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- A bit of [Big] Apple history: visiting Tekserve
Filed under: Retail, Cult of Mac, Retro Mac
It may have lost a bit of luster compared to the chrome, glass and steel of Apple's nearby retail stores (one within easy walking distance, in fact), but there's no denying the draw of New York City's original Apple emporium, the delightfully idiosyncratic Tekserve. Featured on an episode of Sex and the City, the venerable Mac repair and retail shop maintains its own clientele and distinctive look as the possibility of yet a 4th NYC Apple store looms large.
Not to take anything away from the city's other indie Mac shops; we love them dearly, but they often find themselves overshadowed by the Big T. Since my office is roughly equidistant from both the W. 14th Street Apple Store and Tekserve (although, now that I've checked, I realize I'm slightly closer to Mike Volchok's Mike's Tech Shop -- noted for next time!), I decided to go old school today when I picked up my copy of Snow Leopard, and I snapped a few iPhone pics of the store while I was there. Enjoy!
TUAWA bit of [Big] Apple history: visiting Tekserve originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: Apple - Snow Leopard - IPhone - Unofficial Apple Weblog - TUAW
Переслать - Snow Leopard: Another upgrader's experience
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, OS, Software, Snow Leopard
I got to the Walt Whitman Mall on Long Island yesterday and they were doing land-office business, according to the blue (not orange) shirt I was speaking with. He told me that he lost count, but they must have moved over 150 copies of Snow Leopard per hour.
Two minutes later (they really do have their system down), I left the store in a foreshadowing downpour. After looking at the startup, shutdown and disk capacity notes I've been collecting for a few days, I removed the shrink wrap and got down to business with the hopes of upgrading four computers today. Yes, I did buy the family pack. Five hours later, I'd only upgraded two machines. This is not because the upgrades didn't move along speedily, it was because I had some real head scratching problems to deal with.
The first: my 8GB 17" Unibody Macbook Pro running at 2.93 Ghz, took about 34 minutes to upgrade. As I thought, Apple hadn't gotten any better about realistic install times with the last 'under a minute' taking 7 minutes. No news there. Additionally, I gained only 2 GB of usable storage; I did do a Rosetta install. Damn you Quicken!
If you haven't installed Rosetta, and find that you need it, a very helpful box is displayed asking if you want to. It really didn't take a lot of storage at all.
I'd suspected that much of the reclamation of storage is due to clearing out caches and other garbage. What led me to believe this was that I ran Onyx beforehand, and that gave me back about about 8GB of storage right there from maintenance and cleanup. The truth about SL's space savings, however, according to David Pogue: most of the excess storage given back is saved in compressed code and not installing gigabytes of printer drivers that most users will never need.
What follows are a few initial notes from an installation that didn't go quite as smoothly as I had hoped.Continue reading Snow Leopard: Another upgrader's experience
TUAWSnow Leopard: Another upgrader's experience originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: Snow Leopard - Apple - David Pogue - Rosetta - TUAWПереслать - Apple lists Snow Leopard incompatibilities
Filed under: OS, Software, Apple, Snow Leopard
With Snow Leopard in users' hands for less than 24 hours, reports of software incompatibilities are coming in (as well as what's been updated). Apple has posted a list of its own to the knowledge base. The article notes that, when Snow Leopard is installed, known-incompatible software is moved to a folder aptly named Incompatible Software. Additionally, known-incompatible software is prevented from opening (you'll see an "Incompatible software" message).
As of this writing, there are 21 pieces of software on Apple's official list, including Parallels Desktop v. 2.5 (and earlier) and AirPort Admin Utility for Graphite and Snow v. 4.2.5. A few of our readers shared their experiences in our liveblog earlier tonight, including installation troubles. We're sure that all vendors are working to update their products. If something continues to give you trouble, hold tight. Help is (probably) on the way.TUAWApple lists Snow Leopard incompatibilities originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: Snow Leopard - Apple - Operating system - Unofficial Apple Weblog - TUAWПереслать - Join us at 9PM EDT for a TUAW liveblog -- Snow Leopard's first day
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Liveblog, Snow Leopard
By now, if you've been lucky enough to have picked up a copy of Snow Leopard, you've installed it and are beginning to see what the buzz was all about.
TUAW would like to invite you to join us a 9 PM EDT for a liveblog about Snow Leopard's first day of life. Did you run into issues? Were all of your installs flawless? We'd like to hear, and so would many other TUAW readers.
We'll talk to you soon!
TUAWJoin us at 9PM EDT for a TUAW liveblog -- Snow Leopard's first day originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: Snow Leopard - TUAW - Apple - Eastern Time Zone - Unofficial Apple WeblogПереслать - Stupid and unjustified App Store rejection letter of the day
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Software, Bad Apple, Developer, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
TUAW has covered the fine iPhone apps from Tapbots more than once. ConvertBot is a beautifully-designed and functional app to do a myriad of unit conversion calculations, while WeightBot is my personal favorite app for keeping track of my incredible ballooning body.
