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Mac Porn

February 21, 2006

The sheer beauty of their design and packaging brings out a bout of technolust. Jason O’Grady posts a pictorial of the unpackaging of his brand new MacBook Pro. He even takes photos of the styrofoam cutouts!
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Apple embeds poem in Mac OS

February 17, 2006

Text of a poem that’s embedded in the new version of MacOS which runs on Intel chips. Apple today confirmed that it was put there to prevent piracy (or at least make those that pirate their software think twice.)
There once was a user that whined
his existing OS was so blind
he’d do better to pirate
an OS [...]

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Apple Rumor Mill – Place Yer Bets!

January 9, 2006

As much as I hate the prediction game, the temptation is just too great. With the keynote less than 24 hours away, here’s a roundup of some of the latest rumors of what’s going to come out of Steve Jobs’ pocket tomorrow followed by my picks.

Intel-based Mac Mini & iBook (ThinkSecret)
Mac Mini reworked as the [...]

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Brushed Metal gets the boot from iTunes

September 9, 2005

There are quite a few Mac fans around the office. There was even a white board where people put up their guess as to what the big announcement from Apple was going to be about on Tuesday. Nano? Love it. Rokr phone? Nah. The designer geeks were all over the cosmetic changes to iTunes which [...]

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More details on Apple’s Spotlight

November 12, 2004

A technical document recently posted on Apple’s developer site details Spotlight, the new desktop search technology due in the next release of the Mac OS.
But more than a collection of individual technologies that work
together, Spotlight gives you the ability to plug your application into
the operating system and work with files in a totally new way. [...]

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Search, not Sort

July 2, 2004

Wired files this story on Apple’s announcement of Spotlight.
In Jobs’ scheme, the hierarchy of files and folders is a dreary, outdated metaphor inspired by office filing. In today’s communications era, categorized by the daily barrage of new e-mails, websites, pictures and movies, who wants to file when you can simply search? What does it matter [...]

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Spotlight Developer’s Kit

July 1, 2004

Just dug around a bit and see that Apple will be providing a Developer’s Kit to extend Spotlight’s search engine to other applications.
But the search engine also works contextually within applications such as Apple’s Mail, Address Book and System Preferences—and Apple is giving developers at WWDC a software development kit to help them build Spotlight [...]

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Wall Street Journal picks up scent

July 1, 2004

Front Page of yesterday’s Marketplace section has two stories, side-by-side, picking up on the meme of universal search with a graphic of two bloodhounds trying to get their way into a PC. One covers the announcement of the beta MSN search interface announced yesterday and the second looks at Apple’s Spotlight utility for desktop search. [...]

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Spotlight

June 30, 2004

Apple announced the next version of their OS, codenamed “Tiger” which has an improved local search feature called “Spotlight” with the marketing tagline of, “Find anything, anywhere. Fast” Although it is limited to an index of local files and does not extend searches to the internet, it promises an improved index of local files and [...]

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