TAG: apple
"But this level of sneering arrogance, at a time when a little humble appreciation of success is well in order, would go a long way. You're succeeding. Act like it."
"This false notion that ringtones are something in and of themselves is an anachronism, an artifact dating back to the time when mobile phones existed in their own ecosystem, wholly separate from the PC or the Internet."
Tags: apple business copyright iphone mobile music
"Google's plan for world domination. Also why the iPod Classic sucks."
Tags: google internet mobile wifi wireless apple business
"It's over now. Your business model was a historical anomaly built on scarcity of a valuable resource and the willingness of a small group of network operators to not slit each other's throats and to collaborate in exploiting the content producers."
Tags: media apple advertising television
Apple Introduces New iPods - Second Take
"Apple is NOT preaching to the choir here, they're looking to get a whole new customer into the house of worship and that's exactly what's likely to happen this holiday season."
Tags: apple ipod iphone technology
"Letterbox is a plugin for Apple's Mail.app that takes advantage of your widescreen monitor. It rearranges the interface into three vertical columns – so the message pane is to the right of the message list, rather than below."
Bob Keefe is not Fake Steve Jobs. But he is the "Intel Sticker Guy."
"The man who took the road less traveled by and, in a moment where he had the unprecedented chance to ask Steve Jobs any question ever, asked him about why Apple doesn’t put Intel stickers on Macs."
Tags: funny apple interviews
How Apple's small things influence their big things
"It’s cool how Apple’s design language keeps evolving. One product design follows another. There’s a continuity this way, yet things continue to feel new. And it’s interesting how their small designs influence their large designs."
Fake Steve Jobs: "Now you've ruined the mystery of Fake Steve, robbing thousands of people around the world of their sense of childlike wonder. Hope you feel good about yourself, you mangina."
Tags: funny journalism blogs apple
'Fake Steve' Blogger Comes Clean
An editor at Forbes has been lampooning Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, on a popular blog, “Fake Steve.�
Tags: blogs apple journalism technology nytimes
The vintage allure of Fake Steve Jobs
"What the Fake Steve Jobs phenomenon has to say about our culture is that perhaps "new media" isn't as new as we'd like to think it is."
Tags: apple blogs writing culture
IPHONE. CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISMS.
Jeff Staple points out 18 flaws with the iPhone.
The music industry nobs have finally figured out what we're doing
Fake Steve Jobs: "The music companies are in a dying business, and they know it. Sure, they act all cool because they hang around with rock stars. But beneath all the glamour these guys are actually operating two very low-tech businesses."
Tags: apple music business itunes strategy
Jobs Effect 1997-2007: A Retrospective
"Now, this might sound trivial - but it's not. Revolutionaries need passion - something to commit to, and to invest in, and to belong to. People are an essential part of the DNA for revolutionary organizations."
"It's a brilliant strategy. And it should be a very, very familiar one - it's exactly what Apple's done to the music industry."
Tags: apple economics iphone strategy
Font smoothing, anti-aliasing, and sub-pixel rendering
"Apple and Microsoft have always disagreed in how to display fonts on computer displays."
Tags: apple microsoft font typography
10 Things We Can Learn From Apple
"Here are ten reasons why I think Apple is so successful today, and what we can learn from them"
Tags: apple design bestarticlesof2007 innovation marketing
Teens Schizophrenic About Their Brands
"Millennials have complex feelings about brands unless, of course, it's Apple. "
Tags: branding marketing research youth apple
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Highlight Reel
"A selection of rip-roaring laughs and jokes from the joint interview between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at the D5 conference."
Tags: video interviews funny apple microsoft
Nocturne: Free "night vision" app from the maker of Quicksilver
"If you enjoy sitting outside with your laptop, but the sun is making your screen almost illegible, try flipping Nocturne on  the contrast and darker backgrounds should help make reading and navigating much easier."
"My point wasn't about whether someone gets Apple TV or not, rather that it's a product designed for a different market than folks who want to hook up traditional PCs to TV sets."
