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Apple's iPod event set for September 9th with nary a tablet in sight? {Engadget}
Aug 18th 2009 12:55AM Ladies & Gentlemen... the BEATLES!
Engadget's recession antidote: win a 1.5TB Drobo! {Engadget}
Mar 24th 2009 10:03PM An accessorized Drobo - impressive.
Segway CTO becoming VP of Apple product design -- yes, really {Engadget}
Jul 8th 2008 12:37AM As I remember "It", Steve Jobs was the primary proponent of the Segway. All the enthusiasm that surrounded "It" was born from Jobs.
People should get their facts straight.
Apple releases iPhone 1.1.2 update {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Nov 9th 2007 12:20AM Since Apple just enabled two-way Address Book syncing on .Mac a couple hours ago (works with my desktop Mac - finally) does the iPhone have this capability anywhere that anyone can see?
Leopard vs. Vista: feature chart showdown {Engadget}
Oct 28th 2007 3:31AM Well that's interesting. I activated my comment via e-mail and saw that it posted at 3:00AM. Then I came back 23 minutes later and it was dropped to the bottom of the list and now says 3:23AM. What's up with that?
Leopard vs. Vista: feature chart showdown {Engadget}
Oct 28th 2007 2:59AM Dear Ryan:
Please consider these points.
How is Safari not better than IE7... or Opera? Wait, first lets consider the fact that you yourself said this article was Leopard vs. Vista. Sure Opera runs on both but (again, as you yourself had said) it doesn't come in the box. You cancel out two qualifications with this one choice.
Neither Apple or Microsoft developed Opera, of the 2 browsers that are to be considered as set forth by your statements, which one is better: is Safari better than IE or is IE better than Safari? Here, I'll help (I'm a web developer and we curse IE every day): Leopard +1, Vista -1
You acknowledge that To-Dos can be created from Notes or from Mail or from iCal itself and you also go on to acknowledge that Microsoft has the poorer calendar app. But then you gave Microsoft the point. You have to explain why you gave Vista the same score as Leopard. It is looking like Leopard beats Vista according to what you wrote: Leopard +1, Vista -1
By the way Calendar events (along with Contacts/Addresses and To-Dos) are managed on a system level now in Leopard.
Auxiliary display (SideShow) - OK, I know this is the Apple fanboy in me talking but I would say the iPod and the iPhone serve Apple pretty well here. I'll skip the points here because this obviously is the fanboy in me talking but they do give outboard widget-like functionality (and more) on a mini-screen and are far more connected to the main computer than the Vista SideShow things.
SERIOUSLY!!! Multiple OS support is a DRAW????? Now I've heard everything. This is pure injustice. Leopard has this one hands down. Leopard +2, Vista -1
SuperFetch? Have you heard of Prebinding in Mac OS X. Did you know Mac OS X also does background tasks (like defragments the hard disk in the background) when it's not busy. You know what, I'd put Mach 3.0 up against Vista's SuperFetch any day. And ReadyDrive may be nice when computers actually use it but do you think it will help Vista drive the startup time down to under 32 seconds (Leopard) from its current 132+ second startup time? At the very least, this could be a draw. Vista doesn't deserve to win this. Vista -1.
I can't believe your giving Vista credit for making up a half-ass solution (called ReadyBoost - USB caching) to compensate for its deplorable Virtual Memory performance and the 2GB ceiling. All this is negated anyway (my points and yours) when you consider that Vista's RAM (not VM) ceiling is 2GB and Leopard's is 4 Terabytes. I haven't seen any 4 TB USB thumbdrives around lately, have you? Vista -1
Pricing is a must and Leopard wins by a landslide, especially when you are including features from Windows Ultimate ($399). I mean come on! It's even the angle Apple is taking in there marketing. They know they have Microsoft beat here and that is why they are using it. How come you choose to ignore this feature? Leopard +1. WAIT, make that +3 because you can get about 3 copies of Leopard for the price of 1 Vista - more if you count the family pack.
There are other things I'm concerned about as well. Like how Microsoft has the same score as Apple on your Security chart. Don't you see something wrong with that? I mean you completely ignore Apple's track record and don't even mention their superior security techniques as well as unique functionality like Apple's Sandboxing or Stealth Mode or application based firewalls or etc., etc.
I would say Microsoft, at the very LEAST, deserves to have 1 less point than Apple's OS when scoring this section. Vista -1
Sneak Peek: WireTap Studio {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Oct 4th 2007 10:37AM Those fade markers automatically generated and connected to the crop markers and silence markers are sweet.
Oh yeh, and the live preview of compression settings and AU plug-n effects are nice too.
Sneak Peek: WireTap Studio {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Oct 4th 2007 10:19AM OK, here's a question.
That video demonstrating the Library Export feature of WTS... was it made recently?
I ask because in the video, they say you can drag & drop an audio clip onto the iPhone icon to send it to the iPhone to make the sound a customized ringtone.
NBC's Chuck is very Mac-heavy {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Sep 25th 2007 12:38PM Please don't visit this NBC link to view the program from their site. It's a trap.
We don't need inflated usage numbers of NBC's new video distribution attempt. It only gives them leverage in any future iTunes Store negotiations.
iPhone Q&A for AT&T employees {Engadget Mobile}
Apr 25th 2007 4:23PM Why do they need to give access to Cingular's MyAccount content while utilizing iTunes? Will we need to check to see how many minutes we have left to download songs. And hey, wait a minute, speaking of possibly downloading songs - this seems to infer that iTunes on the iPhone will be tied somehow to Cingular's service. This hasn't been brought to light before. WILL I be able to download songs on the iPhone?
