Apple have posted yet more UK versions of their Get a Mac adverts. Office Posse (pictured) shows the various elements of Microsoft Office, in aptly coloured suits, all in the Apple Camp. Ramping up maybe for the new MS Office for Mac release.
Markzware ships FlightCheck 6 for Mac
Markzware has today started shipping version 6 of its FlightCheck software. The updated preflighting software now offers support for XPress 7, Adobe's CS3 products and Intel Macs.
FlightCheck Designer and FlightCheck Professional v6 for Macintosh are being shipped now for those of you who need to purchase. Upgrades are available free of charge for registered FlightCheck 5.8 users who purchased from 1st February, 2007 onwards. UK upgrade details for pricing have yet to be announced.
Adobe Media Player - iTunes Challenger
Adobe announced the planned launch of Adobe Media Player later this year. This new player offers multi-format playback, along with the ability to deliver paid for content. It will also enable the playback of high quality flash-based content, and certainly sounds (on paper) to be a strong challenger.
Quote: "Adobe Media Player is developed using Apollo, the code name of Adobe’s recently announced application runtime that empowers content publishers and web developers to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) on the desktop using technologies such as Flash, PDF, and HTML. Adobe Media Player is planned to be available as a free beta download from the Adobe Web site later in 2007 with full availability expected by the end of the year, from Adobe and a wide range of media and technology partners."
You can check out the full press release here.
Steve Jobs & Bill Gates Comedy Sketch on BBC
A very funny comedy sketch just appeared on "Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul", starring Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse. They played the parts of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates (respectively) and were turning each other on talking about tech stuff. Bill wanted to shoot his downloads all over Steve at one stage. Very funny, I just hope it appears somewhere online soon, so you can all enjoy it.
Check back here soon for some screenshots, that I managed to grab from scrambling for my remote control when it was shown tonight at 21:30.
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]"
Apple posts new Get a Mac ads
A couple of new Get a Mac ads have been posted on Apple's website. "Flashback" and "Computer Cart", both very funny and well worth a look.
Apple TV and HD quality: It's not the hardware
We quickly realized that the Apple TV wasn't going to be a HD powerhouse and our tests have indicated as much -- we have also discovered that the problem is not the hardware. We opened up our Apple TV and added a few codecs and we were very surprised at the results...
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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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Awesome Furniture Inspired by Scrabble Game
A very interesting piece of furniture that allows you to make words and leave messages with the screen printed letter cushions. Check out the pictures !
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