Dec 29
The free pass is good for exhibit hall only.
MacWorld Expo is Jan 9th-12th in San Francisco.
Dec 28
iPods were the most coveted holiday gift for the third consecutive year, according to DailyTech.com.
Amazingly, the iPod family members accounted for 4 of Amazon’s top ten items this season.
The Nano has accounted for 51% of total iPod sales while the Shuffle hold strong at 21%. The 5/5.5G iPod accounts for the remainder.
Microsoft’s Zune player held only 2% of recent MP3 player sales at Amazon, after coming out of the gate in November at 9%.
Dec 27
Site traffic analysis service Hitwise reported iTunes Web site traffic was 4 times as great December 25th as it was the same day a year ago. The massive traffic increase caused slowdowns of 20 minutes or more for users armed with new iPods and iTunes Music Store gift certificates.
Dec 21
A look at Activity Monitor, sorted by Real Memory, shows my Dashboard widgets taking up anywhere from 1.2 MB (World Clock) to 5.9 MB (pearLyrics).
If you’ve got 30 or more this can add up.
If you don’t use them often, or have maxed out your Mac’s ram and just can’t afford the memory use, disable Dashboard.
Dec 17
Photoshop expert Keef has written an in-depth review of Photoshop CS3 Beta, including what’s changed, his likes and his dislikes.
Adobe should also stopping larding up Photoshop with inferior web-design based features. If we want that, then we’ll use the free-with-Photoshop Adobe ImageReady. In short, Adobe needs to recognize the needs of their professional customers, and stop trying to morph Photoshop into some half-baked hybrid of Dreamweaver and iPhoto. We already have those applications. Photoshop is an image editing application, not a webpage design app – please keep it that way, Adobe, and banish superfluous fluffery like File < Export < Zoomify over to ImageReady.