Tapbots posted an entry on their blog today stating that the most recent version of ConvertBot (1.4) had been rejected by Apple. What was Apple's reason for the rejection? As you can see in the graphic at the top of the page, the ConvertBot icon for time conversions looks very similar to the Phone app icon for recent calls. This is the same icon that has passed Apple's scrutiny in previous versions, so it is ridiculous for the company's eagle-eyed app inspectors to suddenly decide that the icon is unfit for iPhone consumption.
Mark Jardine of Tapbots noted "So what's the plan? I need to redo the icon, I suppose. But Convertbot icons were meant to use as little lines/shapes as possible to identify the category. I feel that our current icon represents time as simply as possible. So how can we make Time different? What if it's set at 9 o'clock instead of 3? Is that acceptable? The big problem here is the only way I can get that answer is by making the change, resubmitting the app, and waiting another week or 2 for Apple's verdict."
What gives, Apple? You release a couple of amazing apps to the world this week (Facebook, Spotify, TUAW, and Yelp), but you hold up the next release of an established app over an icon. I'm giving the App Store approval people the "idiots" tag on this post.TUAWStupid and unjustified App Store rejection letter of the day originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: iPhone - AppStore - Apple - Facebook - Unofficial Apple WeblogПереслать - Mel Martin's Friday with Snow Leopard: few glitches, much joy
Filed under: Macbook Pro, Mac Pro, Leopard, MobileMe
It was pretty quiet at the ole' Apple Store here in Tucson. I got there just at ten, and while there were stanchions to organize the crowd, they weren't needed and just sat off to the side looking lonely. There were plenty of people in the store, and about half were buying Snow Leopard. Supplies were plentiful, but I was there early.
Installing on both a MacBook Pro and a Mac Pro were two different stories. On the laptop, things were ducky. Everything worked, mail accounts were there, bookmarks, the usual.
On my desktop it was not so pretty. I kept getting messages that I needed to add a password for my MobileMe account, which I dutifully did. Problem was it kept asking. Then I saw some messages about the keychain. Whoops. Not a good message to see.
Well, the short version is that somehow my keychain was hosed. I tried to repair, but that didn't stop the problems. I finally threw away my keychain data and started again, re-entering my email passwords and a few other things. All is back to normal. I also saw a strange message about my iDisk, but I followed the directions and threw a rather large file away. It appeared to be a copy of my idisk for local use.
Other things pretty much work. My Sonos audio system is fine, Photoshop CS3 seems OK, and while it didn't get a heavy duty run through, it opens images, applies filters, runs actions, and saves properly.
Shut down is almost instantaneous, and I noticed I'd saved 14GB after the upgrade.
I'm seeing lots of little niceties. When I take a screen shot, it has a name that includes the date and time instead of 'picture 1'.
All in all, not too painful, but not completely trouble free. With keychain passwords gone I may wind up doing some extra typing for awhile on web sites where I have an account, but that's not too horrible.
Snow Leopard is clearly faster, trimmer, and a bit more fun to use. A good use of $30.00 and just a little bit more time than I planned in getting over a couple of glitches.TUAWMel Martin's Friday with Snow Leopard: few glitches, much joy originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: Snow Leopard - Apple - MobileMe - TUAW - Mac ProПереслать - A roundup of Snow Leopard-related software announcements
Filed under: OS, Odds and ends, Snow Leopard
As our readers and staff are out buying copies of Mac OS X Snow Leopard today, we thought we'd also start rounding up news about software updates related to the OS update.
We're getting a lot of emails today with news about Snow Leopard compatibility updates for applications, so we'll be listing the updates in this post. Be sure to check back from time to time today, as we'll be changing this post frequently. If you're using the new and free TUAW iPhone App [App Store link] to read this, be sure to tap the icon in the upper right corner of the screen to view the entire post.Continue reading A roundup of Snow Leopard-related software announcements
TUAWA roundup of Snow Leopard-related software announcements originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: Apple - Snow Leopard - Operating system - Mac OS X - App StoreПереслать - Facebook 3.0 for iPhone released
Filed under: Software Update, iPhone, iPod touch
After a couple of weeks of waiting in the iTunes app store approval queue, the 3rd major update of the popular Facebook for iPhone [iTunes Link] application has been released. Joe Hewitt, the developer of the app, has been working on it for quite some time and submitted it for review on 8/16. If you're still seeing 2.5 in the app store, Joe suggests deleting the app from your phone and reinstalling it -- it will be 3.0.
The new version includes some of the most requested features including:- Better news feed with direct links to comments
- Ability to "Like" posts
- RSVP to events
- Create/upload photos to albums
- Write/edit notes
- Customizable home screen
- Improved photo viewing with zoom
- Better notifications
Check out some shots of the app in action:
TUAWFacebook 3.0 for iPhone released originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: iPhone - Facebook - Joe Hewitt - Apple - App StoreПереслать
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