Tags: apple television video technology trend
Apple Unveils New Product-Unveiling Product
iLaunch: "Today, Apple is releasing a piece of innovative new technology that will forever change the way innovative new technology is released."
How Steve Jobs Played Hardball In iPhone Birth
"In Deal With Cingular he Called The Shots; Flirting With Verizon"
Tags: apple iphone marketing technology mobile
Life Fitness will merge exercise equipment and iPod
"Earlier today they announced a new line of equipment that features built-in iPod integration. Once an iPod is docked, users can control playback and watch video via the machine's built-in LCD."
Tags: ipod apple fitness technology
How Steve Jobs blew his iPhone keynote
Should he really have announced six months before release?
Tags: apple technology mobile design presentation business
Apple Fails to Reinvent Telecommunications Industry
"Apple did NOT reinvent to telecommunications sector even though there is a good chance that it could have done so. Too bad."
Tags: apple mobile technology
"The two big user interface questions I have about the iPhone are how useful it will be if you can't pay full attention to the screen, and whether it will favor power users once they've gotten the hang of it."
Apple's New Calling: The iPhone
Time has a good breakdown of the iPhone.
Tags: apple design mobile technology innovation
"You can press and hold the Alt (Option) key, click and drag your cursor to select text freely without the constrains of regular text selection."
"I'd been considering a new MacBook portable, but it's increasingly obvious that Apple has a lemon on its hands -- or, rather, that far too many Apple customers have lemons in their possession or back at the shop for repair."
Tags: apple laptops customerservice business
An in-depth look at the man behind Apple's design magic.
Tags: design apple process business
"The greatest trick Apple pulled was to build a market where lock-in is mandated, but convince the world that this was something they did reluctantly, at the behest of the villainous recording industry."
Apple previews iTV home theater playback box
"Resembling a squat Mac Mini, the iTV will use wireless networking to stream movies and TV shows from iTunes to a television."
Tags: apple television technology
"Your sleek design may be more aesthetically pleasing and practical, but it falls apart immediately when used as a weapon. I may be clunky and old-fashioned, but I'm easily heavy enough and sturdy enough to crush a man's skull."
Tags: funny advertising apple
"Dashalytics is a free Dashboard Widget for your Apple Mac that offers quick access to Google Analytics statistics."
Tags: dashboard google apple widgets free
Apple Making Huge Social Software Push?
Does Apple have social software in its future? Also, when reading this I had a thought: Wouldn't it be perfect if Apple bought Last.FM?
Tags: collaboration os apple socialsoftware
"With Desktopple, you can quickly and easily hide all of your Desktop clutter. A quick trip to your menu bar is all it takes."
Should Apple take focus off creative image?
"Apple may have to take the emphasis off its creative image to attract a wider market, according to Apple’s UK director Mark Rogers."
Tags: apple marketing creativity
Apple Computer Nike + iPod Sport Kit
A very close look at how the Nike + iPod works.
Tags: apple fitness attention technology nike shoes
"Image Tricks is a free application to edit and generate images. It uses Mac OS X Tiger Core Image filters that transform pictures to unimaginable extent and apply advanced visual effects. "
Tags: software apple free photography
The Second Crop of Mac Ads is Finally Here!
Amazing spoof of the current "I'm a Mac" ads from Best Week Ever.
Tags: funny video commercial apple advertising
Apple's mean-spirited ad campaign
"Apple hopes to shift the debate away from a battle over specs and value and toward a battle we can all understand: cool kid versus nerd. But . . . isn't smug superiority (no matter how affable and casually dressed) a bit off-putting as a brand strategy?"
Tags: apple advertising commercial
Apple Deja Vue: will they pull it off this time?
"Apple's “closed architectureâ€?â€â€or integrated software/hardware/service appliance approachâ€â€may have been premature when Apple launched the Mac in 1984, but makes perfect sense today."
Tags: apple microsoft competition business
Follow-up to Apple Store proposal (she said yes!)
Geek love is so cute sometimes.
