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Apple iTunes Sets Sights On 500 Million Songs
The maker of the iconic iPod media player wants to reward
the buyer of song number 500,000,000 with some choice
prizes.
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Though the Cupertino-based producer of iTunes has about
3,000 podcasts on tap for free, they're missing one.
Apple
Aligns Products With Podcasting
The newest version of iTunes, 4.9, brings some ease-of-use
features to those new to discovering podcasts.
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The company that revolutionized portable digital music
switches some prices on its iPod line of media players.
Apple
Mainstreams Podcasts
As promised by Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the latest version
of iTunes, 4.9, supports podcasting.
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The RealPlayer utility has several vulnerabilities patched
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in sales of legal downloadable songs.
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A Bluetooth-enabled accessory allows users of the iconic
media player to cut the headphone cord.
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Apple Goes Dual-Chip For The Macintosh
The era of the single processor Power Mac G5 has come
to a close, and future machines will have dual-chips.
Apple And Intel, Sitting In A Tree
For this lifelong Macintosh fanatic, the urge to react
to the news that Apple would be making the switch to Intel
processors over the course of the next year had to be
suppressed for a few weeks.
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07.07.05
Apple's Halo: Running Windows Games On A Mac
 By David Utter
The ability to install Windows XP on a partition residing in
an Intel based Mac opens up new software possibilities.
Once upon a time, running games on an Apple machine meant sitting
in front of an Apple II and keying in dozens of lines of BASIC
code just to run a text-based simulation of darts.
Even after DOS arrived, followed by Windows, Apple ignored the
nascent gaming market. Pathways
Into Darkness was fun, but one could find many more games
for the PC world.
A few years ago, Apple began to embrace the video game industry.
But far and away, the most impressive hardware platforms for
gaming come from companies like Alienware, and those machines
run Windows exclusively.
Fast forward to 2005. Apple has announced it will switch from
the PowerPC platform to one provided by Intel. Developers at
the Apple World Wide Developers Conference learned of the change
first.
A recent article
by Think Secret discusses the Intel-based Mac in some detail.
The interesting point comes with the revelation that Windows
XP can be installed on a NTFS partition and boot up without
a problem, save a video card issue.
That issue initially kept Windows running at 800x600 resolution
on a cinema display screen. Eventually, that was changed to
1600x1200, but XP would not take advantage of all that extra
visual real estate.
If the video card problem proves to be a resolvable issue, there
should be some interest from computer owners to place their
preferred gaming environment alongside the Mac operating system.
Of course, those buyers will have to pick up their hardware
from Apple. The Mac OS will not install on other Intel-based
machines other than the hardware Apple builds. It will be some
time, if ever, before OEMs get the go ahead to build an Intel
Mac themselves.
The Apple Rolls On: IMAC With G5 Power
By David Utter
The makers of software that allows Windows applications to run
on the Linux platform will support the new Intel-based Macs.
CodeWeavers will
take its software porting capabilities and include future support
for Windows to Macintosh applications. The impact of this decision
means smaller developers of Windows applications will have a
new market for their products.
"Apple's decision to shift to Intel chips is good news for many
Windows developers who, for reasons of time and/or expense,
have never created Mac versions of their key applications,"
said Jeremy White, CEO of CodeWeavers.
"CodeWeavers can give these developers a low-cost and near-instant
path to market through the use of CrossOver technology."
Over 100,000 Linux users globally use the company's CrossOver
Office product, which allows them to run Microsoft Office seamlessly
on their workstations. And Windows developers have benefited
by being able to easily port their applications over to run
on Linux.
The CrossOver tool requires an Intel chip to work optimally,
a function that precluded CodeWeavers from previously offering
CrossOver for the Mac, which is essentially a Unix platform
under a pretty interface.
Now that Steve
Jobs has announced Apple will switch from IBM's PowerPC
chips to an Intel processor, CodeWeavers can bring their attention
to the new Macs.
For Mac users, CrossOver will mean a whole new range of software
previously unavailable to them can be run on their preferred
hardware.
About the Author:
David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology
and business. |
