There was quite a lot of publicity earlier this year, when Apple struck a deal with EMI to sell their entire music collection without DRM (copy protection: digital rights management) on iTunes. And I have mentioned a couple of times, that you can buy albums without DRM from magnatune at a price which you . . . → Read More: CD Baby does MP3 downloads without DRM
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For the last few weeks I have being using a couple of extensions to the “Services” menu which is available for all applications in Mac OS X: CalcService (download link) WordService (download link) Both applications are from Devon Technologies, whose DevonThink I also use to index and find documents on the Mac. CalcService allows . . . → Read More: Useful freeware for the Mac If you’re thinking of buying an iPod nano, The first comprehensive review that I have seen is on AppleInsider. I’ve always had problems putting my Mac to sleep. Sometimes, especially if I have been playing iTunes, it wakes up again immediately. This can happen 2-3 times before it accepts it should go to sleep. I just spotted some advice on MacFixIt for people having this problem with the new aluminium keyboards – connect . . . → Read More: Fixing a shutdown problem on the Mac NeoOffice can now print at higher resolutions than 300 dpi. This makes a big difference if you want to print graphics, and if you want to print text documents which include fine lines (e.g. tables). Quoting from the release note: Due to some restrictions in NeoOffice’s underlying OpenOffice.org code, printing resolution has always been . . . → Read More: NeoOffice patch provides hi-res printing Well, I was right – it’s got a faster processor. No more details at the moment. Apple COO Tim Cook, also on stage with Jobs for the Q&A along with Apple’s head of marketing Phil Schiller, also noted that today Apple refreshed the Mac mini with a faster processor. (See my orignal entry below). . . . → Read More: Mac mini refreshed Well, well. The Apple Store is offering refurbished Mac minis, and in Germany Gravis is out of stock of both mini models. Those two events together often signal a model update is coming shortly. One can live in hope – it would be about time… We’ve had the Apple TV for a couple of days now – the 160 GB version, which means that everything can be replicated to its hard-disk. So how do we feel it compares to the Roku SoundBridge, given that we bought both devices as music players and don’t need to synchronize the broadcasting of . . . → Read More: Apple TV vs. Roku SoundBridge Note to self: From some time in May, iTunes should be offering DRM-free tracks from EMI. Here’s a list of artists who are signed up with EMI. EMI and Apple have announced that iTunes will sell EMI’s albums at a higher quality (twice the encoding frequency) without any copy protection (DRM), for the same price as the other label’s albums with copy protection. Single tracks will be more expensive, but in my case I almost never buy individual tracks, so that . . . → Read More: EMI / Apple remove the DRM locks |
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