Archived Links for November 2006

11.27	SFGate.com	Zune Reinforces Microsoft’s Dorky Image, C.W. Nevius: Either the Micro-guys are clueless dorks -- Zune is as expensive as iPod, bulkier, and is neither as easy to work as iPod nor as cool. Or, worse yet, the boys up north are malicious bullies.
11.27	DigiTimes	Apple and ViewSonic to unveil 17-inch widescreen LCD monitors soon, Max Wang and Emily Chuang: LCD vendors such as ViewSonic and Apple are set to launch 17-inch widescreen LCD monitors by year-end or the first quarter of 2007, according to industry sources.
11.27	MacNN	Another hole surfaces in Mac OS X, Staff: The French Security Incident Response Team has published another vulnerability in Mac OS X that could allow local attackers to cause denial of service.
11.27	Apple Matters	November 27, 1996: Jobs Calls Amelio, Chris Seibold : Apple was in a bad way and Gil Amelio was doing everything he could think of to right the ship. Remedies included layoffs, killing projects and axing the Performa line. One thing that needed to be addressed was Apple’s next generation operating system, the one Apple had been promising for years and failing to deliver.
11.27	Macworld	Wii, PS3, Xbox 360... does the Mac matter for games?, Peter Cohen: It’s a tough season for stalwart Mac gamers as Sony and Nintendo launch new game consoles and Microsoft moves into year two of its Xbox 360 campaign. With so many powerful video game consoles on the market, does the Mac even matter for games anymore?
11.27	Macworld	PlayStation 3, Wii prices falling online, Martyn Williams, IDG News Service: The recently-launched PlayStation 3 and Wii game consoles remain popular on Internet auction sites, but the price they are fetching is falling as launch-related hype dies down.
11.27	Wired News	Zune, Creative Commons Don’t Mix, Eliot Van Buskirk: The device has been marketed as a way to help people get around the music industry’s tough antipiracy restrictions through a novel wireless file-sharing feature, and as far as it goes that’s pretty cool. But look a little closer and you’ll see a glaring contradiction: The Zune only frees up tunes for a limited free sampling period -- a policy that actually interferes with the rights of artists who want people to share their works freely.
11.27	MarketWatch.com	Demand for iPod boosts Apple, Rex Crum: Demand for iPods so outstripped that for Microsoft Corp.’s rival Zune product that even an iPod accessory was outselling Microsoft’s media player.
11.27	Smarthouse	Apple Mac Tablet PC With Docking Station In 2007, David Richards: Sources in Taiwan have said that the focus has been more on the home and the education environment than the enterprise marketplace. Several months ago I was told that Apple was exploring a neat new device that is basically a touch screen that links to various source devices including a brand new media center that Apple is planning to launch next year.
11.26	Herald Tribune	Apple’s quest to put us at ease with technology, Alice Rawsthorn: Ask designers which companies excel at design, and they’ll probably say Apple. But if you ask Jonathan Ive, Apple’s senior vice president of industrial design, how Apple does it, he seems almost apologetic. "It sounds unremarkable and even naive, but it’s our obsession with making really great products," he said. "It’s at the heart of everything we do. I don’t understand how you can exist as a company and not have it."
11.26	Washingtonpost.com	Mac vs. PC: How to Decide, Rob Pegoraro: A Mac Mini, iMac desktop or MacBook laptop -- starting at $599, $999 and $1,099, respectively -- will often cost more than a PC with about the same storage and processing power. But it is the easiest option.
11.24	MacNN	Numerous Apple patents surface, Staff: The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has published numerous patents from Apple regarding various technologies, which range from ’storing a movie within a movie’ to the utilization of podcasts on portable media devices.
11.24	Playlist	Zune: So you want to be an iPod killer, Mike Elgan, Computerworld: Microsoft’s Zune finally shipped, and everyone agrees: It’s nice but definitely no "iPod killer." But it could be. And should be. I’ll tell you how in a minute.
11.24	Mac Night Owl	Do You Want to Rent Music?, Gene Steinberg: If you ask Steve Jobs, he’ll tell you that people want to own their music. He can point to the fact that over a billion-and-a-half songs have been sold at the iTunes store, and that Apple holds over 80% of the legal music download market in the U.S.
