Archived Links for July 2008

07.28	MacNN	RSOL joins growing list of Mac Clone suppliers, Staff: RSOL says its new Jive Series Desktops will run Mac OS X, although the company is not offering any official support for the OS.
07.28	Electronista	New Macs to get custom platform?, Staff: Apple is dropping Intel’s reference platform in favor of custom circuitry, according to a new rumor floated by AppleInsider.
07.28	AppleInsider	Apple’s next-gen Macs to have something special under the hood, Kasper Jade: A new generation of personal computers on the way from Apple Inc. may sport some of the most significant architectural changes since the Mac maker made the jump from PowerPC processors to those manufactured by Intel Corp., AppleInsider has learned.
07.28	MacNN	Google adds iCal support to Calendar, Staff: Google’s web-based Calendar application should now support iCal integration, the company has announced.
07.28	Electronista	Next MacBooks to tout glass trackpads?, Staff: The next generation of MacBooks will mark a radical change to the company’s trackpad design, says a new rumor.
07.28	Electronista	Verizon: iPhone 3G has impact, but ’minimal’, Staff: The launch of the iPhone 3G has affected Verizon’s sales since launch but only in a small way, the company said today when discussing its latest quarterly results.
07.28	Low End Mac	Bumps in the Road for G3 Macs, John Hatchett: When you are using an old computer like my Pismo and G3 iMac, occasionally there are bumps in the night.
07.28	Low End Mac	Macs Are Where I Want to Be, Simon Royal: As a child of the 1970s (albeit by only two months), I grew up when computing was at its ripest. I started my computing venture with the likes of a Commodore 64 and Acorn 3010.
07.28	Apple Matters	Apple’s Pricing Scheme Is Starting To Bother Me, James R. Stoup: I realize that Apple sells premium hardware, and I realize you are paying for OS X, and I realize that you get so much more with the Mac, but a price difference of over $1,500? Really? Am I the only one who thinks this is excessive?
07.25	Low End Mac	New ’Books Soon, ’Product Transision’ Rumors Includes Tablet, Fan Control Software, and More, Charles Moore: All signs point to new Apple notebooks Real Soon Now: Apple is limiting shipments to Best Buy and has ordered new circuit boards, and Intel recently released its mobile Centrino 2 platform and promises its first quad-core mobile CPU in August.
07.24	Low End Mac	Could a Minitower Mac Be Apple’s ’Transitional Product’?, Frank Fox: The only thing missing from Apple’s lineup is a low cost, high volume minitower for the consumer who doesn’t need professional performance.
07.24	Apple Matters	Want to Beat the iPhone? First Beat the iPod., Chris Seibold: iPod killers have come and gone, and come and gone, and come and well, lingered on like an unwanted wart. iPod killing is an old game and no one seems interested in displacing the thing anymore, now all attention has turned to creating an iPhone killer.
07.24	Mac Night Owl	Apple Without Steve Jobs, Gene Steinberg: The way Wall Street reacted to recent rumors about Steve Jobs and whether or not he’s seriously ill certainly mirrors the common perception that the company he co-founded can’t possibly succeed without him.
07.23	Apple Matters	Welcome to the Real World, Apple, Chris Howard: Today’s headlines on my local newspaper’s website made for an interesting contrast. The first read, "Apple rides high on Macs and iPods", the second, "Apple’s MobileMe meltdown". The real world can be a wonderful place of billion dollar earnings, but it can also be a place that, like an over zealous terrier, bites you on the trouser leg and refuses to let go.
07.23	Mac Night Owl	The MobileMe Wrecking Ball, Gene Steinberg: Just a few weeks before the troubled MobileMe launch, I ran into increasing difficulties sending and receiving .Mac email from my desktop client, Apple’s own Mail app.
07.17	Apple Matters	What’s Next for the iPhone?, Chris Seibold: So where is the iPhone headed? What is going to have you standing in line in six months or next year?
07.16	Mac Night Owl	Sometimes Apple Admits It’s Wrong, Gene Steinberg: As the fallout from the failed MobileMe launch continues to spread, I was a little surprised, Wednesday morning, when I got an email at my mac.com email Inbox from Apple on the subject. Yes, folks, I will have to be dragged kicking and screaming to use me.com instead.
07.15	Mac Night Owl	Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Clone Your Mac, Gene Steinberg: Since Psystar, a tiny Florida-based company, began to sell Mac clones this past spring, I’m sure many of you wondered just when Apple would respond.
07.04	MacNN	Apple explains iPhone 3G upgrade process, Staff: Apple this week began posting information for iPhone users intending to update their device to the new iPhone 3G.
07.04	Low End Mac	Wouldn’t Life Be Great with an iSlate?, John Hatchett: Combine Apple’s know-how with touch screen tech from the iPhone and the iPod touch, and you can see how such a device would also be able to collect information and notes for data collections.
07.04	Apple Matters	The iPhone 3G Guided Tour Under a Microscope, Aayush Arya: Furthering a trend that has been going on for well over a year now, Apple released the iPhone 3G Guided Tour to give us a fairly detailed sneak peak into what the new version of the iPhone is going to bring to the table.
