Much has been made about the god awful Adobe Installer/Updater for their Creative Suite and associated apps. Personally, I find the Adobe Updater to be the single worst designed application on my Mac that I’m forced to live with. To say it is widely panned and loathed would be an understatement.
That said, Adobe seems to have gotten the message. The team responsible for the installer/updater has even launched a blog detailing their goals for the next release.
I definitely welcome the transparency that Adobe has given this issue. I sincerely hope that when Creative Suite 5 ships sometime next year, I will have one less thing to complain about.
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According to Microsoft COO Kevin Turner, Apple Legal asked Microsoft to stop running their Laptop Hunter ads. Microsoft, of course, declined reports the WSJ.
Personally, I don’t get these ads. For one thing, while Microsoft makes a sale on every PC laptop sold with Windows, that Windows license fee is a lot less than the full retail license cost of Windows. And since Mac users don’t get a bundled version of Windows with their Macs, they are potential customers for a full retail version of Windows for use in either Boot Camp or a virtual machine emulator like VMware Fusion 2
or Parallels Desktop
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So, by trying to steer people away from Macs with these ads, Microsoft is actually turning off potential customers who would be possibly paying a premium for their product (retail copies of Windows). I don’t see the logic in this, but then again, I never see the logic in anything Microsoft does.
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Steven Frank of Panic fame evokes the ghost of Chris Farley for his iPhone 3GS unboxing video.
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I’m no fan of Microsoft, but I will give them credit when it is due. First of all, they gave Dean Cain a job, and second, they are trying to convince the luddites still using IE 6 (or gasp, older) to upgrade to IE 8.
While I would rather people ditch IE altogether, I’m a realist and understand that many people will stick with whatever piece of crap Microsoft shoves down their gullet. And IE 8 is a lot less crappier than IE 6 or 7, so I’m all for this. Go ahead Microsoft, knock yourself out.
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With the most recent Macbook Pro updates, Apple has finally extended the “Pro” to a Macbook with a screen smaller than 15″. Apple’s previous diminutive pro machine, the Powerbook G4 12″, was discontinued years ago, but many fans of the machine clamored for something smaller than the 15″. With the Macbook Pro 13″, Apple has given these fans something to be excited about.
Of course, the new Macbook Pro is very close in appearance and features to the Macbook 13″ Unibody machine it replaces. The big additions come in the way of Firewire 800, Backlit Keyboard, SD Memory Slot, and of course, the built-in 7 hour battery. Additionally, Apple bumped the CPU speeds and memory/hard drive capacity, all while lowering the prices. In short, Apple has really out done itself with this release of portable computers.
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In case you missed it, Daniel Lyons, writing as the Fake Steve Jobs, is back. Now that Jobs is back to work, Lyons has resumed posting under the Fake Steve moniker. As Fake Steve himself says, “I’m back bitches, deal with it.”
Sure, it’s satire. But it’s incredibly insightful, funny, and more often than not – truthful.
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While AT&T tries to figure out what it wants to screw, er, I mean charge its customers for iPhone tethering, some enterprising young person has figured out a way to enable it on your iPhone for free, for many different carriers. Configuration appears to be drop dead easy, requiring you only to point your iPhone’s browser to http://help.benm.at/, selecting your carrier, and connecting your iPhone to your computer. That’s it.
Of course, don’t blame us if your carrier finds out what you are doing and decides to charge you for it.
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You’ve got to see this video of an iPhone 3GS recording a lazy day by the pool, and then becoming the story itself when it accidentally gets dropped in the pool – and continues recording video while it is fished out of the pool.
Not sure if this is legit or not, but as someone who has had his iPod Shuffle run through the wash, I can tell you that if you take steps immediately to turn off a web iPod, and let it fully dry before powering back on, they usually survive getting wet. (more…)
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Aforementioned article brings up good point – that app store reviewers may be offshore personnel. Would certainly explain a lot if they are.
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Great post about the problems with being an iPhone developer. http://bit.ly/w4sxl #wwdc #iphone
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