What does Internet search giant, Google, do shortly after it realizes it screwed up with its video service? The obvious course of action is to go into the music selling business. Maybe that’s why I’m not a multi-millionaire; I don’t view that as a good course of action.
“Bear Stearns maintained an ‘outperform' rating on Google and said the Internet search giant may be looking to expand into the MP3 downloading business,” Peter Kang reports for Forbes. “‘We believe that Google is in the midst of creating its own iTunes competitor, which we've dubbed ‘Google Tunes',' the analyst wrote in a client note issued today. ‘We think this is a logical step, now that the nascent Google Video product has been introduced.' Analyst Robert Peck speculated that it makes sense for Google to create a rival for the popular iTunes service by Apple Computer, given the explosive growth of unique visitors to the iTunes' Web site.”
Google Tunes, catchy name, yeah.
In the entry about Cocoalicious, I casually mentioned using the “for” feature of del.icio.us to tip me off to interesting stories. To that end, we’ve set ourselves up an account, named oddly enough, macuserblog. Cyrus and I will both be checking bookmarks targeted at us using the aforementioned “for” feature. All you need do is tag a bookmark “for:macuserblog” (without quotes naturally). I’ll also be regularly saving links of interest on that username for your perusal and enjoyment.
Before you get your undies in a bunch, it’s a mouse in the shape of an apple, the piece of fruit. Still, how cool is that? It may not have the beauty of an Apple designed mouse, but I want one. I can hear my Power Mac crying out for a new buddy.
[via Engadget]
Apparently there's something of a flap going on over at Blizzard with the creation of guilds and what affiliations they can have. They don't seem to like GLBT guilds. More after the jump -- In Newsweekly has the story. [Hat tip: Peter Cohen]
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Apple is asking Photo District News readers to submit suggestions to Apple about Aperture. That's pretty rad. Aperture is a bit over my head, but hopefully some of you have suggestions. [Hat tip: Peter Cohen !]
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Dear Apple,
If you’re going to publish iCal calendars for your users and publicize them, then keep them up. A movie release calendar that ends October of last year is useless. Even worse is a DVD release calendar that ends September of last year. Some follow through would be nice.
Your pal,
Derik
As I drove away from my townhouse the other evening, I saw a burst of lightning, followed by all the lights in my condo association going out. The lights flickered on a few seconds later and I thought nothing of it. I should have thought more, and gotten a better UPS.
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One of the good and bad things about Camino is its lack of configuration options and features. Despite feature creep and bloat in other browsers, Camino has stayed quick and light.
Sometimes though, you want access to preferences it doesn’t present. Sure, you could access about:config (no, that link won’t work in Safari), but that’s not the most user-friendly option. Enter CamiTools 4. The number of options it adds are almost overwhelming. Some of my favorites include ad-blocking and forcing the ability to save passwords for any web page. And you can’t beat the price (free).
When I moved Mac OS X, I discovered something. Apparently, I don’t use the Finder much. Perhaps the biggest complain for users moving from OS 9 to OS X was that they didn’t like the Finder. I’ll admit, the disappearance of spring loaded folders was frustrating for me, but beyond that, I didn’t have any real complaints. In fact, I liked it better. Column view is the best thing since sliced bread. I’m not representative though, and the recent Finder team position listing has proven that.
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MacSpeedZone isn’t happy with Macworld’s Intel iMac speed testing. You won’t like MacSpeedZone when he’s angry.
Basically, the author of the article points out the importance of the metrics being utilized and how accurately they reflect the performance that the user will experience. Just because a new processor can pound out integer operations twice as fast as the old version doesn’t mean everything will be twice as fast.
While an automated performance test may be better than the clock speed for quantifying performance, it’s not perfect and each user should analyze each different metric to see which computer is better for them. Apple’s marketing hype, I mean performance figures, are good for drawing attention, not for actual evaluation.
I loved Ken Ray’s daily news breakdown on Inside Mac Radio’s podcast. I began to wonder why I didn’t hear his voice on my iPod anymore. There seems to have been some big meltdown. I didn’t read anything about it, so it caught me by surprise when I found out that he was back as Mac OS Ken. My daily news is back and all is right again.
[via Starinfosec]
