December 2007
“It’s not an iPod. Kindle is the closest we’ve come to the...”
– Kindle can light up your life :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Andy Ihnatko
November 2007
Mirroring ies4osx installers on tuaw, since apparently we DDOSed the poor guy: http://tinyurl.com/yqxk9t
@ShawnKing Getting doubled up by the Beantown Beanpoles in prime time does tend to bring attention to the coach/GM’s poor decision making.
Apple NYC Meatpacking store due to open next week? →
Filed under: Retail
Oooh, the anticipation: New York’s third Apple retail store now appears set to open on December 7, just in time for the shopping season (well, midway through Hannukah, but I forgive!). Backing up recent reports at ifoapplestore.com, reader David sent us a picture of the store construction wrap that leaves little doubt. Will you be at the 14th Street store opening?...
Thinking about where I could get $10K for my flying motorcycle http://tinyurl.com/29x4hl
Spam subject of the day — “Secrets of drunken swingers.” #17: “A highball glass isn’t what it sounds like.”
It could kill my goldfish and steal my lunch money, and I couldn’t hate Backup Exec any more than I already do.
@jonathancoulton Your bloom in followers is due to a namecheck from @ev. Fascinating.
Run IE on your Intel Mac, if you absolutely have... →
If you’re a Mac-based web developer, a sysadmin at SomeBigCo, or an Outlook Web Access user, you might find yourself needing to use MS Internet Explorer from time to time. No, not IE for Mac OS X, frozen in amber within Applications folders around the globe; I mean IE for Windows, the hairy scary Active-X enabled browser that for better or worse represents a huge chunk of the web-surfing...
OMG who took the Knicks and replaced them with Podunk State’s JV squad? For crying out loud.
@joemaller If I get there with time to spare, will do.
heading out to dinner at Picket Fence in Ditmas Park
Don't want Google search but still want Gadgets?... →
Filed under: Internet Tools
I’ll admit that I was a fan of Google Desktop at first, what with the rapid browser previews of searched email and the ability to crunch through web histories and past searches. Over time, unfortunately, GD’s reindexing began to feel a mite sluggish, and I eventually regretfully uninstalled it in the interest of better performance. Now, with the...
@chartier see you in San Fran dude.
@missbhavens deep breaths. You can do this. You are a lean, mean, driving machine.
fighting rhinoviruses. Feels like fighting actual rhinos.
@missbhavens so sorry. that must be horribly frustrating after you worked so hard to prep.
@joemaller LOL, when @bynkii tweets mild expletives then he must be getting tired
Going to bed, having outlined but not finished my WireTap Studio review. On plus side, reimaged 10 Macs with one click (thx LANrev 4.6)
Sarcastwoosh.
@matonmacs If we can’t prevent foreign cheeses from coming here and taking American cheese jobs, well, we’ve already lost the cheese battle.
There’s a Shrek Christmas special? Really? Wow.
“Really? For weeks I operated as a spy within your ranks undetected. God knows...”
– Mohinder Suresh on Heroes
Zero-day exploit in QuickTime could hit Win iTunes... →
Filed under: Security
Over the weekend, security researchers announced a vulnerability in QuickTime’s handling of the RTSP streaming protocol, and Windows-only exploit code is already circulating. The flaw allows attackers to craft specially formatted RTSP responses that cause a buffer overflow, and as a result they can execute arbitrary code in the context of the logged-in user....
@dsandler My apologies, credit to you. http://twitter.com/dsandler/statuses/392993162
blogging, watching Heroes. Was it @ihnatko who said Mohinder’s power must be super-naivete? So true.
VA traffic copters now must learn Yiddish so they can describe roads as ‘schmaltzy’: http://tinyurl.com/2ljuhc
Day continued: Mirage won’t update. ISP connection slow. At least I got to have lunch with my wife.
@fraying I’m on it.
Leopard dashboard clock takes sweet time changing... →
Filed under: Odds and ends, Leopard
Here’s a subtle treat in the Leopard Dashboard: the Clock widget, never really the source of much excitement (“Oooh, look — it’s 4 am in Tangiers!”) now does a little dance, makes a little love, and gets down tonight when you change time zones. As in the movie above, you can watch the hands whirl about to the new time; the clock...
What went wrong: missed bus, scratched car, late for train, late for school, shoelace broken. Absolutely stellar morning so far.
