Apple CEO Steve Jobs will be Stanford University’s 2005 Commencement speaker. “The name Steve Jobs is synonymous with innovation and creativity over the past three decades,” Stanford president John Hennessy said. “Steve has been a leader and visionary, a pioneer in the use of technology as a means to create a more engaging and humanistic world.
Read MoreApple has quietly opened an iTunes Music Store for users living in Ireland. The Irish store offers the same features and €0.99 per song pricing as the other supported European stores. Apple had originally planned to launch an iTunes Music Store for Ireland consumers alongside nine new international stores in October, but it was reportedly postponed at the last minute due to a disagreement with the Irish Music Rights Organization (IMRO).
Read MoreMicromat has announced DiskStudio, new hard disk utility that allows Mac users to change their hard disk partitioning scheme without the need to reinitialize and erase their hard disk. According to the company, DiskStudio can: add new partitions to a hard disk without the need to reformat; delete partitions previously created by DiskStudio or Apple’s Disk
Utility; erase and reformat existing partitions in a number of standard formats; and completely erase and repartition an entire hard disk. DiskStudio is priced at US$50.
Search startup Blinkx on Monday plans to release a Mac OS X version of its desktop search application. “Blinkx 2.0 for Mac follows the company’s Windows release that was launched in November and focused on a feature called ‘smart folders.’ The Mac version also will provide smart folders, which allows users to create folders that are automatically populated with results that match the context of the files in the folder…
Read MoreIDG World Expo today announced Macworld On Tour, a conference-driven version of the company’s popular Macworld Conference & Expo. The two-day event will be held March 9-10, 2005 at the Radisson WorldGate Resort in Kissimmee, Florida, and includes a highly-focused, contemporary, conference program, according to the company. The event will also feature an “exclusive selection” of the preeminent vendors in the Mac industry.
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