Apple has posted Quicktime 7 for Windows Public Preview online. If you own the Pro version of Qt6 or QT6.5 you may want to hold off on installing it.
Category: Macs
Posts about Apple and the products they produce.
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Apple Makes the Switch
The grapevine was right this time: Apple will indeed be migrating to Intel chips after all. Steve Jobs made the announcement today at the WWDC in San Francisco, CA.
What’s this mean for consumers? Better availability of Apple products.
Apple has struggled with keeping up with demand for several years due to low supplies of the G4 and G5 PowerPC chips that power their computers. Because of the darth of supplies, Apple has had to delay product launches repeatedly, and as failed to close the “Gigahertz Gap” between its computers and those of the PC world.
In a surprising move, Jobs announced that Apple has had Mac OS X running on x86-based Intel chips for the past 5 years.
I’m excited about this move, because it’s going to lead to greater availability of processors for Apple, and… I’m speculating here… maybe it will open up OS X to custom-built computers. Who knows…
Jobs said this transition won’t be completed until 2007. Until then, I’ll be anxiously awaiting this latest evolution of Apple and its offerings.
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iTunes Giveaway
Surely by now you’ve heard of the new Itunes/Pepsi promotion going on.
I just ran by the Bi-Lo on Fury’s Ferry and snagged two winners. Thank you for “Hey Ya!” and “Clocks”!!
God I love those songs. Not sure where the songs are available? One place you might want to check out is:
IPodGarage. They’ve created a map of places that have the bottles available. -
good lord, i’m tired…
i was at Linda’s house til past 11pm last night trying to restore her power mac g3 to working condition. i’m almost amazed that i was able to do it. it’s not often that you’re able to restore a hard drive to working order. i arrived at her house in edgefield just after 5pm. when i got there, she was obviously distraught. it seems like melt-downs like this always occur when you’re working hardest to meet a deadline. anyways, i tried booting up the mac. no dice. blinking folder icon. crap. diagnosis: something’s wrong with the system folder. next, i tried booting from the system disk. extension conflicts. double crap. what’s going on? at that point, i was a little perturbed, to say the least. i then tried to boot up from norton utilities. good lord, it worked. comp was booting up from that disk. comp fully boots up. i can see the hard drive Papa GIG (which has the system software on it.) good… the disk doesn’t appear to be damaged. i didn’t think the disk would appear at all if something major were wrong with. linda and i went through and checked to see if anything needed to be saved off of it. nope. good deal. i ran some tests on the drive with norton. found major errors. not surprising. fix the probs it found. then proceeded to zero the hard drive.
things were progressing well. installed os 9 onto the drive. i booted the hard drive on its own. yay!! it wasn’t completely screwed! i loaded the scsi drivers into the system folders in order to access Linda’s prized baby gig, momma gig and jarod hard drives. yay! they were still there, untouched. i loaded all of her old programs onto the reformatted hard drive (papa gig) and after a total of six hours i had the whole thing up and running again. i have to admit, it looked bleak when i first got there. i wasn’t sure if i’d be able to get it online again, but lo and behold i fixed it. the system still has some kinks in it because we weren’t able to test everything within the six hour period… but it is usable once again.
it is quite nice to be able to breathe life into a machine that seems like its teetering towards death’s door. hopefully it will behave itself for a good while.
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the anticipation is too great
one of these days, i’m going to make it to new york to sit in on a live keynote address being delivered by steve jobs. i must! i must! here it is… just minutes before the latest stevenote, and i’ve got butterflies. what will be announced next? what will apple deliver that we’ve never seen before… only time will tell… Feel like watching the stevenote? Click on over to: http://stream.apple.akadns.net/ and click the watch now button.
good lord… i’ve got goosebumps now. more later!