Apple teams up with Nike to help people track their running. You put a little thing in your shoe and connect another to your iPod and it tracks distance, speed and all that good stuff. When you're done running it downloads automatically.
Tags: apple ipod nike design sports health attention
"VoodooPad automatically links each page together, to form a miniature world wide web, on your desktop! Anybody familiar with the WikiWikiWeb will feel right at home with VoodooPad."
Tags: software free apple organization
"Iconographer is a fully-featured icon editor. It allows you to both change the icons of items and to edit the icon resources used by various programs."
Tags: icons software free design apple
Just in case I ever screw up the httpd.conf again.
"Boot Camp gives switchers a comfortable out if they wind up not liking or in any way regretting their switch to Mac OS X: they can use their Mac as a bona fide first-class Windows box."
Tags: apple microsoft competition software os windows
"NewsLetter is a free batch emailer, speciallly thought for newsletters. . . it features the creation of plain text and HTML messages (simple or multipart)."
Tags: email free software apple
A Mac uninstaller that will take $.05 off the price for every blogger that links to it.
Tags: apple software tools marketing
"A widget implementation of the famous “Oblique Strategies� card decks from Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt."
Tags: widgets creativity dashboard free apple
"Last year, Apple sold 32 million iPods, or one every second. But for every $3 spent on an iPod, at least $1 is spent on an accessory."
Allows you to use more (and older) mobile phones with your Mac. Finally . . .
A long and serious look at the design problems of the iPod.
Tags: design apple ipod interface usability
Top X keyboard shortcuts in OS X
Mac keyboard shortcuts for everyone from "the elite OS X ninja to those who are reading this on their first Mac which they pulled out of the box just yesterday."
"A small utility that will convert your Mac icons to Windows XP icons. The utility is free and part of the public domain. Source is available. Download size is just 50kB. That's about all you need to know."
Tags: software free apple design icons
"His goal was to make it simple to use and a joy to look at. He succeeded. The result was the iPod"
Tags: apple design usability technology
"ColourMod originally made its deput as a web-based DHTML Dynamic Colour Picker. Since the inception of the newest OS from Apple, OS X Tiger, ColourMod has been ported to the Dashboard interface."
Tags: dashboard apple colors software free
Comments from 2001 about the iPod release
Boy, those are a bunch of upset Apple fans. I expect they're eating their words at this point.
Tags: apple funny history ipod posted
"Parasite is an independant projection-system that can be attached to subways and other trains with suction pads. Using the speed of the train as parameter for the projected content, the projection starts with the train moving inside a tunnel."
Tags: art germany apple subway video technology posted
"The purpose of this site is to aid new switchers in jumping straight to a lot of the amazingly good stuff that's available. All of the applications that are mentioned in the Quick Looks are used by me on a day to day basis."
Tags: apple free software tips posted
ITunes Video Sales Top 1 Million
"Apple Computer Inc. said Monday that iTunes users have downloaded more than 1 million videos since they were made available on Oct. 12."
Tags: apple business ipod video posted
"FinderPop makes this process a lot easier by allowing you to list aliases to desired applications directly in the Finder's contextual menu."
Battle for the Soul of the MP3 Phone
"Consumers want an iPod phone that will play any song, anytime, anywhere. Just four little problems: the cell carriers, the record labels, the handset makers, and Apple itself. The inside story of why the ROKR went wrong."
Tags: apple drm mobile ipod mp3 music technology posted innovation
Subscribe to free, del.icio.us video in iTunes
"Now that del.icio.us offers feeds by filetype and iTunes has full video support (including “vodcasts,� or video podcasts), you can load up iTunes with free video files bookmarked and tagged in del.icio.us."
Tags: apple itunes video del.icio.us rss posted
Top Ten Mac OS X Freeware/Shareware Applications
Andy Budd: "Here are my current top ten OS X freeware and shareware applications. What are yours and why?"
Tags: apple software lists posted
"FontExplorer X sets a new standard for font management software."
