Cocoia Blog » Swiss Interface Syndrome.. on the misuse of helvetica in MacOS.

Muxtape + Fluid + AirFoil. turn muxtapes into a stand-alone app and pump it to your airport express.

1Password. mac app that creates and manages passwords across multiple browsers. can create new passwords for every site (which kinda leaves you screwed when you’re not on your computer though they have a new site coming out for that).

Apple passes Wal-Mart, now #1 music retailer in US. that’s insane. via josh.

Barking Iguana: Getting started with Rails 2.0. good quick-start guide to getting rails2, git, and a dead simple app up and runnign on your mac.

Logo Can Make You ‘Think Different’. seeing the apple logo made people think more creatively. that’s just creepy to know.

Would You Pay An Extra $100 For An All-You-Can-Listen-To iPod. financial times is reporting that apple is shopping the idea to record labels.

Charlie Rose Face Plants To Save His MacBook Air. that is one serious shiner.

Laptop Sleeves, Skins and Stickers | Smashing Magazine. for apple laptops of course.

Steve Jobs speaks out - FORTUNE. page 10 on “overcoming roadblocks” is really interesting.

Macworld | Apple now No. 2 music retailer in the U.S.. dang.

FT.com - Google homes in on revenues from phones “Google on Wednesday said it had seen 50 times more searches on Apple‘s iPhone than any other mobile handset”

Vara Software : ScreenFlow. nice looking screencasting app for leopard only.

SuperDuper! 2.5 Released! “The new version includes full Leopard support, including the ability to store a bootable backup side-by-side with a Time Machine backup on a single volume”. that’s awesome what you can have it on the same volume.

VLC RAR-Loader. play video files compressed over multiple rar files before they’re all finished downloading. handy for the usenet crowd.

Amazon to buy Audible for $300 million | Reuters. 25% of audible’s business comes from apple itunes.


Steve Jobs saying ‘boom’ a lot. via boris.

Mac OSX Leopard: Translucent Menubar Fix. Upgraded to Leopard today. The translucent menubar is probably one of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen Apple do.

[Fly on the Wall] Xerox logo, long receipts, Argentina, and Cook’s Illustrated - (37signals). read the “Argentina vs. US” part.

apple stuff

Apple’s new stuff today includes a subnotebook called the MacBook Air which is thin enought to fit in a manilla envelope and weighs 3 pounds. Cool stuff includes a multi-touch mousepad and an optional solid-state hard drive. Bad stuff includes only 1 USB port, no firewire, and no optical drive. Also released Time Capsule, which is just the Airport Extreme 802.11n wireless base with a 500GB or 1TB hard drive. And there’s a new AppleTV with a new UI and the iTunes store now has movie rentals including rentals in HD. I wonder how long those will take to download?

Biggest dumbass release is a software upgrade for the iPod touch which costs $20. No joke. I can’t believe they’d actually do that. It’ll piss way too many people off. Here’s the list of features. The iPhone got the same add-ons plus some cool stuff like auto map-location from cell-tower triangulation and sms to multiple people.

Apple also struck an interesting business deal with Fox which will now ship DVDs with copies of the movies already encoded for use on your iPod and for no extra charge.

Other interesting info, Apple has sold 4 million iPhones to date and 5 million copies of Leopard in 3 months. Considering there’s only 25 million OSX clients in the world, that ain’t bad.