Category: Apple Mac, OS X and iPod

  • After a week of owning each a brand new Mac Mini, the verdict is a definite thumbs up! This one is Andrew’s, full-on with 20 inch cinema display, white wireless keyboard and Mighty Mouse. Please excuse the nasty wallpaper in…

  • I’ve found my fave few widgets: – One that allows you to blog directly from the Dashboard (WordPressDash) – A Sing that iTune! widget that goes and searches for lyrics to songs automatically, which is GREAT for me, since I…

  • All I can say is OS X is nothing like patchy ol’ OS 9.2, the point at which I divorced Apple. But I’ve seen the error of my ways and I’m back to Mac now! Gotta love the tiny little…

  • John Wells covers a lifetime of Mac operating systems – From the humble Apple Macintosh System 1.0 which booted from a disc to the ferocious OS X Tiger. Check out the screenshots for a real blast from the past! Certainly…

  • Apple taps into a few more niche markets with accessories for the current iPods. The Hogwarts-engraved 20GB iPod, which comes with nearly 100 hours of audiobooks – All six Harry Potter novels being read by Jim Dale The iPod Nano’s…

  • Apple’s new babies are born! The iPod Hybrid phone has made a lot of ink run. Rokr is developed by Motorola and can hold 100 songs, which are managed in a lite version of iTunes. It’s a bit of a…

  • Once, podcasting, like blogging, was hidden in the shadows, a hobby only a select few knew about. Now, it’s become mainstream enough for Apple to make it an integral part of their iTunes software. But podcasts have changed. The same…

  • Apple now advertises its new iPod as “podcast ready”, but to quote pioneer Montreal podcaster M-C Turgeon, “dude, it’s called a podcast! as in ipod!” It’ll certainly be interesting to see how podcasting develops commercially and culturally over the next…

  • I was convinced I’d lost my iPod Shuffle since before we moved house, but it turns out it just got lost in the bottom of a box of paperwork and photos…

  • What makes your iPod so precious? Why are they so popular? Apple iPod grabs half of US Flash player market. Even Bush tries to be cool with his iPod playlists. Gimboid. MC creates iPod inspired art. Even the CBC podcasts…