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Reborn Mac mini set to take over the living room

Posted on 29 Nov 2005 · tagged , , , · comments off

Think Secret has a story today (Road to Expo: Reborn Mac mini set to take over the living room) about rumors of Apple launching a set-top Mac mini at Apple Expo next month. I’ve been waiting to upgrade my ailing 1st generation TiVo and ailing DVD player, and now it looks like maybe Apple will [...]

“Impossibly small.”

Posted on 19 Sep 2005 · tagged , , · comments off

So, I pulled the trigger on an iPod nano today. I sold my old(er) iPod on the eBay, and bought the nano. “Impossibly small” doesn’t even begin to cover it! It just doesn’t even seem real. I love it when Apple knocks one out of the park with no rumor leakage like this.

Easy Envelopes is back!

Posted on 21 Aug 2005 · tagged · comments off

Many moons ago, in the age of MacOS Classic, I used this great little app (desk accessory) called Easy Envelopes from Ambrosia Software. It was the best envelope-printing tool I’ve ever used. Fast, easy, and prints USPS barcodes and stuff. They never updated it for OS X… UNTIL NOW. Easy Envelopes is now a Dashbooard [...]

iWork ‘05 initial impressions

Posted on 24 Jan 2005 · tagged , · comments off

I received my copy of Apple’s new iWork bundle today. I haven’t checked out Keynote 2, yet, but other initial reviews speak highly of it. I use presentation software so rarely that I doubt I’ll do more than skim it for the foreseeable future. Pages, on the other hand, is the whole reason I bought [...]

Apple’s GarageBand

Posted on 6 Jan 2004 · tagged , · comments off

Daring Fireball: A Big Garage hits it right on the head:
“What’s so cool about GarageBand is that it exemplifies the market that Apple is going after. People who want to use their computers to make cool things. People who want to be producers, not just consumers. If it’s possible to distill into a single thought [...]

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