Archive for the 'Apple' Category

PowerBook Power Usage

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

I’ve been spending a lot of time with the PowerBook lately away from power sources (in meetings, on airplanes, etc), and I’ve had to resort to some manual power management to make it last as long as I’d like. By manual power management, I mean things like making sure the apps I’m using aren’t CPU […]

iPod Video, Future iPods?

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

So now that they’ve announced it, we get to answer the question: Do people really want a mobile video device? Microsoft tried with their portable media centers; cell phone companies have been trying in various ways, but none have really caught on. The same was true with MP3 players before the iPod: There were already […]

iTunes 6 Video Quality

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

So I bought a video from the iTunes Music Store to try it out. I’m not impressed. It cost $2.29 Canadian to buy the video, and what I got is a 16mb file that looks fuzzy when I play it full screen. iTunes doesn’t show the resolution but on screen at “actual size” it’s about […]

iTunes 6

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

iTunes 5 just came out, and now we have iTunes 6. Unfortunately it’s still got the new, rather universally unliked UI. Looks like Apple is doing for TV what they did for music: iTunes 6 lets you download videos, includijng episodes of TV shows!