Apple - Leopard Delayed until October

In a statement issued by Apple, we bring you sad news. Seems like Leopard (OS X 10.5) will not make it for a June release. This is a shame, but I suppose we can at least be sure that Apple are concentrating on delivering us a quality product. The statement can be read below;

"iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can’t wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is. However, iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned. While Leopard's features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October. We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we're sure we've made the right ones. [Apr 12, 2007]"

Subscription Service for iTunes within 6 months

Les Ottolenghi, CEO of INTENT MediaWorks, said he’s had meetings with people from Apple and he believes the company will announce a subscription service for iTunes within the next six months. “I think Apple is seriously considering a subscription offering right now even though they will probably tell you otherwise.

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Google Desktop - now for Mac

If you use Google to search for things on the internet (and who doesn't?) then this will be of interest to you. Google Desktop brings searching to your Mac desktop, so you can search for files and applications, and launch them easily, all within this neat little app. It has been available on the PC for quite a while, so it is nice to see it launched for the Mac. The application requires OS 10.4+ and is available for download here.

Sticky Windows - Tabs for your Desktop

I liked this feature in OS9 where I could drag a window to the edge of the screen and it would become a tab. Well, now you can do this in OS X thanks to StickyWindows. You can have multiple windows dragged around every edge of your screen, they can even be set as auto or manual tabs, and they support drag and drop. The application is shareware ($20) and a Universal Binary (in this latest version), you can demo it too before stumping up the very reasonable shareware fee.

Super Mario Brothers on Apple TV

Best Apple TV hack yet: A reader, Rusty, sent in this video of himself playing Super Mario Bros. on his Apple TV. Who cares about running XviD files—or hell, even the legit functions—when you can play Mario?

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Tom’s Hardware Sold for $15-$20 Million

Tom’s Hardware Guide and its parent company TG Publishing have been sold to an undisclosed buyer for an undisclosed price. The deal will close later this month, said Omid Rahmat, CEO of Tom’s Publishing, in a letter to the Inquirer. The rumored price, however, is $15-$20 million.

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Apple New 8-Core Mac Pro - sizzling

Apple have released a blazingly fast 8-core Mac Pro. This new machine is going to fly, and when the new Adobe CS3 ships things will be blindingly fast. Adding two Quad Core processors to the configuration in the Apple Store, takes the price up to £2,659 so by no means cheap, but think of all that power. Maxing out everything to 16GB of RAM, an NVidia Quadro FX4500, 4 x 750GB SATA hard drives, two Superdrives, Bluetooth and Airport, brings the price up to £7,864… now where am I going to get that from Mr Bank Manager?

ckIN2U - New Fragrances for us

Calvin Klein's new fragrance for men and women, takes on a different angle for the online world. Not only does it give you the opportunity to smell good, the new ckIN2U gives you the chance to join their social network and share what you are into. You can also view the top ten films submitted by students all over the world. So smell good, and connect with people by checking out the ckIN2U website and fragrances… for the online community.

Two-Finger-Scrolling for older Macs

iScroll2 is a modified trackpad driver that adds two-finger scrolling capabilities to supported pre-2005 PowerBooks and iBooks on OS X 10.3 and up. Supported models include most aluminum PowerBooks introduced from 2003 to 2004 as well as most G4 iBooks.

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