The NY Times on Google’s failed “Lively” services: Google portrayed the move away from user frivolity as a sound business move. “It has been a tough decision, but we want to ensure that we prioritize our resources and focus more on our core search, ads and apps business,” the company said on a blog post. [...]
Here’s a list of where it is, though. Memphis isn’t on the list.
In April 2003, Apple announced a new low-end and high-end PowerBook to wrap around the Titanium PowerBook family. The new 12-inch and 17-inch models sported a new, all-aluminum case, silver keys, and faster insides. (The 15-inch PowerBook would remain “Titanium” for several more months. My first Mac was one of those Titaniums.) The 12-inch model [...]
Nvidia’s Neil Trevett on OpenCL, part of Snow Leopard that will allow the OS (and apps) have greater access to the GPU: “If Apple ends up following through on the plans they stated on building this specification into Snow Leopard, I think you could see opportunity for imaging applications vendors, video application vendors to tap [...]
I am a big Remember the Milk user, and up until last week, was using Todo to sync RTM with my iPhone. RTM has since come out with a native iPhone app, and it’s stunning (and much better than Todo, in my opinion). Here’s the thought that led the company to create such a great [...]
From the Memphis Flyer: Almost nothing has worked this year for E. W. Scripps, the parent company of The Commercial Appeal. First, however, a little perspective is in order. The CA can and does still make money, although Scripps won’t say how much or what its profit margin is at individual properties. The Scripps newspaper [...]
Lance Ulanoff over at PC Magazine has announced that the January 2009 edition will be the last printed edition of the 27-year old publication: While we are energized by the endless possibilities of the digital format, I assure you that the decision to stop producing a hard-bound copy was not an easy one. But the [...]
MacRumors has a forum thread about a reader who just bought a used MacBook Air on eBay: I recently picked up a used Macbook Air 1.6 The bottom case is black without any markings on it. Computer does boot up, but the battery has swollen and distorted the case. I removed the bottom of the [...]
Jonathan ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch, a well-known developer has created OpenRadar.app, an OS X application designed to help developers keep track of bugs that they submit to Apple’s internal (private, locked-away, secret) bug-tracking system called Radar. First, little on Radar: Radar is Apple’s internal bug tracking system. How Apple views Radar and how external third-party developers view [...]
David Pogue of the NY Times has re-released a review of the iPod Mini. If you haven’t seen his videos before, here’s a spoiler: he’s a major dork.