11.24	Moblog	The Windows Shutdown crapfest, Moishe: I worked at Microsoft for about 7 years total, from 1994 to 1998, and from 2002 to 2006. My team had a very talented UI designer and my particular feature had a good, headstrong program manager with strong ideas about user experience. We had a Mac that we looked to as a paragon of clean UI. Of course the Shell team also had some great UI designers and numerous good, headstrong PMs who valued (I can only assume) simplicity and so on. Perhaps they had a Mac too.
11.24	The Motley Fool	iPhone Calling?, Tim Beyers: Alligators in New York City sewers. Area 51. The Boogeyman. And, of course, the iPhone. Urban legends, all. Or are they? More than a few industry sources now say that Apple is at work on another so-called iPhone, and Motorola doesn’t appear to be a partner this time around.
11.23	Mac Night Owl	The Mac Hardware Report: Ready to Ditch Your PowerPC Yet?, Gene Steinberg: When Apple’s momentous switch to Intel processors was announced in June 2005, Steve Jobs said that the migration would continue until the end of 2007. Now maybe that’s what Apple felt at the time, but, as most of you know, the entire process was completed 16 months early, in August.
11.22	TechWeb	Consumer Reports Rates Apple Best Place To Shop, Sharon Gaudin: Thinking of buying a PC, a Mac or a laptop this holiday season? If you’re in the market for a MacBook or a Mac desktop, Apple’s own Web site and its walk-in stores are the best places to buy, according to a survey by Consumer Reports magazine.
11.21	MacNN	Apple to use power-generating heatsinks?, Staff: Apple is currently in talks with Eneco -- an engineering firm -- to use a new Thermal Chip which is said to convert heat into electricity, bouncing the free electrons of hot metal against cold metal to capture the resulting energy.
11.21	MacNN	Apple, Coke launch promo in UK, Staff: Apple and Coca-Cola have joined forces in the UK for a new Coke + iTunes promotion, offering thousands of London Piccadilly Circus visitors the chance to win free songs from the iTunes Music Store.
11.21	Macworld	Ditch the Documents folder, Rob Griffiths: Last week, I wrote a tip on how to make OS X always use expanded Save dialogs. In the associated forum thread, the conversation got a bit off track, and there was some discussion on saving files in general. A poster complained about the number of applications that are writing files into his Documents folder, making it very hard for him to spot his files within the mass of other entries.
11.21	Macworld	Novell backs away from Ballmer comments on Linux, Eric Lai, Computerworld: Novell on Monday distanced itself from comments last week by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer that the Linux operating system infringes on Microsoft patents, although the two companies said that their recently-unveiled alliance remains intact.
11.21	Macworld	Tacos-for-life for a PlayStation 3, Martyn Williams, IDG News Service: People have pushed and shoved for it, queued overnight in the rain for it and its been sold online at great profit. Now the Taco Bell fastfood chain is offering a "lifetime" of tacos in exchange for a PlayStation 3.
11.21	MacMegasite	New Poll: PS3 or Wii, Mike: With all of the hype over Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo’s Wii, I’ve created a poll to see which system our readers prefer.
11.21	MacMerc.com	Put some music on. Apple posts new iPod shuffle ad., RickMacMerc: The freshly posted iPod shuffle ad is notable for its depiction of full-color, non-dancing people putting on and taking off their clothes and then affixing the second generation iPod shuffle to whatever outfit they end up with. The ad features the song Who’s Gonna Sing? by The Prototypes.
11.21	Mac Night Owl	Memo to Microsoft: Shouldn’t the Best Product Win?, Gene Steinberg: For years, Mac users have been accustomed to a world where being second-best is good enough for most people. So even though most everyone who puts the Mac OS and Windows into a direct comparison concludes that the former is better than the letter, the marketplace made a different decision.
11.21	MacosXrumors	Apple shares hit historic high, Alexandros Roussos: The company’s stock (AAPL) closed up 2.46%, or $2.13 at $88.60 during the regular trading session and is now trading at nearly $89 in the after hours session.
11.21	MarketWatch.com	Apple May Get the Best of Vista, Barrons: On Nov. 8, Microsoft announced that Vista code has been released to manufacturers (RTM), signifying the product is ready for general availability. The company has also announced that Vista for the enterprise [business applications] will launch Nov. 30 and Vista for the masses will broadly launch on Jan. 30, putting to rest speculations of further delays.
