Archive for May, 2008
Monday, May 5th, 2008
If you're reading this in a feed reader, the Penguin feeds are clearly back up. They've been down for a few days, while I worked through some .htaccess hackery to account from the move to the mac subdomain. Old subscriptions at http://steidler.net/feed and new subscriptions at http://mac.steidler.net/feed should now both ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
(Via Ars Technica.)
Brent Simmons of NewsGator gave Ars the scoop about some interesting updates on the way for NetNewsWire, the company's premiere RSS reader for Mac OS X.
In January NewsGator announced that all of its consumer products, including NetNewsWire, were going free. NetNewsWire 3.1 was released that same month, but ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
(Via Macworld.)
iPhone users who need a speed boost over the EDGE connection find the phone’s Wi-Fi functionality quite handy. The only problem is locating a hotspot to use it on. However, Starbucks and AT&T struck a deal earlier this year that will see the coffee retailer’s Wi-Fi hotspots, currently served ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
(Via RedEye.)
Hold on, Jimmy. Things are about to really start moving.
I was sitting here thinking about what we really haven't talked much about and that's 3G and its specific applications.
Let me explain. We know that the 3G iPhone is the next iPhone. No matter what it looks like, no matter ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
(Via RedEye.)
I am a huge fan of Internet radio. Well, let me put it this way ... I used to have this hobby when I was younger -- trying to tune in distant AM stations on a regular old AM radio. I used to also have a shortwave radio. Now, ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
(Via Apple Gazette.)
It was reported late last week that Apple is paying $16.00 for every $14.99 movie that it sells in iTunes under its new deal with major studios like 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., and Paramount Pictures…just to name a few. All the major studios ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
(Via Macworld.)
Microsoft's three-month courtship of Yahoo has ended but it changed both companies forever and neither can expect to return to the way they were.
Microsoft and Yahoo will need to deliver on promises, address questions, reassess and adjust plans and deal with challenges that grew from and during the attempted ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
(Via Mac OS X Hints.)
When Apple introduced System 7—way back in 1991—one of its most-notable features was quick and simple folder sharing with anyone on your network. Just click a folder, enable sharing, define which users would have access to the folder, and you were done. OS X, of course, ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
(Via AppleInsider.)
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has confirmed the move Saturday evening in a letter that has been delivered to Yahoo chief Jerry Yang as well as published online.
The Microsoft executive has revealed that his company earlier this week raised its bid from $31 per share to $33, but claims that ...
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