Monthly Archives: February 2006

iPod Hi-Fi Introduced (Plus Leather iPod Cases)

At the media event February 28th, Apple unveiled an iPod stereo for home use, offering crystal clear sound and a built-in universal iPod dock. The new iPod Hi-Fi measures 17″ x 6.6″ x 6.9″ and includes the Apple Remote.
While normally running on A/C power, the box is alternately powered by D-cell batteries, and features integrated [...]

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New Intel Mac mini

At the media event February 28th, Apple unveiled a revised Mac mini featuring either a 1.5Ghz Intel Core Solo or 1.66Ghz Core Duo processor, offering up to a 5x increase in overall speed from the previous model. The form factor for the machine remains unchanged.
Sadly the ditched the ATI video in favor of crappy newer [...]

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StyleGrind

I am starting a new Web News, Design Resource, CSS, XHTML, AJAX, Web 2.0, (insert new web tech here) site called Style Grind. so set your bookmarks now and watch this space for update on when its going live!

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Apple to offer films to download on iTunes

Apple, is preparing to launch a film download service. An announcement is expected as early as this week. The news will represent another move in Apple’s strategy to network computing and entertainment products around the home so music and video can be wirelessly streamed from one device to another…

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WoW Patch 1.10 Priest Talents

Have you been wondering what the new 31-point Holy and Discipline talents will be in the next patch? Curious what improvements were made to the Shadow tree? All your questions have been answered on our interactive talent preview!

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Google Pages

Google have released the long awaited and long-rumored Google. Pages allows users to create a webpage using an AJAX interface . If you have some time on your hands and would like to try this out, then head over to http://pages.google.com to signup. If you have an existing Google account then getting a pages account [...]

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Apple begins widespread testing of Mac OS X 10.4.6

via Apple Insider: Apple Computer this week began providing to its developers the first external pre-release builds of Mac OS X 10.4.6 — the sixth maintenance update to the company’s Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger operating system, which made its debut last April.
According to tipsters and reports already present on several Internet Web sites, [...]

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Office 2007 Screenshot

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A Scanner Darkly trailer

Here is the new trailer for A Scanner Darkly, Richard Linklater’s adaptation of the surreal SF novel by Philip K. Dick. Coming July 7.Link to Quicktime file.

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Extremely critical Mac OS X zero-day exploit released

The cause for this problem is that OS X will automatically launch shell scripts (even inside a ZIP file) when it’s missing certain syntax at the beginning of the script.
Heise online recommends this temporary workaround:
The best immediate recourse against such an attack is to deactivate the option “Open ’safe’ files after downloading” in the “General” [...]

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