September 2nd, 2010, Hedi Regaya | View Comments
Ads free, setting up an account takes 5 seconds if you already have an ITMS account, sharing the huge ITMS database… Ping has everything to beat any music social community because it is fully integrated with the biggest music store in the world: the iTunes Music Store.
After you setup your account, you’ll need an additional 5 seconds (10 seconds) to become familiar to the super easy user interface.
Ping.com (famous golfing accessories) doesn’t belong to Apple of course, and the only way to connect to that social community is through the iTunes browser.
Main actions you can take through Ping are: follow (you might be familiar with that if you’re already on Twitter), post (you probably have at least posted a review on the ITMS, Ping enables you to discover them all in the “my reviews” page, and like (a feature Last.fm users are familiar with too).
Some of these actions have been integrated on albums page, you can see below (post and like):
A mix of Twitter and Last.fm that is very promising and that, of course, will boost the ITMS and iTunes users (which will boost the ITMS).
If Apple integrates stats system like Last.fm’s now playing and like-o-meter Ping’s follow features would be more interesting.
September 2nd, 2010, Hedi Regaya | View Comments
Key features are the latest Apple’s iPhone innovations: facetme, retina display, HD video recording etc..
Go and find them at Apple’s iPod pages.
September 2nd, 2010, Hedi Regaya | View Comments
With an ugly icon that reminds me of some kind of $9.99 PC music converters shareware, the new iTunes comes with a brand new GUI.
Judge by yourself (page 1 of a Google Image search):
Very nice monochrome icons, new volume slider, new status bar icons and control buttons are now on top of each others (which inducts a nice space gain: hope to see that happen again on Safari and maybe become the new OS X standard).
A few curiosities that make you ask why?, like the new (very cool) borderless bottom buttons while the upper ones still have borders:
Albums artwork popup with the same fade effect in QuickTime Player X.
The UI is very refined (but the new icon is catastrophic), and this is a probable base for Mac OS 10.7 (since the previous iTunes UI revolution was the Mac OS 10.4 brushed metal successor and the actual UI for OS 10.5).
September 2nd, 2010, Hedi Regaya | View Comments
This update addresses issues in Keynote, Pages, and Numbers, and adds export compatibility to Pages with the standard ePub file format (for use with iBooks).
This update is recommended for users of iWork 9.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.2, and 9.0.3. For detailed information on this update and individual application changes, please visit this site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4165.
September 2nd, 2010, Hedi Regaya | View Comments
Security Update 2010-005 is recommended for all users and improves the security of Mac OS X.
For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.
September 2nd, 2010, Hedi Regaya | View Comments
iTunes 10 comes with many new features and improvements, including:
• Introducing Ping. Use Ping to follow your favorite artists and friends or connect with the world’s most passionate music fans. Discover the music everyone is talking about, listening to, and downloading.
• Rent HD TV episodes for just 99¢ each. Watch them on your Mac or PC, on-the-go with iPhone or iPod touch, or in your living room with the all new Apple TV.
• Play your favorites on the all new iPod touch, iPod nano, iPod shuffle, and Apple TV.
• Play music wirelessly with AirPlay on AirPlay-enabled speakers, home theater receivers, and iPod accessories.
• Explore many look-and-feel improvements throughout iTunes.
• Enjoy performance improvements which make iTunes faster and more responsive.
• Additional voice support with VoiceOver Kit for iPod.
For information on the security content of this update, please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222
August 17th, 2010, Hedi Regaya | View Comments
This is the first time I see this kind of update.
The Snow Leopard Graphics Update contains stability and performance fixes for graphics applications and games:
- Addresses frame rate issues occurring in Portal and Team Fortress 2 by Valve, on iMac (Late 2009 and Mid 2010), Mac mini (Early 2009 and Mid 2010), Mac Pro (Early 2009), MacBook (Early 2009 and Mid 2010) and MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010) or MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2010) models.
- Resolves an issue that could cause Aperture 3, or StarCraft II by Blizzard, to unexpectedly quit or become unresponsive.
- Resolves an image corruption issue that may occur when disconnecting and reconnecting external displays while the system is running.
August 15th, 2010, Hedi Regaya | View Comments
This photo was taken in mid-Manhattan sometime in the early 80’s
