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- Scot Finnie on Mac vs. PC pricing
Filed under: Hardware, Portables, Switchers
Here at TUAW, we welcome all those yearning to breathe free of Windows, especially high-profile technology columnists like ComputerWorld's Scot Finnie. Longtime PC writer Finnie made a public switch to the Mac in February after a 3-month trial, and he's not looking back. This week, in an article posted on his site and adapted in ComputerWorld, he takes on the accepted wisdom that Macs are more expensive than PCs. Guess what he discovered?
Feature for feature, if you match up Apple's constrained model selections with mainstream/premium vendors like Dell or Sony, the MacBook Pro and iMac come out ahead on pricing. In fact, getting a Dell laptop to match the 17" MBP config resulted in a laptop $650 more expensive and almost two pounds heavier. Finnie's original analysis came out before this week's revisions to the MBPs, so it's worth checking for yourself to see that it's hard to get laptops with the latest Intel chips anywhere near Apple's price/spec lineup.
In light of Apple's record results over the past couple of quarters, it's worth reading Finnie's March 28 Computerworld essay, "Why Microsoft Should Fear Apple." Marketing mojo and technical sophistication aside, Finnie zeroes in on the real competitive advantage Apple is gaining: public buzz. (We're doing what we can to help. :-)
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/06/09/scot-finnie-on-mac-vs-pc-pricing/#comments - WWDC 2007 Keynote bingo
It wouldn't be a Stevenote without a little bingo thrown in for fun, right? John Siracusa, of Ars Technica, has once again posted a PDF of his bingo card so you can play along on Monday. Just in case you aren't familiar with this whole Keynote bingo thing, here's a quick overview: Steve gets on stage, you ready your bingo card and cross off spots when something that matches the card happens (Steve says 'Boom,' new iMacs are introduced, and so forth). It makes a Stevenote even more fun (if such a thing is possible).
If PDF isn't your thing, you can also download this WWDC Bingo application. The neat thing about this app is it'll create a random bingo card based on 100 options, so chances are your card won't be the same as the person's sitting next to you.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/06/09/wwdc-2007-keynote-bingo/#comments - Subscribe to an RSS feed in iCal
As if RSS feeds weren't becoming pervasive enough, what with every browser and a wealth of apps that support the standard(s), Tom Henderson has put together a slick PHP script for subscribing to a feed in iCal. Not only could this make it easier for users to visualize the activity on a blog or some sort of RSS-friendly event announcement service, but it could also effectively be used as a way to archive the posts (or at least the publication dates) of your favorite blogs and news sites.
For this to work you need to have your own hosting on which you can run PHP (I believe PHP 4 and 5 both work), and you also need to install the open source MagpieRSS (simply by uploading it to your hosting space) to aid in parsing the feeds that Henerson's script downloads. Once you get MagpieRSS uploaded, you might need to edit Henderson's script to call the correct path to MagpieRSS (lines 15 and 16), but once you sort all that out, you can use a simple string like this in iCal's Subscribe dialog (Calendar > Subscribe...):
http://path/to/rss-ics.php?url=http://path/to/feed/
to kindly ask the PHP script to convert the feed you want into a properly formatted ICS file, ripe for iCal's digestion (in the screenshot above, Henderson is subscribed to his own blog, Daring Fireball and the Flickr Blog, all in their own color-coded calendars). Coincidentally, I've been looking for something like this for a while now, and once I tweaked the script to account for the location of MagpieRSS it worked like a charm for most feeds, though it seems to have trouble parsing a few. Ours, for example (tuaw.com/rss.xml) redirects to a Feedburner feed (http://feeds.tuaw.com/weblogsinc/tuaw) which this script didn't seem to grab, but it had no trouble with a clean, direct feed like Daring Fireball's (daringfireball.net/index.xml).
That said, Henderson clearly states in his blog post that this is rough around the edges yet, but he has a bunch of ideas on where to take it and is happy to discuss suggestions. If this script sounds like something useful to you, head over to Tom Henderson's announcement post and chime in on development.Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/06/09/subscribe-to-an-rss-feed-in-ical/#comments - Roadkill MacBook Pro keeps on keepin' on
Filed under: Odds and ends, Macbook Pro
Vermont-based blacksmith Jim Fecteau uses his 17" MacBook Pro as a business and teaching tool, and he fully intended to have it handy at a smiths' meeting in Rhode Island... however, one teensy problem, he left it on top of his truck as he drove away from home. Oops. After fruitless searching on the home end, he chalked it up as a loss.
Enter Small Dog Electronics, longtime Mac vendor in Burlington, VT. A good Samaritan turned the laptop in and SD contacted Fecteau, who came to pick up the patient. Unfortunately, the laptop had been run over by his trailer, and we all know that's gonna leave a mark. A good chunk of the screen is unusable, and the DVD drive has played its last, but the machine is still operable (!) and could be repaired to full working order. Fecteau would like to go for one of the new Santa Rosa machines, and who can blame him?
You can see several more examples of "Mac meets immovable object" physics experiments at Small Dog's 'Maccident' Flickr pool.