Tags: apple free font software organization typography design
HOWTO Rip DVD Movies To Your iPod Using Free Software
Nice and easy instructions from Mark Pilgrim
Tags: apple ipod movies tutorial posted
"Pixen is the best program for the pixel artist using Mac OS X. There is no competition, not even from the huge companies with several-hundred-dollar software suites."
Tags: design apple software free icons posted
How Steve Jobs snookered the entire cell phone industry
The Theory: Steve Jobs used Motorola to get a deal with Cingular with the eventual plan of an iPod phone.
Tags: apple ipod itunes mobile music business posted
"It also provides a look at what Apple is doing to get close to the customer, exame the consumer experience and get its product design and innovation right. CEOs, innovation champions, managers, designers, marketers"
Tags: apple design business customerservice posted
"Textpander listens to what you type and inserts predefined text snippets on the fly whenever you enter their corresponding abbreviations."
Tags: free apple software productivity typing posted
Visual simplicity: Steve Jobs does it again
"But I think we all can learn a lot by observing Jobs and being mindful of his natural interaction with the audience and his visuals as he tells "his story.""
Tags: apple design presentation
"Get a full local backup of your remote web server with some basic command-line interaction and rsync. Bonus for OS X users: clickable icon backup goodness."
Tags: backup howto apple webmastertools
"Onlife is an application for the Mac OS X that observes your every interaction with sofware applications such as Safari, Mail and iChat and then creates a personal shoebox of all the web pages you visit, emails you read, documents you write and much more
Tags: apple free search software visualization productivity posted
"that is why I believe that nano is the new turbo, another technical term appropriated by marketing people and applied in so many ways as to make it meaningless."
Tags: marketing apple technology language posted
"The winner of the Design Museum's inaugural Designer of the Year award in 2003 was JONATHAN IVE, senior vice-president of design at Apple whose innovations include the iPod and iMac."
Tags: apple art design internet ipod technology innovation posted
Honey, he shrunk the iPod. How Jobs and his team of Apple innovators created this season's must-have gadget
Tags: apple design innovation ipod music posted
"His color is a lot like yours, but smooth and shaded like Unified. And thinner. No borders. It’s a very chic look. Reminds me of you, back in the day."
Tags: funny apple design itunes writing posted
A free ruler application for measuring in pixels or inches on the screen.
Tags: apple design software free tools
"Paparazzi! is a small utility for Mac OSX that makes screenshots of webpages."
Tags: apple software free design
How we got the unusual symbol used for the menu command key
Tags: apple mac interface design history posted
"Smart, intuitive, and highly configurable, Daikini Photon gives you the power to manage your Movable Typeâ„¢, TypePadâ„¢, Blojsom and WordPress photo-blogs in the familiar surrounds of Apple iPhoto."
Tags: apple free blogs photography plugins movabletype posted
"MailTags is a plug-in for Apple's Mail.app 2.0 (Tiger) that enables you to go way beyond folder filing for organizing mail by enabling metadata tagging."
Tags: apple email free plugins tags productivity organization posted
"The SeeSS Widget is a quick and handy reference sheet for 140 CSS (1, 2 & 3) properties (proprietary extensions are not included)."
Tags: apple css dashboard free widgets posted
" A small, lightweight application timer for OS X. It keeps track (in increments of five seconds) how long you spend in each application."
Tags: free apple software productivity posted
GUIdebook: "Welcome to the interview with John Gruber, author of Daring Fireball Link points to external site and long-time critic and observer of Mac OS X interface."
Tags: apple design internet interviews os usability posted
"As the stories in the Book of Jobs tell it, the iPod is only one of an entire species to come from the hand of this incredibly Intelligent Designer."
Tags: funny apple ipod evolution religion posted
"I think that the new Apple mouse could be really nice. However, I feel that Apple's choice of cartoon mice could have been better."
Tags: apple cartoon funny posted
On Cory Doctorow's Apple/Trusted Computer rant: "Doctorow is clearly ascribing deviousness onto Apple, without a single shred of evidence to back it up."
