Mac OS 10.7 Lion to not support some 2006 machines
I just read a headline that gave me the shivers. “Mac OS X Lion Preview: New features, orphans first-gen Intel machines“ When I first read this, I had a sinking feeling that my two Mac’s (MacBook 1st gen and Mac Pro 1st gen) would not support the new OS X Lion. Fortunately, reading the linked [...]
Pixelmator Grosses $1 Million in 20 Days
Since moving to the Mac App Store 20 days ago, Pixelmator grossed $1 million.
The Mac App Store is Now Live
So, yay, the Mac App Store is now live. I’ve only been playing with it for a little while, but a couple of things jumped out. First, why is it a separate application and not part of iTunes? My first thought was to prevent Windows users from trying to buy applications from the Mac App [...]
Hargrove’s App picks for 2010
Here is the Angry Birds interview we discussed during the show. And here are my picks for 2010. iPad Game Pinball HD – I don’t play many games on the iPad but when I do, this is it. It’s fast and furious fun, although The Deep is the only table that really impresses me. The [...]
Tons of new Mac news
Apple announced a bunch of new stuff for the Macintosh. I must say it’s about time. Apple has spent a large amount of time on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad these last 3+ years, they have devoted a very large amount of their programming resources on iOS, and in all fairness, they needed to [...]
Xmarks ending service
After quite a run, Xmarks is throwing in the towel. They just were not able to make the service profitable. I used to use the service myself. I started using FoxMarks way back in late 2006. They changed their name to Xmarks at some point later. It seemed to work pretty well. It was only [...]
New Mac Minis
Apple has refreshed the Mac mini line-up. The entry level mini retails for $699 and the high end is $999. Other than the following, the two systems are the same. $699 includes: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB of shared L2 cache; 2GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 SDRAM, expandable up to 8GB; [...]
Safari 5 Extensions
So now that Apple has created an Extension API to Safari, there are tons of extensions being created by very talented folks out there in the Internets. From what I have heard/read, Apple wants to create a curated store/collection of these extensions. Hopefully, this doesn’t mean an App Store like approval process since that could [...]
Soulver 2.0 Review
Background for Those Who Know and Love Soulver I started putting this review together around March 15, 2010. At the time, the current version of Soulver was 1.4.4, which was released around March, 2007. Frankly, other than the iPhone version, I thought the project was dead. I mean, come on. No update in three years? [...]