[via Small Dog Barkings]
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/06/09/roadkill-macbook-pro-keeps-on-keepin-on/#comments - iPhone sales training materials leaked
If you want to know how the AT&T sales folk will respond when you object to the iPhone's lack of GPS or 8GB storage cap, well, wonder no longer. MacRumors has posted scans of the entire iPhone Sales Training workbook that AT&T is using to bring the cell salesforce up to speed. Plenty of interesting tidbits, including some answers on a few items:
- No IM on the iPhone at launch, SMS only for text messaging
- Simultaneous voice use and email/Web connections requires WiFi
- Bookmarks in iPhone Safari will sync back to your computer
- Weather & Stocks are the only Widgets mentioned in the training materials
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/06/09/iphone-sales-training-materials-leaked/#comments - Typinator 2.0 released with a flood of new features
Filed under: Software, Cool tools, Productivity
Typing tools that increase your efficiency are all the rage for anyone who has to type more than their name and credit card number on a daily basis, and ergonis just upped the ante with the release of Typinator 2.0. Competing directly with similar tools like TextExpander and TypeIt4Me, this new version of Typinator brings a virtual boatload of new features to the table, including:
- Sets allow convenient organization of abbreviations
- Import and export of abbreviation sets
- Comes with auto-correction sets for English, German and French
- Import from Textpander, TextExpander and TypeIt4Me
- Application-specific set assignment
- Typinator can be disabled in individual applications
- Clipboard insertion within expansions
- Streamlined user interface for improved conformance to Apple's guidelines
- The abbreviation table can be sorted by abbreviation, expansion, options, and conflict status
- Expansion of abbreviations is much faster now, even while typing extremely fast and with thousands of defined abbreviations and auto-corrections
- Significantly reduced memory requirements, especially with large expansions
- and much, much more
As a paid user of TextExpander, this new release of Typinator looks quite tasty indeed. I'm actually just glad the typing tool space is getting more competitive, as I can't write or work on the web without one anymore. A demo is of course available, while a single licenses sells for about $26 (EUR 19.99).Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/06/09/typinator-2-0-released-with-a-flood-of-new-features/#comments - Widget Watch: Tumblr widget 2.0
Filed under: Software, Internet Tools, Widget Watch
Tumblr is a unique 'tumble blog' service that gives users a no hassles, no frills blog, and a simple bookmarklet with which to quickly post text, videos, pictures and even chats. For those who feel Blogger or WordPress are a little much to manage, or if you simply don't feel like you have that much to say but you find as much (if not more) cool stuff across the web as the typical dorm-bound student, Tumblr's services might be right up your alley.
If Tumblr's official bookmarklet isn't always your blogging tool of choice, however, there are a few other options on the table, including the recently updated Tumblr widget 2.0. Offering a simple title + body UI, this widget should make it easy to send off your quotes, links (the widget accepts HTML) and chat quotes.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/06/09/widget-watch-tumblr-widget-2-0/#comments - Stick 'Em Up: An enhanced replacement for Apple's Stickies
Filed under: Software, Productivity
For anyone looking to get just a little bit more out of the Stickies app that Apple includes on every Mac, Stick Em Up by Jim McGowan might just be the app for you. Since he also writes Do It, the powerful todo list manager that we're a fan of, McGowan seems to have an eye for improving other apps and tasks that some of us perform on a daily basis. Basically speaking, Stick Em Up is a replacement for Apple's Stickies that offers one significant enhancement: categories. Notes can be grouped into whatever categories you'd like, which are all navigable by the keyboard and can all be effortlessly displayed and hidden. This allows all sorts of useful workflows to include Stick Em Up instead of having to look to another heftier note storage app like Yojimbo, or keeping multiple apps open just to get through the day. Users can create a category of Web Clippings stickies in which you can toss temporary URLs and images, but then hide that category at the end of the day and save room for all the other sticky notes you need to work with for another task. It's a subtle but liberating feature for a simple tool that offers a surprising amount of flexibility.
As with Do It and all his other software, Jim McGowan offers Stick Em Up as donationware from his site.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/06/09/stick-em-up-an-enhanced-replacement-for-apples-stickies/#comments - TUAW Best of the Week
Filed under: Features, TUAW Business, Weekend Review
The weeks fly by faster and faster. Here it is, once again, the weekend. And if you didn't have a chance to spend quite as much quality time here at TUAW as you might have liked, here's your opportunity to peruse our favorite posts of this past week.
TUAW Tip: Create smaller PDF files
Discover the "Compress PDF" option in the Print dialog.The inside story on Apple Genius training
Secrets of the Genius Bar.Engadget and ads confirm iPhone on sale June 29
Finally. A specific date.NYTimes: iPhone SDK at WWDC?
We may yet see an open development environment for the iPhone.New iPhone Ads: what Mac ads should be
Instead of two guys joshing each other, these ads actually show the product.Steve Jobs: iPhone runs "Real OS X"
Small, embedded, real.Speculation: TVPredictions sez RIP AppleTV
Barely three months old--is the Apple TV a failure? TUAW doesn't think so.Zaprudering the iPhone Commercials: Maps
Yes, "Pacific Catch" is a real restaurant.Happy 30th Birthday, Apple II
10 PRINT "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!"Students get free iPod nano with every Mac
The deal is back.TUAW crashes WWDC, invites friends over to party
C'mon and geek out with us.AT&T tuning EDGE network for iPhone?
Maybe 2.5G won't be so bad?iTunes: Free Tuesday
There's still time to take advantage of these free items.Ask TUAW: MacBook Pros, iMovie Export, Shuffle Autofill, Windows Gaming and more
Mat versus TUAW reader questions. Mat wins! (Congrats Mat from all of us!)"30 Days with Mac OS X"
Reviewer decides that the Mac isn't really his thing.Found Footage: Just the Internet, on your Phone
A fourth iPhone commercial bows.Maybe a contract-free iPhone is NOT out of the question
Apple and AT&T drop the "2 Year Activation Required" from the iPhone commercial.ZFS to be the default file system in Leopard?
Sun technology and a bright future.MacBook Battery Charger/Conditioner
Charge a backup battery and your MacBook at the same time.Apple releases Boot Camp 1.3 beta
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