iTunes Isn’t Dead

January 10th, 2008 by Matt

Apple’s iTunes now has some serious competition from Amazon.com’s online music store. The e-commerce giant’s music store is totally DRM-free, with all four of the major labels onboard. I think it’s safe to say DRM is on the way out.
However, iTunes hasn’t gone totally DRM-free yet. Plenty of their music still carries DRM, and the […]

The Ultimate MP3 Player

November 21st, 2007 by Matt

The Ultimate MP3 Player doesn’t exist yet. It’s the second-generation iPod Touch.
Apple needs to fix the current bugs, and add some new features. Namely,

A volume switch on the device. Using the touchscreen to control volume can’t work too well.
The ability to download and subscribe to podcasts over Wi-Fi.
Flash support for Safari.

Here’s how I want the […]

You Don’t Need to Use Leopard’s 3D Dock!

October 25th, 2007 by Matt

Scores of people have been complaining (Digg users mainly, no surprise there) about the 3D dock in Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard. Well, you whiners are lucky. According to MonkeyBites, there’s an option to use a “classic dock.” It’s not an exact replica of the Tiger dock, but close enough. It has a cool transparent-black […]

Annoying Del.icio.us Prompt

October 11th, 2007 by Matt

I’ve been migrating my Firefox bookmarks to del.icio.us as of late, but I’ve run into something I don’t like.
Whenever I clear my cache (Ctrl-Shift-Del), which I do often when I work with CSS and JavaScript, I’m logged out of Del.icio.us (which is no big deal, and expected since I’m flushing the cookies). As soon as […]

We Need a “G4 Cube 2.0″

October 7th, 2007 by Matt

Apple’s desktop lineup currently includes

The wimpy $500 Mac Mini
The “all-in-one” iMac
The $2500 Mac Pro

So you have you’re choice of a cheap, and tiny, computer that won’t meet the needs of most power users (let’s see you edit video on a Mini); an “all-in-one” computer with enough for most power users, but little choice in the […]