News, News, News, and More News #42
iLounge has a load of iPod related news up right now. There's a new
iPod Nano poster doing the rounds of the Apple retail stores. Apple sells
106,000 iPods per day according to iLounge, using some estimates gathered from Apple's sales reports. The
2007 iPod Buyers' Huide is also out, which is a PDF magazine full of iPod accessories to browse, which can make great gift ideas for Christmas. And also on iLounge, a video of the
LCD in the lift at Apple's Tokyo store.
Apple have started a
new TV ad for the iPod shuffle, featuring people taking their clothes off and putting some music on.
TechEBlog has found a video about the Apple Lisa, from 1984 introducing it to the world.
Some tech commentators are thinking
Apple only has two years left in the tank, with the business riding high on the iPod wave and that's it. Digg has some interesting insights on this topic (sic).
Al Jazeera, the Arab news station, uses Apple gear in their entire workflow. 41 MacBook Pro's, a 70TB XServe RAID setup and lots more make up the gear that powers Al Jazeera. Details are on
Infinite Loop.
Another cool video with
Steve Wozniak and Guy Kawasaki talking about Woz's new book and a lot of Apple memories. It goes for an hour, so get comfy and enjoy.
Rumor is Apple is putting
AMD CPU's in notebooks. Make of that what you will, but remember, it's a rumor.
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Search Free Fonts. There's no excuse to use Comic Sans now.
Xtorrent, from the creator of
Newsfire and
Acquisition, has hit public beta 2.
Roughly Drafted Magazine has an interesting series of articles on Leopard vs Vista, comparing many aspects of their pre-release, the impact they can have on the market and how these two operating systems influence developers.
PowerMax has put up some photos of their new Intel XServe.
From Camcorderinfo.com -
"Camcorderinfo.com sat down with Harry Haruna, Manager of Camcorder Product Planning for Sony USA, and Kevin Brinkman, Product Information Manager for Sony Camcorders. The result was a wide-ranging discussion about the differences between CCD and CMOS technology, what differentiates the ClearVID CMOS from competing CMOS designs, and insights into the future of imaging technology."
Apple released Remote Desktop 3.1, bringing a few bug fixes and the like with it.
Jonathan Ive, the man behind most of Apple's product design has been
awarded a CBE by the Queen for his work at Apple.
The iPod really isn't that hard to use, but if you are having trouble with it or the whole thing confuses you,
Apple has placed an iPod 101 series of articles up on their support site.
Apple has hired Stock Photo Guy. He's got loads of experience in top positions in many large companies, here's hoping he brings some experience to Apple -
more info at Crazy Apple Rumors Site.