AppleInsider:
Reporting back to investors, Needham Co. analyst Charlie Wolf notes that Apple moved from selling just 61,000 Macs to small businesses in the spring to 188,000 in the three months of Apple’s summer quarter ended in September.
The gain boosted Apple’s share of the field from a modest 1.9 percent during the earlier season to a [...]
CNET:
There are also a variety of subtle enhancements to program operation, including the ability to apply graphic styles additively. A few changes to the panels include a modification of the Appearance panel’s operation–it’s now an attribute editor, allowing you to toggle visibility or adjust parameters like opacity, blend mode, and fill color–and the addition of [...]
The Obamafy Photo Booth Plugin puts your face on Obama’s poster. Here’s mine.
StateStats:
This tool shows you how popular a Google search query is in each U.S. state, giving a ranking like the one you see in the left column. It then compares this ranking with other ways of ranking states, like average income or population density, using Spearman’s rank correlation. The middle column shows the results of [...]
TUAW turned up Apple’s “Xserve Field Guide.” This guide is design to assist on-site technicians with Xserve hardware issues. It’s good, but not heavy duty on the high-end information.
Click here to see some screenshots of the guide. On the left, the desktop version (as rendered on the iPhone), and on the right the iPhone-optimized version.
From the NY Times:
It’s a long way from $700 billion, but the media start-up Six Apart is introducing its own economic bailout plan.
The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program offers recently terminated bloggers and journalists a free pro account (worth $150 annually) on the company’s popular blogging platform. In addition to the free yearly membership, the 20 [...]
James and John of the RetroMacCast mentioned on their show this week a document titled “Inside Macintosh” they found. Here’s a bit from the preface:
Inside Macintosh is a three-volume set of manuals that tells you what you need to know to write software for the Apple® Macintosh™ 128K, 512K, or XL (or a Lisa® running [...]
Touch Arcade, on why some games are faster on a Touch:
The most clear difference is that fact that the iPod Touch’s processor was quietly boosted to 532MHz (up from 412MHz) with the 2nd generation model introduced in September. Meanwhile, the iPhone 3G, Original iPhone and 1st Generation iPod Touch continue to run at the original [...]
AppleInsider:
The Cupertino-based firm is conscious that any retail layoffs would give a negative impression of its health and hurt its share value, and instead plans to scale back the hours worked by its part-time Mac Specialists that greet customers and promote products. This would keep them on the store floors while trimming employment costs, those [...]
