The Apple Room

They already have them now. It's just there are far, far fewer, and it takes more than just a script kiddie to write one. I still like my chances. - Brian Norwood

It's also not as easy to get one because you don't have AcitveX for Windows - Snakeyes11 via twhirl

People have been saying this about Macs for the 20 years I have used them, and um, nope, still not many viruses around. - Nadine Schaeffer

That's the app's fault, not the OS's fault. If the Mac doesn't allow the app to use as much memory as it needs, then it has a bug. - xero

@xero, agreed. The app is the problem, not the OS. - Jason Huebel

Parallels crippled my MacBook until I maxed it out at 2gb memory. - MiɳiMagɘ (AlwaysMiniMage)

a lot of mac twitter clients are adobe AIR apps. that means they're cross-platform. - tiffany

I like Twitterific because it just sits up their in the menu bar and I never have to worry about starting it or accidentally quitting. - Glen Campbell

not sure if it's public, but they just laid off hordes - anna

Disappointing. - Larry Hudson

I used Songbird in the beta days, and stopped when they abandoned PowerPC support. Might check it out again as it has hit 1.0. Great for downloading Hype Machine tracks, IMHO. - Larry Hudson

Is this is a good thing or a bad thing? - David Bisset (sn) via Bookmarklet

It's a good thing. Definitely. I think Apple needs as many users as they can get right now, and if they can ship a quality product for under $100, so be it. The thing is, if they can sell it this cheap this year, they can sell an 8GB one this cheap next year. - Larry Hudson

That is a very huge anchor - Stephan Miller via fftogo

There is a check box in Preferences >> Advanced "Automatically retrieve invitations from Mail". Do you have that turned on? BTW - this is a total guess. What you are describing doesn't happen to me and I don't use iMail either. - elroy

I also don't have alarms on in iCal, so I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it. I have "Turn off all alarms" checked. I used the gmail/gcal notifier. - elroy

"Summary: So you want to add words to iPhone’s dictionary? You can. Sort of." - David Bisset (sn) via Bookmarklet

Quack quack. - torque

Oh Happy-FREAKING-Day! - James Williams (willia4)

CalDAV is the open calendaring protocol that supercedes proprietary scheduling solutions like Outlook and Groupwise. Unfortunately, Google's first iteration of CalDAV support does not include "availability" so you cannot do a "busy0-search" of your CalDAV-using peers when you set up an appointment. - Glenn Batuyong

Two way sync between iCal and gCal is what's new, kids. Also, +1 Drew Lucas. - Anthony Citrano

via Mona http://friendfeed.com/monasfee... - Zee.

Trying this out now. I've been using the sync feature via CalDAV, but that doesn't sync to the iPhone at all (no calendar subscriptions can sync). Hopefully this works better. - Ryan Twomey

Yep same here, no support when handshaking with the iPhone. So I synched via USB, and then you can see all of your events, but you are UNABLE to add an event to a calendar from your iPhone. Not impressed. - Drew Lucas

The long-anticipated release of the Google Earth browser plugin for Mac OS X (Intel and PowerPC) has arrived, about half a year after the plugin for Windows was announced and about 5 weeks after the introduction of the GE iPhone application. Linux users will still have to wait a bit for a compatible version. - Shevonne Polastre via Bookmarklet

According to the Register, Apple recently received US Patent Application No. 20080291629 for a 'liquid-cooled portable computer.' The filing describes a system where a 'pump ... coupled to the heat pipe is configured to circulate the liquid coolant through the heat pipe. - Shevonne Polastre via Bookmarklet

either we know of apples next company om nom nom or a law suit is a brewing. - alphaxion

What do you think will be their next move? Acquiring this company? - Shevonne Polastre

""We have removed the KnowledgeBase article because it was old and inaccurate," Apple spokesman Bill Evans, told Macworld. "The Mac is designed with built-in technologies that provide protection against malicious software and security threats right out of the box.”" (I knew it) - Vincent van Wylick via Bookmarklet

So what's a quick way to scan your system for virusses and see if the "scare" has any merit. I still don't believe it's a problem. - Vincent van Wylick

It said "Mac OS" not "Mac OSX". - Jamie

Quote: "But common sense will also help you avoid this issue. As we said before, ActiveX is a Windows-only technology, and Flash players can and should be downloaded directly from Adobe, not porn sites." - Siddharth Deb via Bookmarklet

take a look at ActiveWords, tell Buzz Bruggeman that Adam from Gist sent you and he can probably get you a discount ;). - Adam Loving

That sounds like it's exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks dude! - Vincent van Wylick

email of the owner of the company is buzz -at- activewords.com - Adam Loving

"The Griffin Simplifi lets you dock your iPod or iPhone in style, while throwing in a 3-in-1 Flash memory card reader and two bonus USB ports." - Neil Bernhart via Bookmarklet

I've been contemplating getting a dock for my iPhone... but just recently bought a CF card reader (dammit!). Could have had two in one. - Neil Bernhart

You expect Wiis to be rarer than cancer-survivor unicorns around Christmas, not iPods. But analyst Shaw Wu says that iPod shortages are going all around, from the iTouch to the shuffle, and at multiple retailers. - Shevonne Polastre via Bookmarklet

Keeping with the equine theme, I prefer to say: rarer than rocking horse shit... - Wayne Smallman

Is apple Immune? - Paul via Bookmarklet

*bzzzt* "windows often requires you to buy expensive software updates".. not really, MS add massive amounts of functionality without charging, what that should say is "microsoft charges lots for its software" which is certainly true, but for updates? Rarely in my 9 years of supporting windows PC's. - alphaxion

invariant: WDS, Sharepoint services, vastly improved wifi config in XP, virtual PC and virtual server, group policy editor MMC, WSUS... I can go on and on, all added without charging more. Admittedly the vast majority of what I mentioned won't be known to people who never managed a windows server but they do add loads without charging. Sadly they charge a bloody fortune for the stuff you do pay for ;) - alphaxion

I also love the double standard.. "Apple supplies everything you ever need application wise", MS does it? Raise an anti-trust! - alphaxion

"the weekly growth in the number of apps was slower in November: the number of apps grew less than 10% on a weekly basis for all of November. During the last week of November, there were close to 9,800 unique apps, 22% of which were free." - David Bisset (sn) via Bookmarklet

awesome... looking forward to trying it out - Philip J Beyer

Vuze is in constant change and the has a lot of power under the hood. Feature wise is among the most advanced clients out there. I agree, for the regular user this says nothing and I accept, because is Java based it tends to eat more resources. I havent had bad experiences with micro torrent on PC and I always recommend it to novice torrent users. The fact that its available for mac is only good news for everyone. - Mihai Tarmure

@Joey Transmission is nice. Too bad some trackers will ban you for using it. Not sure why, but when they put it in their rules not to use it or else, it doesn't give too much latitude for me. Besides, I like the way Vuze looks. I have to agree with @mihai, it is one of the best bittorrent clients out there. - R. Alexander Spoerer

How about just hosting all the music on one of the macs, or on a networked hard drive, then have them all look to that place for the library? You can hold alt when launcing iTunes to select where it's looks for the files. Just an idea. - Simon Wicks

thx Simon - that would work great for when i am at home but i want to take my entire iTUnes library with me when i travel also...as opposed to purely streaming at home.... - Angus Norton

Update: TuneRanger does a great job! check it out http://tinyurl.com/6ndf68 - Angus Norton

So rad. I think my friend @pandoraca should try to make this. - Drew Lucas

"Which type of company is making the most money from iPhone apps?" - David Bisset (sn) via Bookmarklet