At Macworld, one of the speciality programs was a lecture series called iPhone Supersession given by Ben Long and Christopher Breen.
The iPhone Supersession takes you way beyond the basics, exploring areas including converting the …
Archive for January 17th, 2008
Jan17
Dragon speech recognition comes to the Mac
The big brand in text-to-speech technology will be native on the Macintosh this quarter, according to MacSpeech, the company that landed the licensing deal. It’s yet another hurdle overcome for switchers to the Mac.
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Jan17
Parallels, VMWare Show Off Mac OS X Server Virtualization
Virtualization competitors Parallels and VMWare were taking opposite sides of the South Hall at Macworld to show off Mac OS X Server running in a virtualized environment on Apple hardware (made possible by changes to Mac OS 10.5’s EULA for Leopard Se…
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Jan17
Intel’s Custom Processor for MacBook Air
Anandtech pieces together what processor Apple is using from Intel for the new MacBook Air, and concludes that Intel did provide Apple with a custom solution to be able to launch the thin laptop.
The CPU in the MacBook Air is a 65nm M…
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Jan17
Live From Macworld: Hot Products Still Turn Heads as Crowd Thins
If you want to judge the intensity of a given conference or trade show — in this case, Macworld — there are several barometers you can look at. Are the main vendors’ booths madhouses? Are there still lines in front of the free video games? Do you have to fight for a seat in the press lounge? Are national news crews still clogging up floor space for their video cameras and lights?
Filed in: Personal Tech
Jan17
What is the demographic for the MacBook Air?
I just had an interesting IM exchange with someone who asked me:
What is the demographic for the MacBook Air?
My response:
Rich executives, basically
I don’t consider myself a rich executive by any stretch, but I’m buying one. But then again, it’s kinda my job 
That being said, who is the demographic for the MBA? I guess that […]
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Jan17
iGoogle theme API released
The clues that presented themselves in October all stated adding up yesterday. Just as I thought, Google officially announced their API that lets people make their very own iGoogle themes for the world to use. The new feature has produced a few pretty nice themes so far, and I’m sure there will be a […]
Filed in: Google
Jan17
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is bug ridden and missing parts
After a nearly four-year wait, Steve Jobs announced at Macworld that Office 2008 for Mac was ready to ship. For Mac users everywhere, this was a sigh of relief. However, Microsoft also announced that there was a bug in Excel that affects Excel 2004 for Mac, and no patch…
Filed in: Software
Jan17
Mouse inventor sighted at Macworld Expo
One of the legends of Silicon Valley and a hero to many early Macintosh users is the inventor and techno-philosopher Douglas Engelbart. He invented the computer mouse back in 1967 and this year, attended the Macworld Expo.
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Jan17
Microsoft replaces one Scott with another as CIO
Microsoft has replaced its fired Chief Information Officer (CIO) Stuart Scott, with the former Walt Disney CIO Tony Scott, the company announced on January 17.
Filed in: Microsoft
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