Jan 12
Apple and HP
0 comments 2004 at 12.24 pm posted by Veerle
Jan 06
Apple introduces the iPod Mini
0 comments 2004 at 01.33 pm posted by Veerle
Today at MacWorld Steve Jobs revealed a little mini iPod. iPod mini lets you bring along enough music for a three-day weekend getaway in a package so small you’ll forget you’re carrying it. It is the world’s smallest 1000 song player. The iPod mini is available in five colors.
Personally I have a bid of mixed reaction on this tiny player, most of that has to do with the price. Still a few months away from being available in Europe I wonder how much difference their will be in price when being compared to the US. If it would cost 240 Euro I would give it some thought. How about you?
Dec 29
IconBox, cool icon organize app
0 comments 2003 at 04.46 am posted by Veerle
This app is made by a Belgian company called ChikenByte. I just heard about this through a comment posted on my blog and since they are from my country I got to let the world know that they did a pretty darn good job! :-)
Dec 25
CSS made in Flanders, CSSEdit 1.5 for MacOS X
0 comments 2003 at 12.00 pm posted by Veerle
CSSEdit is another outstanding program for MacOS X written by a Belgian (Ghent) programmer Jan van Boghout (MacRabbit). As the Internet expands, having a distinct style for your site becomes increasingly important.
Dec 21
Konfabulator
0 comments 2003 at 10.43 am posted by Veerle
Konfabulator is a JavaScript runtime engine for Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to. Widgets can be alarm clocks, calculators, can tell you your AirPort signal strength, will fetch the latest stock quotes for your preferred symbols, and even give your current local weather.
Nov 30
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates “head-to-head”
1 comments 2003 at 11.03 am posted by Veerle
UK television channel BBC2 will broadcast a show that looks at the world’s most powerful computer moguls Thursday December 4 at 10.50 p.m. (Belgian time)…
Nov 20
ShapeShifter
3 comments 2003 at 03.10 am posted by Veerle
If you are an interface geek as me you can now dress-up your Mac(OS X). Remember Kaleidoscope from the good old days? Well you now have a similar app called ShapeShifter for MacOS X to change the entire look of your Mac interface.
Nov 18
Out now! A 20” iMac and a 1.8 dual Ghz G5
0 comments 2003 at 10.07 am posted by Veerle
In our company we have still a Special Edition iMac DV (graphite) who serves webpages. But Apple now presents its new 20-inch iMac, the largest display in an all-in-one computer. If you’re planning to buy the 1.8 GHz machine, you’ll now get a dual instead! If Apple only would release some new screens then everybody would be happy, cause I’m waiting… my money is itching Apple :-P
Nov 11
iTunes Music Store gets prestigious award
0 comments 2003 at 01.38 pm posted by Veerle
“for finally finding a middle ground between the foot-dragging record labels and the free-for-all digital pirates… Apple’s iTunes Music Store is Time’s Coolest Invention of 2003.”
Steve Jobs’ new Music Store showed foot-dragging record labels and freeloading music pirates that there is a third way. It’s not obvious to get such an award from Time Magazine, but I guess it was earned because of its disarmingly simple concept: sell songs in digital format for less than a buck and let buyers play them whenever and wherever they like, as long as it’s on an Apple iPod.
How did Jobs do this trick? In a word: simplicity, the transparent ease of use that is the hallmark of Apple’s entire product line, including the Music Store. “I’m a complete computer dummy,” Sarah McLachlan told Time after the iTunes event last month at the San Francisco Moscone Center. “If I can use this, anyone can.” So this says it all.
Read more on Time magazine’s website
Nov 07
iTunes kicks Napster’s ass!
0 comments 2003 at 01.44 pm posted by Veerle
iTunes sells 1.5 million songs during past week; five times Napster’s first week downloads. Apple is in top spot with over 80 percent market share ... Mental note! Never believe any analyst ;-) This news makes me happy since I just knew iTunes would be way more popular then Napster. In previous posts I mentioned that the popularity of the name Napster wouldn’t give any guarantee for success, like this analyst of U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray predicted.
