Our friends at Geek Culture have posted another Joy of Tech comic entitled “Yet another opening of an Apple Nursery.” The comic is set outside one of Apple’s new mini retail stores, and features a line-up of Mac geeks with their “babies.” The Joy of Tech comic series routinely delivers a humorous look at technology and the issues surrounding it.
Read MorePopChar X 2.2 – adds automatic font detection for many popular applications
Hagenberg, October-18-2004, ergonis software today announced the immediate
availability of PopChar X 2.2, the highly acclaimed tool for “typing”
unusual characters easily without having to remember keyboard combinations.
“Up to now, PopChar X could guess the current font in only a few
applications and users had to manually choose the required font in
many situations.
MacMinute reader Bryan Chang has posted a photo gallery from the grand opening of Apple’s new mini retail store at the Oakridge Mall in San Jose, California. The new mini store is one of six that opened on Saturday across the US. Half the size of Apple’s smallest retail store, they feature stainless steel walls, gloss-white floors and ceilings, and checkout areas with barcode scanners built into the walls.
Read MoreApple CEO Steve Jobs may have found someone who wants his 78-year-old mansion in Woodside, California. As previously reported, Jobs is trying to give away the home, which he calls a “dump,” to appease preservationists who don’t want it torn down. Jobs does not want to restore the 17,000-square-foot Spanish Colonial Revival house, and instead wants to build a newer, smaller one. It has apparently caught the eye of Dr.
Read MoreThe MP3 music format is losing ground to rival technologies backed by Apple and Microsoft, according to researchers at the NPD Group’s MusicWatch Digital who track the contents of people’s hard drives. The researchers said that the percentage of MP3s in digital music collections has steadily declined in recent months, down to 72 percent of collections from 82 percent a year ago.
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