Jeff Cheney: Apple Computer

Is an Apple Search Engine on Track?

Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:41:36 GMT

Matthew Rothenberg: Here's an interesting tidbit from blog-daddy Dave Winer: On Friday, Dave remarked that he'd seen a week's worth of sharply elevated traffic headed his way from Apple.com. This spike whetted his curiousity about whether Cupertino might be testing out some sort of hitherto unannounced Web-searching facility. It's a compelling idea that fits nicely with Apple's efforts to put its own stamp on its customers' online experience, from e-commerce to e-mail to online storage. It's had its share of false starts (viz. eWorld), but Apple has kept on trucking. And in the realm of desktop search, the company has led the way with its Sherlock technology and the Spotlight capabilities slated for Mac OS X [base "]Tiger.[per thou] Now that it's beaten Google for brand recognition, is Apple ready to take on the upstart in the field of Web search?
[Rothenberg's Mac Enterprise]

New iPod Cheesecake?

Mon, 11 Oct 2004 00:38:20 GMT

Matthew Rothenberg: A photo iPod? Couldn't have seen that one coming! According to my favorite independent site for samizdat Apple product info -- Think Secret -- Jon Rubinstein's elves over at the company's iPod division are wrapping just such a gadget in time for the holiday shopping season...
[Rothenberg's Mac Enterprise]

mac mess

Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:50:08 GMT

Adam Curry: I bit the proverbial bullet last night and re-installed my OSX system.I must admit that it was totally painless, took a bit to download all the updates (about 100megs) but so far (stay away Murphy!) everything seems not only back to normal, but better than before. All my apps still work, prefs are still in place... Just like the old days when your Mac would hang or crash, just shut down, shake twice and restart... I'm lovin' it!
[Adam Curry's Weblog]

A New Take on the Mac Tablet

Mon, 06 Sep 2004 23:57:45 GMT

Matthew Rothenberg: Another Mac trade show, another no-show for a keyboard-free Apple portable. Apple Expo in Paris indeed provided a launchpad for a radically redesigned iMac desktop that in many ways turns the tablet concept on its side; but while recent Apple patent filings for a "handheld computer" sparked optimistic predictions about a whole new portable platform, an actual slate was not in the offing. So what's the frequency, Philip?
[Rothenberg's Mac Enterprise]

Longhorn: It's What's for Dinner

Sun, 29 Aug 2004 19:55:28 GMT

Matthew Rothenberg: Jobs and Co. tweaked Microsoft's collective nose with this brassy assertion back at June's Worldwide Developers Conference. During that Mac developer lovefest, Apple insisted that its next big cat (due in the first half of 2005) will deliver most of the features promised for the beefy Windows upgrade (slated for 2006). Longhorn is cowpathing, Apple maintained, and Tiger will take a chunk out of its hide. Now that boast turns out to be inaccurate: It was too conservative...
[Rothenberg's Mac Enterprise]

The Boy Who Cried "Mac Table"

Fri, 13 Aug 2004 22:47:25 GMT

Matthew Rothenberg: After all Apple's protestations to the contrary, could this really be the year of the Mac Tablet? Tony Smith of The Register thinks it's a distinct possibility--and he's got the European trademark filing to prove it. According to his article (and accompanying illustrations), the company is seeking to trademark a "handheld computer" packed into a chassis that resembles a disembodied iBook screen and lacks any obvious keyboard...
[Rothenberg's Mac Enterprise]

Mac Trouper No. 1

Tue, 03 Aug 2004 06:01:34 GMT

Matthew Rothenberg: Anybody who harnesses his hospital stay as a PR opportunity to show off the features of his wireless PowerBook configuration is tops in my book. Best wishes for a prompt recovery, Mr. Jobs!
[Rothenberg's Mac Enterprise]

Kerry's Computer

Sun, 25 Jul 2004 18:48:44 GMT

Adam Curry: Finally a real reason to vote for Kerry; he's a Mac user.
[Adam Curry's Weblog]

