News items and other various tidbits that Chad Cloman finds interesting enough to share with his friends.
Apple has officially announced the (horrendously overpriced but revolutionary) iPhone. From the article, the iPhone “allows users to listen to music, make phone calls, send text messages and e-mail, surf the Web, and take and upload photos, all using a wide touch screen and a single button.”
Link: http://news.com.com/…
In the first week or so after making 75 of its movies available on iTunes, Disney sold an impressive 125,000 copies. Total revenue was $1 million.
Letterman’s take on the exploding laptop batteries manufactured by Sony (and used by Apple/Dell, among others). Watch this through to the end.
This is the story of an ex-contractor at Apple who sneaked into the building every day and continued to work on a cancelled project for months. The finished product was eventually included as part of the Mac OS. It’s amazing what you can get away with when they can’t fire you (because you’re not an employee).
Recently Apple shocked the world by announcing they were switching over to Intel processors. Now they’ve released software, dubbed “Boot Camp,” allowing users to run both Windows and OS X on Apple hardware, in dual-boot mode. So we can have the best of both worlds. What would really be nice, though, is if they ported OS X so it could run on regular PCs.
“Everything you wanted to know about installing Windows and running it on a Mac is right here.”
Looking to buy one of those hot, new iPod Nanos? You may want to wait, as there have been some problems with the initial batch. First and foremost is that the screen is ridiculously easy to scratch (to the point of unreadability). Second, Apple has admitted that some of the screens are flawed and will easily crack.
Link: http://arstechnica.com/…
Update: Here is a better link for the scratching problem.
Now this is something even I would shell out bucks to purchase. They don’t allow portable music players at work, but they do allow cell phones. Look for the official announcement on Sep. 7th.
Link: http://www.iht.com/…
Update (09/07/2005): Here it is, the Motorola ROKR. Holds up to 100 songs, costs $250, and is exclusively supported by Cingular.
Chad Cloman
Denver, CO USA