Tags: apple drm intel software technology posted
Apple introduces two-button mouse, a collective silence falls over all those who make the argument Apple sucks because there's no right click.
Apple to add Trusted Computing to the new kernel?
"My data is my life, and I won't keep it in a strongbox that someone else has the keys for."
Tags: apple drm internet software posted
In One Stroke, Podcasting Hits Mainstream
"Overnight, iTunes 4.9 has already become the most popular podcast-management software on earth; Apple says that within 48 hours of its release, Pod people had subscribed to more than a million podcasts."
Tags: podcasting apple ipod posted
PyObjC Plug-ins (Tiger QS Only) Upgrade Notice
PyObjC finally comes to Quicksilver for Tiger
Tags: quicksilver plugins apple free
Inside the big switch: The iPod and the future of Apple Computer
"The cold, hard reality here is that the Mac is Apple's past and the iPod is Apple's future, in the same way that the "PC" is the industry's past and the post-PC gadget is industry's future."
Tags: apple business intel ipod posted
"Simply click one button while you're listening to a favourite shared track and it's copied to your machine, and added to the iTunes Music Library (and a playlist, so you can keep track of your downloads)."
Tags: apple itunes p2p software free posted
"Recently I was lucky enough to grab the attention of the venerable Quicksilver developer, Alcor, and ask him some questions about the OS X-altering program he conceived."
Tags: apple quicksilver interviews free posted
This widget displays the much of the essential information from the CSS Cheat Sheet from I love Jack Daniels.
Tags: css dashboard apple widgets posted free reference
How to find and add media to your iTunes library with del.icio.us
"Now that iTunes 4.9 supports podcasting and video blogging, you can use the del.icio.us bookmarking service to auto-load music and video files others have bookmarked."
Tags: apple del.icio.us howto podcasting itunes rss posted
NeoOffice/J is a fully-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and drawing programs) for Mac OS X.
Tags: apple software opensource free writing
Our Widgets Preference Pane for Mac OS X allows you to truly take control of your Widgets
Tags: free dashboard interface apple software tiger widgets
"When viewing mail you can apply the "Act-On" action for a message by making simple keystrokes."
Tags: free plugins email apple lifehacks productivity software posted
Getting MySQL Running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger"
Another tutorial, this one specifically on how to MySQL up and running
Tags: mysql tutorial apple tiger
phpMyAdmin on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger"
Instructions for installing phpMyAdmin on Tiger
Tags: tiger apple mysql php free tutorial reference
Flickr Export Plugin for iPhoto
This plugin for iPhoto 4 and 5 provides a direct export interface to Flickr.com
Tags: apple plugins flickr free photography posted
Installing Movable Type on Tiger
Want to install Movable Type on Mac OS X Tiger? Justin Williams shows you how to get up and running with Movable Type using SQLite, the lightweight database engine included with every copy of Tiger.
Tags: movabletype blogs osxtiger apple posted tutorial reference
"Taboo is a simple Safari hack which provides a warning before quitting or closing a browser window containing multiple tabs."
Tags: software free plugins apple browser posted
KeyCue helps you to use your Mac OS X applications more effectively by displaying a concise table of all currently available menu shortcuts.
Tags: apple software reference lifehacks posted
Sidney Morning Herald: "An outsider, not even a fan of today's music, Steve had done the almost unthinkable: he had changed the face of a second industry."
Tags: apple ipod music innovation technology posted
iBook G4 and PowerBook G4 Battery Exchange Program
Apple is voluntarily recalling certain lithium ion rechargeable batteries that were sold worldwide from October 2004 through May 2005 for use with the following notebook computers: 12-inch iBook G4, 12-inch PowerBook G4 and 15-inch PowerBook G4.
GarrettDimon.com: "Here's a list of programs I can't live without."
Tags: apple software lists posted
MacStumbler is a utility to display information about nearby 802.11b and 802.11g wireless access points.
Tags: software apple free wifi
Getting Things Done on a Macintosh
Ask MetaFilter: How do you stay organized on your Mac?