PreFab UI Browser 1.2

Tue, 04 Nov 2003 03:33:20 GMT

Brent Simmons: PreFab UI Browser 1.2 helps with the new GUI Scripting feature of Mac OS X by allowing you to "explore, control and monitor the user interface of most Mac OS X applications. It lets you navigate the user interface hierarchy then generate useful AppleScript statements with a single click."
[ranchero.com]

Opportunity

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 23:12:31 GMT

John Robb: If any Mac developer(s) want(s) to work with UserLand to build a slick interface for Radio (like this one for Windows), let me know. I suspect based on UserLand's sales into the Mac community that it would be worth $50-$100 k in revenue to the partner in the first year (more in follow on years). Not a bad way to supplement income during a slow economic period. Note: UserLand sells software to over 3,500 companies, schools, and organizations.
[John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Mulling Over Fate of Macworld

Mon, 30 Dec 2002 20:40:58 GMT

Leander Kahney: It ain't over until Steve Jobs sings, but some pessimistic Apple fans gearing up for this year's Macworld San Francisco suspect the end may be near for the popular computer show.
[Wired News]

freshmeat.net for OS X

Thu, 26 Dec 2002 19:39:36 GMT

Brent Simmons: freshmeat.net now has a section for OS X software. I can't seem to find an RSS feed for this section—if anyone knows where it is, please let me know. Thanks!
[ranchero.com]

Magical Macintosh Key Sequences

Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:43:22 GMT

Clarence Westberg: Magical Macintosh Key Sequences
[Clarence Westberg's Radio Weblog]

OS X port of Rotor

Thu, 07 Nov 2002 01:47:46 GMT

Simon Fell: Now that the OS X port of Rotor is available, and there's faster & cheaper PowerBooks available, there's no excuse for not owning a Mac!
[Simon Fell]

OS X Screen Saver Desktop Background

Tue, 05 Nov 2002 22:47:05 GMT

C.K. Sample, III: If you have OS X, try this... Open terminal. At the prompt type in:

Your screensaver will become your desktop background. To end type: kill and then the process number that comes up after the command was executed. cool
[Sample the Web]

Mac OS X Negative Grayscale View

Sat, 26 Oct 2002 01:12:00 GMT

Alfredo Octavio: In Mac OS X press Control+Option+Command+8... Like it? (Thanks eMe, have a good trip!)
[Tyromaniac]

Mac OS X and J2EE

Sat, 12 Oct 2002 21:53:26 GMT

Robert Barksdale: Thanks to JBoss and other J2EE application servers, your Mac OS X system can play in the J2EE Big Leagues....
[ZOPEN-X: Web Dev and OS X]

Innovations in Mac History

Wed, 02 Oct 2002 23:14:32 GMT

Dave Winer: Leander Kahney digs through the archives and discovers that many of the innovations in Mac history came from small independent developers, not Apple. Keep digging Leander, there's much more to the story.
[Scripting News]

Apache 2 for Mac OS X

Sat, 28 Sep 2002 06:04:29 GMT

Bill Humphries: Looking for an Apache 2.0 to run under OS X.2? Server Logistics has packages for Apache (which install under /Library), Perl, PHP, Tomcat, and other server components.
[More Like This WebLog]

TigerLaunch 1.0b3

Sat, 21 Sep 2002 02:26:02 GMT

Brent Simmons: TigerLaunch 1.0b3. This release finds more applications, including those in your user applications folder. It uses an icon in the menubar instead of the word Apps. The Configure window allows you to choose an alternate icon.
[ranchero.com]

Daniel Drew Turner and Matthew Rothenberg

Sat, 21 Sep 2002 02:18:22 GMT

Marc Barrot. Daniel Drew Turner and Matthew Rothenberg: Apple, IBM Team on 64-Bit CPU [in eWeek via SlashDot].
[s l a m]

One Man's Retro Mac Revival

Mon, 16 Sep 2002 21:28:55 GMT

Leander Kahney: Devan Simunovich trucks his collection of 50 compact Macs to raves, where he sets up classic game lounges. He's part of a thriving group committed to dusting off ancient Macs and getting them working again.
[Wired News]

I switched!

Tue, 13 Aug 2002 03:45:32 GMT

Mike Krus: I bought, installed, configured and am now enjoying a iMac G4.
[Mike Krus: Radio Tunning]

Vini, vidi, vici!