07.04	CNN Money.com	Axel Springer’s 10,000 employees switching to Mac, Philip Elmer-DeWitt: Axel Springer AG, one of Europe’s largest newspaper publishers, with 10,000 employees and more than 150 papers in 30 countries, including its flagship Die Welt, announced on Friday that it is switching its entire operation from PCs to Macs.
07.04	MacDailyNews	Happy Independence Day!, Staff: If you’re celebrating today, too, we wish you a happy and safe Fourth!
07.04	CNET	My Mac problem: Too many and too alike, Matt Asay: Here in the Asay home we have a growing problem: Each year we add a Mac to the fold, making it increasingly more difficult to tell them apart.
07.03	Low End Mac	The Macintosh Portable Started a Notebook Revolution, Carl Nygren: We often forget where portable Macs first started: the Macintosh Portable. Sure, there were laptops before the Mac Portable, but they were ugly, slow, and not user-friendly.
07.03	Macworld	Will higher data plan costs hurt iPhone 3G sales?, Hadley Stern: Nothing stirs the imagination like an major Apple product update such as the iPhone 3G. Weeks before its July 11 release date, people will talk excitedly about its new features, thrill to its touted benefits, and dream of the day they can finally hold one in their hands. Very little, it seems, can dim people’s enthusiasm. Until the pricing information gets released, and the cold, hard sting of dollars and cents sets in.
07.03	CNN Money.com	All eyes on the iPhone App Store, Philip Elmer-DeWitt: The great scramble among software developers to write the first iPhone killer app is coming to a head.
07.03	APC	Why OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard should leave PowerPC in the cold, Seamus Byrne: If Snow Leopard is all about a bedrock for the future of computing, why do so many people still call for their legacy hardware to be supported?
07.03	Bloomberg.com	Apple Sued Again by Investor Over Backdated Options, Joel Rosenblatt: Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs and other managers were accused in an investor lawsuit against the company of backdating stock-option awards to maximize their personal profit.
07.03	Cult of Mac	Counterpoint: "Hello", Don’t Change the Design, Leigh McMullen: While the Macbook / Pro line as well as the MacPro’s are essentially indistinguishable from their predecessors, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. It’s a design philosophy that has powered BMW and Mercedes for a good long while.
07.03	Electronista	Apple slashes $500 from MB Air SSD price, Staff: Apple on Friday has quietly cut the price on the MacBook Air’s solid-state drive by $500, bringing the price of the pre-built 1.8GHz model with the 64 GB flash drive to $2,598 from its previous $3,098.
07.03	Mac Night Owl	The Snow Leopard Report: Selling Updates Without New Features, Gene Steinberg: To be sure, with rare exceptions, customers on both the Mac and PC platforms have come to expect that a software publisher will promise lots of fancy new features with a major version upgrade.
07.02	Low End Mac	Turn Your Old Mac into a Website Server with Free Open Source Software, Jason Packer: LAMP is an acronym for Linux Apache MySQL PHP. It’s a collection of software (called a stack, in server parlance) that turns any ordinary machine into a server capable of dishing out dynamic websites.
07.02	Apple Matters	Behold, the Revolutionary Apple Wireless Touchboard Concept, Aayush Arya: If you’ve ever had a chance to use one of Apple’s recent notebooks for any length of time, you know that they ship with the best trackpads in the world. The trackpads are so awesome, in fact, that the Mighty Mouse doesn’t look quite so mighty in front of them and it’s the only reason for my reluctance to switch from my 17-inch MacBook Pro to a 24-inch iMac.
07.02	Cult of Mac	Hello: Macs Are About to Get Interesting Again, Pete Mortensen: I’ve been alluding to this for a few months now, but let me repeat: The Mac is poised for innovation over the next few years on a scale that we haven’t experienced since the initial move to OS X in the previous decade.
07.02	The Sydney Morning Herald	Use Microsoft to win Apple products, Asher Moses: Microsoft is dangling prizes made by arch-nemesis Apple to entice Australian web surfers to give its online search products a second chance.
07.01	MacMegasite	Nikon finally releases D700 digital SLR camera, Staff: After months of rumors and frequent leaks, Nikon, Inc. today introduced the new D700 digital SLR camera featuring a 12.1-effective megapixel Nikon FX-format sensor that measures 23.9 x 36mm, which is nearly identical to the size of 35mm film.
07.01	Forbes.com	Farewell, Bill Gates, Daniel Lyons: First to go is Bill Gates, who on June 27 stepped aside at Microsoft. Next, I’d wager, will be Steve Jobs, for health reasons.
07.01	MDA	The MDA Personal Achievement Award - Jonathan Ive, Apple, Staff: This year the MDA personal achievement award winner is Jonathan Ive for his design of the Apple iPhone and its user interface. The physical design of the iPhone and its intuitive user interface has completely redefined the mobile phone as we know it.
07.01	Mac Night Owl	Apple and the Cloners: Round Two, Gene Steinberg: When Apple switched to Intel processors, the ugly specter of cloning rose yet again. After all, if a Mac had basically the same hardware as the typical Windows box, certainly it should be possible to install Mac OS X on the latter.