Year: 2010

Greg’s bite: Streak, Vista 7 Mobile phones, more blood in the water

Greg’s bite: Streak, Vista 7 Mobile phones, more blood in the water

Posted by | Dec 23, 2010 | , |

By Greg Mills

New high tech products are sold, first at the hopeful high price the manufacturer would like to hold as the “suggested retail price.”. If the product sells like hotcakes at the high launch price point there is no reason to cut the price until the market is saturated. The market place is not kind to products that are not perceived as the best in their class. Why buy a Zune, for example, when you could buy an iPod for the same money?

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Elegant Chaos releases Neu 1.0.2 for Mac OS X

Elegant Chaos releases Neu 1.0.2 for Mac OS X

Posted by | Dec 23, 2010 | , |

Elegant Chaos has announced Neu 1.0.2 (http://www.elegantchaos.com/neu), a minor update to their file making utility for Mac OS X.

Neu is designed to make it easier to create new documents in the Finder without you having to open an application first. It does this by adding menus and global keyboard shortcuts that can be triggered from the Finder, or any other application. Neu lets you choose what to make from a list of templates. You can also trigger Neu from any application using a special key combination.

Changes in the 1.0.2 release include:

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Updated iPhone/iPod/iPad apps for Dec. 23

Posted by | Dec 23, 2010 | |

Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad updates announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).

Apple has updated its free universal Remote application for iOS devices, bringing support for several new features including controlling AirPlay content pushed from iTunes on a user’s computer to an Apple TV, as well as controlling Internet radio in iTunes.

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Twas the week before a new year (a holiday poem)

Posted by | Dec 23, 2010 | , |

The “MacNews” and “MacTech” sites will be closed Friday for Christmas. We wish all of you a happy holiday and offer this little holiday poem for your amusements.

Twas the start of a new year — 2011
Yet another 12 months of good Apple heaven
Our wish stockings were hung in our brains without care
To answer all our wishes Apple hasn’t a prayer

We Apple fans are nestled in front of our Mac
That “beleaguered” computer that’s come roaring back
While rumors of Sandy Bridge processors sound mighty good
And Light Peak and Blu-ray, oh, they’d be soooo good

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