Year: 2005

Mac mini review, Mac traveling on YML

Posted by | Feb 9, 2005 | |

Your Mac Life, an Internet-based Mac radio show hosted by Shawn King, has announced the lineup for this evening’s broadcast (8:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. ET). Tonight Shawn will talk to Jennifer Berger, who reviewed the Mac mini for Macworld. She will talk about the review and her thoughts about the low-cost Mac. Lesa Snider of GraphicReporter.com will talk about her Macworld Expo session, “The Art of Traveling with Your Mac,” about what to look out for when you go places with your PowerBook.

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BugReporter captures Crash Logs for developers

Posted by | Feb 9, 2005 | |

BugReporter 1.0 from Zonic is a new tool that captures Mac OS X Crash Logs, allowing them to be sent directly to the appropriate developer. “Normally seen only by Apple, these logs allow developers to identify the location and cause of any crash in their applications,” explains the developer. BugReporter can be used from either Carbon or Cocoa applications, and supports both Xcode and CodeWarrior development environments. Reports can be delivered by email or online, allowing them to be fed directly into a bug-tracking database.

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Sirius CEO: Satellite radio not in iPod’s future

Posted by | Feb 9, 2005 | |

Sirius Satellite Radio CEO Mel Karmazin said he recently talked with Apple CEO Steve Jobs about adding satellite radio to the iPod. “I’ve spoken to Steve Jobs,” Karmazin said Wednesday at a media conference in New York. He declined to elaborate, other than to say that the “current thinking” at Apple is that “they don’t need to put a satellite radio in their box.” Karmazin said Sirius has been talking to many potential partners about getting satellite radion in their products.

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Tsunami fundraising performance to be released on iTMS

Posted by | Feb 9, 2005 | |

This Sunday’s 47th Annual Grammy Awards will feature a special fund-raising musical performance of John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s “Across The Universe” on behalf of continued tsunami relief efforts. The organizers of the event said today that viewers will be able to go directly to the iTunes Music Store to purchase and download the live performance of “Across The Universe” for 99 cents. All proceeds from downloads of the track will go to tsunami relief efforts benefiting survivors and their families.

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