Archive - Jan 11, 2005

Apple has posted a QuickTime stream of today's MacWorld Expo keynote at http://stream.apple.akadns.net/

Flashfast for Macs had just released a simple animated tutorial illustrating how easy it is to change icons on Mac OSX systems. The site also contains many free osx icons to download and practise with.

http://www.flashfast.com/mac/mac-icon-tutorial.html

Have you ever wondered how to get those MP3 files to your car and download them without a computer. We have a unique solution to this problem with our new FlashPoint USB Pen Drive.

This new technology is embedded into the USB memory pen drive, which is powered by a small battery, giving the USB Memory Pen Drive the ability to down load and up load data files between a FlashPoint Pen Drive and another USB Memory Pen Drive or the FlashPoint Memory Pen Drive and any other memory peripheral (computer, MP3 player, digital radio, etc.). This new technology gives the user the freedom to transfer files on the “go” without the need to have a laptop computer or cumbersome USB hubs to be able to exchange data between memory devices.

A few days ago my 15" PowerBook G4 suddenly froze. When I rebooted, I saw that it reported only 512MB of RAM instead of 1G as it should. Apple System Profiler showed the lower DIMM slot empty.

Today I opened it to try to check for a bad DIMM and reseat them. To test it, I swapped the two DIMMs. When I put it back together I found that it still showed that the lower slot was empty, even though I had switched DIMMs. Opening it again and swapping them also showed the same results.

Software Engineering Made Easy for Mac OS X

Placitas, NM – January 11, 2005 - Excel Software began shipping MacA&D OSX 1.0, a native Mac OS X edition of its flagship products, WinA&D for Windows and MacA&D OS9 for Macintosh OS 9. MacA&D OSX is a software engineering tool that automates requirements management, software modeling, code generation, reengineering and flexible report generation. It builds on an 18-year lineage of MacA&D OS9 and WinA&D use by thousands of software developers in consulting, industrial and defense companies.

Apple has released the tiny flash-based iPod Shuffle, now available from the Apple Store in 512MB for $99 and 1G capacity for $149. The 512MB model holds 150 songs, while the 1G model hods 250 songs.

Apple has announced the long rumored "headless iMac" at today's Macworld Expo keynote. The Mac Mini measures only 6.5" wide and 2" tall with a 1.25 or 1.42 GHz G4 processor. It includes FireWire 400, USB 2.0, Ethernet, VGA, and DVI ports.

FlashFast for Mac has just released a free icon set for OSX called Ikonicons, an ecclectic but stylish mix for the Mac desktop. These 5 free icons are part of a larger Ikonicon collection of 40+ icons just released and now available.

http://www.flashfast.com/mac/ikonicons.html

Shrink Digital offers an iPod loading service to whole of the UK.

HD For Indies, reporting from inside Moscone Center, is reporting that the iHome photos linked to from here and elsewhere are fakes. They are retouched pictures and hoaxed together boxes of the eyeHome from elgato. See the full story for details.

-mike