Archived Links for June 2006

6.21	Marketwatch.com	NAND flash shortage on horizon, Gartner forecasts: Matt Andrejczak: There will be a shortage of NAND flash by the fourth quarter, Gartner Inc. predicts, especially if Apple Computer Inc. unveils a NAND-flash iPod music player with 10-to-12 gigabytes of storage capacity this fall.
6.21	MacDailyNews	How to triple-boot Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows XP on an Apple Mac, Staff: Moving your entire product line of both hardware and software from one CPU architecture to another isn’t an easy job, but given its progress so far I’d say that Apple could write the book on it.
6.21	O’Reilly	Apple is really a consumer electronics company, Jeremiah Foster: Apple is moving in the wrong direction.
6.21	Kusnetz.net	Mac Mini Installed in Prius, Staff: Prius owner installs a Macintosh Mini in his dashboard.
6.21	Yahoo! Finance	Best Buy Tests Selling Macs at Stores, Staff: The nation’ s largest consumer electronics retailer is testing the possibility of selling Apple Computer Inc.’ s full line of computers in its stores.
6.21	MacNN	Mac demand may offset iPod sales, Staff: UBS analyst Ben Reitzes today predicted sequentially lower iPod sales for Apple in the third quarter of this year, but expects new iPods next quarter and noted that MacBook demand is solid.
6.20	ZDNet	Apple acknowledges user frustrations over roadmap, Renai LeMay: People always complain that Apple doesn’ t give systems admins or systems architects enough of a roadmap of where our technologies are going.
6.20	Leftlane News	Saturn aims to make dealerships like Apple Store, Staff: General Manager Jill Lajdziak said that the changes will give Saturn showrooms a more contemporary, more interactive look and feel like an Apple store.
6.20	Apple Matters	Fixing Mac Pricing, Chris Howard: Are Macs too expensive?
6.16	Low End Mac	10 of the Most Important Macs Ever, Adam Robert Guha: I will take a look back on the best Apples and give my explanation of why I believe they are significant in one way or another.
6.12	Gizmodo	White MacBook Faster Than More Expensive Black MacBook?, Staff: Those Apple zealots over at Macworld got their hands on a souped up white MacBook and found some interesting results relating to the MacBooks" performances.
6.12	MacNN	600 PM G5 Macs remaster James Bond, Staff: Sony will release the James Bond Ultimate Edition DVD Collection on July 17th, offering sharper sound and images for all 20 James Bond movies which were remastered by DTS Digital Images using an installation of 600 Power Mac G5 systems.
6.12	MacSlash	Dvorak Admits, On Video, To Being A Troll, Staff: Dave Winer videotaped a conversation with John Dvorak where he explained his techniques for driving traffic to his stories by deliberately angering Mac users.
6.12	Macworld UK	Microsoft rings last bell for Windows 98, ME, Jeremy Kirk: Microsoft has warned customers that they face security risks if they continue to use its older operating systems after it ends support for them next month.
6.12	MacDailyNews	Computer Industry Almanac: Apple projected to sell 33 million Macs for 2006 to 2010, Staff: According to new market research reports by Computer Industry Almanac, in the first 30 years of the PC industry, from 1975 to 2004, cumulative PC sales surpassed 1.4B units.
6.09	Apple Matters	Apple and Microsoft’s Conflicting Design Philosophies, James R. Stoup: I ran across a very well thought out bit of writing recently by a guy named Joel Spolsky entitled How Microsoft Lost the API War. It was a very fascinating look at how Micorosoft operates and gives much insight into its corporate culture.
6.08	Apple Matters	Remembering the Apple IIc, Devanshu Mehta: We bought an Apple IIc, along with close to half a million other people that year, for nearly $2,000 with a printer and software.
6.08	CNN.com	Apple surpasses beer on college campuses, Staff: In a rare instance, Apple Computer Inc.’ s iconic iPod music player surpassed beer drinking as the most in thing among undergraduate college students.
6.07	Mac Night Owl	The Case for an Educational Mac, Gene Steinberg: Years ago, when I first arrived in Arizona, I visited the Scottsdale school district, which, at the time, was a showpiece for Mac technology. It has since gone to Windows.
6.05	DigiTimes	Apple books considerable NAND flash capacity with Korean chipmakers for 8GB iPod?, J. Lien & E. Lam: Following recent signs of recovery for the price of NAND flash, industry sources are confident that the industry should break out of its low point as Apple is booking considerable capacity at chip makers, according to industry sources.
6.05	Apple Matters	June 5, 1979: Apple Introduces Apple II, Chris Seibold: The Apple I was an interesting toy for hobbyists but far too technical for the masses. The founders of Apple felt that a more approachable machine could be a big seller. That machine, designed by Steve Wozniak, was the Apple II.
6.05	Macworld	The weekend Web site, Chuck Toporek: Thanks to iWeb, the Web-design software included with Apple’ s iLife 06 suite ($79), setting up your own Web page, including blogs, podcasts, photo slide shows, and embedded movies, has never been simpler.
6.05	Macworld	Microsoft to pull PDF support from Office 2007, Elizabeth Montalbano: Microsoft has decided to delete from its next version of Office an automatic way to save documents in PDF (Portable Document Format) after Adobe threatened to take legal action.
6.05	Computerworld	Intel exec: Apple pushing us in new directions, Sumner Lemon: One year after Apple Computer Inc. announced plans to use Intel Corp. processors in its computers, Apple is pushing the world’ s largest chip maker into new directions, a top executive said today.
6.05	Playlist	Apple back to school promo offers free iPod nano, Jim Dalrymple: Apple is offering students a way to get a free iPod nano when doing their back to school shopping this summer.
6.05	MacDailyNews	Microsoft CEO Ballmer spends two days unsuccessfully trying to clean Windows PC malware, Staff: Microsoft executives love telling stories against each other. Here’ s one that platforms vice-president Jim Allchin told at a recent Windows Vista reviewers conference about chief executive Steve Ballmer, David Frith reports for Australian IT.
6.02	PC Magazine	Microsoft Denies iPod Rival Rumors, Bary Alyssa Johnson: Microsoft reps have denied recent rumors alleging that it has partnered with a number of Japanese consumer electronics companies to develop a device to compete in Japan with Applersquo;s iPod.
5.30	Mac Night Owl	The Hopes and Dreams for the Mac Pro, Gene Steinberg: Apple will be announcing a professional desktop computer, known as the Mac Pro, during the WWDC in August.