Saturday, March 10, 2007

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  • Mobile Mac Tips: USB Power

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    Mac portable-toting travelers know that one of the best things you can do to save limited packing space is eliminate the wall wart chargers that come with so many gadgets and replace them with USB charging cables (particularly Ziplinq style retractable cables). That way you can charge your devices from your MacBook (Pro) or other Mac Portable. However, you can take this to the next level with two very convenient devices. The first is a combination USB AC Wall charger + cigarette lighter adapter, like this VersaCharger Pro from Boxwave (I actually have the similar Emerge ReTrak from CompUSA I got for $20 and which came with a retractable cable for my Treo). Throw one of these in your bag with USB charge cables and you can always charge your iPod, phone, or PSP in your hotel room or rental car.

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  • Where OS X 'Big Cat' code names REALLY come from

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    OK, so imagine this: You're Apple Computer, Inc. (still) and it's December 1997. You've just blocked British Mac-clone maker Shaye from licensing Mac OS 8, thereby putting it pretty much out of luck for new products; in fact, Shaye will revert to selling genuine Apple gear at the end of the year. Still, there's something kind of catchy about Shaye's branding... something vaguely feline: Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard, Lion and Lynx. Nice ring to those "big cat" names. Mrowr!

    Reader Andreas Tellefsen spotted this incredible coincidence on Mac-clone history site everymac.com -- it seems that almost all of the Shaye model names have mysteriously transformed into Mac OS X release codenames. 'Lynx' is even one of the two additional big cats trademarked by Apple ('Cougar' is the other). Is this an innocent case of parallel branding? A sneaky repurposing of deprecated product names? Nothing more than a tempest in a litter box? You be the judge.
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  • Crazy Cringely Rumor: Apple to do H.264 Hardware in Every Mac

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    Robert X. Cringley is not the most reliable source of news, but he is almost always provocative. So take this one with a big grain of salt, but he is suggesting that Apple will soon incorporate hardware H.264 decoding and encoding chips across the Mac line. The big advantage of this would be to allow every single Mac model to offer full 1080p HDTV decoding without depending on the speed of the main processor. This would make the Mac mini, for instance, a perfect HDTV DVR. Further it would make the Mac the choice for consumer video processing a la Youtube, allowing users to process video for upload more quickly then on any other platform. Says Bob: "It's an aggressive play that fits perfectly with Apple's traditional role as the hardware platform of choice for new media development. And I am sure the company will have at least one new service or application that will uniquely support this new chip upon which Apple is placing a $500+ million bet."

    As I said above, take this with a big grain of salt, but it is provocative and has just enough plausibility to it to give one pause. So is what do you think, TUAW readers? Is this another one of Bob's pie-in-the-sky rumors, or is this a brilliant move by Apple's into HD video? (And what about the Apple TV and a video iPod?)

    Update: corrected typo
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