Tags: organization apple gtd productivity software posted lifehacks
20 Cool Tiger Features You Might Not Have Heard About
MacDevCenter: "My goal in this article is to explore 20 new Tiger tips that you probably haven't heard about before. Even if you've had the opportunity to play with Tiger yourself, I bet you'll discover some new tricks herein."
Tags: apple osxtiger tips posted
Puts your ToDo lists in your menu bar and synchronizes with iCal.
Tags: apple software organization productivity lifehacks posted
Steve Jobs Buys a Washing Machine
Wired: An exceprt on the importance of design from iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
Tags: books design apple posted
"Enjoy a classic game of Minesweeper instantly available in your Dashboard. The interface emulates the timeless Windows minesweeper game."
Tags: videogames fun widgets free software apple posted
Dashboard Leaves Macs Vulnerable
"A security hole in Dashboard could expose users of Apple Computer's new Tiger operating system to attack, and may put personal information like passwords and credit card data at risk."
Tags: apple osxtiger dashboard security posted
A nice long list of menubar items for download
Tags: apple software interface tools lists
Widget Manager is a Preference Pane for OSX 10.4 that allows you to inspect, remove, and disable Dashboard Widgets.
Tags: apple dashboard software free
Thoughts on Dashboard and ambient information
heyblog: "What’s the appeal of switching to Dashboard to run an Amazon search when you could do it with about as much effort by just going to Amazon.com?"
Tags: apple dashboard osxtiger widgets posted
Quite simply put, CSSEdit will save your sanity when editing style sheets. Its intuitive approach to style sheets and powerful editing features will make you deliver beautiful standards-based sites in no time!
Tags: apple software css tools design
Hog Bay Notebook lets you record and organize your ideas in a convenient way. Bring order to your Mac with this simple and powerful tool.
Tags: software apple organization productivity gtd
MacDevCenter: "This article will focus on the basics of widget development and then go over the steps required to develop a widget that displays *nix man pages."
Tags: apple osxtiger widgets programming reference tutorial
"Index your del.icio.us bookmarks using Spotlight."
Tags: apple del.icio.us software free spotlight osxtiger
Wouldn't it be neat if Dashboard popped up by itself after a certain amount of system idle time? It will be pretty neat indeed, right after you download and install Dasher, a preference pane that gets your Dash' on automatically.
Tags: software free dashboard osxtiger apple
Macworld: "Tiger’s been out less than a week, and there are already a number of interesting utilities to customize itâ€â€in subtle waysâ€â€to your preferences; here’s a rundown of some of the first."
Tags: apple software osxtiger posted
"A few Finder or Script Menu plug-ins for Automator." Including "Send Linked MP3s from Firefox to iTunes."
Tags: firefox itunes apple osxtiger automator
"A weblog: blogs run by twenty-something Americans with at least an unhealthy interest in computers." Ouch!
Tags: funny language apple posted
Operating Systems and Recent History
Dan Gillmor: "With Tiger, Apple is plainly in the lead today. The built-in search function is getting rave reviews, among other performance boosts that keep the Mac ahead on ease of use."
Tags: os apple osxtiger microsoft innovation posted
Amnesty Widget Browser is a utility for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger that allows Dashboard widgets to live directly on your Desktop via a convenient icon in your system menu bar.
Tags: apple software widgets osxtiger free
An AppleScript which allows arbitrary tagging of messages in Mail.app.
Tags: email tags apple applescript free
Shortucuts and power features
Tags: apple osxtiger search tutorial reference
Growl is a global notification system for Mac OS X. Any application can send a notification to Growl, which will display an attractive message on your screen. Growl currently works with a growing number of applications.
Tags: apple software free tools
Often you don't need the exact time in hours, minutes and seconds. A more human readable style like "five past ten" makes more sense. For that, you can now use FuzzyClock. FuzzyClock is a menubar clock which displays the current time in a "fuzzy" style.
43F Interview: Alcor, Developer of Quicksilver
"Our first 43 Folders interview is with Alcor, the developer behind our favorite productivity app, the mighty Quicksilver."
