Apple User Podcast

From TUAW:

The most useful tips are sometimes the easiest to pull off, and this one from ryerye at Mac OS X Hints definitely falls into that camp. It turns out that iTunes’ Album column can also sort with “Album by Artist” and “Album by Year.” That second option is especially nice, since it’s actually a ‘Sort by Artist by Album Year.’ All you need to do is keep clicking on the Album column to get whichever option you prefer; no extra modifier keys and no obscure tricks, though no documentation either, as far as I can tell.

The Chinese stock market dropped 9% on tuesday and it pulled the Dow Jones and many global marlets down with it, but Apple took a hard knock and shed more than 5% so get out there tomorrow and buy, buy, buy.

Disclaimer: I own Apple shares.

Thinksecret is showing up 25 screenshots from the newest build of Leopard.

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Remember these shots might be mocked up but they seem real to me.

Safari is my favorite browser for many reasons, it’ll also be my browser when I get my iPhone, the only time I have to switch from Safari is to use gmail’s built in IM client (which Safari doesn’t support) and also to get the WYSIWYG toolbar in the wordpress editor. Both of these issues are resolved with Camino, which provides similar usability to safari (great) and similar functionality to Firefox (great).
There’s discussion of which Mac browsers support the Wordpress Editor WYSIWYG editor here.

The Apple Comment by Denny Grabowski

For all Apple addicts is a new toy on the market. The AirPort Extreme is ready for use at home or in every office. The best feature is obviously the 802.11n technique for better performance, but rumours are around that this tool could faces limitation in UK and maybe in other European countries. Consider that beside the fact that so far it’s not available in every European country. That is the reason to keep a look back in time to his little brother and his still good performance.

The AirPort Express is a compact 802.11g base station to fit easily into a laptop bag that does not need a cable to get the power, because it uses a flip-out plug attaches to a standard power outlet. Of course the small size has few limitations and could be not usable for your office but it will support your office wireless range definitely. It comes with 10 simultaneous wireless connections, enough for every household, versus 50 of the Extreme version. And it does not include a built-in modem. For me is that point not important, because I got my broadband modem delivered by my broadband provider.

The configuration is simple and in comparison with his big brother it stores up to 5 profiles in its built-in memory. That means for example one profile for your home, another for your office use and one for your use in hotels.

Further in addition to his portability its streams your music from iTunes to the Express and from there to your entertainment system. But there is one more feature: printing wireless. With the AirPort Express station is your printer a wireless partner in your network for printing from every part of your house or office.

If you are looking for an Apple-branded wireless base station, consider the Express station. It is on the market for 99 Euro or US Dollar and does the work like his big brother, is very small and especially for laptop user very interesting to life without cable around. And it gives you nearly everything that the Extreme offers!

I can buy this, the 13.3 models are beautiful and I love mine, but according to reports, we’ll be seeing 15inch macbooks by second quarter 2006, at first I didn’t see how they’d fit into the price structure, MacBooks run from $1099 to $1499 and MacBook Pro 15 inchers’s run from $1999 to $2499, putting a 15inch Macbook in the mix for $1749 would be silliness.

After rereading the report I see that the 13 incher’s will probably drop to a $799 to $1199 range and the 15inch MacBooks can comfortably sell for $1299 to $1699 without adversely affecting the MacBook or MacBook Pro sales.

MacBooks for $799 will FLY out the door and cause Michael Dell to collapse, $1299 15inch MacBooks will go well to those with a desire for the bigger screen and a little extra cash. And the $1999 MacBook Pro’s will continue to sell to Pros.

This seems like Perfect Marketing.

“Steve Jobs is mercurial. He’s not the guy you want with you in a foxhole. But he is in search of EXCELLENCE!”

Macbreak did a great episode of their podcast where they showed how to clear all distractions from your Mac OS X Tiger desktop, the post is here.

The Apple Comment by Denny Grabowski

One of my duties as freelancer is the web searching and I found one funny story and I don’t let you wait to read this story!

Carl Kruger, New Yorker Senator, was thinking about the dangerousness to wear an iPod in New York. He advised the public to stop the using of iPods in New York’s street because those things are the reasons for so many accidents. The pedestrians are walking without any intention and ignoring the traffic especially by crossing the street. His idea is already a legislative proposal and just in case this bill gets reality would mean that you can use your iPod only in parks and on benches.

It is a mystery why he is angry only about the iPod and not about other mp3 player. The suggestion is, he owns maybe few Microsoft stocks?