Tag Archives: macintosh

Cats and Dogs Living Together?

Posted on April 5, 2006 by jetrotz

  What’s next, is hell going to freeze over? Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp … Continue reading →

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iPhoto ‘06

Posted on January 24, 2006 by jetrotz

Forget about Aperture’s ‘beta release’ – it’s all about iLife ’06! I installed the yearly update late last week, and good lord does it rock. The improvements to iPhoto alone are worth the price of admission. My iPhoto’05 library was … Continue reading →

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Such Low Heights

Posted on January 23, 2006 by jetrotz

In an interesting case of ‘who had the rights,’ it’s been widely reported on the web that Apple’s first video ad campaign promoting the new ‘Intel Inside’ Macs is a blatant rip off of one of my favorite bands music … Continue reading →

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Aperture Anxiety

Posted on December 5, 2005 by jetrotz

In an exhaustive review on ars.technica, serious concerns are raised about the RAW import/translation capabilities of the new monster app from Apple. While they rave about the UI and organization tools in Aperture, they point out that the output from … Continue reading →

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Widening our view of Aperture

Posted on November 2, 2005 by jetrotz

This is a good read. Rob Galbraith digs more deeply into Apple’s Aperture due later this month. In addition to looking at many of the features in more detail, Rob has some interesting conclusions about how the new app compares … Continue reading →

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PhotoBooth, FrontRow

Posted on October 28, 2005 by jetrotz

It didn’t take long. Both FrontRow (Apple’s 10-foot multimedia interface) and PhotoBooth (another cute Mac app designed to take snaps of a user a la an old school photo booth) have been modified to work on most any Mac, not … Continue reading →

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iPhoto Grows Up

Posted on October 20, 2005 by jetrotz

It wasn’t enough for Apple to surprise everyone with a Video iPod last week, a Windows-Media-Center-like iMac (interesting) and to begin offering network television broadcasts for download on the ITMS. Yesterday, in an event I wasn’t even aware of in … Continue reading →

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Sgt Pepper, French Horn & the Mac

Posted on August 16, 2005 by jetrotz

As Sir Paul McCartney was prepping for his Live 8 performance, he realized that there was no arrangement at hand for the four french horns in the piece. With the help of Sir George Martin and a Mac laptop running … Continue reading →

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$50 iBooks cause stampede!

Posted on August 16, 2005 by jetrotz

Yes, there really was a stampede. No one was seriously injured, but this morning’s $50 iBook sale was an insane mob scene by all accounts. Lines of parked cars started to form around 1:30am and by 7:00am, when the sale … Continue reading →

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iChatAV on CNN’s Situation Room

Posted on August 9, 2005 by jetrotz

You go Wolf! On the debut of Wolf Blitzer’s new show yesterday, our favorite blog reporters Jacki Schechner and Abbi Tatton held a webcam interview with Joichi Ito, who then wrote about the interview on his blog. Joichi explains that … Continue reading →

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