This morning, Apple released iTunes 7, bringing the interface elements first seen in Mail.app into their media player; borderless sidebar, flatter buttons & scrollbars, smoother, more defined lines. The application as a whole is far more readable after this refresh. There’s more vertical space between the elements in the left-hand ‘Sources’ column, in-fact the ‘Sources’ [...]
Jobs flaunted the new OSX “Leopard” this week with a slew of new features. Unfortunately, one of them wasn’t the dropping of the silly cat names that makes it impossible to remember which version came after which. But there were some interesting features none-the-less. Time Machine looks great–a long needed push to get more of [...]
My TiBook 667 finally has been upgraded to a shiny new MacBook. (If anyone is looking for a used TiBook with a few ‘issues’…let me know ;o) The MacBook is great, and has that nice built-in iSight camera. Fun! Alas, I can’t record any video on it. Why is that? Well, as usual, that feature [...]
A few articles came out today with interesting takes on digital music DRM. The first is a small blurb about Dave Goldberg, Yahoo’s Music Chief at the Music 2.0 conference where he brings up eMusic as an example of a DRM free distribution model. I like this because a) It’s Yahoo, and they have some [...]