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Sunday, February 8, 2009
Showing posts with label computers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label computers. Show all posts
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
As you probably already know, Phil Schiller announced at January's MacWorld that iTunes now had DRM-free licenses with the big four, and would roll out iTunes Plus to all content over the coming year. Well, at first, the upgrade option was very simple: you could upgrade your entire library for the total price. ($.30 per song) I would love to do that eventually, but with nearly 400 songs eligibile, the total was over $80.
Fortunately, you now have the option to upgrade by song and by album. I promptly initiated an updgrade for my Third Day albums, Trans-Siberian Orchestra albums, and of course, my Johnny Cash albums. They were the available ones that were most important to me. So go upgrade, with twice the bitrate and the freedom to copy, burn and play on any device anywhere, anytime forever, it's worth it.
Fortunately, you now have the option to upgrade by song and by album. I promptly initiated an updgrade for my Third Day albums, Trans-Siberian Orchestra albums, and of course, my Johnny Cash albums. They were the available ones that were most important to me. So go upgrade, with twice the bitrate and the freedom to copy, burn and play on any device anywhere, anytime forever, it's worth it.
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Just eight short years ago I purchased a sleek, wonderful Titanium PowerBook G4; my first personal computer purchase. It shipped with Mac OS X 10.0 (I know, it's redundant.) and OS 9 on a separate partition. How wonderfully far we have come. Now, it officially moves, along with a few others into classic realm as Apple officially discontinues offering parts and support for it.
You can read the list here. My "Titanium Studhorse" is now out to pasture, in need of a new logic board to revive it. Pause for a moment of remembrance.
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Friday, November 21, 2008
The iPhone 2.2 firmware update is now available for download. I haven't tested it out (still downloading), but it's purported to include enhanced stability for Safari, as well as a few other things.
- Podcast downloading over wifi and the cellular network.
- Google Maps now has streetview.
- Safari enhancements, including stability and interface tweaks.
- A few other tweaks to interface, shortcuts.
- You can now turn off auto-correct if you prefer for typing.
The file is 245 MB, we'll see if Apple's servers melt down again Friday or if they are prepared for the onslaught this time.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
My eternal love to my first only soulmate, the Titanium PowerBook G4 notwithstanding, Apple sure does keep cranking up the beauty of their laptops. As Design VP Jony Ive noted, it's a whole new level of fit and finish, unmatched it seems by nearly any other electronics manufacturer. MacBook Air introduced the manufacturing process: machine a block of aluminum to one, solid "unibody" for the lower case. This provides for more structural integrity with less aluminum. Oh, and it looks gorgeous, too. One thing that's always separated Apple's products is their lack of protruding plastic parts and clunky squared edges. The new MacBooks simply improve on that record.
New graphics options, larger hard drives, multi-touch glass trackpad, removable hard drive/battery, backlit LED display. . . The only thing I don't really like is the glass screen. I always thought the glossy option was a negative, and now going glass-only is something I don't like. But, on the other hand, I do love my glass-surfaced iPhone. Head over to Apple.com to view the gorgeous pictures. As always, Engadget has a full hands-on as well as a run-down from the media event.
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