Notes on installing PHP and MySQL on OS X 10.1.5

Sat, 10 Aug 2002 03:16:40 GMT

John VanDyk: Notes on installing PHP and MySQL on OS X 10.1.5. I found lots of disjointed information but nothing that stepped me through the whole process.
[View from an Iowa Homestead]

Remind me why I haven't upgrade before now...

Sat, 10 Aug 2002 00:51:32 GMT

Rob McNair-Huff: The installation of 1GB of RAM in my Pismo PowerBook went fine and the machine does indeed feel more snappy with all of that RAM rather than relying on the hard drive for RAM intensive programs and operations. I won't bore anyone with the details, but at a cost of less than $200 including the shipping, this purchase from MemoryToGo.com is a bargain...
[Mac Net Journal]

The Sovereign Prophylactic

Fri, 09 Aug 2002 07:22:22 GMT

Alwin Hawkins: Oh great and powerful Alwin(er)logger: Restart, Command-S, fsck -y, exit or reboot. The sovereign prophylactic.
[ViewFromTheHeart]

Apple Switch parody

Fri, 19 Jul 2002 21:03:30 GMT

Mark Frauenfelder: Here's a parody of the Apple TV commercial I was in.
[Boing Boing Blog]

Hilarious!

Apple Disrepects Yet Another Developer

Fri, 19 Jul 2002 19:06:19 GMT

Oliver Wrede: It is really disappointing to hear that Apple rips off one of the most innovative application from a developer and actually copies the concept of Watson to Sherlock 3 without actually featuring Karelia for this.
[owrede_log]

MacNet Journal Jobs keynote coverage

Thu, 18 Jul 2002 03:47:49 GMT

Adam Curry: I recently donated to MacNet Journal. A weblog I read regularly for good reporting on all things Mac. I'm happy to see this blogs excellent coverage of the Jobs keynote.
[Adam Curry's Weblog]

Raines Cohen is the Imelda Marcos of Macintosh T-shirts.

Tue, 09 Jul 2002 12:27:53 GMT

Steve Michel: Nice piece on my old pal Raines Cohen. But there are no pictures!
[Steve's No Direction Home Page]

Wired helps marginalize the Mac

Sun, 07 Jul 2002 05:03:55 GMT

Rob McNair-Huff. This kind of article really pisses me off.
[Mac Net Journal]

Mac Collecting Like a Religion

Sat, 06 Jul 2002 22:45:44 GMT

Leander Kahney: The Mac is more than a computer — It's a community, an identity, a church. Collecting Apple memorabilia is an important part of the Mac psyche.
[Wired News]

Saving Collectibles to the Macs

Fri, 05 Jul 2002 22:21:37 GMT

Wired: Over the years Apple has given out millions of branded tchotchkes. Some are now very valuable. Who knew a promotional poster would be worth more than $1,000? By Leander Kahney.
[347.com || Radio Weblog]

Very interesting. I've got a ton of this crap — I may be sitting on a gold mine!

OS X Security Update: Apache, SSL and SSH

Fri, 28 Jun 2002 23:00:59 GMT

OS X Security Update: Apache, SSL and SSH
[Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]

Mailing list for OS X developers of web services apps

Fri, 28 Jun 2002 22:49:03 GMT

Brent Simmons: The osxweb mailing list was formed to promote inter-operability between OS X apps that use web services and formats such as XML-RPC, RSS, OPML, and so on. The idea is to create informal standards for things like clipboard formats for RSS items. (The idea is not, for instance, to work on RSS itself.) A secondary goal is to promote a toolbox of code that app developers can use.
[ranchero.com]

Mailing list for OS X Web Services Developers

Fri, 28 Jun 2002 20:32:54 GMT

Brent Simmons: I've been thinking of starting a mailing list for developers who write web services desktop apps for Mac OS X. If I hear from a few people that they would participate, I'll get it started.
[inessential.com]

Radio Blogging from Mac Word

Mon, 15 Apr 2002 02:32:09 GMT

Omar Shahine: I made Simon Fell's Radio Blogging from Word Macros work on Mac OS X. I posted some inctructions on how to make it all happen.
[Omar Shahine]