11.21	BusinessWeek	Wanna Invest In the iPod? Stick with Nvidia, one analyst says, Arik Hesseldahl: Here’s still more fuel to the fire on the speculation of a video iPod and iPhone. An interesting research note crossed my desk this morning from FBR Research analyst Chris Caso concerning graphics chipmaker Nvidia and PortalPlayer, one of the main chip suppliers on the iPod.
11.21	DigiTimes	Commentary: Apple would face many challenges with iPhone, Dainel Shen and Steve Shen: With reports circulating that an iPhone from Apple Computer is likely to debut in the first half of 2007, the introduction of an iPhone could have an adverse impact on sales of music handsets by other vendors should Apple’s first order for an iPhone total 12 million units as reported earlier.
11.21	The Washington Times	Laptops polish Apple’s image, Mark Kellner: Apple Computer has had 30 good years and 2006 will go down as one of the company’s best, if not the best, so far.
11.20	The Mercury News	An Apple phone? Palm CEO says, ’What, me worry?’, Sarah Jane Tribble and Dean Takahashi: Palm CEO Ed Colligan seems downright nonchalant about rumors that Apple may introduce a mobile phone to market in the coming year.
11.20	Low End Mac	One Year with My ’Free’ Mac mini, Hardy Menagh: December marks one year since I started using a G4 Mac mini. For something the size of a fruitcake, the mini is a powerful little computer. Mine has seen daily use for word processing, browsing and email, web graphics, sound and music editing, and more. My wife also has a user account on the mini and uses it for Web access and word processing.
11.20	Low End Mac	To AppleCare or Not to AppleCare?, Charles W Moore and Dan Knight: I’ve never purchased an extended warranty for anything, including AppleCare for the new Apple computers I’ve bought over the past 14 years, but interestingly, one of the exceptions Consumer Reports makes to it’s "don’t buy extended warranties" advice is AppleCare coverage for an Apple computer - because it includes extended tech support and Apple only offers a stingy 90 days of free phone phone tech support.
11.20	Wired News	Bill O’Reilly Hates the iPod, Pete Mortensen: When I’m not wondering what Bill O’Reilly is good for, I really wonder what his radio show is for. Now we know: To generate the most hilarious anti-iPod rant this side of the comments thread whenever I post about Zune.
11.20	MacDailyNews	Nintendo sells over 600,000 Wii consoles at launch, Staff: "Nintendo had no problem getting rid of its first batch of its Wii gaming console. According to media reports, U.S. buyers snapped up about 600,000 devices within a few minutes after launch. Nintendo promised to follow up with 400,000 more consoles until the end of the year," Wolfgang Gruener reports for TG Daily.
11.20	MacDailyNews	Vote for MarketWatch 2006 CEO of the Year (Apple CEO Steve Jobs among nominees), Staff: The Readers’ Choice is your chance to let MarketWatch know who you think should be the 2006 CEO of the Year. Cast your vote now and be entered for a chance to win MarketWatch’s "Travel Like a CEO" grand prize worth $10,000.
11.20	MacDailyNews	First look at Microsoft Windows Vista - It’s time to get a Mac, Staff: Like it or not, you’ll probably be using Windows Vista before you know it.
11.17	Low End Mac	Rare Apple II Jigsaw Puzzle Found on eBay, Joshua Coventry: Several months ago I was searching eBay, as many of you do, just to pass some time. I discovered an item I never expected to find, since it’s incredibly rare - an original Apple II jigsaw puzzle.
11.17	Apple Matters	Zune Update!, Chris Seibold : So you’re wondering how the Zune is selling? No problem AM is here for you! At this moment (1:47 EST) the Zune is the 15th best seller at Amazon in electronics. Sounds groovy right? Well it does until you realize that the Zune is in line behind 6 iPods, a flash drive, 3 cameras and, most tellingly, the SanDisk SDMX4-2048 Sansa e250 2 GB MP3 Player with SD Expansion Slot. Which is troublesome to even say.
11.17	Mac Night Owl	The Mac Software Report: A Eulogy for PowerPC Applications, Gene Steinberg: This entire article may seem a tad premature, but I see the handwriting on the wall. You see, history is about to repeat itself.