Tags: apple quicksilver interviews posted
For years, Default Folder has helped speed Macintosh users through the process of opening, saving, and managing files.
Tags: apple software productivity tools
From Apple, a Tiger to Put in Your Mac
New York Times review of Tiger by David Pogue
Tags: osxtiger apple reviews nytimes posted os
"The two places I've found that I use them the most are in Mail and the Finder, so I'll just run over the best applications I've found. If you find another, feel free to leave a comment."
Tags: osxtiger smartfolders apple
Coolest feature/plugin/etc of Quicksilver is?
Lots of cool little Quicksilver tricks.
Tags: quicksilver apple lifehacks
Quicksilver: From A Better OS X To Even More
Dan Dickinson: "This is an intermediate Quicksilver tutorial, to help people who went through my first tutorial and are looking for a little more in-depth information about how to tweak Quicksilver."
Tags: apple software quicksilver tutorial posted
Wired: "But for me, Tiger is about Spotlight, the improved Mail and the great widgets I know the Mac community will come up with."
Tags: apple osxtiger reviews posted
MacDevCenter: "Since Apple has been releasing new versions of Mac OS X on a similar cycle, I've used the pending upgrade as an excuse to tidy up before installation. That will be my approach with Tiger, and that's what this article is about."
Tags: apple osxtiger tutorial tools
The application serves up a scrumptious mix of maintenance tools and interface tweaks, all accessible via a comprehensive graphical interface and toolset.
MarsEdit is a weblog editor for Mac OS X that makes weblog writing like writing emailâ€â€with spell-checking, drafts, multiple windows, and even AppleScript support.
Tags: software apple blogs movabletype tools
ecto is a feature-rich desktop blogging client for MacOSX and Windows, supporting a wide range of weblog systems, such as Blogger, Blojsom, Drupal, MovableType, Nucleus, TypePad, WordPress, and more.
Tags: software apple blogs movabletype tools
Quicksilver Changes Everything
Another Quicksilver tutorial
Tags: apple tutorial software quicksilver
Fugu is a graphical frontend to the commandline Secure File Transfer application (SFTP).
How to "uninstall" programs in Mac OS X
Al Fasoldt's: "In nearly every case, you only have to do one thing when you no longer want to run a program on your Mac OS X computer: You drag it to the trash."
Lots of little pieces of software to make OS X work better
QuickSilver - A Better OS X In Just 10 Minutes
A QuickSilver tutorial
"Sidenote is a MacOS X application that tries to catch the “Stickies� spirit but in the form of a multi-document drawer that will hide in the corner of your screen (left or right). You can use it to take all your daily notes, include images and easily
Tags: apple free organization software
Michael Gartenberg: "In an age of hundreds of gigs of info, users don't need to spend hours and hours organizing their data to be able to find it again. "
Tags: search apple os osxtiger posted
Analyst sees quantitative proof of the iPod halo effect
Following yesterday's Apple earnings announcements, Merrill Lynch said it sees "quantitative proof" that the popularity of the iPod is transitioning into new Mac sales, as Mac revenue increased by 29% year over year during the company's March quarter.
Tags: apple ipod business stock posted
Apple bloggers get press support
Eight US newspapers and the Associated Press agency have thrown their support behind three bloggers sued by Apple.
Tags: apple journalism law posted newspapers
Must have Mac OS X applications
A list of 20-some-odd free must have OS X applications
It's the Content, Not the Source
Wired News: "But the way for EFF attorneys to win this case would be to attack Apple for its definition of a trade secret. What exactly does Apple lose by the publication of Asteroid's specs and a diagram?"
Tags: apple media law blogs journalism posted
Five designs that imagine the future of Apple
Tags: apple design gadgets innovation posted
Apple Becomes a "They" Company
A VC: " "We" companies are built by and for a community of users. "They" companies are traditional companies that seek to optimize profitability at the expense of everything else."
