allows me to operate the thing as a sort of thin-client media jukebox (courtesy a Mac mini server). Or how Font Book now prints books of ...

Solidify that Leopard menubar for good

Friday, November 16th, 2007

(Via Infinite Loop.) Many Leopard users are still unhappy with the translucent menubar, and a few dirty fixes have been floating around for some time. But there's a one-line Terminal command that makes the menubar solid for good. No more editing all of your desktop backgrounds!

Accessing My Home Music Library with Simplify Media

Friday, November 16th, 2007

(Via TidBITS.) When Apple first added the capability to share an iTunes library with other iTunes users on the network, my friend David Blatner loved the fact that he could sit on his porch at home with his laptop and stream music located on his computer at work. The Internet is ...

Google, Sun headed for conflict over Android?

Friday, November 16th, 2007

(Via MacNN.) Google and Sun Microsystems may be headed towards conflict over the former's Android operating system, industry observers suggest. Android is able to make use of Sun's Java programming language, but instead of relying on the official Java Micro Edition engine, Google has developed a virtual machine of its ...