11.17	Wired News	PlayStation 3 Has Landed, Chris Kohler: Surrounded by television cameras and bright lights, Chris Toribio, 21, blinked and rubbed his sleep-deprived eyes and finally announced he was happy with the purchase he had just made. Good thing, because he waited outdoors on a city sidewalk for two days to get it.
11.16	Apple Matters	Hello? Is That the iPhone?, Devanshu Mehta : For as long as there has been Apple, there have been rumors. And ever since Apple took over the iPod market, there have been rumors that they would - any minute now - take the cell phone industry by storm. It seems like the time may have come.
11.16	Apple Matters	Zune Undoomed, Chris Seibold : Chances are you’ve seen the coverage of the Zune. The device has earned a lot press, most of the press has not been favorable. The reviews usually roll in as follows: It is trying really hard to be an iPod but it’s not there yet. On the other hand, all press is good press right? Put differently, indifference never sold a product but reviews, even bad ones, move things off the shelf.
11.15	Zune.net	Zune, Hi, I’m a PC: Microsoft launches a Zune site and shows off its pathetic iPod rip-off. First MS copies MacOS, then Netscape, now its iPod. Are people really stupid enough to buy this thing?
11.15	Mac Night Owl	Is Zune Getting Too Much Attention?, Gene Steinberg: Consider that Microsoft has billions and billions of dollars in the bank, ready to fight to the death to gain ascendancy in the digital music player arena. As a practical matter, you have to expect that Apple ought to fear that sort of clout. Also consider how Microsoft has been able to dominate the operating system, office suite and browser arenas and you can surely bet it’s a force to be reckoned with.
11.14	MacNN	Intel debuts quad-core processors, Staff: Intel today introduced new quad-core processors for both servers and high-performance desktops by delivering chips with four computing "brains" inside a single microprocessor.
11.14	Washingtonpost.com	This just in -- NBC podcasts news shows, Paul J. Gough: NBC News said Monday it will offer "NBC Nightly News" and "Meet the Press" via video podcast free on iTunes.
11.14	MacNN	Zune attracts ’little’ excitement, Staff: Apple’s iPod and Mac sales remain strong moving into the holiday season, but Microsoft’s Zune player is generating ’little’ excitement and will only minimally impact the iPod, according to UBS analyst Ben Reitzes.
11.14	MacNN	Civilization IV: Warlords ships, Staff: Aspyr Media today began shipping Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Warlords in North America for Mac. Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Warlords is the first expansion pack for Firaxis Games’ Civilization IV.
11.14	Apple Matters	OS X Rejected for Low Cost Laptops, Hadley Stern: "One Laptop per Child" initiative rejected Steve Jobs’ either generous or calculated offer (depending on your perspective), citing the closed source nature of OS X. They opted for Red Hat Linux this week in 2005.
11.14	Macworld UK	Apple confirms in-flight iPod integration with major airlines, Jonny Evans: Apple is working with Air France, Continental, Delta, Emirates, KLM and United to deliver the first seamless integration between iPod and in-flight entertainment systems.
11.14	Wired News	Apple’s iPhone is Calling, Leander Kahney: There’s a growing feeling that the iPod is running out of steam. Apart from adding video, the iPod hasn’t changed significantly since its debut: it’s still just a music player. Many are convinced that Apple is about to release an iPhone -- a blend of iPod and mobile phone.
11.14	PC Magazine	Zune Swoon, John C. Dvorak: If anything is doomed to failure, it is the Microsoft Zune. I have no idea who is marketing this device within the company, but from what I can tell, this is going to become a major turkey in the product mix. As far as I can tell, Microsoft should simply turn over all its marketing to the Xbox 360 folks - at least some of the people in that group have marketing skills.
11.14	MacDailyNews	CNN ridicules Microsoft’s Zune while gushing over Apple’s new iPod shuffle, Staff: The New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin visited CNN’s "Amercian Morning" show earlier today to visit with Miles O’Brien and Soledad O’Brien to discuss to Microsoft’s Zune.
11.14	Geek Patrol	MacBook Core 2 Duo Performance, Staff: Benchmark duel: Apple MacBook Core Duo vs. MacBook Core 2 Duo
11.13	MacNN	’Mac guy’ still making Apple ads, Staff: Apple’s ’Mac guy’ Justin Long who stars in the company’s "Get a Mac" television ads has denied claims made by one publication last week that he would stop making Apple commercials. "As for the Mac commercials, I don’t know where that report came from that said I wasn’t going to do anymore," Long wrote in his blog residing on his official website.
