http://www.appleology.com Making Apple and Apple Users Think Different Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:04:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en January 8, 2007, the day Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone to the world, was the day Apple lost its innocence. Since then, Apple has regrown to become one of the biggest, if not the biggest, names in the consumer tech industry. But are they still thinking different? The worst thing that ... http://www.appleology.com/2009/08/05/time-to-fork-itunes/ Apple this morning sent out invitations to a press event in San Francisco next Tuesday at 10am PST (1pm EST). The invitation simply is a picture of a light shining on an aluminum notebook along with the text "The spotlight turns to notebooks." Speculators believe the biggest point to be made at this ... http://www.appleology.com/2008/10/09/october-14-notebooks-event-confirmed/ Steve Jobs mentioned during his September 9 "Let's Rock" keynote that iPhone 2.1 software would become available for download on Friday and would bring along with it many bug fixes and improvements. He seemed very confident that this update would satisfy troubled iPhone owners. Early reports are claiming the update really ... http://www.appleology.com/2008/09/12/iphone-21-becomes-available-and-delivers/ Magnetism Studios (aka Monkey Business Labs), makers of some awesome Dashboard widgets and some insanely great tees, has released a new application called Filemark Maker for Mac OS X that allows an iPhone or iPod Touch user to convert any Safari-compatible media file into a bookmarklet, making it possible to ... http://www.appleology.com/2008/01/27/store-files-on-your-iphone-or-itouch-without-jailbreak-with-filemark-maker/ Apple's been busy lately refining the user interface OS X for the upcoming Leopard release. However, there are several remaining user interface elements that have yet to be updated to the new Aqua-dark UI. And with rumors that Leopard has reached release candidate status with the latest seed, I'm worried ... http://www.appleology.com/2007/09/25/dear-apple-please-finish-leopards-ui/ Apple today seeded version 9A559 of Leopard, which according to MacRumors, fixes "two known issues for Leopard. The two issues described involve upgrading from Tiger to Leopard on PowerPC systems in certain scenarios, and HP printer drivers." With this seed, Apple continued to polish Leopard's user interface. New app icons, new ... http://www.appleology.com/2007/09/22/leopard-9a559-user-interface-improvements/ Apple has recently seeded an update to its beta-testing developers, with codenames 9A527 and 9A528A. Developers are claiming the OS is close to receiving final candidate status. The update features greatly improved performance and stability, as well as a surprising number of UI tweaks. Developers are also noticing some of the ... http://www.appleology.com/2007/08/25/leopards-new-space-themed-welcome-video-and-desktop-wallpaper/ The Mac Mini seemed like it had a bright future ahead of itself when Steve Jobs first introduced it at MacWorld 2005. It was introduced as the perfect switcher's machine, since it was "bare bones", cheap, and allowed for connection to third party displays, keyboards, and mice. When Steve introduced ... http://www.appleology.com/2007/08/08/why-apples-current-mac-mini-strategy-is-failing/ iMovie has always made it impossible to produce advanced slideshows, especially when setting custom Ken Burns start-and-end frames. The problem used to lie with iMovie's sluggish importing and encoding functions, however the problem seems to have been fixed with iMovie '08, thanks to Apple's decision to completely rewrite the application. ... http://www.appleology.com/2007/08/08/imovie-08-makes-custom-slideshow-production-easy/ Today the Mac Mini survived and finally gets a speed bump and new upgrade options, including dual-layer superdrive options and additional hard drive and RAM options. The 1.83 GHz combo drive model is available for $599 and the 2.0GHz superdrive model is available for $799. Each models have standard 1GB RAM, ... http://www.appleology.com/2007/08/07/new-core-2-duo-mac-minis-aluminum-keyboards/