Twitterific and Tweetie are perhaps the clients to beat, but neither has the features or user interface to be a category killer. Thereupon, Nambu promises much and the notion of a Twitter-powered Adium tantalizes, as well. What are you currently using and what features will your ideal Mac Twitter client have?
A court deposition, relating to the long ago concluded options back-dating scandal ,offers insights into Apple CEO’s role in the affair, why the options were offered at all and, interestingly, how the company co-founder found himself back at the helm of a sinking ship.
With the world economy down on its luck, almost everyone is cutting back somewhere. Apple is cutting back by not opening retail stores and cutting its retail staff.
Last night my daughter asked me to find and print the lyrics Nickelback’s Rockstar (she’ll get the expurgated version). Shortly thereafter I realized that pearLyric, my long time go to application and Dashboard (a veritable one-two punch) for lyrics, had stopped functioning and there isn’t a new version available either. Drat.
Today’s winner of the “What were they thinking?” prize is the Apple App Store for releasing a “game” in which an infant must be shaken, apparently to death, before it will stop crying.
It’s probably no accident that this product arrives about a week after security researchers at Symantec announced they had discovered the first ever zombie network of Macintosh computers. Unfortunately, this product won’t protect users who download illegal warez via peer to peer networks.
Computer sales were down a bit, but less than many analysts expected. Moreover, the company’s portable media player and handset sales more than made up the difference.
Why are we such an enthusiastic bunch? Whether it’s because the we’re clustered in professions sheltered from the downturn or that we’re simply irrepressible, it would seem that the grass is indeed a shade or two more greener on the fairer platform.
Sometime tomorrow, if estimates are correct, the Apple App Store will serve it’s billionth application, an amazing number for something only about a year old…
From the next-generation Macintosh operating system system department we’ve got good news and bad news. Which would you like to hear first?
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