The iPod touch January Upgrade (2008) added some long desired applets including an email client, notes, maps, and weather. But, I ran into a few glitches on the first day of its release...
Chances are that, by the time you are reading this, Steve Jobs has already finished his keynote at MWSF2008, announcing shiny new Apple products. As a little counterweight to the springflood of news messages this will most definitely cause, I thought you might enjoy a little walk down memory lane to rediscover how it all began, and which milestones it took Apple and the Macintosh to get to where they are today.
No, not Disco, Disc. Disc is dead. The existing iTunes movies and video model may be flawed but digital distribution is the way of the future. If the rumor mill is right, tomorrow Apple will reinvent this space
I'm frequently asked these days about what I expect the upcoming Software Development Kit to look like. The answer is, of course, that I haven't a clue--I have no insider information beyond whatever we'll find out on Tuesday. So here are a few of my guesses, pulled directly from nowhere in particular, which will probably be confirmed or corrected in the upcoming keynote.
What Macworld Expo products are you looking to add to your home or home office? Here's what has caught my eye, how about you?
Let's face it, the number passwords we all have to keep track of is growing rapidly. And I frequently find that I need to know a password when I'm away from my computer. PasswordWallet lets you carry your passwords, securely, on your iPhone.
Although you do not need to create an application package for purple applications, they work best when added into a properly formatted .app bundle and placed into an iPhone or iPod touch's /Applications folder
The advice from my accountant is the same at the end of each year. "Well Daniel," he says, "I'm not telling you to spend money. But if you have a big purchase coming up in the next month you should make it before the end of the year."
Combining iPhone with PhoneValet gives you easy, nearly instant access to voice mail messages left at your home or office.
The Microsoft LifeChat LX-3000 is a reasonably priced (under US$40) USB stereo headset and microphone. Microsoft doesn't provide any Mac drivers so I just plugged it in to a Macbook to see if it worked. You can see from the screen caps here that both Garageband (iLife '08) and Audacity 1.2.5 recognized and worked with the device. You can...