Dive into Mac OS X

Sat, 13 Apr 2002 00:20:01 GMT

Congratulations to Mark Pilgrim on the rebirth of Dive into Mac OS X

Godzilla vs. Macworld

Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:00:59 GMT

Wired News: Macworld always makes a big splash in San Francisco and New York, but nothing rivals the scene at the Tokyo version. The convention starts this week. Leander Kahney reports from Tokyo.
[Wired News]

Mac OS X

Sun, 17 Mar 2002 07:28:55 GMT

Mark Pilgrim: Dive Into OS X, a FAQ for Mac OS X and OS X Server administrators, has been reorganized and updated with almost a dozen new questions and answers from my most recent class.
[diveintomark]

UNIX under the Desktop

Fri, 15 Mar 2002 03:10:14 GMT

Sheila Simmons: Linux Journal: UNIX under the Desktop, by Doc Searls and Brent Simmons. (Don't miss the picture at the bottom of the page: Brent and Papa!)
[Sheila News]

Tue, 12 Mar 2002 02:26:04 GMT

WebStar Faster Than Apache?
[MacSlash: A daily dose of Macintosh News and Discussion]

Sat, 02 Mar 2002 10:11:16 GMT

Total Cost of Ownership: Macs vs. PCs
[MacSlash: A daily dose of Macintosh News and Discussion]

Fri, 01 Mar 2002 14:15:02 GMT

Leander Kahney: It's common for geeks to post pictures of computer hardware being disassembled. Apple's new iMac, heating up a kind of technolust, has spawned several websites of photo essays that show them being unpacked and set up.
[Wired News]

Do PC users do this? How about Sun users? SGI? Anyone else? Steve Jobs groks technolust.

Fri, 22 Feb 2002 12:40:59 GMT

Mac Cluster's Last Stand?. Research scientists want to make supercomputer clusters from Macs. Apple's machines are powerful and cheap to run. But there's a problem: They're the wrong shape. By Kristen Philipkoski.
[Wired News]

Sun, 17 Feb 2002 01:56:14 GMT

Dori Smith: Apple has always been caught between the duelling alternatives of being a software company vs. being a hardware company. When Steve came back, killed Claris, killed clones, and spun-off FileMaker, it was clear that a decision had been made. Anything Apple does with software now is simply a way to sell more boxes.
[Backup Brain]

Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:31:42 GMT

The Motley Fool: Analysts often ask about when Apple will make a push for the huge corporate office. It doesn't make sense for Apple to focus their energies here...
[The Motley Fool]

Tue, 12 Feb 2002 01:24:47 GMT

Apple Receives Technical Grammy (11-Feb-2002; 2.1K)
[TidBITS]

Fri, 01 Feb 2002 12:10:02 GMT

Leander Kahney: He Writes the Songs: Mac Songs. The Beatles sang about love, the Beach Boys crooned over the joys of surfing. Teacher John Swerdan has just cut an album about Macintosh computers.
[Wired News]

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 09:00:52 GMT

Doug Baron: I like Sam Devore's Price Comparison: Dell vs. Apple Tell'em Sam!
[Doug @Home's Radio Weblog]

Hmm... I kinda like Clark Venable's price comparison...

Fri, 04 Jan 2002 22:25:16 GMT

DaveNet: Bet on the iDock.
[DHRB

Tue, 01 Jan 2002 06:24:31 GMT

"Seven Days to MacWorld San Francisco. This One is Big. Even By Our Standards." Hopefully the G5 will be announced. I'm not sure that speed bumps or flat-panel iMacs woould measure up to that hype. But we are talking about Steve after all...
[blivet]

Thu, 20 Dec 2001 23:06:07 GMT

Schadenfreude. Via blackholebrain.
[inessential.com]

Thu, 20 Dec 2001 01:14:13 GMT

Appleholics Anonymous. The sad tale of one man's struggle to hide his Apple addiction from his wife. It isn't pretty.
[The Motley Fool]

Mon, 10 Dec 2001 07:35:02 GMT

Apache Web-Serving With Mac OS X
[MacSlash: A daily dose of Macintosh News and Discussion]