Tags: apple business culture posted
The iTunes $.99 Breakdown: Will Online Music Stores Ever Make Money?
Some speculative number crunching over just how much money online music stores really make
Tags: itunes apple mp3 music ipod posted
MacRumors: "The intent is to provide our best recommendations regarding current product cycles, and to provide a summary of currently available rumors for each model."
OSX inventories, tips & hack collections
43 Folders: "A one-stop-shopping link for people who want to quickly ramp-up on “what’s out there� in the OSX world that they might not know about, with a focus on how one given person has put it all together."
Tags: apple software lifehacks
Essential Mac OS X Applications
MacUpdate watches the latest Macintosh software updates every day, all day long, so you can keep your software up-to-date with the most current bug fixes and features.
An evolving framework for accessing and
Tags: lifehacks software apple search tools
Masses of iPods will trigger Mac market share growth
AppleInsider: "Apple will gain share in the personal computer market over the next 2-3 years due to the iPod "halo effect," . . . and the company's ability to drive innovation with high-quality, realistically priced products."
Tags: apple ipod business posted
The iPod shuffle does not fit into a social-software ecosystem. Cityofsound: "design is dissolving in behaviour, and products are emerging from it."
Tags: apple music technology socialsoftware posted ipod
Handling its own design work is one reason for best-sellers like the iPod and Shuffle. Steve Jobs is the other
Tags: apple design innovation ipod
Enhance iTunes with these cool AppleScripts
Tags: apple itunes tools music posted
The rexblog (you won't believe this) is boycotting Apple
Rex Hammock's response to Apple's lawsuit
Copying Songs from Your iPod to a Mac or PC
A good list of programs for Macs and PCs that allow you take take stuff off without iTunes
Turns your iPod into a portable hard drive (for Mac OS X)
Timing Isn't Right for G5 PowerBook
An argument against all the G5 speculation
10 Million iPods, Previewing the CD's End
What is the fate of the CD?
Excerpts from the Fortune article all about Apple and Jobs
Some very cool programs on this list
Does Your iPod Play Favorites?
Life may indeed be random, and the iPod probably is, too. But we humans will always provide our own narratives and patterns to bring chaos under control. The fault, if there is any, lies not in shuffle but in ourselves.
Tags: apple music culture ipod
The iPod is a revolutionary device that transforms listeners into "cyborgs" through a process he calls "technotranscendence."
Tags: apple music posted culture ipod
A company with three percent market share makes the front page of The Times
Marketing people analyze the homegrown iPod mini ad
Apple's Tipping Point: Macs for the Masses
Great graphical representation of what Mac products are for whom
Tags: apple
Why iPod/iTunes won't be killed anytime soon
It's about "style" but it's also about cluetrain and "long tails"
How two guys snuck into Apple to create software they believed in
Tags: apple education software
iPods get people laid and can improve their memories, too!
And that's why college students love them
Tags: apple socialsoftware ipod
Scoble talks about iPod marketing
They have made music a movement
George Masters made an iPod mini ad that could compete with almost anything on TV
First official Apple blog is for student observations about Apple products
iPod Ashlee Simpson Karaoke Edition
iPods shipping over two-to-one on Macs
Tags: apple
download music from iTunes shares
People abandon the white earbuds for their own style
A repository for every keyboard secret in OS X. Some of these are well known, some are not. This list should grow exponentially over time.
Tags: apple
The Seed of Apple's Innovation
CEO Steve Jobs says among other practices, it's "saying no to 1,000 things" so as to concentrate on the "really important" creations
Tags: apple innovation
Apple's Jobs Taps Teen IPod Demand to Fuel Sales, Stock Surge
What's your favorite key combination?
Some good key combos for Mac
Tags: apple
The Secret Behind the iPod's Scrollwheel
The evolution of the scrollwheel
State of the Art: A Computer With the IPod's Bloodlines
A look at the new iMac G5
Behind the Music: Deaf to the World, iPod Addict Unplugs
Consumers Say Apple Should Share
Students crazy about iPod follow the music to Apple laptops