11.13	PC Magazine	Nintendo Wii, Jim Louderback: PC Magazine Editor’s Choice: Nintendo Wii is ’fun, engaging, wildly innovative’
11.13	Engadget	Installing the Zune... sucked, Ryan Block: When it comes to the hardware, we’re pretty much set; we all now know the Zune inside and out. But how it interacts with the software, the marketplace, etc. -- that’s where the magic happens. Or doesn’t.
11.13	MacDailyNews	Early Microsoft Zune customer greeted with Zune ’Installation Error’, Staff: By coincidence I got my hands early on an Microsoft Zune, bought as a regular customer at BestBuy in Union City Landing shopping centre. They don’t seem to care that the release day is next tuesday. They weren’t displayed in the store itself but I asked a salesmen if I could pre-order a Zune. Then he told me they were already in and he could sell one to me. And so he did. Can someone explain me why it says ’Hello from Seattle’ on the back?
11.13	macosxhints.com	10.4: Enable Front Row on the Mac Pro, Staff: It can be done by a simple edit of a plist file. Credit for this goes to the InsanelyMac forum members, who posted the solution in this thread. As usual, do a complete backup before proceding, just in case something should go wrong.
11.12	Ars technica	iPod shuffle, Jacqui Cheng: The new shuffle is notably smaller, thinner, and lighter than the original, with the addition of an aluminum case and a built-in clip. The second-generation iPod shuffle was set to ship in October, and after a lot of noise about delays, customers finally started receiving their tiny flash-based digital audio players at the beginning of November.
11.10	Apple Matters	A Legitimate Reason to Hate the Zune (And Microsoft Too), Chris Seibold: Microsoft back-dealings with record companies give Chris Seibold more reason to hate Microsoft.
11.10	Mac Night Owl	Are Mac Fans a Dying Breed?, Gene Steinberg: Some of you might think that I’m not serious about the headline, but hear me out. Times have changed, and the rabid fandom that consumed all of us for over 20 years may not survive in great numbers as Apple spreads beyond its core loyalists.
11.09	Walt Mossberg	Microsoft’s Zune Challenges iPod, Walter S. Mossberg: Next week, Microsoft Corp. will launch the most serious challenge ever mounted to Apple Computer’s iPod and iTunes juggernaut in digital music. The software giant is introducing a portable player called the Zune, an online music store called Zune Marketplace and a new music software program called Zune that links the two. It plans to put plenty of marketing muscle behind Zune, and promises to expand and refine this new product line in coming years.
11.08	CNN Money.com	Darth Vader on iTunes?, Paul R. La Monica: News Corp., the media conglomerate that owns the Fox movie studio, is in talks with Apple about a deal to sell its films on Apple’s popular iTunes music store.
11.08	Radar Online	Apple Ditches ’Mac Guy’ In New Ads, Jeff Bercovici: As Apple prepares a new batch of commercials, "Mac guy" -- aka Justin Long, of Dodgeball and Herbie: Fully Loaded semi-fame -- is nowhere to be found.
11.08	Electronista	Microsoft to announce completion of Vista tomorrow, Staff: Microsoft is widely expected to announce tomorrow that Windows Vista has been released to manufacturing, according to multiple online sources.
11.08	Reuters	’Tremendous’ interest in new Shuffle-Apple exec, Staff: Apple Computer Inc. has so far seen "tremendous" interest in its new iPod Shuffle digital music player and is "really excited" about the holiday sales period, the company’s head of worldwide product marketing said on Wednesday.
11.08	Low End Mac	13" MacBook Core2, Staff: Now that Apple has solved most of the MacBook’s teething problems, they’ve improved it by replacing the Intel Core Duo CPU with the newer, more energy efficient, cooler running Core2 Duo. Overall, that should provide about 10% more power.
11.08	Apple Matters	November 8, 1997: Apple Online Store Debuts, Chris Seibold : An online presence is considered a necessity today but in years past it was something revolutionary.
11.08	MacMegasite	Apple Unveils New MacBook With Intel Core 2 Duo Processors, Mike: "MacBook has helped drive Apple’s notebook market share to over 10 percent in US retail, and the new MacBooks will be among this holiday season’s most exciting new products," said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing.
