By Kelmon , 13th April 6:07 pm
I’m really looking forwards to getting my hands on Apple’s next release of their OS X operating system, 10.5 Leopard. While the full details of what will be included in this release have not been made public, the current Sneak Peak shows that for the developer there will be some very useful tools that should enable you to deliver more interesting applications, faster and with fewer bugs (there’s a few toys for the end-user as well). This morning, however, MacWorld is reporting that Leopard will be delayed from its announced Spring release to October. Given how useful I expect this release to be, to me this announcement should be depressing news.
UPDATE: Apple now makes this official on their own website.
Hooray!
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By Cyrris , 23rd November 10:30 am
I’ve been using Trillian for a long time now - ever since I realised that a bunch of my stubborn friends wouldn’t come and use ICQ with me. I never liked MSN, and I sure as hell wasn’t going to have two contact lists open at once, so Trillian was the right program at the right time. It wasn’t without its problems of course - I often had (and still have) issues with Trillian 3.1 - messages not getting through, clunky performance, and such. That said, it has still been the communications hub of my computer for years now and I can’t imagine life without it. One thing that has bugged me more recently though is the lack of development updates. Trillian 4, codenamed Astra, was announced some time ago, but it was only when I awoke this morning, a few months after the announcement, that I found a preview site had finally been launched. It sure explains the lack of updates.
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By Kelmon , 2nd November 4:50 am
It’s generally accepted that anyone who owns a Mac must, by definition, also own an iPod. If the halo-effect for the iPod is also accepted then it’s also possible that the iPod owner started with a PC and then switched to a Mac. Either way if you have a Mac then you must also have an iPod because if you don’t then you can’t be a real Mac person. Or something like that. Regardless I’ve gone through over 3-years of PowerBook ownership without owning an MP3 player of any variety (my wife has a 1GB iPod Shuffle but that doesn’t count) but a couple of weeks ago following the “It’s Showtime” announcement I caved and bought the new 80GB iPod, much to the annoyance of my accountant (read: my wife).
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By Cyrris , 28th October 7:07 pm
Everyone has programs that they like. Naturally I’m not talking about games, but rather those other applications people use. Browsers, music programs, editing apps, communication programs. The list goes on. But how many programs do you have for which you keep a keen eye on their development? I have quite a few now. It always tends to start the same way. I will get the program, I’ll start liking it, I will wonder what the next version will have, and from then on I will regularly check up on any new updates and proposals, as the version numbers tick over. So, without further ado, here is the list of programs which I just can’t help but check up on for news or updates every couple of days.
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By Cyrris , 16th October 7:15 pm
I realised the other day as to just how quickly display technology is moving these days. Ever since I can remember (up until a year or so ago) the main television at my house has been an old 68cm CRT - by now it would easily be 20+ years old. It took until a couple of years ago for it to finally start dying with some image jittering, which is when we finally made the move to Plasma. Until Plasma prices fell and LCD popularity went through the roof over the past few years, people have pretty much been relying on the same TV technology for decades - the trusty old CRT. Now however it’s moving faster than I can really keep up with. It seems like just yesterday that Plasma and LCD was introduced - and neither technology has been perfected yet. Plasma still has it’s topography/gradient colour issues, and that risk of burn-in always lingers, worryingly, in the back of my head. LCD is only just starting to get models with respectable contrast and response times, and the price isn’t quite yet reasonable for large panels. Of course, the manufacturers claim that these problems will all go away with future manufacturing perfections and tweaks, but already, there are new technologies ready to supersede them altogether.
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