Archive for March 12th, 2007
Via InfiniteLoop
As we all know very well by now, Apple’s marketing has long been superior. In USAToday, Jefferson Graham offers an analysis of what makes Apple’s marketing so good, and thus what other companies should do to follow Cupertino’s lead. Graham begins by noting that Harvard Business School professor David Yoffie estimated the free publicity [...]
Over in the 123Macmini.com forums Michael S posts on his Vectornomicon Mac mini based arcade machine (using MAME) cum juke box and internet kiosk. The mod features an arcade monitor as well as custom built controls, a working coin box, and best of all, Michael notes that it also makes a good coffee table which [...]
I’ve noticed this several times while using the fairly new update to iTunes, 7.1, and have encountered some reports of this on the web recently as well. It seems sorting features are causing problems with the iPod’s scroll-by-letter functionality. Items that start with the word “The” are sorted by their main phraseand not by [...]
Via TuAW
This is a nice two part series on how to improve security in Tiger while waiting for Leopard to come along. The author discusses some unfortunate choices made by Apple with regards to, among other things, firewall, network sharing, and Bluetooth settings, and offers suggestions for how to fix these and other potential problems. [...]
The British are back at it again, featuring local British comedy duo, David Mitchell (PC) and Robert Webb (Mac), they have rolled out a handful of new british-ish (excuse my English, I speak American, though I am in Canada) ads. Including: Naughty Step, Court, and Magic. For my own part, I like the ads, probably [...]
We’ve all heard of Dell and Sony laptop battery overheating… But a MacBook? No, no, no, this doesn’t make sense!
Obviously, Apple has called a battery recall. The MacBook was, like its owners, sleeping, when the couple smelt smoke, and ran toward the area where is was coming from. They found the MacBook in the following [...]
If you visit the iTunes store regularly, you’ll be aware that the iTunes home page is packed with shiny, flashy banners. These ads highlight just a few of the millions of songs, albums, TV shows, and movies available to iTunes shoppers. And to have a product sanctified by the front page is practically a guaranteed [...]
Today Jordan was playing on his iPod when he noticed something weird: Even though in settings, the Music was set to be on the main menu, it wasn’t there. But if you scrolled up a bit after you have reached the top, you can access the music. I, Ethan, quickly whipped out my Nokia 2625i [...]
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