11.08	AppleInsider	Apple links to non-existent Mac mini Core 2 Duo page, Katie Marsal: Around the same time that Apple Computer introduced Core 2 Duo updates to its 13-inch MacBook notebooks on Wednesday, the company also dropped hints that it may be mulling a similar update to its Mac mini line of petite desktop computers.
11.08	MacUser	Rumsfeld, meet Option + Command + Escape, Aaron Freedman: As many of you already know, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld resigned from office today. While I would prefer not to comment on the matter, it seems that someone already has, in the form of a very humorous Mac screenshot. If I tell you any more, I’ll give it away, so check it out for yourself.
11.08	MacUser	Power Mac G5 Repair Extension Program offered, Derik DeLong: In response to some power supply issues in G5s, Apple has decided to offer the Power Mac G5 Repair Extension Program.
11.08	Forbes.com	The Apple-Google Axis, William J. Holstein: Imagine that Company A wanted to have a business relationship with Company B, and that it took the step of having the chief executive of Company B come onto its board. Imagine further that the CEO of Company A sits on the board of a third company, and now all three companies have interlocking boards. This certainly would spark outrage from good governance professionals, wouldn’t it?
11.08	TUAW	Apple offering iPod gift wrapping, Scott McNulty: I imagine this holiday season many an iPod will be ordered destine to be given as a present to a loved one or friend. Well, Apple has you, as well as your iPod, covered. For 5 bucks Apple will ship your iPod in their ’origami-style gift box.’
11.08	TUAW	Apple testing new Backup update, Laurie A. Duncan: We got word from a tipster that Apple is about to seed a software update for their Backup application to select users, who are being notified by invitation-only to participate in the super-exclusive AppleSeed program.
11.08	TUAW	Flickr Find: Everyone really does like the iPod shuffle, Scott McNulty: Lots of wacky stuff finds it way into our Flickr pool. This just made me chuckle, and so I had to share (negative commenters be darned!).
11.08	MacDailyNews	NY Times: Do Mac users lean left?, Staff: The New York Times’ Tom Zeller Jr. then blogged about it, writing, "This moment of geeky, user-contributed political Zen [is] perhaps more resonant with Mac users than those of the PC persuasion, but hey, a shout-out to the diminutive Apple gang! And PC users surely get the picture."
11.08	PC Magazine	Sony: No Plans To Cut U.S. PlayStation 3 Price, Reuters: Sony Corp. has no plans to cut the price of its upcoming PlayStation 3 video game console in the United States, despite a recent cut announced for Japan, the chief of the company’s U.S. electronic entertainment division said on Wednesday.
11.08	AOL Money & Finance	Are 58% of iPod owners really thinking of a Zune switch?, Tobias Buckell: Recently ABI Research conducted a survey where it touted that some 58% of iPod users would consider a switch to a Zune within the next 12 months. The tagline has been passed around online.
11.08	Mac Slash	Why Did Apple Ditch Java?, Trollaxor: I’m a Java developers using Solaris on SPARC (at work) and Intel (at home). I’m thinking of buying a Mac Pro, but was aghast to find that Apple had deprecated Cocoa support for Java in Tiger!
11.08	Mac Night Owl	The Mac Hardware Report: A Warning to Apple, Gene Steinberg: You know, I’ve been pretty lucky with Macs over the years. I’ve never had one that was dead on arrival, and, except for a certain PowerBook 5300ce, didn’t have to repeatedly return them for repair. But the more I read about extended repair programs and ongoing issues, the more concerned I become that Apple might squander some of its newfound popularity.
11.07	webpronews.com	Nielsen Calls Shenanigans On Apple Study, Jason Lee Miller: Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen held his tongue when an Apple-sponsored study correlating high productivity with larger computer screens was released. But when Computer World published an article about it (seven months after we did), Nielsen felt he needed to put a stop to it.
11.07	AppleInsider	First 2G iPod shuffle casualty exposes potential vulnerability, Slash Lane: It may have been a million-to-one shot, but one user’s early experience with Apple Computer’s second-generation iPod shuffle left him (and his new digital music player) a little bent out of shape.