Laughing, humming “Für Elise” — http://tinyurl.com/23wjev
Interesting article on pharma marketing http://tinyurl.com/222h2c
Best smell in NYC: Fat Sal’s Pizza, west 14th st. Wow.
“[We] alone among the animals have the power to create a straw man and spend an...”
– Whos Afraid of Soulless Scientism? - TierneyLab - Science - New York Times Blog
Not getting a damn thing done this evening. At least I cooked dinner — lamb chops, first time grappling with the broiler. Not bad.
“You’re too late.”
– Beleaguered mom to Prince Charming after he knocks on her door by mistake, in Enchanted.
What words do your kids use for nursing?
Sad to say, in the US many children have ceased to breastfeed long before they can use words to communicate, so it seems like we have limited information on what children say when they mean “want to nurse.” In our family (with two daughters nursed to age 3) we have the anecdotal experience of the girls, four years apart and the younger not directly exposed to the elder’s toddler...
Give Good Food to Your Mac promo discounts... →
Filed under: Software, Stocking Stuffers
Not quite done with that holiday shopping? A little birdie tipped us to the upcoming “Give Good Food to your Mac” promotion, officially opening tomorrow — if you’re already a customer of one of the participants, you might get a preview link in the mail today. A ragtag band of European developers has put together this bundle...
Parallels beta updated for better Leopard... →
Filed under: Software
The release build of Parallels Desktop 3 still isn’t quite Leopard-happy, but that’s not cause for abject despair: the second beta since 10.5 came out was released on Saturday, with enhanced support for Leopard, improved migration tools for Boot Camp partitions into Parallels disk images, and more. You can download the 88 MB file of build 5570 from Parallels,...
iPhone ads c'est bon, non? French spots now online →
Filed under: iPhone
Reader Guglielmo sent word that the first four French iPhone ads hit the airwaves today (also viewable at apple.com/fr in a wide selection of resolutions). The ads end with the tag screen of a November 29th on-sale date for the French model. Unfortunately I don’t speak French, so I can’t comment on the ad scripts, but as far as I can tell they hew fairly close to...
Some days you let them sleep
#2 fell asleep on the way home from the movie, then woke up again at bedtime, was up until 12:30 am. So I let her sleep in this morning, and we’ll be 20 min late for preschool. On a rainy Monday after a four day weekend, cheeriness trumps promptness — and I was not prepared for the getting-dressed screaming that would have accompanied Kid Cranky.
Dodgeball
Daughter Alpha was happily playing dodgeball with the boys — OK, maybe not happily, but she was a gamer — until she noticed that the girls were all lounging at the water fountain. So much for dodgeball. *sigh*
AppFresh updated for Leopard →
Filed under: Software
For finding updates to all your installed applications, you can go with an annual subscription to VersionTracker Pro or MacUpdate Desktop, or try the free alternative: metaquark’s in-development AppFresh (first reviewed here in March). With tight integration to the iusethis application info repository, AppFresh does a spot-on job finding updates to mainstream and indie...
Palette lunchware app customizes Leopard dock →
Filed under: Software, Leopard
In honor of the holiday weekend, when many of us overate ourselves into food comas, I’m coining a word to describe a class of shareware apps: “lunchware,” those programs inexpensive enough that you could buy them for what you might otherwise spend on lunch. If it’s less than $12, it’s lunchware, so Cocoamug’s new Leopard dock...
Holiday break, no talkcast this week →
Filed under: Podcasting
Well, as you might have guessed, we’re all turkey’ed out here at TUAW headquarters (located in scenic Hendersonville, SC) and as a result there won’t be a talkcast this week — sorry! Join us next Sunday night (12/2) at our normal 10pm ET timeslot. Meanwhile, we’re surveying the team here for favorite Mac and iPod/iPhone podcasts, and...
You're right, sweetie, French food IS scary →
Family movie night with “Ratatouille” proved to be a little frightening for the 7 year old.
Family movie night: heading out to pick up a Ratatouille DVD.
More Friday sales at local Apple retailers →
Happy shopping Friday everyone. In addition to the online Apple store discounts today, we have some tips on local sales from our readers. “Our local Apple reseller is debuting their “Outlet Center”, a place to find deals on refurbished older and last generation Macs & accessories, this weekend. They have everything from G4 iBooks to G5 PowerMacs to the last generation iMacs,...