In his Personal Technology column today, The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg outlines what he feels Intel-based Macs will mean for the average consumer. Mossberg says that providing Apple executes the changeover properly, it will have little or no affect on the typical Mac user. “In the short run, however, the chip changeover should make little difference to average consumers,” he says.
Read MoreAn article today by Peter Burrows on BusinessWeek looks at the implications of Apple’s move from IBM to Intel for its computer chip needs. One significant change, Burrows feels, is that Jobs will have less flexibility with Apple’s product rollout schedule, now that they are working with Intel. “Still, hooking up with Intel is worth the risk.
Read MoreFidelity Media today announced the release of MegaSeg 3.1.2, a free update to its professional DJ music mixing and automation software. The new version improves the way Discrete Output Mode works allowing for better compatibility with external mixers and controllers, adds Auto Gain Control to both decks simultaneously, solved an issue with VU meters not registering volume changes under QuickTime 7, and fixes a bug preventing the Insert Media event from working, among 20 other improvements.
Read MoreApple has posted a new games feature on its Web site for The Sims 2. “Maxis and EA Games’ The Sims 2 (brought to the Mac by Aspyr Media) takes the legendary Sims series to unprecedented new level. With the introduction of genetics, you can control your sims over a lifetime and pass their sims’ DNA down from one generation to the next. The sims evolve by genetically passing on physical and personality traits.
Read MoreO’Reilly’s Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks, by Brian Jepson and Ernest E. Rothman (the latest edition of the book), has been revised and expanded to cover “further changes to what is now, ironically, the world’s most widely-used Unix system.” O’Reilly says that this book is a “survival guide for developers and system administrators who want to tame the Unix side of Mac OS X.” The revised book covers five areas: Getting Around, Building Applications, Working with Packages, Serving and System Management, and Appendixes.
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