Friday, September 28, 2007

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  • My New Vintage Hardware - Can Leopard be installed on an 800MHz machine?

    iMac G4I have a vintage 800MHz iMac G4. There, I’ve said it, and wow, does that sound strange to me. I love my iMac - remember those commercials where it stuck its ‘tongue’ out at the guy on the sidewalk? - and I was very excited to hear, initially, that I could put Leopard on it. For a lot of people, these original iMacs were their first sip of the Apple kool-aid: exciting, different, classy, with a form that looked like nothing else around as well as being ridiculously useful.  (Pivoting, tilting monitor - yes please!)  The version I have, when it first came out, was the top model for the iMac, and ones like it still command a solid 200 to 400$US on eBay.

    So when Apple decided that Leopard would only officially support 867Mhz or higher machines now, I was heartbroken. I’m not alone here, either. The owners of the 800MHz flavors of iBook, PowerMac G4 (Quicksilver and Titanium), and eMac also now are the proud possessors of officially-vintage hardware.

    However, I noted that Apple made this decision because the installer ran too slowly, which makes me wonder. Also, earlier dev builds ran on machines like these, if slowly. If I’m willing to let it sit for an hour or so, can I still install Leopard on my iMac? I know I’m not the only one that’ll be wondering, either.

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  • Unlocked iPhone Users Beware

    iPhoneIt appears that Apple may have been telling the truth about unlocked iPhones and the software update not playing nice together. Jonathan Seff over at iPhone Central shares his tale - in which even a new SIM card couldn’t resurrect is iBrick. Even though some Apple Geniuses may be quietly unbricking iPhones, I have to say I still don’t think it’s worth it. I’d ride out my contract and then pull the trigger (unless you’re with Sprint - then I can totally understand wanting to get out).

    What about you TAB readers? Has anyone successfully updated with an unlocked iPhone? Here’s your opportunity to brag!

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  • Getting Outlook's Calendar into iCal for the iPhone

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    As I understand it, iTunes for Windows allows you to sync your iPod - or more importantly (these days) your iPhone - with Outlook for contacts and calendar items. That seems well and good for Windows users I suppose, but not so for my co-worker and his new iPhone. (Unfortunately for him I’m a bigger Apple nerd than he, and the phrase, “Can I see your iPhone?” has become an old joke very quickly…)

    You see my friend and I work in a place - like many, many places - that uses Microsoft’s Exchange server for email, thus Outlook is the tool of choice for email, contacts, calendars, etc. The issue my co-worker faces is that he syncs his iPhone with his Mac at home, not his work PC. Thus, his work-based calendar items (which don’t exactly translate on the poor IMAP/Exchange integration) aren’t loaded onto his iPhone. (And between you and me, He misses enough meetings as it is…) So what to do?

    As most of my friends do when they have an Apple related question, he came bugging me (which was only fair given the love affair I’ve had with his iPhone). I should mention also that he’s a senior engineer (hence the missed skipped meetings) and doesn’t like to do a lot of ‘heavy lifting’, so the process of exporting a CSV from Outlook each day to mangle into iCal was out of the question - Can you blame him?
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  • Apple Store Gets A Facelift

    Apple StoreApple launched a revamped online store on Wednesday, giving it a refreshed look and just the polish it deserves. Product categorization is greatly improved, making it much easier to visually make connections between products and accessories. More emphasis is being put on new and top selling products (taking a cue from Amazon perhaps?), and alot of the tabs and buttons got really big. Navigation has also greatly improved, with an obvious breadcrumb trail at the top of each page.

    But overall the store just looks and feels rock solid. It’s big, beautiful and welcoming. I’ve always had issues with the organization (or seemingly lack thereof) and aesthetic of the online store in the past, and have cited it as the weakest part of the Apple online experience. It’s nice to finally see Apple rectify that and make a place where I want to shop even more.

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  • Features I'd love to see in the iTunes Store

    iTunes Store

    iTunes has been around for quite some time (if my calculations are correct it’s about 6 years). It’s been my favorite music/video organizer I’ve ever used (both Mac and PC) and the launch of the iTunes Store in 2003 quickly made it the go-to place for purchasing music as opposed to actual CDs.

    So while I really do love the iTunes Store, there are a few features that I’m honestly quite surprised have yet to make their way in to the software. In the 4 years of the store’s existence the main “shell” of the store really has changed very little. A few of these features I believe would make the shopping experience significantly better.
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  • 10.4.11 Updates?

    With September ending, and Leopard effectively promised for October, the 10.4.11 ‘fix list’ keeps piling up. That I know of right now, it supposedly should cover: CUPS, VPN and L2TP, audio bugs (Core Audio and .m4a), AFP server issues, USB devices, networking fixes (again), BSD and interlock timeouts, and all kinds of ‘enhancements.’

    I know that I, at least have a couple of machines that are not going to be running Leopard ever - they just can’t hack it. They’re fine for their purpose, lab machines all, but they don’t meet system requirements for Leopard and never will. I have only three machines - my Macbook Pro, my G5 Powermac, and a G4 iMac - that can, in fact. Accordingly, I am much more interested in Tiger updates than Leopard. I’ve seen all the reviews and feature lists for Leopard already.

    Here’s what I’m hoping for in 10.4.11:

    • Playing .ogg, .wma, and .flac without extra plugins or conversions.
    • Not crashing G4 machines when a Samba share goes missing. (Elegant disconnects.)
    • Pie in the sky, but - an icon editor/replacement app?
    • Reliable time from a network timeserver running on a Windows machine, because there’s nothing like locking an Active Directory password because Kerberos is being cranky.
    • Better interoperability with Active Directory - companies are not going to be switching to Leopard on a large scale yet, and fixing this in Tiger is the way to go.

    What do you hope to see?

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