…feel old. I wonder how well it works with the OS X?
Palm, which essentially invented the smartphone category, is facing sales that have plunged and Apple’s iPhone and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry have stolen market share. At the Consumer Electronics Show Thursday, Palm unveiled the Pre, featuring a new operating system that looks pretty sweet!
I’ve been searching for “Things” for quite some time.
I’ve been through so many “to-do” apps I can’t even begin to count them all. I’ve never really had one stick. Today, I was trying to catch up on my RSS feeds in Reader and thanks to Sean Sperte… I tried out Things. This is the application I’ve been looking for… it has everything I’ve wanted plus an app for my iPhone too!
Plan on waiting for it to load, that will have to be fixed before it launches!
Here’s a great blog highlighting embarrassing Photoshop or design work. Check it out.
via Kottke
I just read about this in a Shaun Inman post regarding Mail.app troubles and had to check it out. I love it!
Mail Unread Menu is a simple menu bar application which can provide you with a quick and easy way to see how many unread email messages are in Apple’s Mail.
Should be interesting to see how this plays out…
“We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously.”
Chris Johnston has announced the availability of a public WordPress 2.5 demo site. I went in and played around within the admin panel and it looks sooooo nice. I’m hoping for the ability to upload any media for a post, not just images. We’ll see! Can’t wait for March!
I’ve been pretty good in iTunes lately on “New Music Tuesdays”… refraining from clicking the all to easy to use “BUY ALBUM” button. Last night I noticed that Amazon has begun to sell DRM free MP3 files on AmazonMP3 . My first instinct was to dismiss it as another one of those “iTunes killers” that wind up extinct in no time at all, but then I noticed that it actually worked with Mac and iTunes/iPod. This was something new. First thing this morning, I search around the store a bit. There is a decent selection of music, nowhere near what iTunes has, but still not bad. I found a Marc Broussard CD I didn’t have for $4.52, and I’m a sucker for live music. I downloaded the AmazonMP3 Downloader which was pretty simple, clicked “Buy MP3 Album” and in no time, I’m listening in iTunes. Sweet. AmazonMP3 is priced right, DRM-free, and is very easy to use.
This is tough to read and feel good about as a designer. Adobe is saying that Universal apps could be at least a year away, that could present a dilemma for anyone looking to purchase a new Mac between now and then.
During his keynote at Macworld Expo San Francisco, Jobs showed Photoshop running smoothly under Apple’s emulation environment called Rosetta, but noted while Photoshop was usable for a few tasks, the performance would not be adequate for professionals.
While Adobe confirmed virtually all of its applications run under Apple’s Rosetta emulation environment, it said that customers would experience a few problems as well as a noticeable performance gap.
“In general, applications that are not designed to run on Intel-based Mac computers, including current versions of Adobe’s creative professional applications, may be noticeably slower than they are running on PowerPC-based Macs. Instead of experiencing much-anticipated speed enhancements, customers are likely to see some degradation of performance.”
The company said that customers could mitigate some of these performance issues by using machines with large amounts of memory–at least one gigabyte of RAM, but recommends that professionals use PowerPC-based Macs for maximum workflow efficiency.
“Mac-based customers looking for optimal performance may prefer to run Adobe Creative Suite 2, Studio 8, and their components on PowerPC systems until we release future versions of our software as Universal applications,” the company said.
