Upgraded to 10.5, nothing much to say.

Today i got my copy of leopard thanks to my friend kristian, so I installed it on my two macs, a black 2.0ghz core 2 duo macbook and a 20″ core duo iMac. It all went well, apart from needing to install plugsuit to get my safari hacks working again ( inquisitor, safaristand and twicetab [...]

Adium is getting AV

The Adium development blog is reporting that the best chat client on mac is getting better, with audiovisual add-ons, as soon as it hits 2.0, making it more of a suitable replacement for the IM clients it’s replacing.
Seeing as it’s for the 2.0 release, don’t expect to see it any time soon but it is [...]

Inside the mind of a 9 year old filesharer

 
Torrentfreak’s latest article really made me laugh, it’s an interview with a 9 year old file sharer. Talking about the legality and ethics of music sharing, read it, it’s a good laugh, but strangely so close to how things should be, it’s unnerving.
 Article Here

LG makes a 32″ plasma, raised eyebrows all round.

Seeing as everyone thinks plasma is a large TV, LG decided to go back to 1998 and make a 32″ plasma display, I fail to see why, because it will be more expensive then it’s competitors lower priced LCDs, but if you just have to be anal about what technology your TV uses, then i [...]

Do want: Sata raw drive dock

This kind of works like an iPod dock, but with larger drives. 3.5″ and 2.5″ sata drives are supported, which makes it perfect for anyone who wants to do some serious archival or data recovery. They’re priced at $46.79, so if you want to buy one, head over to geekstuff4u.com
 

Third Party iPhone Apps. (in february)

 
Steve Jobs, Apple’s Co-Founder today addressed a post to iPhone users, stating that the iPhone will be opened up with a third-party SDK “by February. This will allow for Apple to patch holes in the iPhone’s OS and document the internals of the stripped down OS X operating system so that developers can code for the device natively.
This [...]

Leopard is out next friday, all details here.

 
The speculation was true, the release of Apple’s next OS: Leopard is going to be next Friday at 6pm. Apple released data on it’s site today, some of the things that are pretty nice that I’ve noticed are 

Stronger .Mac sync. Dock Preferences and Dashboard Widget sync. Rather nice if you’re like me and have more than [...]

Yahoo says “Fuck You” to DRM: Finally.

 
Yahoo Music manager, Ian Rogers spoke out and stated quite the obvious “I’m here to tell you that I for one am no longer going to fall into this trap.” He continued with “If the licensing labels offer their content to Yahoo! (and) put more barriers in front of the users, I’m not interested.” That’s pretty much [...]

Jaiku gets bought out, I’m still sticking to Twitter

 
 So, i got the email today, saying that Jaiku was “joining” google. By joining I really mean “being swallowed” Still, this doesn’t sound much like the online “presence” company is doing anything of substance with them yet. Twitter still gets me, easier to understand and far less directed solely for profit.
Plans between the two companies [...]

Leopard Goes Gold

Well, the rumor is that Leopard has been released to manufacturers. This means that the October 29th release date. This looks like they’ve squashed the bug that was holding it up. I can’t wait until it’s out. On a related note, I hope that Apple will go the route it’s consumer base want. Third Party [...]