11.07	MacUser	Safari is getting lazy, Scott Silverman: Has anyone else been having issues with Safari over the past couple of weeks? I realized today while surfing the net for Mac news that the app has been "unexpectedly" quitting on me very frequently-and for seemingly no reason at all. My window is open with a couple of active tabs and boom, the crash message pops up. I then have to force quit and restart Safari.
11.06	BBC News	Zune problems for MSN customers, Staff: People who have bought music from Microsoft’s MSN Music store could face problems if they decide to buy the firm’s new Zune portable player.
11.03	Mac Night Owl	Thirty Million Lines and Counting: Is There No End to Software Bloat?, Gene Steinberg: The other day I read a short article at Microsoft’s Mac Mojo blog that revealed that the Mac version of Office contained some 30 million lines of code. And that’s now, while they are still creating the next version of the productivity suite. You can expect that awesome number to grow by leaps and bounds before all the work is done.
11.03	TUAW	All Apple employees getting an iPod shuffle morale booster from Uncle Steve, Laurie A. Duncan: Steve "Santa" Jobs is handing out a 2nd generation iPod shuffles to all Apple employees from execs on down to retail staff as a morale booster.
11.03	TUAW	Here’s what happens when a Cube devours a Mac mini, Laurie A. Duncan: Those that know me already know that I’m an Apple Cube fanatic. And if you didn’t know - well now you do. My own Cube sports a a shiny black aluminum PowerCube enclosure (with obligatory white Apple logo affixed to the front), a Dual 1.7GHz 7447A CPU, 1.5GB RAM, 250GB WD HD, an FX 5200 video card with Dual 24-inch LCD Displays and an 8x DL SuperDrive.
11.03	MacUser	Excitable Mac users freak out over typo, Scott Silverman: That title could have just as easily have read: "Apple accidentally references forthcoming touch-screen iPod," but that would make me just like the Mac users who freak out over an obvious typo.
11.02	MacMegasite	Parallels Makes Installing Windows on a Mac Easier, Mike: Parallels is making installation of the Windows operating system on a Mac even easier than installation on a PC with the introduction of the Parallels Installation Assistant. The software comes included as part of Parallels Desktop for Mac, the fastest, most powerful solution for running PC operating systems at the same time as OS X - without re-booting - on any Intel-powered Mac.
11.02	Mac Night Owl	Mac = Cool; PC = Boring, Gene Steinberg: A good ad campaign invokes positive images, appeals to your subconscious needs and, in general, makes you feel great about buying the product or service in question. Take a car. Buy the right vehicle and you’re beautiful and sexy and ready to take on the world.
11.02	TUAW	Found Footage: Mac Mini Portable, Scott McNulty: This video is a little old, but it is still very cool. Peter Green hacked himself up the smallest Mac portable out there: an 8 inch screen combined with a battery, scroll pad and a G4 Mac mini = an ugly, but very portable, Mac.
11.02	TUAW	Tell Steve not to partner with Wal-Mart, Scott McNulty: Wal-Mart Watch, an independent organization that keeps tabs on what Wal-Mart is up to, isn’t happy that Apple is considering a partnership with the big W. Recall, if you will, that Wal-Mart wasn’t so happy about the iTunes Store potentially biting into their share of the movie business. The solution? Buy a coupon for that download at Wal-Mart and everyone wins (at least according to the possible partnership).
11.02	AppleInsider	Apple won’t sell TVs alongside iTV set-top box - analyst, Katie Marsal: While Apple Computer is expected incorporate some additional flat screen displays into its retail store layouts in order to promote its iTV set-top media box beginning early next year, the company is not developing a line of its own TVs to coincide with the product, according to one Wall Street analyst.
11.02	Ars technica	Apple releases X11 update, Jeff Smykil: Until there is a native version of Inkscape for OS X, the necessity of running X11 in OS X is very much a reality to me.
11.01	Apple Matters	What is Leopard Up Against in Vista?, Chris Howard: Before too long, Vista will be released upon the world. Will it be a match for Leopard which will follow a few months later? What will Leopard be up against? What will it take for Apple to convince people a Mac running Leopard is better than a PC running Windows? Can Apple do that?
11.01	Apple Computer	Mac Join the Masai Tribe, Barbara Gibson: The new school in the Masai village of Oloolaimutia in East Africa runs day and night now, even though the majestic tribe lives without electricity or running water in its nearby compound of mud houses.